Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2H. Holt, 1877 - Animism |
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... Prayer : its continuity from low to high levels of Culture ; its lower phases Unethical ; its higher phases Ethical - Sacrifice : its original Gift- theory passes into the Homage - theory and the Abnegation - theory -Manner of reception ...
... Prayer : its continuity from low to high levels of Culture ; its lower phases Unethical ; its higher phases Ethical - Sacrifice : its original Gift- theory passes into the Homage - theory and the Abnegation - theory -Manner of reception ...
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... prayer and beat of drum to feed on the meat and drink set out on special days when they are thought to return home . He even gives entertainments for the benefit of 1 Tickell in ' Journ . As . Soc . Bengal , ' vol . ix . p . 795 ...
... prayer and beat of drum to feed on the meat and drink set out on special days when they are thought to return home . He even gives entertainments for the benefit of 1 Tickell in ' Journ . As . Soc . Bengal , ' vol . ix . p . 795 ...
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... prayer at the graves of lost re- latives , and giving alms to the beggars who flock to the cemeteries . But the ... prayers and alms of devout persons leagued against them to save souls , and especially they complained of the monks of ...
... prayer at the graves of lost re- latives , and giving alms to the beggars who flock to the cemeteries . But the ... prayers and alms of devout persons leagued against them to save souls , and especially they complained of the monks of ...
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... prayers of the living.1 If we ask how the spirits of the dead are in general sup- 1 Bastian , Mensch , ' vol . ii . p . 336. Meiners , vol . i . p . 316 ; vol . ii . p . 290. Wuttke , ' Deutsche Volksaberglaube , ' p . 216. Cortet ...
... prayers of the living.1 If we ask how the spirits of the dead are in general sup- 1 Bastian , Mensch , ' vol . ii . p . 336. Meiners , vol . i . p . 316 ; vol . ii . p . 290. Wuttke , ' Deutsche Volksaberglaube , ' p . 216. Cortet ...
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... prayer and the renewal of vows.1 How funeral offerings may pass into commemorative ban- quets and feasts to the poor , has been shown already . If we seek in England for vestiges of the old rite of funeral sacrifice , we may find a ...
... prayer and the renewal of vows.1 How funeral offerings may pass into commemorative ban- quets and feasts to the poor , has been shown already . If we seek in England for vestiges of the old rite of funeral sacrifice , we may find a ...
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