Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Language, Art, and Custom, Volume 1John Murray, 1929 - Animism |
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... century geologist . The older writer may have been far abler than his modern critic , but he had not the same ... centuries B.C. , yet we must grant that he shows cause to refer its composition to a very ancient period , where it then ...
... century geologist . The older writer may have been far abler than his modern critic , but he had not the same ... centuries B.C. , yet we must grant that he shows cause to refer its composition to a very ancient period , where it then ...
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... century bio- graphy of Apollonius of Tyana ; these Brahmans are de- scribed as going about in the air some two cubits from the ground , not for the sake of miracle ( such ambition they despised ) , but for its being more suitable to ...
... century bio- graphy of Apollonius of Tyana ; these Brahmans are de- scribed as going about in the air some two cubits from the ground , not for the sake of miracle ( such ambition they despised ) , but for its being more suitable to ...
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... century account in Southern India of the king of Maabar's guard of horsemen , who , when he dies and his body is burnt , throw themselves into the fire to do him service in the next world . In the seventeenth century the practice is ...
... century account in Southern India of the king of Maabar's guard of horsemen , who , when he dies and his body is burnt , throw themselves into the fire to do him service in the next world . In the seventeenth century the practice is ...
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