Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2H. Holt, 1877 - Animism |
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Page 61
... object of his venturous quest . The Haitians described to the white men their Coaibai , the paradise of the dead , in the lovely Western valleys of their island , where the souls hidden by day among the cliffs came down at night to feed ...
... object of his venturous quest . The Haitians described to the white men their Coaibai , the paradise of the dead , in the lovely Western valleys of their island , where the souls hidden by day among the cliffs came down at night to feed ...
Page 73
... object , not of writing a handbook of religions , but of tracing the relation which the religion of savages bears to the religion of cultured nations , these details are enough to show the general line of human thought regard- ing the ...
... object , not of writing a handbook of religions , but of tracing the relation which the religion of savages bears to the religion of cultured nations , these details are enough to show the general line of human thought regard- ing the ...
Page 108
... Object - Analogues of Fetish - doctrine in Modern Science - Stock - and - Stone Worship - Idolatry -Survival of Animistic Phraseology in modern Language - Decline of Animistic theory of Nature . THE general scheme of Animism , of which ...
... Object - Analogues of Fetish - doctrine in Modern Science - Stock - and - Stone Worship - Idolatry -Survival of Animistic Phraseology in modern Language - Decline of Animistic theory of Nature . THE general scheme of Animism , of which ...
Page 123
... object , to set it up as a deity for worship in the body of an animal , or in a block or stone or image or other thing , which contains the spirit as a vessel contains a fluid : this is the key to strict fetishism , and in no small ...
... object , to set it up as a deity for worship in the body of an animal , or in a block or stone or image or other thing , which contains the spirit as a vessel contains a fluid : this is the key to strict fetishism , and in no small ...
Page 132
... objects that are not there when he approaches , the songs that come to him without learning , the sensation of flying in the air . This man was " of a family who are very sensitive , and be- come doctors . " Persons whose constitutional ...
... objects that are not there when he approaches , the songs that come to him without learning , the sensation of flying in the air . This man was " of a family who are very sensitive , and be- come doctors . " Persons whose constitutional ...
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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