Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2H. Holt, 1877 - Animism |
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... animals . To an African mother who has lost her child , it is a consolation to say , " He will come again . " 1 In higher levels of culture , the theory of re - embodiment of the soul appears in strong and varied development . Though ...
... animals . To an African mother who has lost her child , it is a consolation to say , " He will come again . " 1 In higher levels of culture , the theory of re - embodiment of the soul appears in strong and varied development . Though ...
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... animals , and in an ex- ceptional way recognized a degradation even into a plant or a thing . How the Buddhist mind elaborated the doctrine of metempsychosis , may be seen in the endless legends of Gautama himself undergoing his 550 ...
... animals , and in an ex- ceptional way recognized a degradation even into a plant or a thing . How the Buddhist mind elaborated the doctrine of metempsychosis , may be seen in the endless legends of Gautama himself undergoing his 550 ...
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... animals and plants , probably elaborating it meanwhile into fresh and fanciful details . In later times , the ... animal . " Such ideas indeed , seem not yet extinct in the modern Druse nation . Among the Nassairi , also , transmigration ...
... animals and plants , probably elaborating it meanwhile into fresh and fanciful details . In later times , the ... animal . " Such ideas indeed , seem not yet extinct in the modern Druse nation . Among the Nassairi , also , transmigration ...
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... animals to have souls like their own , and this state of mind makes the idea of a man's soul trans- migrating into a beast's body at least seem possible . But it does not actually suggest the idea . The view stated in a previous chapter ...
... animals to have souls like their own , and this state of mind makes the idea of a man's soul trans- migrating into a beast's body at least seem possible . But it does not actually suggest the idea . The view stated in a previous chapter ...
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... animal life , and thence onward through the higher animals to man , to say nothing of superhuman beings , does not here require even a succession of distinct individuals , but is brought by the theory of metempsy- chosis within the ...
... animal life , and thence onward through the higher animals to man , to say nothing of superhuman beings , does not here require even a succession of distinct individuals , but is brought by the theory of metempsy- chosis within the ...
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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