Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2H. Holt, 1877 - Animism |
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Page 70
... conception of the moon as the seat of hell , a thought elaborated in profoundest bathos by Mr. M. F. Tupper : " I know thee well , O Moon , thou cavern'd realm , Sad Satellite , thou giant ash of death , Blot on God's firmament , pale ...
... conception of the moon as the seat of hell , a thought elaborated in profoundest bathos by Mr. M. F. Tupper : " I know thee well , O Moon , thou cavern'd realm , Sad Satellite , thou giant ash of death , Blot on God's firmament , pale ...
Page 71
... conception of a firmament of heaven , " strong as a molten mirror , " with its windows through which the rain pours down in deluge from the reservoirs above , windows which late Rabbinical literature tells us were made by taking out two ...
... conception of a firmament of heaven , " strong as a molten mirror , " with its windows through which the rain pours down in deluge from the reservoirs above , windows which late Rabbinical literature tells us were made by taking out two ...
Page 75
... conceptions are especially to be discerned . The one is that the future life is , as it were , a reflexion of- this ; in a new world , perhaps of dreamy beauty , perhaps of ghostly gloom , men are to retain their earthly forms and their ...
... conceptions are especially to be discerned . The one is that the future life is , as it were , a reflexion of- this ; in a new world , perhaps of dreamy beauty , perhaps of ghostly gloom , men are to retain their earthly forms and their ...
Page 79
... conceptions of an abode of the dead characterized not so much by dreaminess as by ghostliness . The realm of shades , especially if it be a cavern underground , has seemed a dim and melancholy place to the dwellers in this " white world ...
... conceptions of an abode of the dead characterized not so much by dreaminess as by ghostliness . The realm of shades , especially if it be a cavern underground , has seemed a dim and melancholy place to the dwellers in this " white world ...
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... conceptions thoroughly in the spirit of the lower culture . But in one account the subterranean abode becomes a place of transition , where the dead stay awhile , and then with bodies renewed are taken up to the Heaven- god , or if ...
... conceptions thoroughly in the spirit of the lower culture . But in one account the subterranean abode becomes a place of transition , where the dead stay awhile , and then with bodies renewed are taken up to the Heaven- god , or if ...
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