Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Art, and Custom, Volume 2Murray, 1871 |
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... carry away the soul.5 In Mexico , the Tlascalans thought that after death the souls of nobles would animate beautiful singing birds , while plebeians passed into weasels and beetles and such like vile creatures . In Brazil , the Tecunas ...
... carry away the soul.5 In Mexico , the Tlascalans thought that after death the souls of nobles would animate beautiful singing birds , while plebeians passed into weasels and beetles and such like vile creatures . In Brazil , the Tecunas ...
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... carry on the consequences of past and prepare the antecedents of future life . To the Hindu the body is but the temporary receptacle of the soul , which , " bound in the chains of deeds " and " eating the fruits of past actions ...
... carry on the consequences of past and prepare the antecedents of future life . To the Hindu the body is but the temporary receptacle of the soul , which , " bound in the chains of deeds " and " eating the fruits of past actions ...
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... carried in a former birth , when he was that Euphorbos whom Menelaus slew at the siege of Troy . Afterwards he was Hermotimos , the Klazomenian prophet whose funeral rites were so prematurely celebrated while his soul was out , and ...
... carried in a former birth , when he was that Euphorbos whom Menelaus slew at the siege of Troy . Afterwards he was Hermotimos , the Klazomenian prophet whose funeral rites were so prematurely celebrated while his soul was out , and ...
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... carrying on an independent existence like other corporeal creatures . Savage descriptions of the next world are often such absolute copies of this , that it is scarcely possible to say whether the dead are or are not thought of as ...
... carrying on an independent existence like other corporeal creatures . Savage descriptions of the next world are often such absolute copies of this , that it is scarcely possible to say whether the dead are or are not thought of as ...
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... carrying personality as it carries likeness . This thought of the soul's continued existence is , however , but the gateway into a complex region of belief . The doctrines which , separate or compounded , make up the scheme of future ...
... carrying personality as it carries likeness . This thought of the soul's continued existence is , however , but the gateway into a complex region of belief . The doctrines which , separate or compounded , make up the scheme of future ...
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