Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2H. Holt, 1877 - Animism |
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Page 217
... practice . Here in legend a dryad is a being capable of marriage with a human hero , while in actual fact a tree - deity is considered human enough to be pleased with dolls set up to swing in the branches . The Talein of Birmah , before ...
... practice . Here in legend a dryad is a being capable of marriage with a human hero , while in actual fact a tree - deity is considered human enough to be pleased with dolls set up to swing in the branches . The Talein of Birmah , before ...
Page 236
... practice of naming individual men after animals , Bear , Deer , Eagle , etc. , these becoming in certain cases hereditary tribe - names . It must be admitted as possible that such personal epithets might become family surnames , and ...
... practice of naming individual men after animals , Bear , Deer , Eagle , etc. , these becoming in certain cases hereditary tribe - names . It must be admitted as possible that such personal epithets might become family surnames , and ...
Page 357
... practices , which in the lower animism stand firm upon their grounds as if they grew there , in the higher animism belong rather to peasants than philosophers , exist rather as ancestral relics than as products belonging to their age ...
... practices , which in the lower animism stand firm upon their grounds as if they grew there , in the higher animism belong rather to peasants than philosophers , exist rather as ancestral relics than as products belonging to their age ...
Page 362
... practice . In part , they are ex- pressive and symbolic performances , the dramatic utter- ance of religious thought , the gesture - language of theology . In part , they are means of intercourse with and influence on spiritual beings ...
... practice . In part , they are ex- pressive and symbolic performances , the dramatic utter- ance of religious thought , the gesture - language of theology . In part , they are means of intercourse with and influence on spiritual beings ...
Page 372
... practice . Yet , according to strict and special Buddhist philosophy , where personal divinity has faded into metaphysical idea , even devotional utterances of desire are not prayers ; as Köppen says , there is no " Thou ! " in them ...
... practice . Yet , according to strict and special Buddhist philosophy , where personal divinity has faded into metaphysical idea , even devotional utterances of desire are not prayers ; as Köppen says , there is no " Thou ! " in them ...
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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