Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2H. Holt, 1877 - Animism |
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Page 177
... deities , but the worshippers mostly imagine that the deity dwells in the image or , so to speak , is embodied in it , whereby the idol becomes a real god capable of giving health and prosperity to man . On the one hand , the deity ...
... deities , but the worshippers mostly imagine that the deity dwells in the image or , so to speak , is embodied in it , whereby the idol becomes a real god capable of giving health and prosperity to man . On the one hand , the deity ...
Page 178
... deity . to dwell in the image , performing the ceremony of the " adhivâsa " or inhabitation , after which he puts in the eyes and the " prâna , " i . e . , breath , life , or soul . Nowhere , perhaps , in the wide history of religion ...
... deity . to dwell in the image , performing the ceremony of the " adhivâsa " or inhabitation , after which he puts in the eyes and the " prâna , " i . e . , breath , life , or soul . Nowhere , perhaps , in the wide history of religion ...
Page 179
... deities but devils , is explicitly stated by Minucius Felix , in a passage in the Octavius , ' which gives an in ... deity when at times they inspire priests , inhabit temples , occasionally animate the filaments of the entrails ...
... deities but devils , is explicitly stated by Minucius Felix , in a passage in the Octavius , ' which gives an in ... deity when at times they inspire priests , inhabit temples , occasionally animate the filaments of the entrails ...
Page 183
... deity within him , carries on a metamorphosed relic of this thorough animistic thought , from èvloviaσμós to ... deity now regulates the life of the burning sun , no guardian angels drive the stars across the arching firmament , the ...
... deity within him , carries on a metamorphosed relic of this thorough animistic thought , from èvloviaσμós to ... deity now regulates the life of the burning sun , no guardian angels drive the stars across the arching firmament , the ...
Page 222
... deity , living there just as a man might do who had his hut and owned his plot of land around . The shelter of some single tree , or the solemn seclusion of a forest grove , is a place of worship set apart by nature , of some tribes the ...
... deity , living there just as a man might do who had his hut and owned his plot of land around . The shelter of some single tree , or the solemn seclusion of a forest grove , is a place of worship set apart by nature , of some tribes the ...
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