Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2H. Holt, 1877 - Animism |
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... become better off by entering into the bodies of men or beasts . Moreover , the Brahmanic doctrine of souls trans- migrating into inert things has in like manner a bearing on the savage theory of object - souls.2 Buddhism , like the ...
... become better off by entering into the bodies of men or beasts . Moreover , the Brahmanic doctrine of souls trans- migrating into inert things has in like manner a bearing on the savage theory of object - souls.2 Buddhism , like the ...
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... become a fowl or rat himself ; that souls can pass into plants rooted in the ground , which thus have not only life but sense ; that the souls of reapers pass into beans and barley , to be cut down in their turn , and thus the elect ...
... become a fowl or rat himself ; that souls can pass into plants rooted in the ground , which thus have not only life but sense ; that the souls of reapers pass into beans and barley , to be cut down in their turn , and thus the elect ...
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... become stars.2 An instance of the belief within the limits of modern Christian Europe may be found among the Bul- garians , whose superstition is that Turks who have never eaten pork in life will become wild boars after death . A party ...
... become stars.2 An instance of the belief within the limits of modern Christian Europe may be found among the Bul- garians , whose superstition is that Turks who have never eaten pork in life will become wild boars after death . A party ...
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... become one of the superhuman beings or angels who dwell in the planetary ether , and thence to a still higher state , the secret of whose nature M. Figuier does not endeavour to penetrate , “ because our means of investi- gation fail at ...
... become one of the superhuman beings or angels who dwell in the planetary ether , and thence to a still higher state , the secret of whose nature M. Figuier does not endeavour to penetrate , “ because our means of investi- gation fail at ...
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... becoming foxes in cunning , etc. , appear also at a distance in the proper shape of such beasts as they represent in disposition . ' Lastly , one of the most notable points about the theory of transmigration is its close bearing upon a ...
... becoming foxes in cunning , etc. , appear also at a distance in the proper shape of such beasts as they represent in disposition . ' Lastly , one of the most notable points about the theory of transmigration is its close bearing upon a ...
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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