Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2H. Holt, 1877 - Animism |
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Page 18
... creatures chosen is almost as manifest to the modern critic as it could have been to the ancient believer . Per- haps the most graphic restoration of the state of mind in which the theological doctrine of metempsychosis was worked out ...
... creatures chosen is almost as manifest to the modern critic as it could have been to the ancient believer . Per- haps the most graphic restoration of the state of mind in which the theological doctrine of metempsychosis was worked out ...
Page 19
... creatures . Savage descriptions of the next world are often such ab- solute copies of this , that it is scarcely possible to say whether the dead are or are not thought of as having bodies like the living ; and a few pieces of evidence ...
... creatures . Savage descriptions of the next world are often such ab- solute copies of this , that it is scarcely possible to say whether the dead are or are not thought of as having bodies like the living ; and a few pieces of evidence ...
Page 62
... creatures run happily about , nourished by the air they breathe . Tongan legend says that , long ago , a canoe returning from Fiji was driven by stress of weather to Bolotu , the island of gods and souls lying in the ocean north - west ...
... creatures run happily about , nourished by the air they breathe . Tongan legend says that , long ago , a canoe returning from Fiji was driven by stress of weather to Bolotu , the island of gods and souls lying in the ocean north - west ...
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... creatures . Then to her speaks the soul of the pure man , asking , What maiden art thou whom I have seen here as the fairest of maidens in body ? ' She answers , ' I am , O youth , thy good thoughts , words , and works , thy good law ...
... creatures . Then to her speaks the soul of the pure man , asking , What maiden art thou whom I have seen here as the fairest of maidens in body ? ' She answers , ' I am , O youth , thy good thoughts , words , and works , thy good law ...
Page 124
... creature were tearing or twisting him within , pining as though it were devouring his vitals day by day , rationally finds a personal spiritual cause for his sufferings . In hideous dreams he may even sometimes see the very ghost or ...
... creature were tearing or twisting him within , pining as though it were devouring his vitals day by day , rationally finds a personal spiritual cause for his sufferings . In hideous dreams he may even sometimes see the very ghost or ...
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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