Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2H. Holt, 1877 - Animism |
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Page 30
... means be con- veyed to him in his distant spirit - home , there are given supplies of food and drink . But the feasts of the dead with which we are now concerned are given on a different prin- ciple ; they are , so to speak , to be ...
... means be con- veyed to him in his distant spirit - home , there are given supplies of food and drink . But the feasts of the dead with which we are now concerned are given on a different prin- ciple ; they are , so to speak , to be ...
Page 39
... mean- ing . The idea of the ghost actually devouring the material food is not unexampled . Thus , in North America , Algon- quin Indians considered that the shadow - like souls of the dead can still eat and drink , often even telling ...
... mean- ing . The idea of the ghost actually devouring the material food is not unexampled . Thus , in North America , Algon- quin Indians considered that the shadow - like souls of the dead can still eat and drink , often even telling ...
Page 64
... means our Great Britain , his Britannia being the coast - land from modern Brittany to Holland , and his Thule being Scandinavia . ) In the course of his history it seems to him needful to record a story , mythic and dreamlike as he ...
... means our Great Britain , his Britannia being the coast - land from modern Brittany to Holland , and his Thule being Scandinavia . ) In the course of his history it seems to him needful to record a story , mythic and dreamlike as he ...
Page 66
... means that it has set . When a Samoan islander dies , the host of spirits that surround the house , waiting to convey his soul away , set out with him crossing the land and swimming the sea , to the entrance of the spirit - world . This ...
... means that it has set . When a Samoan islander dies , the host of spirits that surround the house , waiting to convey his soul away , set out with him crossing the land and swimming the sea , to the entrance of the spirit - world . This ...
Page 80
... means of mediums they are drawn into the drawing - rooms of the living . " With some such hopeless expectation the neigh- bours of the Dahomans , the Yorubas , judge the life to come in their simple proverb that " A corner in this world ...
... means of mediums they are drawn into the drawing - rooms of the living . " With some such hopeless expectation the neigh- bours of the Dahomans , the Yorubas , judge the life to come in their simple proverb that " A corner in this world ...
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