Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Language, Art, and Custom, Volume 1John Murray, 1929 - Animism |
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Page 481
... dead , they said that the bodies of the things remained , but their souls went to the dead who used them . The whole idea is graphically illustrated in the following Ojibwa tradition or myth . Gitchi Gauzini was a chief who lived on the ...
... dead , they said that the bodies of the things remained , but their souls went to the dead who used them . The whole idea is graphically illustrated in the following Ojibwa tradition or myth . Gitchi Gauzini was a chief who lived on the ...
Page 491
... dead with no coin for the grim ferryman . How such ideas could be realized , may be seen in the story of Eukrates , whose dead wife appeared to him to demand one of her golden sandals , which had been dropped underneath the chest , and ...
... dead with no coin for the grim ferryman . How such ideas could be realized , may be seen in the story of Eukrates , whose dead wife appeared to him to demand one of her golden sandals , which had been dropped underneath the chest , and ...
Page 494
... dead . " Just as people in Borneo , after they had become Moham- medans , still kept up the rite of burying provisions for the dead man's journey , as a mark of respect , so the rite of interring funeral offerings survived in Christian ...
... dead . " Just as people in Borneo , after they had become Moham- medans , still kept up the rite of burying provisions for the dead man's journey , as a mark of respect , so the rite of interring funeral offerings survived in Christian ...
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