Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2H. Holt, 1877 - Animism |
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Page 116
... Zulu follows up the doc- trine of divine ancestors till he reaches a first ancestor of man and creator of the world , the primeval Unkulunkulu . In West Africa , manes - worship displays in contrast its two special types . On the one ...
... Zulu follows up the doc- trine of divine ancestors till he reaches a first ancestor of man and creator of the world , the primeval Unkulunkulu . In West Africa , manes - worship displays in contrast its two special types . On the one ...
Page 129
... Zulus , the causes of disease are the ghosts of the dead , come to draw the living to themselves , or to compel them to sacrifice meat - offerings . They are recognized by the diviners , or by the patient himself , who sees in dreams ...
... Zulus , the causes of disease are the ghosts of the dead , come to draw the living to themselves , or to compel them to sacrifice meat - offerings . They are recognized by the diviners , or by the patient himself , who sees in dreams ...
Page 131
... Zulu diviners are singularly in- structive . Their symptoms are ascribed to possession by " amatongo " or ancestral spirits ; the disease is common , from some it departs of its own accord , others have the ghost laid which causes it ...
... Zulu diviners are singularly in- structive . Their symptoms are ascribed to possession by " amatongo " or ancestral spirits ; the disease is common , from some it departs of its own accord , others have the ghost laid which causes it ...
Page 147
... Zulu account of the method of stopping out disease caused by spirits of the dead . If a widow is troubled by her late husband's ghost coming and talking to her night after night as though still alive , till her health is affected and ...
... Zulu account of the method of stopping out disease caused by spirits of the dead . If a widow is troubled by her late husband's ghost coming and talking to her night after night as though still alive , till her health is affected and ...
Page 194
... Zulu converts of the dreadful creatures which they see in moments of intense religious exaltation , the snake with great eyes and very fearful , the leopard creeping stealthily , the enemy approaching with his long assagai in his hand ...
... Zulu converts of the dreadful creatures which they see in moments of intense religious exaltation , the snake with great eyes and very fearful , the leopard creeping stealthily , the enemy approaching with his long assagai in his hand ...
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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