Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2H. Holt, 1877 - Animism |
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Page 30
... appears to be that the departed soul shall take them away in some ghostly or ideal manner , or that they shall by some means be con- veyed to him in his distant spirit - home , there are given supplies of food and drink . But the feasts ...
... appears to be that the departed soul shall take them away in some ghostly or ideal manner , or that they shall by some means be con- veyed to him in his distant spirit - home , there are given supplies of food and drink . But the feasts ...
Page 52
... appears again among the Sioux of North America . Ahak - tah ( Male Elk ' ) seems to die , but after two days comes down from the funeral - scaffold where his body had been laid , and tells his tale . His soul had travelled by the path ...
... appears again among the Sioux of North America . Ahak - tah ( Male Elk ' ) seems to die , but after two days comes down from the funeral - scaffold where his body had been laid , and tells his tale . His soul had travelled by the path ...
Page 62
... appear immediately to fill their places . But when the hungry crew of the canoe landed , they tried in vain to pluck the shadowy bread - fruit , they walked through unresisting trees and houses , even as the souls of chiefs who met them ...
... appear immediately to fill their places . But when the hungry crew of the canoe landed , they tried in vain to pluck the shadowy bread - fruit , they walked through unresisting trees and houses , even as the souls of chiefs who met them ...
Page 64
... appears , he means our Great Britain , his Britannia being the coast - land from modern Brittany to Holland , and his Thule being Scandinavia . ) In the course of his history it seems to him needful to record a story , mythic and ...
... appears , he means our Great Britain , his Britannia being the coast - land from modern Brittany to Holland , and his Thule being Scandinavia . ) In the course of his history it seems to him needful to record a story , mythic and ...
Page 74
... appear that the assignment of the realm of departed souls to the three great regions , Earth , Hades , Heaven , has not been uniform . Firstly , the doctrine of a land of souls on Earth belongs widely and deeply to savage culture , but ...
... appear that the assignment of the realm of departed souls to the three great regions , Earth , Hades , Heaven , has not been uniform . Firstly , the doctrine of a land of souls on Earth belongs widely and deeply to savage culture , but ...
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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