Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Art, and Custom, Volume 2Murray, 1871 |
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... hands on the breast of the dying or dead , then holds them over the head of a relative and blows through them ; the next child born to this recipient of the departed soul is animated by it , and takes the rank and name of the deceased ...
... hands on the breast of the dying or dead , then holds them over the head of a relative and blows through them ; the next child born to this recipient of the departed soul is animated by it , and takes the rank and name of the deceased ...
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... hand , and how out of the three or four available answers some people adopted one , some another , some several at once . Primitive theologians had all the world before them where to choose their place of rest for the departed , and ...
... hand , and how out of the three or four available answers some people adopted one , some another , some several at once . Primitive theologians had all the world before them where to choose their place of rest for the departed , and ...
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... hand take them ; though they climb up to Heaven , thence will I bring them down . " Thither Jew and Gentile go down : " What man liveth , and shall not see death ? shall he deliver his soul from the hand of Sheol ? " Asshur and all her ...
... hand take them ; though they climb up to Heaven , thence will I bring them down . " Thither Jew and Gentile go down : " What man liveth , and shall not see death ? shall he deliver his soul from the hand of Sheol ? " Asshur and all her ...
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... hand findeth to do , do it with thy might ; for there is no work , nor device , nor knowledge , nor wisdom , in Sheol , whither thou goest . " 1 Such thoughts of the life of the shades below did not disappear when , in the later years ...
... hand findeth to do , do it with thy might ; for there is no work , nor device , nor knowledge , nor wisdom , in Sheol , whither thou goest . " 1 Such thoughts of the life of the shades below did not disappear when , in the later years ...
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... hand , the thought which shows out in such bold relief in the savage mind , that courage is virtue , and battle and bloodshed the hero's noblest pursuit , leads naturally to a hope of glory for his soul when his body has been slain in ...
... hand , the thought which shows out in such bold relief in the savage mind , that courage is virtue , and battle and bloodshed the hero's noblest pursuit , leads naturally to a hope of glory for his soul when his body has been slain in ...
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