Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Art, and Custom, Volume 2Murray, 1871 |
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... 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 . The Nutka Indians not without ingenuity ...
... 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 . The Nutka Indians not without ingenuity ...
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... hold that a man's life in former existences is the cause of his now being what he is , while at this moment he is accumulating merit or demerit whose result will determine his fate in future lives . Memory , it is true , fails generally ...
... hold that a man's life in former existences is the cause of his now being what he is , while at this moment he is accumulating merit or demerit whose result will determine his fate in future lives . Memory , it is true , fails generally ...
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... hold a large place in the Egyptian religion . In Greek philosophy , great teachers stood forth -to proclaim it . Plato had mythic knowledge to convey of souls entering such new incarnations as their glimpse of real existence had made ...
... hold a large place in the Egyptian religion . In Greek philosophy , great teachers stood forth -to proclaim it . Plato had mythic knowledge to convey of souls entering such new incarnations as their glimpse of real existence had made ...
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... hold up from time to time for a warning to the mystical interpreters of our own day . The soul of Adam passed into David , and shall pass into the Messiah , for are not these initials in the very name of Ad ( a ) m , and does not ...
... hold up from time to time for a warning to the mystical interpreters of our own day . The soul of Adam passed into David , and shall pass into the Messiah , for are not these initials in the very name of Ad ( a ) m , and does not ...
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... hold original and distinct doctrines of corporeal resurrection.1 Again , attention must be given to the practice , so common among low and high races , of preserving relics of the dead , from mere morsels of bone up to whole mummified ...
... hold original and distinct doctrines of corporeal resurrection.1 Again , attention must be given to the practice , so common among low and high races , of preserving relics of the dead , from mere morsels of bone up to whole mummified ...
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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