Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2H. Holt, 1877 - Animism |
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... nature of beasts , becoming foxes in cunning , etc. , appear also at a distance in the proper shape of such beasts as they represent in disposition . ' Lastly , one of the most notable points about the theory of transmigration is its ...
... nature of beasts , becoming foxes in cunning , etc. , appear also at a distance in the proper shape of such beasts as they represent in disposition . ' Lastly , one of the most notable points about the theory of transmigration is its ...
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... nature , capable of carrying on an independent existence like other corporeal creatures . Savage descriptions of the next world are often such ab- solute copies of this , that it is scarcely possible to say whether the dead are or are ...
... nature , capable of carrying on an independent existence like other corporeal creatures . Savage descriptions of the next world are often such ab- solute copies of this , that it is scarcely possible to say whether the dead are or are ...
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... Nature of Future Life - Con- tinuance - theory , apparently original , belongs especially to the lower races -Transitional theories - Retribution - theory , apparently derived , belongs especially to the higher races - Doctrine of Moral ...
... Nature of Future Life - Con- tinuance - theory , apparently original , belongs especially to the lower races -Transitional theories - Retribution - theory , apparently derived , belongs especially to the higher races - Doctrine of Moral ...
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... nature , or in cosmic schemes of ancient astronomy , with their artificial glories of barbaric architecture exaggerated in the skies , or in the raptures of mystic vision , or in the calmer teaching of the theologic doctrine of a future ...
... nature , or in cosmic schemes of ancient astronomy , with their artificial glories of barbaric architecture exaggerated in the skies , or in the raptures of mystic vision , or in the calmer teaching of the theologic doctrine of a future ...
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... nature - myth , connected probably with the Sun's passage across the sea into Hades , and in many of its versions it appears as a mere episode of the soul's journey , without any moral sense attached to it . Brebeuf , the same early ...
... nature - myth , connected probably with the Sun's passage across the sea into Hades , and in many of its versions it appears as a mere episode of the soul's journey , without any moral sense attached to it . Brebeuf , the same early ...
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