Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Art, and Custom, Volume 2Murray, 1871 |
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... appears in Dahome . The renewal of old family names by giving them to new - born children , a practice not unknown among savages , may always be suspected of involving some such thought ; as when the New Zealand priest would repeat to ...
... appears in Dahome . The renewal of old family names by giving them to new - born children , a practice not unknown among savages , may always be suspected of involving some such thought ; as when the New Zealand priest would repeat to ...
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... appears in human shape in dreams , thus revealing the personality of the snake.2 In Guinea , monkeys found near a graveyard are supposed to be animated by the spirits of the dead , and in certain localities monkeys , crocodiles , and ...
... appears in human shape in dreams , thus revealing the personality of the snake.2 In Guinea , monkeys found near a graveyard are supposed to be animated by the spirits of the dead , and in certain localities monkeys , crocodiles , and ...
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... appears in strong and varied development . Though seemingly not received by the early Aryans , the doctrine of migration was adopted and adapted by Hindu philosophy , and forms an integral part of that great system common to Brah ...
... appears in strong and varied development . Though seemingly not received by the early Aryans , the doctrine of migration was adopted and adapted by Hindu philosophy , and forms an integral part of that great system common to Brah ...
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... appear as the most remarkable exponents of the metempsychosis . We hear of their ideas of sinners ' souls transmigrating into beasts , the viler according to their crimes ; that he who kills a fowl or rat will become a fowl or rat ...
... appear as the most remarkable exponents of the metempsychosis . We hear of their ideas of sinners ' souls transmigrating into beasts , the viler according to their crimes ; that he who kills a fowl or rat will become a fowl or rat ...
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... appear also at a distance in the proper shape of such beasts as they represent in disposition . Lastly , one of the most notable 1 Swedenborg , ' The True Christian Religion , ' 13. Compare the notion attri- points about the theory of ...
... appear also at a distance in the proper shape of such beasts as they represent in disposition . Lastly , one of the most notable 1 Swedenborg , ' The True Christian Religion , ' 13. Compare the notion attri- points about the theory of ...
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