Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Language, Art, and Custom, Volume 1John Murray, 1929 - Animism |
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Page 337
... story of the Day may well be told in the Karen tale of Ta Ywa , who was born a tiny child , and went to the Sun to make him grow ; the Sun tried in vain to destroy him by rain and heat , and then blew him up large till his head touched ...
... story of the Day may well be told in the Karen tale of Ta Ywa , who was born a tiny child , and went to the Sun to make him grow ; the Sun tried in vain to destroy him by rain and heat , and then blew him up large till his head touched ...
Page 370
... story , which sounded reasonable to people puzzled by the appearance of a black population in the Andaman islands , is of course repudiated by ethnologists aware of the wide distribution of the negroid Papuans , really so distinct from ...
... story , which sounded reasonable to people puzzled by the appearance of a black population in the Andaman islands , is of course repudiated by ethnologists aware of the wide distribution of the negroid Papuans , really so distinct from ...
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... story , which , if not too good to be true , is a theory of upward and downward development , almost thorough enough for a Buddhist philo- sopher . He says , ' A German whom I met here told me that the blacks believe the damned among ...
... story , which , if not too good to be true , is a theory of upward and downward development , almost thorough enough for a Buddhist philo- sopher . He says , ' A German whom I met here told me that the blacks believe the damned among ...
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