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Page 55
... elaborating in the ' Divina Commedia ' the conceptions of paradise , purgatory , and hell familiar to the actual belief of his age , describes them once more in the guise of a living visitor to the land of the dead .
... elaborating in the ' Divina Commedia ' the conceptions of paradise , purgatory , and hell familiar to the actual belief of his age , describes them once more in the guise of a living visitor to the land of the dead .
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They are no secrets of high knowledge made known to sages of old ; they are the natural fancies which childlike ignorance would frame in any age . The regularity with which such conceptions repeat themselves over the world bears ...
They are no secrets of high knowledge made known to sages of old ; they are the natural fancies which childlike ignorance would frame in any age . The regularity with which such conceptions repeat themselves over the world bears ...
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Hesiod in the Works and Days ' tells of the half - gods of the Fourth Age , between the Age of Bronze and the Age of Iron . When death closed on this heroic race , Zeus granted them at the ends of Earth a life a and home , apart from ...
Hesiod in the Works and Days ' tells of the half - gods of the Fourth Age , between the Age of Bronze and the Age of Iron . When death closed on this heroic race , Zeus granted them at the ends of Earth a life a and home , apart from ...
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In such wise , to the old Norseman , to die the “ straw - death " of sickness or old age was to go down into the dismal loathly house of Hela the Deathgoddess ; if the warrior's fate on the field of battle were denied him , and death ...
In such wise , to the old Norseman , to die the “ straw - death " of sickness or old age was to go down into the dismal loathly house of Hela the Deathgoddess ; if the warrior's fate on the field of battle were denied him , and death ...
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How far is all this to be taken as native conception , and how far as due to ages of Christian and Moslem intercourse , to which at any rate few will scruple to refer the last case ? In the lower ranges of civilization , some of the ...
How far is all this to be taken as native conception , and how far as due to ages of Christian and Moslem intercourse , to which at any rate few will scruple to refer the last case ? In the lower ranges of civilization , some of the ...
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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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