Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2H. Holt, 1877 - Animism |
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Page 87
... Evil Spirit , to incessant torments . More characteristic , and probably more genuinely native than this , is the fancy of the Caribs , that the braves of their nation should go after death to happy islands , where all good fruits grow ...
... Evil Spirit , to incessant torments . More characteristic , and probably more genuinely native than this , is the fancy of the Caribs , that the braves of their nation should go after death to happy islands , where all good fruits grow ...
Page 93
... evil - doers is there , with its glowing red - hot stones below and its canopy of snakes above . But the same critic condemns this moral " tag , " as a later addition to the genuine heathen picture of Manala , the under - world of the ...
... evil - doers is there , with its glowing red - hot stones below and its canopy of snakes above . But the same critic condemns this moral " tag , " as a later addition to the genuine heathen picture of Manala , the under - world of the ...
Page 96
... evil life beyond the tomb , the soul's passage into the dark western Hades or to the bright sun in heaven - all these are conceptions which connect the Egyptian religion with the religions of the ruder races of mankind . But on the ...
... evil life beyond the tomb , the soul's passage into the dark western Hades or to the bright sun in heaven - all these are conceptions which connect the Egyptian religion with the religions of the ruder races of mankind . But on the ...
Page 97
... evil actions into their neces- sary consequence of happiness and misery is the very key to the philosophy of life , whether life's successive transmi- grations be in animal , or human , or demon births on earth , or in luxurious heaven ...
... evil actions into their neces- sary consequence of happiness and misery is the very key to the philosophy of life , whether life's successive transmi- grations be in animal , or human , or demon births on earth , or in luxurious heaven ...
Page 99
... evil - smelling wind comes towards him from the north , and with it the ugly hateful maiden who is his own wicked deeds , and the soul takes the fourth step into the darkness without beginning , and a wicked soul asks H 2 ANIMISM . 99.
... evil - smelling wind comes towards him from the north , and with it the ugly hateful maiden who is his own wicked deeds , and the soul takes the fourth step into the darkness without beginning , and a wicked soul asks H 2 ANIMISM . 99.
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