Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Art, and Custom, Volume 2Murray, 1871 |
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... significance and function - Heaven - god - Rain - god - Thunder - god - Wind - god - Earth - god -Water - god - Sea - god - Fire - god - Sun - god - Moon - god 224 CHAPTER XVII . ANIMISM ( continued ) . Polytheism comprises vi CONTENTS .
... significance and function - Heaven - god - Rain - god - Thunder - god - Wind - god - Earth - god -Water - god - Sea - god - Fire - god - Sun - god - Moon - god 224 CHAPTER XVII . ANIMISM ( continued ) . Polytheism comprises vi CONTENTS .
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... earth , especially if corpse unburied ; its attach- ment to bodily remains - Feasts of the Dead . HAVING thus traced upward from the lower levels of culture the opinions of mankind as to the souls , spirits , ghosts , or phantoms ...
... earth , especially if corpse unburied ; its attach- ment to bodily remains - Feasts of the Dead . HAVING thus traced upward from the lower levels of culture the opinions of mankind as to the souls , spirits , ghosts , or phantoms ...
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... earth , sea , and air , and back again to man , or by the simpler judicial penalty which sent back the wicked dead to earth as unclean beasts . The pictures and hieroglyphic sentences of the Book of the Dead are still preserved , and ...
... earth , sea , and air , and back again to man , or by the simpler judicial penalty which sent back the wicked dead to earth as unclean beasts . The pictures and hieroglyphic sentences of the Book of the Dead are still preserved , and ...
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... earth in a spirit - world , where existence is modelled upon the earthly life , or raised to higher glory , or placed under reversed conditions , and lastly , the belief in a division between happiness and misery of departed souls , by ...
... earth in a spirit - world , where existence is modelled upon the earthly life , or raised to higher glory , or placed under reversed conditions , and lastly , the belief in a division between happiness and misery of departed souls , by ...
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... earth are thought of as lingering above ground , especially where their dust remains . South Asia has such beliefs : the Karens say that the ghosts who wander on earth are not the spirits of those who go to Plu , the land of the dead ...
... earth are thought of as lingering above ground , especially where their dust remains . South Asia has such beliefs : the Karens say that the ghosts who wander on earth are not the spirits of those who go to Plu , the land of the dead ...
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