Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2H. Holt, 1877 - Animism |
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Page 26
... higher stages the householder rids himself with little scruple of an unwelcome inmate . The Green- landers would carry the dead out by the window , not by the door , while an old woman , waving a firebrand behind , cried " piklerrukpok ...
... higher stages the householder rids himself with little scruple of an unwelcome inmate . The Green- landers would carry the dead out by the window , not by the door , while an old woman , waving a firebrand behind , cried " piklerrukpok ...
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... higher culture . This is the custom of Feasts of the Dead . Among the funeral offerings described in the last chapter , of which the purpose more or less distinctly appears to be that the departed soul shall take them away in some ...
... higher culture . This is the custom of Feasts of the Dead . Among the funeral offerings described in the last chapter , of which the purpose more or less distinctly appears to be that the departed soul shall take them away in some ...
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... higher classes have let the rite sink to prayer at the graves of lost re- latives , and giving alms to the beggars who flock to the cemeteries . But the people still " howl " for the dead , and set out on their graves a handkerchief for ...
... higher classes have let the rite sink to prayer at the graves of lost re- latives , and giving alms to the beggars who flock to the cemeteries . But the people still " howl " for the dead , and set out on their graves a handkerchief for ...
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... higher races - Doctrine of Moral Retribution as developed in the higher culture - Survey of Doctrine of Future State , from savage to civilized stages - Its practical effect on the sentiment and conduct of Mankind . THE departure of the ...
... higher races - Doctrine of Moral Retribution as developed in the higher culture - Survey of Doctrine of Future State , from savage to civilized stages - Its practical effect on the sentiment and conduct of Mankind . THE departure of the ...
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... higher ranges of culture . The Roman Orcus was in the bowels of the earth , and when the ' lapis manalis , ' the stone that closed the mouth of the world below , was moved away on certain solemn days , the ghosts of the dead came up to ...
... higher ranges of culture . The Roman Orcus was in the bowels of the earth , and when the ' lapis manalis , ' the stone that closed the mouth of the world below , was moved away on certain solemn days , the ghosts of the dead came up to ...
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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