Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2H. Holt, 1877 - Animism |
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... man's soul able to enter into other bodies of men and animals , going in and out like the inhabitant of a house . In old times , they say , men existed in the forms of birds , beasts , and fishes , or these had the spirits of the ...
... man's soul able to enter into other bodies of men and animals , going in and out like the inhabitant of a house . In old times , they say , men existed in the forms of birds , beasts , and fishes , or these had the spirits of the ...
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... man's life in former existences is the cause of his now being what he is , while at this moment he is accumulating ... man so holy ? Because in a previous birth he had walked near a dagoba with his slippers on , and had trodden on a ...
... man's life in former existences is the cause of his now being what he is , while at this moment he is accumulating ... man so holy ? Because in a previous birth he had walked near a dagoba with his slippers on , and had trodden on a ...
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... man's soul trans- migrating into a beast's body at least seem possible . But it does not actually suggest the idea ... man ; and such names as lion , bear , fox , owl , parrot , viper , worm , when we apply them as epithets to men ...
... man's soul trans- migrating into a beast's body at least seem possible . But it does not actually suggest the idea ... man ; and such names as lion , bear , fox , owl , parrot , viper , worm , when we apply them as epithets to men ...
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... man's house , and were said to avoid entering it lest the ghost should be within ; the Yakuts let the hut fall in ruins where any one had expired , thinking it the habitation of demons ; the Karens were said to destroy their villages to ...
... man's house , and were said to avoid entering it lest the ghost should be within ; the Yakuts let the hut fall in ruins where any one had expired , thinking it the habitation of demons ; the Karens were said to destroy their villages to ...
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... man's two souls abides with the body after death , the provisions brought to the grave were intended for the nourishment of this soul ; tribes would make offerings to ancestors of part of any dainty food , and an Indian who fell by ...
... man's two souls abides with the body after death , the provisions brought to the grave were intended for the nourishment of this soul ; tribes would make offerings to ancestors of part of any dainty food , and an Indian who fell by ...
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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