Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Art, and Custom, Volume 2Murray, 1871 |
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... Land of the Dead - Visits by the Living to the Regions of Departed Souls - Connexion of such legends with myths of Sunset the Land of the Dead thus imagined as in the West - Realiza- tion of current religious ideas , whether of savage ...
... Land of the Dead - Visits by the Living to the Regions of Departed Souls - Connexion of such legends with myths of Sunset the Land of the Dead thus imagined as in the West - Realiza- tion of current religious ideas , whether of savage ...
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... land -in fact amounts among several of the lower races to a distinct doctrine of an earthly resurrection . One of the most remark- able forms which this belief assumes is when dark - skinned races , wanting some reasonable theory to ...
... land -in fact amounts among several of the lower races to a distinct doctrine of an earthly resurrection . One of the most remark- able forms which this belief assumes is when dark - skinned races , wanting some reasonable theory to ...
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... Land of Souls . They can be born again as souls in new human bodies , and a soul who was poor before will now be rich . Many will not come back as men , but will become animals . To an African mother who has lost her child , it is a ...
... Land of Souls . They can be born again as souls in new human bodies , and a soul who was poor before will now be rich . Many will not come back as men , but will become animals . To an African mother who has lost her child , it is a ...
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... land of Bolotu , the lower ranks were believed to be endowed only with souls that died with their bodies ; and although some of these had the vanity to claim a place in paradise among their betters , the populace in general acquiesced ...
... land of Bolotu , the lower ranks were believed to be endowed only with souls that died with their bodies ; and although some of these had the vanity to claim a place in paradise among their betters , the populace in general acquiesced ...
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... land if they have kept feasts and oaths and abstained from forbidden meats , but if not , to be plunged into the river by the god , and thus drowned and buried in eternal Amer . ' vol . i . p . 247 ; Smith's ' Virginia ' in Pinkerton ...
... land if they have kept feasts and oaths and abstained from forbidden meats , but if not , to be plunged into the river by the god , and thus drowned and buried in eternal Amer . ' vol . i . p . 247 ; Smith's ' Virginia ' in Pinkerton ...
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