Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2H. Holt, 1877 - Animism |
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... Thou art come ! " look for signs to show what ancestral soul has returned among them . Among the Khonds of Orissa , births are celebrated by a feast on the seventh day , and the priest , divining by dropping rice - grains in a cup of ...
... Thou art come ! " look for signs to show what ancestral soul has returned among them . Among the Khonds of Orissa , births are celebrated by a feast on the seventh day , and the priest , divining by dropping rice - grains in a cup of ...
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... Thou canst not build again a house for me . Thy rafters are broken Thy roof - timbers are shattered , My mind is detached , I have attained to the extinction of desire . " Whether the Buddhists receive the full Hindu doctrine of the ...
... Thou canst not build again a house for me . Thy rafters are broken Thy roof - timbers are shattered , My mind is detached , I have attained to the extinction of desire . " Whether the Buddhists receive the full Hindu doctrine of the ...
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... thou sowest is not quickened except it die . " 1 In the calendar of many a people , differing widely as they may in race and civilization , there are to be found special yearly festivals of the dead . Their rites are much the same as ...
... thou sowest is not quickened except it die . " 1 In the calendar of many a people , differing widely as they may in race and civilization , there are to be found special yearly festivals of the dead . Their rites are much the same as ...
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... thou hast given That hath brought thee to Manala , Neither slain by any sickness , Nor by Death dragged from the living , Nor destroyed by other ending . ' " Wainamoinen replies with lying reasons . Iron brought him , he says , but ...
... thou hast given That hath brought thee to Manala , Neither slain by any sickness , Nor by Death dragged from the living , Nor destroyed by other ending . ' " Wainamoinen replies with lying reasons . Iron brought him , he says , but ...
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... thou cavern'd realm , Sad Satellite , thou giant ash of death , Blot on God's firmament , pale home of crime , Scarr'd prison - house of sin , where damned souls Feed upon punishment . Oh , thought sublime , That amid night's black ...
... thou cavern'd realm , Sad Satellite , thou giant ash of death , Blot on God's firmament , pale home of crime , Scarr'd prison - house of sin , where damned souls Feed upon punishment . Oh , thought sublime , That amid night's black ...
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Africa Amazulu Amer ancestors ancient animals animistic Archip Aryan Avesta barbaric Bastian beasts belief body Brahmans Brinton Buddhism Castrén ceremony Chinese Christian civilized conception connexion Creator dead death deity demons disease divine doctrine dwell earth evil feast fetish fire ghosts give gods Greek Grimm Hades Heaven Heaven-god higher Hindu human idea idol images Indians Iroquois island J. G. Müller Journ Khonds land living lower culture lower races lustration mankind Max Müller Meiners mind modern Moon Myth nations native nature negro offerings original Parsi pass Peru philosophy Pinkerton Polynesia polytheism prayer priest region religion religious rites rude sacred sacrifice savage Schoolcraft seems Sheol snakes solar spirits stone Sun-worship Supreme Deity survival temple theology theory thou thought thunder tion Tonga tree tribes Turanian tribes Unkulunkulu Waitz West worship Zealand Zeus Zulu