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HAVING thus traced upward from the lower levels of culture the opinions of
mankind as to the souls , spirits , ghosts , or phantoms , considered to belong to
men , to the lower animals , to plants , and to things , we are now prepared to ...
HAVING thus traced upward from the lower levels of culture the opinions of
mankind as to the souls , spirits , ghosts , or phantoms , considered to belong to
men , to the lower animals , to plants , and to things , we are now prepared to ...
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... from gods and saints , through holy ascetics , Brahmans , nymphs , kings ,
counsellors , to actors , drunkards , birds , dancers , cheats , elephants , horses ,
Sudras , barbarians , wild beasts , snakes , worms , insects , and inert things .
... from gods and saints , through holy ascetics , Brahmans , nymphs , kings ,
counsellors , to actors , drunkards , birds , dancers , cheats , elephants , horses ,
Sudras , barbarians , wild beasts , snakes , worms , insects , and inert things .
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Moreover , the Brahmanic doctrine of souls transmigrating into inert things has in
like manner a bearing on the savage theory ... beings and the lower animals ,
and in an exceptional way recognized a degradation even into a plant or a thing .
Moreover , the Brahmanic doctrine of souls transmigrating into inert things has in
like manner a bearing on the savage theory ... beings and the lower animals ,
and in an exceptional way recognized a degradation even into a plant or a thing .
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Mikyllos asks this cock to tell him about Troy - were things there really as Homer
said ? But the cock replies , “ How should Homer have known , O Mikyllos ?
When the Trojan war was going on , he was a camel in Baktria ! ” ? In the later
Jewish ...
Mikyllos asks this cock to tell him about Troy - were things there really as Homer
said ? But the cock replies , “ How should Homer have known , O Mikyllos ?
When the Trojan war was going on , he was a camel in Baktria ! ” ? In the later
Jewish ...
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... a poem of the Dinka tribe of the White Nile , concerning Dendid the Creator : “
On the day when Dendid made all things , He made the sun ; And the sun comes
forth , goes down , and comes again : He made the moon ; And the moon comes
...
... a poem of the Dinka tribe of the White Nile , concerning Dendid the Creator : “
On the day when Dendid made all things , He made the sun ; And the sun comes
forth , goes down , and comes again : He made the moon ; And the moon comes
...
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| Title | Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2 Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Sir Edward Burnett Tylor |
| Author | Sir Edward Burnett Tylor |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | H. Holt, 1877 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 7 Oct 2008 |
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