Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2H. Holt, 1877 - Animism |
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Page 35
... offerings of saucers of kutiya or kolyvo are still made in the church ; this used to be of parboiled wheat and was ... offering to the dead : the honey is heavenly sweetness , the 1 Augustin . contra Faustum , xx . 4 ; De Civ . Dei ...
... offerings of saucers of kutiya or kolyvo are still made in the church ; this used to be of parboiled wheat and was ... offering to the dead : the honey is heavenly sweetness , the 1 Augustin . contra Faustum , xx . 4 ; De Civ . Dei ...
Page 36
... offerings to the dead in the " month of shades , " that is , December ; 3 the Kocch of North Bengal every year at harvest - home offer fruits and a fowl to deceased parents ; the Barea of East Africa celebrate in November the feast of ...
... offerings to the dead in the " month of shades , " that is , December ; 3 the Kocch of North Bengal every year at harvest - home offer fruits and a fowl to deceased parents ; the Barea of East Africa celebrate in November the feast of ...
Page 37
... offerings of food and clothing . The custom of setting empty seats at the St. John's Eve feast , for the departed souls of kinsfolk , is said to have lasted on in Europe to the seventeenth century . Spring is the season of the time ...
... offerings of food and clothing . The custom of setting empty seats at the St. John's Eve feast , for the departed souls of kinsfolk , is said to have lasted on in Europe to the seventeenth century . Spring is the season of the time ...
Page 40
... offerings . It is that the spirits of the dead consume the impalpable essence of the food , leaving behind its coarse material substance , where- fore the dutiful sacrificers , having set out sumptuous feasts for ancestral souls , allow ...
... offerings . It is that the spirits of the dead consume the impalpable essence of the food , leaving behind its coarse material substance , where- fore the dutiful sacrificers , having set out sumptuous feasts for ancestral souls , allow ...
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... offering is spiritually conveyed away to the world of spirits ) , it can be of little consequence what becomes of the gross material food . When the Kafir sorcerer , in cases of sickness , de- clares that the shades of ancestors demand ...
... offering is spiritually conveyed away to the world of spirits ) , it can be of little consequence what becomes of the gross material food . When the Kafir sorcerer , in cases of sickness , de- clares that the shades of ancestors demand ...
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