Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Language, Art, and Custom, Volumes 1-2Brentano's, 1924 - Animism |
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... Death , Symplegades ; Eye of Heaven , Eye of Odin and the Graia - Sun and Moon as mythic civilizers - Moon , her inconstancy , periodical death and revival - Stars , their generation - Constella- tions , their place in Mythology and ...
... Death , Symplegades ; Eye of Heaven , Eye of Odin and the Graia - Sun and Moon as mythic civilizers - Moon , her inconstancy , periodical death and revival - Stars , their generation - Constella- tions , their place in Mythology and ...
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... death , who slew the butcher , who killed the ox , that drank the water , that quenched the fire , that burnt the stick , that beat the dog , that bit the cat , that ate the kid , that my father bought for two pieces of money , a kid ...
... death , who slew the butcher , who killed the ox , that drank the water , that quenched the fire , that burnt the stick , that beat the dog , that bit the cat , that ate the kid , that my father bought for two pieces of money , a kid ...
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... death , a sacrifice to the spirits . St. John saw a milder form of the rite performed , when the chief of the Quop Dayaks set up a flagstaff near his house , a chicken being thrown in to be crushed by the descending pole.1 More cultured ...
... death , a sacrifice to the spirits . St. John saw a milder form of the rite performed , when the chief of the Quop Dayaks set up a flagstaff near his house , a chicken being thrown in to be crushed by the descending pole.1 More cultured ...
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... death may bring his enemy to the grave . ' The Khond sets up the iron arrow of the War - god in a basket of rice , and judges from its standing upright that war must be kept up also , or from its falling that the quarrel may be let fall ...
... death may bring his enemy to the grave . ' The Khond sets up the iron arrow of the War - god in a basket of rice , and judges from its standing upright that war must be kept up also , or from its falling that the quarrel may be let fall ...
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... death he will not die . ' But if they dream of a wedding - dance , it is a sign of a funeral . So the Maoris hold that a kinsman dreamt of as dying will recover , but to see him well is a sign of death.1 Both races thus work out , by ...
... death he will not die . ' But if they dream of a wedding - dance , it is a sign of a funeral . So the Maoris hold that a kinsman dreamt of as dying will recover , but to see him well is a sign of death.1 Both races thus work out , by ...
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Abipones Africa Amazulu ancestors ancient animals animistic appears Archip Aryan barbaric Bastian beasts belief belong body Brahmans called Castrén ceremony Christian civilization connexion culture Dayaks dead death deity demons divine doctrine dwell earth evidence evil express fancy father fetish Fiji fire funeral ghosts gods Greek Grimm Hades hand heaven higher Hindu human idea imitative Indian interjectional Islands J. G. Müller Journ Khonds land language legend living lower races lustration man's mankind Max Müller meaning Mensch mind modern Moon myth mythic mythology nations native nature numerals Oestl offerings Ojibwa origin Parsi passed Peru philosophy Pinkerton Polynesia prayer priest primitive religion religious rites rude sacred sacrifice Sanskrit savage Schoolcraft seems souls sound spirits stone story survival Tatar theory things thought tion Tonga traced tree tribes Turanian tribes vigesimal Waitz words worship Yoruba Zealand Zulu
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Page 1 - CULTURE or Civilization, taken in its wide ethnographic sense, is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society.
Page 178 - For the dews will soone be falling; Leave your meadow grasses mellow, Mellow, mellow; Quit your cowslips, cowslips yellow; Come uppe Whitefoot, come uppe Lightfoot; Quit the stalks of parsley hollow, Hollow, hollow; Come uppe Jetty, rise and follow, From the clovers lift your head ; Come uppe Whitefoot, come uppe Lightfoot, Come uppe Jetty, rise and follow, Jetty, to the milking shed.
Page 55 - He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and brake their bands in sunder. 15 Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men ! 16 For he hath broken the gates of brass, and cut the bars of iron in sunder.
Page 284 - O thou that, with surpassing glory crown'd, Look'st from thy sole dominion, like the god Of this new world, at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminish'd heads, to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy sphere...
Page 43 - To those whose talents are above mediocrity, the highest subjects may be announced. To those who are below mediocrity, the highest subjects may not be announced.' CHAP. XX. Fan Ch'ih asked what constituted wisdom. The Master said, To give one's self earnestly to the duties due to men, and, while respecting spiritual beings, to keep aloof from them, may be called wisdom.
Page 384 - ... an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD. 6 Т And if his offering for a sacrifice of peace offering unto the LORD be of the flock ; male or female, he shall offer it without blemish.
Page 58 - The situation in which these weapons were found may tempt us to refer them to a very remote period indeed ; even beyond that of the present world...
Page 187 - Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices, to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive...
Page 397 - Cant'' is, by some people, derived from one Andrew Cant, who, they say, was a presbyterian minister in some illiterate part of Scotland, who by exercise and use had obtained the faculty, alias gift, of talking in the pulpit in such a dialect, that it is said he was understood by none but his own congregation, and not by all of them.
Page 141 - ... it appears that God hath appointed (for a supernatural sign of the monstrous impiety of witches) that the water shall refuse to receive them in her bosom that have shaken off them the sacred water of baptism and wilfully refused the benefit thereof...