Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Language, Art and Custom, Volume 2Murray, 1903 - Animism |
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... look for signs to show what ancestral soul has returned among them . Among the Khonds of Orissa , births are celebrated by a feast on the seventh day , and the priest , divining by dropping rice - grains in a cup of water , and judging ...
... look for signs to show what ancestral soul has returned among them . Among the Khonds of Orissa , births are celebrated by a feast on the seventh day , and the priest , divining by dropping rice - grains in a cup of water , and judging ...
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... looks not down with his rays , and deadly night stretches always over wretched mortals , -thence they passed along the banks to the entrance of the land where the shades of the departed , quickened for a while by the taste of ...
... looks not down with his rays , and deadly night stretches always over wretched mortals , -thence they passed along the banks to the entrance of the land where the shades of the departed , quickened for a while by the taste of ...
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... looks on the Elysian Fields , the Christian beholds the heights of Heaven and the depths of Hell . Among the North American Indians , and especially the Algonquin tribes , accounts are not unusual of men whose spirits , travelling in ...
... looks on the Elysian Fields , the Christian beholds the heights of Heaven and the depths of Hell . Among the North American Indians , and especially the Algonquin tribes , accounts are not unusual of men whose spirits , travelling in ...
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... looks down the chasm into Hades , and sees the dead reclining on the asphodel in companies of kinsfolk and friends ; among them he recognizes Sokrates with his bald head and pot - belly , and also his own father , dressed in the clothes ...
... looks down the chasm into Hades , and sees the dead reclining on the asphodel in companies of kinsfolk and friends ; among them he recognizes Sokrates with his bald head and pot - belly , and also his own father , dressed in the clothes ...
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... look down upon the molten lava.1 Fourthly , in old times and new , it has come into men's minds to fix upon the sun and moon as abodes of departed souls . When we have learnt from the rude Natchez of the Mississippi and the Apalaches of ...
... look down upon the molten lava.1 Fourthly , in old times and new , it has come into men's minds to fix upon the sun and moon as abodes of departed souls . When we have learnt from the rude Natchez of the Mississippi and the Apalaches of ...
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Page 55 - He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and brake their bands in sunder. 15 Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men ! 16 For he hath broken the gates of brass, and cut the bars of iron in sunder.
Page 282 - O thou that, with surpassing glory crown'd, Look'st from thy sole dominion, like the god Of this new world, at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminish'd heads, to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy sphere...
Page 43 - To those whose talents are above mediocrity, the highest subjects may be announced. To those who are below mediocrity, the highest subjects may not be announced.' CHAP. XX. Fan Ch'ih asked what constituted wisdom. The Master said, To give one's self earnestly to the duties due to men, and, while respecting spiritual beings, to keep aloof from them, may be called wisdom.
Page 378 - ... an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD. 6 Т And if his offering for a sacrifice of peace offering unto the LORD be of the flock ; male or female, he shall offer it without blemish.
Page 379 - To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto Me ? saith the LORD : I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts ; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he-goats.
Page 73 - Where there is eternal light, in the world where the sun is placed, in that immortal imperishable world place me, O Soma! Where king Vaivasvata reigns, where the secret place of heaven is, where these mighty waters are, there make me immortal!
Page 249 - We must not be surprised,' he says, ' at finding, on a close examination, that the characters of all the Pagan deities, male and female, melt into each other and at last into one or two ; for it seems a well-founded opinion, that the whole crowd of gods and goddesses in ancient Rome, and modern Varanes [Benares] mean only the powers of nature, and principally those of the Sun, expressed in a variety of ways and by a multitude of fanciful names.
Page 156 - Lama now mounted astride the bench, and soon carried it, or, as was commonly believed, it carried him, to the very tent, where he ordered the damask to be produced. The demand was directly complied with : for it is vain in such cases to offer any...
Page 99 - ... noble, with brilliant face; one of fifteen years, as fair in her growth as the fairest creatures. " Then to her speaks the soul of the pure man, asking: ' What maiden art thou whom I have seen here as the fairest of maidens in body?