Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2H. Holt, 1877 - Animism |
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Page 34
... Christian , the silicer- nium was succeeded by the feast held at the martyr's tomb . Faustus inveighs against the Christians for carrying on the ancient rites : " Their sacrifices indeed ye have turned into love - feasts , their idols ...
... Christian , the silicer- nium was succeeded by the feast held at the martyr's tomb . Faustus inveighs against the Christians for carrying on the ancient rites : " Their sacrifices indeed ye have turned into love - feasts , their idols ...
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... Christian saint . Saint - Foix , who wrote in the time of Louis XIV . , has left us an account of the ceremonial ... Christians now explain away into symbolism this remnant of primitive offering to the dead : the honey is heavenly ...
... Christian saint . Saint - Foix , who wrote in the time of Louis XIV . , has left us an account of the ceremonial ... Christians now explain away into symbolism this remnant of primitive offering to the dead : the honey is heavenly ...
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... Christians , that they appeased the shades of the dead with feasts like the Gentiles , would not be beside the mark now , fifteen hundred years later . All Souls ' Day keeps up , within the limits of Christendom , a commemoration of the ...
... Christians , that they appeased the shades of the dead with feasts like the Gentiles , would not be beside the mark now , fifteen hundred years later . All Souls ' Day keeps up , within the limits of Christendom , a commemoration of the ...
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... 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 dreams or in the hallucinations of ...
... 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 dreams or in the hallucinations of ...
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... Christian belief , attached itself in a remark- able way to the doctrine of Christ's descent into Hades . This dogma had so strongly established itself by the end of the 4th century , that Augustine could ask , " Quis nisi in- fidelis ...
... Christian belief , attached itself in a remark- able way to the doctrine of Christ's descent into Hades . This dogma had so strongly established itself by the end of the 4th century , that Augustine could ask , " Quis nisi in- fidelis ...
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