Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2H. Holt, 1877 - Animism |
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Page 36
... early spring . The Karens make their annual offerings to the dead in the " month of shades , " that is , December ; 3 the Kocch of North Bengal every year at harvest - home offer fruits and a fowl to deceased parents ; the Barea of East ...
... early spring . The Karens make their annual offerings to the dead in the " month of shades , " that is , December ; 3 the Kocch of North Bengal every year at harvest - home offer fruits and a fowl to deceased parents ; the Barea of East ...
Page 38
... early Christians , that they appeased the shades of the dead with feasts like the Gentiles , would not be beside the mark now , fifteen hundred years later . All Souls ' Day keeps up , within the limits of Christendom , a commemoration ...
... early Christians , that they appeased the shades of the dead with feasts like the Gentiles , would not be beside the mark now , fifteen hundred years later . All Souls ' Day keeps up , within the limits of Christendom , a commemoration ...
Page 50
... early childhood to expect , the journey along the path of the dead , the monstrous strawberry at which the jebi - ug or ghosts refresh themselves , but which turned to red rock at the touch of their spoons , the bark offered them for ...
... early childhood to expect , the journey along the path of the dead , the monstrous strawberry at which the jebi - ug or ghosts refresh themselves , but which turned to red rock at the touch of their spoons , the bark offered them for ...
Page 51
... early morning saw a figure on the shore beckoning to them . It was the aunt come to life again , but weak and cold and famished . When sufficiently restored by their timely help , she told her story . Leaving her body , her spirit had ...
... early morning saw a figure on the shore beckoning to them . It was the aunt come to life again , but weak and cold and famished . When sufficiently restored by their timely help , she told her story . Leaving her body , her spirit had ...
Page 58
... early in the fifteenth century - William Staunton's descent into Purgatory , where the themes of the old sincerely - believed visionary lore are fading into moral allegory , and the traveller sees the gay gold and silver collars and ...
... early in the fifteenth century - William Staunton's descent into Purgatory , where the themes of the old sincerely - believed visionary lore are fading into moral allegory , and the traveller sees the gay gold and silver collars and ...
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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