Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2H. Holt, 1877 - Animism |
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Page 35
... Eastern Church still holds to ancient rite . The funeral feast is served in Russia , with its table for the beggars , laden with fish - pasties and bowls of shchi and jugs of kvas , its more delicate dinner for friends and priests , its ...
... Eastern Church still holds to ancient rite . The funeral feast is served in Russia , with its table for the beggars , laden with fish - pasties and bowls of shchi and jugs of kvas , its more delicate dinner for friends and priests , its ...
Page 36
... East Africa celebrate in November the feast of Thiyot , at once a feast of general peace and merry - making , of thanks- giving for the harvest , and of memorial for the deceased , for each of whom a little pot - full of beer is set out ...
... East Africa celebrate in November the feast of Thiyot , at once a feast of general peace and merry - making , of thanks- giving for the harvest , and of memorial for the deceased , for each of whom a little pot - full of beer is set out ...
Page 61
... East of Asia , where earth stretches up towards heaven . When Columbus sailed west- ward across the Atlantic to seek the " new heaven and a new earth " he had read of in Isaiah , he found them , though not as he sought . It is a quaint ...
... East of Asia , where earth stretches up towards heaven . When Columbus sailed west- ward across the Atlantic to seek the " new heaven and a new earth " he had read of in Isaiah , he found them , though not as he sought . It is a quaint ...
Page 72
... East he disappeared , having promised to be the helper of his people on earth , and to transport them , when they died , from the top of a sacred tree into another life , where they shall find their kindred and have hunting in plenty ...
... East he disappeared , having promised to be the helper of his people on earth , and to transport them , when they died , from the top of a sacred tree into another life , where they shall find their kindred and have hunting in plenty ...
Page 88
... east , where the sun comes from . This corresponds in part with the remarkable threefold contrast of the future life among their Aztec kinsfolk . Mictlan , the Hades of the general dead , and Tlalocan , the Earthly Paradise , reached by ...
... east , where the sun comes from . This corresponds in part with the remarkable threefold contrast of the future life among their Aztec kinsfolk . Mictlan , the Hades of the general dead , and Tlalocan , the Earthly Paradise , reached by ...
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