Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Art, and Custom, Volume 2Murray, 1871 |
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... offering - Motive of sacrificer - Transition from Gift - theory to Homage- theory insignificant and formal offerings ; sacrificial banquets - Abne- gation - theory ; sacrifice of children , etc. - Sacrifice of Substitutes ; part given ...
... offering - Motive of sacrificer - Transition from Gift - theory to Homage- theory insignificant and formal offerings ; sacrificial banquets - Abne- gation - theory ; sacrifice of children , etc. - Sacrifice of Substitutes ; part given ...
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... offerings of food given them . In two ways , the dead man who has become a snake can still be recognized ; if the creature is one - eyed , or has a scar or some other mark , it is recognized as the " itongo " of a man who was thus ...
... offerings of food given them . In two ways , the dead man who has become a snake can still be recognized ; if the creature is one - eyed , or has a scar or some other mark , it is recognized as the " itongo " of a man who was thus ...
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... offerings described in the last chapter , of which the purpose more or less distinctly appears to be that the departed soul shall take them away in some ghostly or ideal 1 Calmet , vol . ii . ch . xxxvi .; Brand , vol . iii . p . 67 ...
... offerings described in the last chapter , of which the purpose more or less distinctly appears to be that the departed soul shall take them away in some ghostly or ideal 1 Calmet , vol . ii . ch . xxxvi .; Brand , vol . iii . p . 67 ...
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... offerings to ancestors of part of any dainty food , and an Indian who fell by accident into the fire would believe that the spirits of his ancestors pushed him in for neglecting to make due offerings . The minds of the Hurons were ...
... offerings to ancestors of part of any dainty food , and an Indian who fell by accident into the fire would believe that the spirits of his ancestors pushed him in for neglecting to make due offerings . The minds of the Hurons were ...
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... offerings of food and drink.2 Among rude Asiatic tribes , the Bodo of North - East India thus celebrate the last funeral rites . The friends repair to the grave , and the nearest of kin to the deccased , taking an individual's usual ...
... offerings of food and drink.2 Among rude Asiatic tribes , the Bodo of North - East India thus celebrate the last funeral rites . The friends repair to the grave , and the nearest of kin to the deccased , taking an individual's usual ...
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