Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2H. Holt, 1877 - Animism |
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... human birth of the departed soul , which has even led West African negroes to commit suicide when in distant slavery , that they may revive in their own land , in fact amounts among several of the lower races to a distinct doctrine of ...
... human birth of the departed soul , which has even led West African negroes to commit suicide when in distant slavery , that they may revive in their own land , in fact amounts among several of the lower races to a distinct doctrine of ...
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... human souls into the bodies of the lower animals . A series of examples from among the native tribes of America , will serve well to show the various ways in which such ideas are worked out . The Ahts of Vancouver's Island consider the ...
... human souls into the bodies of the lower animals . A series of examples from among the native tribes of America , will serve well to show the various ways in which such ideas are worked out . The Ahts of Vancouver's Island consider the ...
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... human , and may become human again , a pariah or barbarian is at once low - caste among men and high - caste among brutes . Through such bodies migrate the sinful souls which desire has drawn down from primal purity into gross material ...
... human , and may become human again , a pariah or barbarian is at once low - caste among men and high - caste among brutes . Through such bodies migrate the sinful souls which desire has drawn down from primal purity into gross material ...
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... human soul entering the trunks of trees , where it may be seen damp and blood - like , but no longer personal and sentient ; and the Santals of Bengal are said to fancy that uncharitable men and childless women are eaten eternally by ...
... human soul entering the trunks of trees , where it may be seen damp and blood - like , but no longer personal and sentient ; and the Santals of Bengal are said to fancy that uncharitable men and childless women are eaten eternally by ...
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... human beings and the lower animals , and in an ex- ceptional way recognized a degradation even into a plant or a thing . How the Buddhist mind elaborated the doctrine of metempsychosis , may be seen in the endless legends of Gautama ...
... human beings and the lower animals , and in an ex- ceptional way recognized a degradation even into a plant or a thing . How the Buddhist mind elaborated the doctrine of metempsychosis , may be seen in the endless legends of Gautama ...
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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