Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Language, Art, and Custom, Volume 1John Murray, 1929 - Animism |
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... objects are treated as of animate gender ; such are the eagle's talons , the bear's claws , the beaver's castor , the man's nails , and other objects for which there is claimed a peculiar or mystic power.1 If to anyone it seems ...
... objects are treated as of animate gender ; such are the eagle's talons , the bear's claws , the beaver's castor , the man's nails , and other objects for which there is claimed a peculiar or mystic power.1 If to anyone it seems ...
Page 477
... objects which to us are not merely soulless but lifeless . Yet , strange as such a notion may seem to us at first sight , if we place ourselves by an effort in the intellectual position of an uncultured tribe , and examine the theory of ...
... objects which to us are not merely soulless but lifeless . Yet , strange as such a notion may seem to us at first sight , if we place ourselves by an effort in the intellectual position of an uncultured tribe , and examine the theory of ...
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... object - souls very rationally sacrifice objects , in order to transmit these souls . Among the Algonquin tribes , the sacrifice of objects for the dead was a habitual rite , as when we read of a warrior's corpse being buried with ...
... object - souls very rationally sacrifice objects , in order to transmit these souls . Among the Algonquin tribes , the sacrifice of objects for the dead was a habitual rite , as when we read of a warrior's corpse being buried with ...
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