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Page 35
... and raisins , sweetened with honey . In their usual mystic fashion , the Greek
Christians now explain away into symbolism this remnant of primitive offering to
the dead : the honey is heavenly sweetness , the 1 Augustin . contra Faustum , xx
.
... and raisins , sweetened with honey . In their usual mystic fashion , the Greek
Christians now explain away into symbolism this remnant of primitive offering to
the dead : the honey is heavenly sweetness , the 1 Augustin . contra Faustum , xx
.
Page 44
... Stars - Heaven - - Historical course of belief as to such localization - Nature of
Future Life - Continuance - theory , apparently original , belongs especially to the
lower races - Transitional theories — Retribution - theory , apparently derived ...
... Stars - Heaven - - Historical course of belief as to such localization - Nature of
Future Life - Continuance - theory , apparently original , belongs especially to the
lower races - Transitional theories — Retribution - theory , apparently derived ...
Page 60
In Borneo , Mr . St . John visited the heaven of the Idaan race , on the summit of
Kina Balu , and the native guides , who feared to pass the night in this abode of
spirits , showed the traveller the moss on which the souls of their ancestors fed ...
In Borneo , Mr . St . John visited the heaven of the Idaan race , on the summit of
Kina Balu , and the native guides , who feared to pass the night in this abode of
spirits , showed the traveller the moss on which the souls of their ancestors fed ...
Page 61
... where earth stretches up towards heaven . 4 When Columbus sailed westward
across the Atlantic to seek the “ new heaven and a new earth ” he had read of in
Isaiah , he found them , though not as he sought . It is a quaint coincidence that ...
... where earth stretches up towards heaven . 4 When Columbus sailed westward
across the Atlantic to seek the “ new heaven and a new earth ” he had read of in
Isaiah , he found them , though not as he sought . It is a quaint coincidence that ...
Page 66
for if it were round , people would fall off ; it is the wrong side of another heaven ,
which covers another earth below , whither the dead will go down to their new life
, and so , as Steller says , their mundane system is like a tub with three bottoms ...
for if it were round , people would fall off ; it is the wrong side of another heaven ,
which covers another earth below , whither the dead will go down to their new life
, and so , as Steller says , their mundane system is like a tub with three bottoms ...
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| Title | Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2 Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Sir Edward Burnett Tylor |
| Author | Sir Edward Burnett Tylor |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | H. Holt, 1877 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 7 Oct 2008 |
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