Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Art, and Custom, Volume 2Murray, 1871 |
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... traced upward from the lower levels of culture the opinions of mankind as to the souls , spirits , ghosts , or phantoms , considered to belong to men , to the lower animals , to plants , and to things , we are now prepared to ...
... traced upward from the lower levels of culture the opinions of mankind as to the souls , spirits , ghosts , or phantoms , considered to belong to men , to the lower animals , to plants , and to things , we are now prepared to ...
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... traced from its crude and primitive mani- festations among savage races to its establishment in the heart of Christianity , where the faith in a future existence forms at once an inducement to goodness , a sustaining hope through ...
... traced from its crude and primitive mani- festations among savage races to its establishment in the heart of Christianity , where the faith in a future existence forms at once an inducement to goodness , a sustaining hope through ...
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... traced northward by the Torres Islands to New Caledonia , where the natives thought the white men to be the spirits of the dead who bring sickness , and assigned this as their reason for wishing to kill white men.1 In Africa , again ...
... traced northward by the Torres Islands to New Caledonia , where the natives thought the white men to be the spirits of the dead who bring sickness , and assigned this as their reason for wishing to kill white men.1 In Africa , again ...
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... traced the ancient theory of metempsychosis in stage after stage of the world's civilization , scattered among the native races of America and Africa , established in old Egypt , elaborated by the Hindu mind into its great system of ...
... traced the ancient theory of metempsychosis in stage after stage of the world's civilization , scattered among the native races of America and Africa , established in old Egypt , elaborated by the Hindu mind into its great system of ...
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... traced onward from the lower to the higher culture . This is the custom of Feasts of the Dead . Among the funeral offerings described in the last chapter , of which the purpose more or less distinctly appears to be that the departed ...
... traced onward from the lower to the higher culture . This is the custom of Feasts of the Dead . Among the funeral offerings described in the last chapter , of which the purpose more or less distinctly appears to be that the departed ...
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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