Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2H. Holt, 1877 - Animism |
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... living . In New Zealand , the ideas were to be found that the souls of the dead were apt to linger near their bodies , and that the spirits of men left unburied , or killed in battle and eaten , would wander ; and the bring- ing such ...
... living . In New Zealand , the ideas were to be found that the souls of the dead were apt to linger near their bodies , and that the spirits of men left unburied , or killed in battle and eaten , would wander ; and the bring- ing such ...
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... living till laid by rites of burial pass here and there into new legends , where , under a changed dispensation , the doleful wanderer now asks Christian burial in consecrated earth . It is needless to give here elaborate details of the ...
... living till laid by rites of burial pass here and there into new legends , where , under a changed dispensation , the doleful wanderer now asks Christian burial in consecrated earth . It is needless to give here elaborate details of the ...
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... living , and from the distinct line of ethnographic continuity in which it may be traced onward from the lower to the higher culture . This is the custom of Feasts of the Dead . Among the funeral offerings described in the last chapter ...
... living , and from the distinct line of ethnographic continuity in which it may be traced onward from the lower to the higher culture . This is the custom of Feasts of the Dead . Among the funeral offerings described in the last chapter ...
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... living , is supposed to sit shaded by the pillar . The Kheriahs have collections of these monu- ments in the little enclosures round their houses , and offer- ings and libations are constantly made at them . With what feelings such ...
... living , is supposed to sit shaded by the pillar . The Kheriahs have collections of these monu- ments in the little enclosures round their houses , and offer- ings and libations are constantly made at them . With what feelings such ...
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... living , and receive from them offerings of food and clothing . The custom of setting empty seats at the St. John's Eve feast , for the departed souls of kinsfolk , is said to have lasted on in Europe to the seventeenth century . Spring ...
... living , and receive from them offerings of food and clothing . The custom of setting empty seats at the St. John's Eve feast , for the departed souls of kinsfolk , is said to have lasted on in Europe to the seventeenth century . Spring ...
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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