Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2H. Holt, 1877 - Animism |
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Page 114
... gods are spirits of departed ancestors , aged chiefs becoming deities after death , presiding over the growth of yams and fruit trees , and receiving from the islanders prayer and offerings of first fruits . Nor are the fairer ...
... gods are spirits of departed ancestors , aged chiefs becoming deities after death , presiding over the growth of yams and fruit trees , and receiving from the islanders prayer and offerings of first fruits . Nor are the fairer ...
Page 119
... gods to whom worship is given by the public at large . Thus , according to legend , the War - god or Military Sage was once in human life a distinguished soldier , the Mechanics ' god was a skilful workman and inventor of tools , the Swine ...
... gods to whom worship is given by the public at large . Thus , according to legend , the War - god or Military Sage was once in human life a distinguished soldier , the Mechanics ' god was a skilful workman and inventor of tools , the Swine ...
Page 120
... gods , the patron gods of particular ranks and crafts , the gods from whom men sought special help in special needs , were too near and dear to the inmost heart of præ - Christian Europe to be done away with without substitutes . It ...
... gods , the patron gods of particular ranks and crafts , the gods from whom men sought special help in special needs , were too near and dear to the inmost heart of præ - Christian Europe to be done away with without substitutes . It ...
Page 134
... god Oro thus gave his oracles , his priest ceased to act or speak as a voluntary agent , but with his limbs convulsed , his ... gods , and prophesying future events , in well - knit harangues full of the poetic figure and metaphor of the ...
... god Oro thus gave his oracles , his priest ceased to act or speak as a voluntary agent , but with his limbs convulsed , his ... gods , and prophesying future events , in well - knit harangues full of the poetic figure and metaphor of the ...
Page 165
... god did not even pretend to be an image , but was often nothing more than a pillar , a board , a shapeless stone or a post ... gods , and that one which re- ceived such honour in Boeotian festivals as representing the Thespian Eros ...
... god did not even pretend to be an image , but was often nothing more than a pillar , a board , a shapeless stone or a post ... gods , and that one which re- ceived such honour in Boeotian festivals as representing the Thespian Eros ...
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