Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2H. Holt, 1877 - Animism |
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Page 72
... Ancient of Heaven ; he was their first ancestor , who lived among them in old days and taught them to till the ground ; then rising to heaven in the East he disappeared , having promised to be the helper of his people on earth , and to ...
... Ancient of Heaven ; he was their first ancestor , who lived among them in old days and taught them to till the ground ; then rising to heaven in the East he disappeared , having promised to be the helper of his people on earth , and to ...
Page 73
... ancient astronomy , with their artificial glories of barbaric architecture exaggerated in the skies , or in the raptures of mystic vision , or in the calmer teaching of the theologic doctrine of a future life , descriptions of realms of ...
... ancient astronomy , with their artificial glories of barbaric architecture exaggerated in the skies , or in the raptures of mystic vision , or in the calmer teaching of the theologic doctrine of a future life , descriptions of realms of ...
Page 81
... ancient Jewish dead ? Though its description is so suggested by the dark , quiet , inevitable cavern - tomb , that the two con- ceptions melt together in Hebrew poetic phrase , nevertheless Sheol is not a mere general term for burial ...
... ancient Jewish dead ? Though its description is so suggested by the dark , quiet , inevitable cavern - tomb , that the two con- ceptions melt together in Hebrew poetic phrase , nevertheless Sheol is not a mere general term for burial ...
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... ancient Egypt may perhaps never be extracted now from the pictures and hie- roglyphic formulas of the Book of the Dead . ' But the ethnographer may satisfy himself of two important points as to the place which the Egyptian view of the ...
... ancient Egypt may perhaps never be extracted now from the pictures and hie- roglyphic formulas of the Book of the Dead . ' But the ethnographer may satisfy himself of two important points as to the place which the Egyptian view of the ...
Page 100
... ancient Zoroastrian faith , before he prays for forgiveness for all that he ought to have thought , and said , and done , and has not , for all that he ought not to have thought , and said , and done , and has , confesses thus his faith ...
... ancient Zoroastrian faith , before he prays for forgiveness for all that he ought to have thought , and said , and done , and has not , for all that he ought not to have thought , and said , and done , and has , confesses thus his faith ...
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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