Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Language, Art and Custom, Volume 2Estes & Lauriat, 1874 - Animism |
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... 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 ...
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... 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 ...
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... 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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Page 83 - And Saul answered, I am sore distressed; for the Philistines make war against me, and God is departed from me, and answereth me no more, neither by prophets, nor by dreams : therefore I have called thee, that thou mayest make known unto me what I shall do.
Page 55 - Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men ! 16 For he hath broken the gates of brass, and cut the bars of iron in sunder.
Page 43 - To those whose talents are above mediocrity, the highest subjects may be announced. To those who are below mediocrity, the highest subjects may not be announced.' CHAP. XX. Fan Ch'ih asked what constituted wisdom. The Master said, To give one's self earnestly to the duties due to men, and, while respecting spiritual beings, to keep aloof from them, may be called wisdom.
Page 301 - If there be found among you, within any of thy gates which the LORD thy God giveth thee, man or woman, that hath wrought wickedness in the sight of the LORD thy God, in transgressing his covenant, 3 And hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven...
Page 386 - And Aar'on's sons shall burn it on the altar upon the burnt sacrifice, which is upon the wood that is on the fire: it is an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.
Page 373 - If I go along trembling like a cloud driven by the wind : have mercy, almighty, have mercy...
Page 295 - And he took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the sun...
Page 189 - Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep...
Page 387 - To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto Me ? saith the LORD : I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts ; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he-goats.
Page 286 - O thou that, with surpassing glory crown'd, Look'st from thy sole dominion, like the god Of this new world, at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminish'd heads, to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy sphere...