Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2H. Holt, 1877 - Animism |
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... dead who bring sickness , and assigned this as their reason for wishing to kill white men.1 In Africa , again , the belief is found among the Western negroes that they will rise again white , and the Bari of the White Nile , believing ...
... dead who bring sickness , and assigned this as their reason for wishing to kill white men.1 In Africa , again , the belief is found among the Western negroes that they will rise again white , and the Bari of the White Nile , believing ...
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... dead to enter into bears , and travellers have heard of a tribe begging the life of a wrinkle - faced old she grizzly bear as the recipient of the soul of some particular grandam , whom they fancied the creature to resemble.1 So , among ...
... dead to enter into bears , and travellers have heard of a tribe begging the life of a wrinkle - faced old she grizzly bear as the recipient of the soul of some particular grandam , whom they fancied the creature to resemble.1 So , among ...
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... dead daughter ? " 1 In Africa , again , mention is made of the Maravi thinking that the souls of bad men became jackals , and good men snakes . The Zulus , while admitting that a man may turn into a wasp or lizard , work out in the ...
... dead daughter ? " 1 In Africa , again , mention is made of the Maravi thinking that the souls of bad men became jackals , and good men snakes . The Zulus , while admitting that a man may turn into a wasp or lizard , work out in the ...
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... dead to earth as unclean beasts . The pictures and hiero- glyphic sentences of the Book of the Dead are still pre- served , and though the ambiguity of its formulas and the difficulty of distinguishing material from mystical meaning in ...
... dead to earth as unclean beasts . The pictures and hiero- glyphic sentences of the Book of the Dead are still pre- served , and though the ambiguity of its formulas and the difficulty of distinguishing material from mystical meaning in ...
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... dead are or are not thought of as having bodies like the living ; and a few pieces of evidence of this class . are hardly enough to prove the lower races to hold original and distinct doctrines of corporeal resurrection.1 Again ...
... dead are or are not thought of as having bodies like the living ; and a few pieces of evidence of this class . are hardly enough to prove the lower races to hold original and distinct doctrines of corporeal resurrection.1 Again ...
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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