Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2H. Holt, 1877 - Animism |
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Page 74
... less is independent fancy compatible with the ever - recurring solar myth in such ideas , placing the land of Death ... less and less as the proper abode of the dead , but rather as the dismal place of purgatory and hell . Lastly , the ...
... less is independent fancy compatible with the ever - recurring solar myth in such ideas , placing the land of Death ... less and less as the proper abode of the dead , but rather as the dismal place of purgatory and hell . Lastly , the ...
Page 77
... less lotus - trees and bananas loaded to the ground , feasting on the fruits they love and the meat of the rarest birds , with the houris near them with beautiful black eyes , like 1 Cranz , Grönland , ' p . 258 . Magyar , ' Süd ...
... less lotus - trees and bananas loaded to the ground , feasting on the fruits they love and the meat of the rarest birds , with the houris near them with beautiful black eyes , like 1 Cranz , Grönland , ' p . 258 . Magyar , ' Süd ...
Page 78
... less suggestively do the Buddhist heavens reflect the minds of the ascetics who devised them . As in their thoughts sensual pleasure seemed poor and despicable in comparison with mystic inward joy , rising and rising till consciousness ...
... less suggestively do the Buddhist heavens reflect the minds of the ascetics who devised them . As in their thoughts sensual pleasure seemed poor and despicable in comparison with mystic inward joy , rising and rising till consciousness ...
Page 80
... less dismal was the classic ideal of the dark realm below , whither the shades of the dead must go to join the many gone before ( ἐς πλεόνων ἱκέσθαι ; penetrare ad plures ; andare tra i più ) . The Roman Orcus holds the pallid souls ...
... less dismal was the classic ideal of the dark realm below , whither the shades of the dead must go to join the many gone before ( ἐς πλεόνων ἱκέσθαι ; penetrare ad plures ; andare tra i più ) . The Roman Orcus holds the pallid souls ...
Page 87
... less as a sample of real native doctrine than to illustrate that borrow- ing of Christian ideas which so often spoils such evidence for ethnological purposes . They held , it is said , that Niparaya , the Great Spirit , hates war , and ...
... less as a sample of real native doctrine than to illustrate that borrow- ing of Christian ideas which so often spoils such evidence for ethnological purposes . They held , it is said , that Niparaya , the Great Spirit , hates war , and ...
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