Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Art, and Custom, Volume 2Murray, 1871 |
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... becomes a complete Philosophy of Natural Religion - Defini- tion of Spirits similar to and apparently modelled on that of Souls -Transition - stage classes of Souls passing into good and evil De- mons - Manes - Worship - Doctrine of ...
... becomes a complete Philosophy of Natural Religion - Defini- tion of Spirits similar to and apparently modelled on that of Souls -Transition - stage classes of Souls passing into good and evil De- mons - Manes - Worship - Doctrine of ...
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... become beautiful birds feeding on plea- sant fruits , but cowards will be turned into reptiles . A mis- sionary heard a Chiriquane woman of Buenos Ayres say of a fox , May not that be the spirit of my dead daughter ? " 8 Among the ...
... become beautiful birds feeding on plea- sant fruits , but cowards will be turned into reptiles . A mis- sionary heard a Chiriquane woman of Buenos Ayres say of a fox , May not that be the spirit of my dead daughter ? " 8 Among the ...
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... become jackals , and good men snakes.1 The Zulus , while admitting that a man may turn into a wasp or lizard , work out in the fullest way the idea of the dead becoming snakes , a creature whose change of skin has so often been ...
... become jackals , and good men snakes.1 The Zulus , while admitting that a man may turn into a wasp or lizard , work out in the fullest way the idea of the dead becoming snakes , a creature whose change of skin has so often been ...
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... become human again , a pariah or barbarian is at once low - caste among men and high - caste among brutes . Through such bodies migrate the sinful souls which desire has drawn down from primal purity into gross material being ; the ...
... become human again , a pariah or barbarian is at once low - caste among men and high - caste among brutes . Through such bodies migrate the sinful souls which desire has drawn down from primal purity into gross material being ; the ...
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... become bloodthirsty beasts ; stealers of grain and meat shall turn into rats and vultures ; the thief who took dyed garments , kitchen - herbs , or perfumes , shall become accordingly a red partridge , a peacock , or a musk - rat . In ...
... become bloodthirsty beasts ; stealers of grain and meat shall turn into rats and vultures ; the thief who took dyed garments , kitchen - herbs , or perfumes , shall become accordingly a red partridge , a peacock , or a musk - rat . In ...
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Africa Amazulu ancestors ancient animals animistic Archip Aryan barbaric Bastian beasts belief body Brahman Brinton Castrén ceremony Chinese Christian civilized conceptions connexion Creator dead death deity demons disease divine doctrine dwell earth Edition evil Fcap feast fetish fire ghosts give gods Greek Grimm Hades Heaven Heaven-god higher Hindu human idea idol Illustrations Indians Iroquois Islands J. G. Müller Journ Khonds land living Lord lower races lustration mankind Max Müller Meiners mind modern Moon Myth nations native nature negro North offerings original Parsi passed Peru philosophy Pinkerton polytheism Portrait Post 8vo prayer priest primitive religion religious rites rude sacred sacrifice savage Schoolcraft Sheol solar souls spirits stone Sun-worship Supreme Deity temple theology theory thou thought tion Tonga tree tribes Turanian tribes Unkulunkulu Waitz West Woodcuts worship Zealand Zulu