Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2H. Holt, 1877 - Animism |
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Page 116
... look especially to dead relatives for help in the trials of life , and " it is no uncommon thing to see large groups of men and women , in times of peril or distress , assembled along the brow of some commanding eminence , or along the ...
... look especially to dead relatives for help in the trials of life , and " it is no uncommon thing to see large groups of men and women , in times of peril or distress , assembled along the brow of some commanding eminence , or along the ...
Page 121
... look in and see ten or a dozen women , each with a sick child in her lap , sitting in silent reverence before the altar of the saint . The ceremony of blessing children , especially after vaccination , may still be seen there on ...
... look in and see ten or a dozen women , each with a sick child in her lap , sitting in silent reverence before the altar of the saint . The ceremony of blessing children , especially after vaccination , may still be seen there on ...
Page 134
... looks round with a vacant stare , and the deity returns to the land of spirits . In the Sandwich Islands , where the god Oro thus gave his oracles , his priest ceased to act or speak as a voluntary agent , but with his limbs convulsed ...
... looks round with a vacant stare , and the deity returns to the land of spirits . In the Sandwich Islands , where the god Oro thus gave his oracles , his priest ceased to act or speak as a voluntary agent , but with his limbs convulsed ...
Page 142
... look beyond countries where public opinion has passed into this stage , and must study the demoniac theory as it still prevails in lower and lowest levels of culture . It has to be thoroughly understood that the changed aspect of the ...
... look beyond countries where public opinion has passed into this stage , and must study the demoniac theory as it still prevails in lower and lowest levels of culture . It has to be thoroughly understood that the changed aspect of the ...
Page 147
... look back till she gets home . Thus the dream is barred ; it may still come occasionally , but no longer infests the woman ; the doctor prevails over the dead man as regards that dream . In other cases the cure of a sick man attacked by ...
... look back till she gets home . Thus the dream is barred ; it may still come occasionally , but no longer infests the woman ; the doctor prevails over the dead man as regards that dream . In other cases the cure of a sick man attacked by ...
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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