Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Art, and Custom, Volume 2Murray, 1871 |
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... considered to belong to men , to the lower animals , to plants , and to things , we are now prepared to investigate one of the great religious doctrines of mankind , the belief in the soul's continued existence in a Life after Death ...
... considered to belong to men , to the lower animals , to plants , and to things , we are now prepared to investigate one of the great religious doctrines of mankind , the belief in the soul's continued existence in a Life after Death ...
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... considered to take place by the soul of a deceased person animating the body of an infant . North American Indians of the Algonquin districts , when little children died , would bury them by the wayside , that their souls might pass ...
... considered to take place by the soul of a deceased person animating the body of an infant . North American Indians of the Algonquin districts , when little children died , would bury them by the wayside , that their souls might pass ...
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... considered to select for itself ; 8 or when some North American Indians were observed to set the child in place of the last owner of its name , so that a man would treat as his grandfather a child who might have been his grandson.9 The ...
... considered to select for itself ; 8 or when some North American Indians were observed to set the child in place of the last owner of its name , so that a man would treat as his grandfather a child who might have been his grandson.9 The ...
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... considered the first white people they saw as departed spirits thus come back . The lower psychology , drawing no definite line of demarcation between souls of men and of beasts , can at least admit without 6 " 1 Grey , Australia ...
... considered the first white people they saw as departed spirits thus come back . The lower psychology , drawing no definite line of demarcation between souls of men and of beasts , can at least admit without 6 " 1 Grey , Australia ...
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... considered to be " amatongo " or ancestors , and therefore are treated respect- fully , and have offerings of food given them . In two ways , the dead man who has become a snake can still be recognized ; if the creature is one - eyed ...
... considered to be " amatongo " or ancestors , and therefore are treated respect- fully , and have offerings of food given them . In two ways , the dead man who has become a snake can still be recognized ; if the creature is one - eyed ...
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