Primitive Culture, Volume 2Harper, 1958 - Animism |
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Page 191
... negro of our own day would feel to the utmost the sense of those lines in the beginning of the Iliad , which describe the heroes ' ' souls ' being cast down to Hades , but ' themselves ' left a prey to dogs and carrion birds . Rising to ...
... negro of our own day would feel to the utmost the sense of those lines in the beginning of the Iliad , which describe the heroes ' ' souls ' being cast down to Hades , but ' themselves ' left a prey to dogs and carrion birds . Rising to ...
Page 243
... negro with whom we specially associate the term . Yet , what with its being in fact ex- tremely prevalent there , and what with the attention of foreign observers having been particularly drawn to it , the accounts from West Africa are ...
... negro with whom we specially associate the term . Yet , what with its being in fact ex- tremely prevalent there , and what with the attention of foreign observers having been particularly drawn to it , the accounts from West Africa are ...
Page 302
... negro was once worshiping a tree with an offering of food , when some one pointed out to him that the tree did not eat ; the negro answered , ' O the tree is not fetish , the fetish is a spirit and invisible , but he has descended into ...
... negro was once worshiping a tree with an offering of food , when some one pointed out to him that the tree did not eat ; the negro answered , ' O the tree is not fetish , the fetish is a spirit and invisible , but he has descended into ...
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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