Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2H. Holt, 1877 - Animism |
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Page 64
... nations , the Angles , Frisians , and Britons . ( By Brittia , it appears , 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 ...
... nations , the Angles , Frisians , and Britons . ( By Brittia , it appears , 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 ...
Page 67
... nations , into higher ranges of culture . The Roman Orcus was in the bowels of the earth , and when the ' lapis manalis , ' the stone that closed the mouth of the world below , was moved away on certain solemn days , the ghosts of the ...
... nations , into higher ranges of culture . The Roman Orcus was in the bowels of the earth , and when the ' lapis manalis , ' the stone that closed the mouth of the world below , was moved away on certain solemn days , the ghosts of the ...
Page 71
... nations where the theory of the firmament prevails , accounts of bodily journeys or spiritual ascents to heaven are in general meant not as figure , but as fact . Among the lower races , the tendency to localize the region of departed ...
... nations where the theory of the firmament prevails , accounts of bodily journeys or spiritual ascents to heaven are in general meant not as figure , but as fact . Among the lower races , the tendency to localize the region of departed ...
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... nations , these details are enough to show the general line of human thought regard- ing the local habitations of departed souls . It seems plain from the most cursory inspection of these various localiza- tions , however much we may ...
... nations , these details are enough to show the general line of human thought regard- ing the local habitations of departed souls . It seems plain from the most cursory inspection of these various localiza- tions , however much we may ...
Page 74
... nations . These local theories appear to be taken , firstly and mostly , in the most absolute literal sense , and although , under the influence of physical science , much that was once distinctly - meant philosophy has now passed among ...
... nations . These local theories appear to be taken , firstly and mostly , in the most absolute literal sense , and although , under the influence of physical science , much that was once distinctly - meant philosophy has now passed among ...
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