Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Art, and Custom, Volume 2Murray, 1871 |
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... idea of the dead becoming snakes , a creature whose change of skin has so often been associated with the thought of resurrection and immortality . It is especially certain green or brown harmless snakes , which come gently and ...
... idea of the dead becoming snakes , a creature whose change of skin has so often been associated with the thought of resurrection and immortality . It is especially certain green or brown harmless snakes , which come gently and ...
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... idea is one known to lower races in the district of the world which has been more or less under Hindu influence ... ideas are originally independent of each other , and if not , did the Hindus adopt the ideas of the indigenes , or vice ...
... idea is one known to lower races in the district of the world which has been more or less under Hindu influence ... ideas are originally independent of each other , and if not , did the Hindus adopt the ideas of the indigenes , or vice ...
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... not unreasonably consider the lower animals to have souls like their own , and this state of mind makes the idea of 1 St. Clair and Brophy , Bulgaria , ' p . 57 . • a man's soul transmigrating into a beast's body at least 14 ANIMISM .
... not unreasonably consider the lower animals to have souls like their own , and this state of mind makes the idea of 1 St. Clair and Brophy , Bulgaria , ' p . 57 . • a man's soul transmigrating into a beast's body at least 14 ANIMISM .
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... idea . The view stated in a previous chapter as to the origin of the conception of soul in general , may perhaps help us here . As it seems that the first conception of souls may have been that of the souls of men , this being ...
... idea . The view stated in a previous chapter as to the origin of the conception of soul in general , may perhaps help us here . As it seems that the first conception of souls may have been that of the souls of men , this being ...
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... idea of bodily resurrection , whether among the native races of America , or in ancient Egypt , or elsewhere , is a problem for buted to the followers of Basilides the Gnostic , of men whose nature is generated by spirits as of wolf ...
... idea of bodily resurrection , whether among the native races of America , or in ancient Egypt , or elsewhere , is a problem for buted to the followers of Basilides the Gnostic , of men whose nature is generated by spirits as of wolf ...
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