Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2H. Holt, 1877 - Animism |
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... natives , whose bodies were left to lie unburied or whose death the avenger of blood did not expiate , and thus they have to prowl on the face of the earth , and about the place of death , with no gratification 1 Castrén , ' Finn . Myth ...
... natives , whose bodies were left to lie unburied or whose death the avenger of blood did not expiate , and thus they have to prowl on the face of the earth , and about the place of death , with no gratification 1 Castrén , ' Finn . Myth ...
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... natives , that the ghost of the departed monarch might occasionally visit the resting - place of his body , meet with the spirit of his father , and partake of what he was known to be fond of in his lifetime . The Wanika of East Africa ...
... natives , that the ghost of the departed monarch might occasionally visit the resting - place of his body , meet with the spirit of his father , and partake of what he was known to be fond of in his lifetime . The Wanika of East Africa ...
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... natives in Mexican districts , where the souls who come to the annual feast are described as hovering over and ... native idea into his own scholastic phraseology . In Cochin China , 1 Taylor , New Zealand , ' p . 220 , see 104 . 2 ...
... natives in Mexican districts , where the souls who come to the annual feast are described as hovering over and ... native idea into his own scholastic phraseology . In Cochin China , 1 Taylor , New Zealand , ' p . 220 , see 104 . 2 ...
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... native guides , who feared to pass the night in this abode of spirits , showed the traveller the moss on which the souls of their ancestors fed , and the footprints of the ghostly buffaloes that followed them . On Gunung Danka , a ...
... native guides , who feared to pass the night in this abode of spirits , showed the traveller the moss on which the souls of their ancestors fed , and the footprints of the ghostly buffaloes that followed them . On Gunung Danka , a ...
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... native , though perhaps not quite cor- rectly understood , the second was borrowed by the Indians from the white men themselves . Yet even here the touch of solar myth is manifest , and the description of the fiery abyss in the region ...
... native , though perhaps not quite cor- rectly understood , the second was borrowed by the Indians from the white men themselves . Yet even here the touch of solar myth is manifest , and the description of the fiery abyss in the region ...
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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