Primitive Culture, Volume 2Harper, 1958 - Animism |
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Page 120
... feast is spread for them , and with charac- teristic fancy , some victuals are left over for any blind or feeble spirits who may be late , and a pail of gruel is provided for headless souls , with spoons for them to put it down their ...
... feast is spread for them , and with charac- teristic fancy , some victuals are left over for any blind or feeble spirits who may be late , and a pail of gruel is provided for headless souls , with spoons for them to put it down their ...
Page 122
... feast of Thiyot , at once a feast of general peace and merry - making , of thanks- giving for the harvest , and of memorial for the deceased , for each of whom a little pot - full of beer is set out two days , to be drunk at last by the ...
... feast of Thiyot , at once a feast of general peace and merry - making , of thanks- giving for the harvest , and of memorial for the deceased , for each of whom a little pot - full of beer is set out two days , to be drunk at last by the ...
Page 481
... feast . A banquet where the deity has but the pretence and the wor- shippers the reality , may seem to us a mere mockery of sacrifice . Yet how sincerely men regard it as a religious ceremony , the following anecdote of a North American ...
... feast . A banquet where the deity has but the pretence and the wor- shippers the reality , may seem to us a mere mockery of sacrifice . Yet how sincerely men regard it as a religious ceremony , the following anecdote of a North American ...
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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