Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2H. Holt, 1877 - Animism |
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Page 39
... considered that the shadow - like souls of the dead can still eat and drink , often even telling Father Le Jeune that they had found in the morning meat gnawed in the night by the souls . More recently , we read that some Potawatomis ...
... considered that the shadow - like souls of the dead can still eat and drink , often even telling Father Le Jeune that they had found in the morning meat gnawed in the night by the souls . More recently , we read that some Potawatomis ...
Page 84
... considered one and the same creed . The result is more definite than the cause , the end than the means . Men who alike look forward to a region of un- earthly happiness beyond the grave , hope to reach that happy land by roads so ...
... considered one and the same creed . The result is more definite than the cause , the end than the means . Men who alike look forward to a region of un- earthly happiness beyond the grave , hope to reach that happy land by roads so ...
Page 102
... considered degenerate descendants of a higher nation , or whether the simpler supposition be put forward that they have adopted the ideas of some more cultured people . These views ought to have full attention , for dege- nerate and ...
... considered degenerate descendants of a higher nation , or whether the simpler supposition be put forward that they have adopted the ideas of some more cultured people . These views ought to have full attention , for dege- nerate and ...
Page 111
... considered as actually forming one of the most important classes of demons and deities . 2 It is quite usual for savage tribes to live in terror of the souls of the dead as harmful spirits . Thus Australians have been known to consider ...
... considered as actually forming one of the most important classes of demons and deities . 2 It is quite usual for savage tribes to live in terror of the souls of the dead as harmful spirits . Thus Australians have been known to consider ...
Page 127
... considered a frequent source of disease and death , the spirit of a departed member of the family returning and taking up his abode in the head , chest , or stomach of a living man , and so causing sickness and 1 Journ . Ind . Archip ...
... considered a frequent source of disease and death , the spirit of a departed member of the family returning and taking up his abode in the head , chest , or stomach of a living man , and so causing sickness and 1 Journ . Ind . Archip ...
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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