Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2H. Holt, 1877 - Animism |
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Page 34
... keep the mummy in the house to be present as a guest at the feast , σύνδειπνον καὶ συμπότην ἐποιήσατο , as Lucian ... keeping up the old ceremony in form , has adapted its motive to new thoughts and feelings . The classic funeral ...
... keep the mummy in the house to be present as a guest at the feast , σύνδειπνον καὶ συμπότην ἐποιήσατο , as Lucian ... keeping up the old ceremony in form , has adapted its motive to new thoughts and feelings . The classic funeral ...
Page 38
... keeps up , within the limits of Christendom , a commemoration of the dead which combines some touches of pathetic imagination with relics of savage animism scarcely to be surpassed in Africa or the South Sea Islands . In Italy the day ...
... keeps up , within the limits of Christendom , a commemoration of the dead which combines some touches of pathetic imagination with relics of savage animism scarcely to be surpassed in Africa or the South Sea Islands . In Italy the day ...
Page 43
... keep aloof from them , may be called wisdom . " It is said that in our own time the Taepings have made a step beyond Confucius ; they have forbidden the sacrifices to the spirits of the dead , yet keep up the rite of visiting their ...
... keep aloof from them , may be called wisdom . " It is said that in our own time the Taepings have made a step beyond Confucius ; they have forbidden the sacrifices to the spirits of the dead , yet keep up the rite of visiting their ...
Page 45
... keeps up the remembrance of another subterranean temple which opened the way to the sojourn of the blessed . In the kingdom of Prester John , Maundevile tells of an entrance to the in- fernal regions : " Sum men clepen it the vale ...
... keeps up the remembrance of another subterranean temple which opened the way to the sojourn of the blessed . In the kingdom of Prester John , Maundevile tells of an entrance to the in- fernal regions : " Sum men clepen it the vale ...
Page 49
... keeps no record . Mostly , however , it is the seer's soul which goes forth , leaving his body behind in ecstasy , sleep , coma , or death . Some of these stories , as we trace them on from savage into civilized times , are no doubt ...
... keeps no record . Mostly , however , it is the seer's soul which goes forth , leaving his body behind in ecstasy , sleep , coma , or death . Some of these stories , as we trace them on from savage into civilized times , are no doubt ...
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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