Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2H. Holt, 1877 - Animism |
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Page 49
... especially the Algonquin tribes , accounts are not unusual of men whose spirits , travelling in dreams or in the hallucinations of extreme illness to the land of the dead , have returned to reanimate their bodies , and tell what they ...
... especially the Algonquin tribes , accounts are not unusual of men whose spirits , travelling in dreams or in the hallucinations of extreme illness to the land of the dead , have returned to reanimate their bodies , and tell what they ...
Page 51
... especially about her own child , he told her she must go back to earth , for no one was left to take care of his grandchild . By his orders she refused to touch the food that the dead people offered her , and in spite of their efforts ...
... especially about her own child , he told her she must go back to earth , for no one was left to take care of his grandchild . By his orders she refused to touch the food that the dead people offered her , and in spite of their efforts ...
Page 75
... especially to be discerned . The one is that the future life is , as it were , a reflexion of- this ; in a new world , perhaps of dreamy beauty , perhaps of ghostly gloom , men are to retain their earthly forms and their earthly ...
... especially to be discerned . The one is that the future life is , as it were , a reflexion of- this ; in a new world , perhaps of dreamy beauty , perhaps of ghostly gloom , men are to retain their earthly forms and their earthly ...
Page 79
... especially if it be a cavern underground , has seemed a dim and melancholy place to the dwellers in this " white world , " as the Russian calls the land of the living . One description of the Hurons tells how the other world , with its ...
... especially if it be a cavern underground , has seemed a dim and melancholy place to the dwellers in this " white world , " as the Russian calls the land of the living . One description of the Hurons tells how the other world , with its ...
Page 83
... especially in different regions of the other world allotted to men according to their lives in this . This doctrine of re- tribution is , as we have already seen , far from universal among mankind , many races recognizing the idea of a ...
... especially in different regions of the other world allotted to men according to their lives in this . This doctrine of re- tribution is , as we have already seen , far from universal among mankind , many races recognizing the idea of a ...
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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