Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Language, Art, and Custom, Volume 1John Murray, 1929 - Animism |
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... present to the past , have seen in a far different shape the early stages of human life . Those men whose eyes are always turned to look back on the wisdom of the ancients , those who by a common confusion of thought ascribe to men of ...
... present to the past , have seen in a far different shape the early stages of human life . Those men whose eyes are always turned to look back on the wisdom of the ancients , those who by a common confusion of thought ascribe to men of ...
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... present to some greater or less degree in the list of Sanskrit radicals , which represent probably better than those of any other language the verb - roots of the ancient Aryan stock . In ru , ' to roar , cry , wail , ' and in kakh ...
... present to some greater or less degree in the list of Sanskrit radicals , which represent probably better than those of any other language the verb - roots of the ancient Aryan stock . In ru , ' to roar , cry , wail , ' and in kakh ...
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... present problem . For the present purpose of giving a brief series of ex- amples of the sort of words in which imitative sound seems fairly traceable , the strongest and most manageable evidence is of course found among such words as ...
... present problem . For the present purpose of giving a brief series of ex- amples of the sort of words in which imitative sound seems fairly traceable , the strongest and most manageable evidence is of course found among such words as ...
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Abipones Africa ages Amazulu America ancient animals animistic appears Archæology Archip Aryan Asien barbaric Bastian beasts belief belong body called century Charlevoix Chinook Jargon civilization connexion creatures culture custom Dayaks dead death described divination doctrine dreams early earth English European evidence express fact fancy father Fiji fingers funeral ghost Greek Grimm hand heaven Hine-nui-te-po human hyæna idea imitative Indian interjectional Islands Journ Karens Khonds language legend living lower races Malay man's mankind Maui Max Müller meaning Mensch mind modern Moon myth mythic mythology nations native nature nature-myth night numerals Oestl Ojibwa origin philosophy Plin Polynesia primitive Quichua quinary relation religion remarkable rite rude Sanskrit savage tribes Schoolcraft seems sneeze soul sound spirit stone story survival theory things thought tion Tonga traced Veddas verb vigesimal vowels Waitz words Wuttke Yoruba Zealand Zulu