Primitive Culture, Volume 2Harper, 1958 - Animism |
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Page 127
... dead , taking for themselves the sub- stance of the food , which being immaterial is food suited to the incorporeal soul , left only in the dishes the accidents which corporeal senses perceive ; for this the dead had no need of ...
... dead , taking for themselves the sub- stance of the food , which being immaterial is food suited to the incorporeal soul , left only in the dishes the accidents which corporeal senses perceive ; for this the dead had no need of ...
Page 237
... dead might come back from the other world to reanimate their bodies ; nor how the Marian islanders should have kept the dried bodies of their dead ancestors in their huts as household gods , and even expected them to give oracles out of ...
... dead might come back from the other world to reanimate their bodies ; nor how the Marian islanders should have kept the dried bodies of their dead ancestors in their huts as household gods , and even expected them to give oracles out of ...
Page 508
... dead in the sun's path , the line of east and west . Thus the natives of Australia have in some districts well - marked thoughts of the western land of the dead , yet the custom of burying the dead sitting with face to the east is also ...
... dead in the sun's path , the line of east and west . Thus the natives of Australia have in some districts well - marked thoughts of the western land of the dead , yet the custom of burying the dead sitting with face to the east is also ...
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Africa Amazulu ancestors ancient animals animistic Archip Aryan barbaric Bastian beasts belief body Brahmans buried CALIFORNIA/SANTA CRUZ Castrén ceremony Christian civilized conception connexion Creator CRUZ The University Dayaks dead death deity demons divine doctrine dreams dwell earth evil feast fetish Fiji fire funeral ghosts gods Grimm Hades heaven Heaven-god higher Hindu human idea idol images Indians Iroquois island J. G. Müller Journ Karens Khonds land living lower races lustration Madagascar man's mankind Max Müller Meiners Mensch mind modern Moon Myth nations native nature objects offerings Ojibwa Parsi passed Peru philosophy Pinkerton polytheism prayer priest primitive religion religious rites rude sacred sacrifice savage Schoolcraft souls spirits stone Supreme Deity survival temple theology theory things thou thought tion Tonga tree tribes Turanian tribes UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA/SANTA Unkulunkulu Waitz worship Zealand Zeus Zulu