Primitive Culture, Volume 2Harper, 1958 - Animism |
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Page 28
... living or dead has been a subject of philosophic speculation and of superstitious fear . Both the phantom of the living and the ghost of the dead figure in Cicero's typical tale . Two Arcadians came to Megara together , one lodged at a ...
... living or dead has been a subject of philosophic speculation and of superstitious fear . Both the phantom of the living and the ghost of the dead figure in Cicero's typical tale . Two Arcadians came to Megara together , one lodged at a ...
Page 201
... living , the living fall in the fight , to become ancestral spirits in their turn . In anger the ' itongo ' seizes a living man's body and inflicts disease and death ; in bene- ficence he gives health , and cattle , and corn , and all ...
... living , the living fall in the fight , to become ancestral spirits in their turn . In anger the ' itongo ' seizes a living man's body and inflicts disease and death ; in bene- ficence he gives health , and cattle , and corn , and all ...
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... living personal causes of universal life . The first men found everything easy , the mysteries of nature were not so ... living and powerful souls of their dead ancestors , with the spirits of the stream and grove , plain and mountain ...
... living personal causes of universal life . The first men found everything easy , the mysteries of nature were not so ... living and powerful souls of their dead ancestors , with the spirits of the stream and grove , plain and mountain ...
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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