Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Art, and Custom, Volume 2Murray, 1871 |
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... sacred . It is to be borne in mind that notions of this kind may form in barbaric psychology but a portion of the wide doctrine of the soul's future existence . For a conspicuous instance of this , let us take the system of the Gold ...
... sacred . It is to be borne in mind that notions of this kind may form in barbaric psychology but a portion of the wide doctrine of the soul's future existence . For a conspicuous instance of this , let us take the system of the Gold ...
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... sacred burial- enclosure was a task for the priest to accomplish with his 1 Wuttke , ' Volksaberglaube , ' pp . 213-17 . Other cases of taking out the dead by a gap made on purpose : Arbousset and Daumas , p . 502 ( Bushmen ) ; Magyar ...
... sacred burial- enclosure was a task for the priest to accomplish with his 1 Wuttke , ' Volksaberglaube , ' pp . 213-17 . Other cases of taking out the dead by a gap made on purpose : Arbousset and Daumas , p . 502 ( Bushmen ) ; Magyar ...
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... sacred of duties to give the body - its funeral rites , that the shade should not flit moaning near -the gates of Hades , nor wander in the dismal crowd along the banks of Acheron.7 An Australian or a Karen would have - taken in the ...
... sacred of duties to give the body - its funeral rites , that the shade should not flit moaning near -the gates of Hades , nor wander in the dismal crowd along the banks of Acheron.7 An Australian or a Karen would have - taken in the ...
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... sacred cairns , common in the district . But the popular belief , that a tiger would de- vour the chiefs who permitted a violation of the sacred place , soon received the sort of confirmation which such beliefs receive everywhere , for ...
... sacred cairns , common in the district . But the popular belief , that a tiger would de- vour the chiefs who permitted a violation of the sacred place , soon received the sort of confirmation which such beliefs receive everywhere , for ...
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... sacred boat across to the burial - place , on the western side of the sacred lake . So , too , the cavernous Sheol of the Israelites , the shadowy region of departed souls , lay deep below the earth . Through the great Aryan religious ...
... sacred boat across to the burial - place , on the western side of the sacred lake . So , too , the cavernous Sheol of the Israelites , the shadowy region of departed souls , lay deep below the earth . Through the great Aryan religious ...
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