Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2H. Holt, 1877 - Animism |
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... Zulus , while admitting that a man may turn into a wasp or lizard , work out in the fullest way the idea of the dead becoming snakes , a creature whose change of skin has so often been associated with the thought of re- surrection and ...
... Zulus , while admitting that a man may turn into a wasp or lizard , work out in the fullest way the idea of the dead becoming snakes , a creature whose change of skin has so often been associated with the thought of re- surrection and ...
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... Zulus , taken down from a native , it is explicitly stated that Unkulunkulu the Old - Old - One said that people " were to die and never rise again , " and that he allowed them " to die and rise no more . " 4 Knowing so thoroughly as we ...
... Zulus , taken down from a native , it is explicitly stated that Unkulunkulu the Old - Old - One said that people " were to die and never rise again , " and that he allowed them " to die and rise no more . " 4 Knowing so thoroughly as we ...
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... Zulus , whose ghosts not only survive in the under - world , but are the very deities of the living , we can put the proper sense to these expressions . But without such information , we might have mistaken them for denials . of the ...
... Zulus , whose ghosts not only survive in the under - world , but are the very deities of the living , we can put the proper sense to these expressions . But without such information , we might have mistaken them for denials . of the ...
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... . di Giesu , ' Rome , 1631 , p . 208 ; and in Pinkerton , vol . ix . p . 822 , etc. 2 Grout , Zulu Land , ' p . 140 ; see Callaway , ' Rel . of Amazulu , ' p . 11 . their offering of unboiled rice and water in a hollow ANIMISM . 41.
... . di Giesu , ' Rome , 1631 , p . 208 ; and in Pinkerton , vol . ix . p . 822 , etc. 2 Grout , Zulu Land , ' p . 140 ; see Callaway , ' Rel . of Amazulu , ' p . 11 . their offering of unboiled rice and water in a hollow ANIMISM . 41.
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... Zulu Umpengula , who told one of these stories to Dr. Callaway , remembered when he was a boy seeing an ugly little hairy man called Uncama , who once , chasing a porcupine that ate his mealies , followed it down a hole in the ground ...
... Zulu Umpengula , who told one of these stories to Dr. Callaway , remembered when he was a boy seeing an ugly little hairy man called Uncama , who once , chasing a porcupine that ate his mealies , followed it down a hole in the ground ...
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