Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2H. Holt, 1877 - Animism |
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... Ancestor- Dualism ; its rudimentary and unethical nature among low races ; its development through the course of culture - Good and Evil Deity - Doctrine of Divine Supremacy , distinct from , while tending towards , the doctrine of ...
... Ancestor- Dualism ; its rudimentary and unethical nature among low races ; its development through the course of culture - Good and Evil Deity - Doctrine of Divine Supremacy , distinct from , while tending towards , the doctrine of ...
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... ancestor . In Europe the Lapps repeat an instructive animistic idea just noticed in America ; the future mother was told in a dream what name to give her child , this message being usually given by the very spirit of the deceased ancestor ...
... ancestor . In Europe the Lapps repeat an instructive animistic idea just noticed in America ; the future mother was told in a dream what name to give her child , this message being usually given by the very spirit of the deceased ancestor ...
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... ancestors , fixing upon that name which the child by sneez- ing or crying when it was uttered , was considered to select for itself ; while the Cheremiss Tatar would shake the baby till it cried , and then repeat names to it , till it ...
... ancestors , fixing upon that name which the child by sneez- ing or crying when it was uttered , was considered to select for itself ; while the Cheremiss Tatar would shake the baby till it cried , and then repeat names to it , till it ...
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... ancestors , and therefore are treated respectfully , and have offerings of food given them . In two ways , the dead man who has become a snake can still be recognized ; if the creature is one - eyed , or has a scar or some other mark ...
... ancestors , and therefore are treated respectfully , and have offerings of food given them . In two ways , the dead man who has become a snake can still be recognized ; if the creature is one - eyed , or has a scar or some other mark ...
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... ancestors , the " old people , " he can reply that " they are ended , " yet at the same time he fully admits that their ghosts survive . In an account of the religious ideas of the Zulus , taken down from a native , it is explicitly ...
... ancestors , the " old people , " he can reply that " they are ended , " yet at the same time he fully admits that their ghosts survive . In an account of the religious ideas of the Zulus , taken down from a native , it is explicitly ...
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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