Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Language, Art, and Custom, Volume 1John Murray, 1929 - Animism |
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Page 237
... meaning of imitative sounds , interjectional words , symbolism of sex or distance by contrast of vowels . Just as no one is likely to enter into the real nature of mytho- logy who has not the keenest appreciation of nursery tales , so ...
... meaning of imitative sounds , interjectional words , symbolism of sex or distance by contrast of vowels . Just as no one is likely to enter into the real nature of mytho- logy who has not the keenest appreciation of nursery tales , so ...
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... meaning we may guess them to have once had seems now by modification and mutilation to have passed out of knowledge . Remembering how ordinary words change and lose their traces of original meaning in the course of ages , and that in ...
... meaning we may guess them to have once had seems now by modification and mutilation to have passed out of knowledge . Remembering how ordinary words change and lose their traces of original meaning in the course of ages , and that in ...
Page 320
... meaning , there are often sufficient grounds for an attempt to restore it . In spite of change and corruption , myths are slow to lose all consciousness of their first origin ; as for instance , classical literature retained enough of ...
... meaning , there are often sufficient grounds for an attempt to restore it . In spite of change and corruption , myths are slow to lose all consciousness of their first origin ; as for instance , classical literature retained enough of ...
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