Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2H. Holt, 1877 - Animism |
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Page 30
... fire would believe that the spirits of his ancestors pushed him in for neglecting to make due offerings . The minds of the Hurons were filled with fancies not less lifelike than this . It seemed to them that the dead man's soul , in his ...
... fire would believe that the spirits of his ancestors pushed him in for neglecting to make due offerings . The minds of the Hurons were filled with fancies not less lifelike than this . It seemed to them that the dead man's soul , in his ...
Page 38
... fire for the night may come and smear their burns with the melted fat of the " soul - light " on the hearth , or cakes are left for them on the table , and the room is kept warm for their comfort . Even in Paris the souls of the ...
... fire for the night may come and smear their burns with the melted fat of the " soul - light " on the hearth , or cakes are left for them on the table , and the room is kept warm for their comfort . Even in Paris the souls of the ...
Page 47
... Fire brought him , he says , but she answers that his locks are unsinged , and at last he tells his real mission . Then she ferries him over , and Tuonetar the hostess brings him beer in the two - eared jug , but Waina- moinen can see ...
... Fire brought him , he says , but she answers that his locks are unsinged , and at last he tells his real mission . Then she ferries him over , and Tuonetar the hostess brings him beer in the two - eared jug , but Waina- moinen can see ...
Page 57
... fires where sinners were hung up by their offending members , and roasted on spits , and basted with molten metal , and turned about on a great wheel of fire , and when he had passed the Devil's Mouth over the awful bridge , he reached ...
... fires where sinners were hung up by their offending members , and roasted on spits , and basted with molten metal , and turned about on a great wheel of fire , and when he had passed the Devil's Mouth over the awful bridge , he reached ...
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... fire - girt abode of saints not yet raised to highest bliss , localized in the utmost 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 ...
... fire - girt abode of saints not yet raised to highest bliss , localized in the utmost 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 ...
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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