Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2 |
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Journey of the Soul to the Land of the Dead , Visits by the Living to the Regions of
Departed Souls - Connexion of such legends with myths of Sunset : the Land of
the Dead thus imagined as in the West - Realization of current religious ideas ...
Journey of the Soul to the Land of the Dead , Visits by the Living to the Regions of
Departed Souls - Connexion of such legends with myths of Sunset : the Land of
the Dead thus imagined as in the West - Realization of current religious ideas ...
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... the departed soul , which has even led West African negroes to commit suicide
when in distant slavery , that they may revive in their own land , in fact amounts
among several of the lower races to a distinct doctrine of an earthly resurrection .
... the departed soul , which has even led West African negroes to commit suicide
when in distant slavery , that they may revive in their own land , in fact amounts
among several of the lower races to a distinct doctrine of an earthly resurrection .
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Sir George Grey was hugged and wept over by an old woman who found in him a
son she had lost , or when a convict , recognized as a deceased relative , was
endowed anew with the land he had possessed during his former life . A similar ...
Sir George Grey was hugged and wept over by an old woman who found in him a
son she had lost , or when a convict , recognized as a deceased relative , was
endowed anew with the land he had possessed during his former life . A similar ...
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... held by all men as the destiny of all men , whole classes are formally excluded
from it . In the Tonga islands , the future life was a privilege of caste , for while the
chiefs and higher orders were to pass in divine ethereality to the happy land of ...
... held by all men as the destiny of all men , whole classes are formally excluded
from it . In the Tonga islands , the future life was a privilege of caste , for while the
chiefs and higher orders were to pass in divine ethereality to the happy land of ...
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... to be gently wafted by him to a pleasant land if they have kept feasts and oaths
and abstained from forbidden meats , but if not , to be plunged into the river by
the god , and thus drowned and buried in eternal oblivion . 3 Even common water
...
... to be gently wafted by him to a pleasant land if they have kept feasts and oaths
and abstained from forbidden meats , but if not , to be plunged into the river by
the god , and thus drowned and buried in eternal oblivion . 3 Even common water
...
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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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