Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2H. Holt, 1877 - Animism |
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Page 97
... Hindu , it is true , cere- monial morality seems to take the upper hand , and the question of happiness or misery after death turns rather on ablutions and fasts , on sacrifices and gifts to brahmans , than on purity and beneficence of ...
... Hindu , it is true , cere- monial morality seems to take the upper hand , and the question of happiness or misery after death turns rather on ablutions and fasts , on sacrifices and gifts to brahmans , than on purity and beneficence of ...
Page 101
... Hindus ; that the North American and South African doctrine of continued existence in a subterranean world may be derived from similar beliefs held by races at the level of the ancient Greeks ; that when rude tribes in the Old or New ...
... Hindus ; that the North American and South African doctrine of continued existence in a subterranean world may be derived from similar beliefs held by races at the level of the ancient Greeks ; that when rude tribes in the Old or New ...
Page 105
... men sleep in life and wake in death ; the Hindu likens the body which a soul has quitted to the bed he rises from in the morning . The story of the ancient Getæ , who wept at births and laughed at funerals ANIMISM . 105.
... men sleep in life and wake in death ; the Hindu likens the body which a soul has quitted to the bed he rises from in the morning . The story of the ancient Getæ , who wept at births and laughed at funerals ANIMISM . 105.
Page 117
... Hindu tribes of India , whose religions more or less represent præ - Brahmanic and præ - Buddhistic conditions , wide and deep traces appear of an ancient and surviving cultus of ancestors . Turanian tribes spread over the northern ...
... Hindu tribes of India , whose religions more or less represent præ - Brahmanic and præ - Buddhistic conditions , wide and deep traces appear of an ancient and surviving cultus of ancestors . Turanian tribes spread over the northern ...
Page 119
... Hindu unites in some degree with the Chinese as to ancestor - worship , and especially as to the necessity of having a son by blood or adoption , who shall offer the proper sacri- fices to him after death . " May there be born in our ...
... Hindu unites in some degree with the Chinese as to ancestor - worship , and especially as to the necessity of having a son by blood or adoption , who shall offer the proper sacri- fices to him after death . " May there be born in our ...
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Africa Amazulu Amer ancestors ancient animals animistic Archip Aryan Avesta barbaric Bastian beasts belief body Brahmans Brinton Buddhism Castrén ceremony Chinese Christian civilized conception connexion Creator dead death deity demons disease divine doctrine dwell earth evil feast fetish fire ghosts give gods Greek Grimm Hades Heaven Heaven-god higher Hindu human idea idol images Indians Iroquois island J. G. Müller Journ Khonds land living lower culture lower races lustration mankind Max Müller Meiners mind modern Moon Myth nations native nature negro offerings original Parsi pass Peru philosophy Pinkerton Polynesia polytheism prayer priest region religion religious rites rude sacred sacrifice savage Schoolcraft seems Sheol snakes solar spirits stone Sun-worship Supreme Deity survival temple theology theory thou thought thunder tion Tonga tree tribes Turanian tribes Unkulunkulu Waitz West worship Zealand Zeus Zulu