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Savage descriptions of the next world are often such absolute copies of this , that
it is scarcely possible to say whether the dead are or are not thought of as having
bodies like the living ; and a few pieces of evidence of this class are hardly ...
Savage descriptions of the next world are often such absolute copies of this , that
it is scarcely possible to say whether the dead are or are not thought of as having
bodies like the living ; and a few pieces of evidence of this class are hardly ...
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theology of the Zulus , whose ghosts not only survive in the under - world , but are
the very deities of the living , we can put the proper sense to these expressions .
But without such information , we might have mistaken them for denials of the ...
theology of the Zulus , whose ghosts not only survive in the under - world , but are
the very deities of the living , we can put the proper sense to these expressions .
But without such information , we might have mistaken them for denials of the ...
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The doctrine that ghost - souls of the dead hover among the ? Cavazzi , Congo ,
Matamba , et Angola , ' lib . i . 270 . See also Liebrecht in * Zeitschr . für
Ethnologie , ' vol . v . , p . 96 , ( Tartary , Scandinavia , Greece ) . ! living is indeed
rooted in ...
The doctrine that ghost - souls of the dead hover among the ? Cavazzi , Congo ,
Matamba , et Angola , ' lib . i . 270 . See also Liebrecht in * Zeitschr . für
Ethnologie , ' vol . v . , p . 96 , ( Tartary , Scandinavia , Greece ) . ! living is indeed
rooted in ...
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living is indeed rooted in the lowest levels of savage culture , extends through
barbaric life almost without a break , and survives largely and deeply in the midst
of civilization . From the myriad details of travellers , mis sionaries , historians ...
living is indeed rooted in the lowest levels of savage culture , extends through
barbaric life almost without a break , and survives largely and deeply in the midst
of civilization . From the myriad details of travellers , mis sionaries , historians ...
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... and have carried into their new existence an angry longing for revenge . No
wonder that mankind should so generally agree that if the souls of the dead must
linger in the world at all , their fitting abode should be not the haunts of the living ...
... and have carried into their new existence an angry longing for revenge . No
wonder that mankind should so generally agree that if the souls of the dead must
linger in the world at all , their fitting abode should be not the haunts of the living ...
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| Title | Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2 Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Sir Edward Burnett Tylor |
| Author | Sir Edward Burnett Tylor |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | H. Holt, 1877 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 7 Oct 2008 |
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