Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2H. Holt, 1877 - Animism |
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... carrying personality as it carries likeness . This thought of the soul's continued existence is , however , but the gateway into a complex region of belief . The doctrines which , separate or compounded , make up the scheme of future ...
... carrying personality as it carries likeness . This thought of the soul's continued existence is , however , but the gateway into a complex region of belief . The doctrines which , separate or compounded , make up the scheme of future ...
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... carry the dead out by the window , not by the door , while an old woman , waving a firebrand behind , cried " piklerrukpok ! " i . e . , " there is nothing more to be had here ! " ; the ... carried out , for an obstacle 26 ANIMISM .
... carry the dead out by the window , not by the door , while an old woman , waving a firebrand behind , cried " piklerrukpok ! " i . e . , " there is nothing more to be had here ! " ; the ... carried out , for an obstacle 26 ANIMISM .
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... carried out , for an obstacle to bar the soul from coming back ; so Brandenburg peasants pour out a pail of water at the door after the coffin , to prevent the ghost from walking ; and Pomeranian mourners returning from the churchyard ...
... carried out , for an obstacle to bar the soul from coming back ; so Brandenburg peasants pour out a pail of water at the door after the coffin , to prevent the ghost from walking ; and Pomeranian mourners returning from the churchyard ...
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... carried it to the burial - ground , there to dwell till the great feast of the dead ; but meanwhile it would come and walk by night in the village , and eat the remnants in the kettles , wherefore some would not eat of these , nor touch ...
... carried it to the burial - ground , there to dwell till the great feast of the dead ; but meanwhile it would come and walk by night in the village , and eat the remnants in the kettles , wherefore some would not eat of these , nor touch ...
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... carried in procession with a solemn , ghostly , slid- ing step , keeping time to the deep - sounding drum , and when the old woman who carries the bones on her bamboo tray lowers it from time to time , then girls who carry pitchers and ...
... carried in procession with a solemn , ghostly , slid- ing step , keeping time to the deep - sounding drum , and when the old woman who carries the bones on her bamboo tray lowers it from time to time , then girls who carry pitchers and ...
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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