Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2H. Holt, 1877 - Animism |
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... snake . In Guinea , monkeys found near a graveyard are supposed to be animated by the spirits of the dead , and in certain localities monkeys , crocodiles , and snakes , being thought men in metempsychosis , are held sacred . It is to ...
... snake . In Guinea , monkeys found near a graveyard are supposed to be animated by the spirits of the dead , and in certain localities monkeys , crocodiles , and snakes , being thought men in metempsychosis , are held sacred . It is to ...
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... snakes , worms , insects , and inert things . Obscure as the relation mostly is between the crime and its punishment in a new 1 Steinhauser in Mag . der Evang . Miss . ' Basel , 1856 , No. 2 , p . 135 . life , there may be discerned ...
... snakes , worms , insects , and inert things . Obscure as the relation mostly is between the crime and its punishment in a new 1 Steinhauser in Mag . der Evang . Miss . ' Basel , 1856 , No. 2 , p . 135 . life , there may be discerned ...
Page 10
... snakes , while the good enter into fruit - bearing trees . But it is an open question whether these and the Hindu ideas are originally indepen- dent of each other , and if not , did the Hindus adopt the 1 Manu , xi . xii . Ward ...
... snakes , while the good enter into fruit - bearing trees . But it is an open question whether these and the Hindu ideas are originally indepen- dent of each other , and if not , did the Hindus adopt the 1 Manu , xi . xii . Ward ...
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... snake bites , an ape , an elephant , a bull , a serpent , a snipe , a fish , a frog , the dewa or genius of a tree . At last , when he became the supreme Buddha , his mind , like a vessel overflowing with honey , overflowed with the ...
... snake bites , an ape , an elephant , a bull , a serpent , a snipe , a fish , a frog , the dewa or genius of a tree . At last , when he became the supreme Buddha , his mind , like a vessel overflowing with honey , overflowed with the ...
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... snake crept through the meshes : - " Tuoni's son with hooked fingers Iron - pointed hooked fingers Went to draw his nets at morning- Salmon - trout he found a hundred , Thousands of the little fishes , But he found no Wainamoinen , Not ...
... snake crept through the meshes : - " Tuoni's son with hooked fingers Iron - pointed hooked fingers Went to draw his nets at morning- Salmon - trout he found a hundred , Thousands of the little fishes , But he found no Wainamoinen , Not ...
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