Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2H. Holt, 1877 - Animism |
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Page 13
... entering such new incarnations as their glimpse of real existence had made them fit for , from the body of a philosopher or a lover down to the body of a tyrant and usurper ; of souls transmigrating into beasts and rising . again to man ...
... entering such new incarnations as their glimpse of real existence had made them fit for , from the body of a philosopher or a lover down to the body of a tyrant and usurper ; of souls transmigrating into beasts and rising . again to man ...
Page 14
... enter into a leaf , blown to and fro by the wind ; " for ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth ; " and he who speaks ill words , his soul shall pass into a dumb stone , as did Nabal's , " and he became a stone . " Within the range of ...
... enter into a leaf , blown to and fro by the wind ; " for ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth ; " and he who speaks ill words , his soul shall pass into a dumb stone , as did Nabal's , " and he became a stone . " Within the range of ...
Page 15
... enter paradise or become stars.2 An instance of the belief within the limits of modern Christian Europe may be found among the Bul- garians , whose superstition is that Turks who have never eaten pork in life will become wild boars ...
... enter paradise or become stars.2 An instance of the belief within the limits of modern Christian Europe may be found among the Bul- garians , whose superstition is that Turks who have never eaten pork in life will become wild boars ...
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... enter- tains at all an absolute conception of immortality , for past and future fade soon into utter vagueness as the savage mind quits the present to explore them , the measure of months . and years breaks down even within the narrow ...
... enter- tains at all an absolute conception of immortality , for past and future fade soon into utter vagueness as the savage mind quits the present to explore them , the measure of months . and years breaks down even within the narrow ...
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... entering it lest the ghost should be within ; the Yakuts let the hut fall in ruins where any one had expired , thinking it the habitation of demons ; the Karens were said to destroy their villages to escape the dangerous neighbourhood ...
... entering it lest the ghost should be within ; the Yakuts let the hut fall in ruins where any one had expired , thinking it the habitation of demons ; the Karens were said to destroy their villages to escape the dangerous neighbourhood ...
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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