Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2H. Holt, 1877 - Animism |
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... races to a distinct doctrine of an earthly resurrection . One of the most remarkable forms which this belief assumes is when dark - skinned races , wanting some reasonable theory to account for the appearance among them of human crea ...
... races to a distinct doctrine of an earthly resurrection . One of the most remarkable forms which this belief assumes is when dark - skinned races , wanting some reasonable theory to account for the appearance among them of human crea ...
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... races who have worked out the idea of transmigration into ethical schemes of retribution , where the appropriateness of the creatures chosen is almost as manifest to the modern critic as it could have been to the ancient believer . Per ...
... races who have worked out the idea of transmigration into ethical schemes of retribution , where the appropriateness of the creatures chosen is almost as manifest to the modern critic as it could have been to the ancient believer . Per ...
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... races . This is the doctrine of a bodily renewal or resurrection . To the philosophy of the lower races it is by no means necessary that the surviving soul should be provided with a new body , for it seems itself to be of a filmy or ...
... races . This is the doctrine of a bodily renewal or resurrection . To the philosophy of the lower races it is by no means necessary that the surviving soul should be provided with a new body , for it seems itself to be of a filmy or ...
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... races destitute of any belief in a Future State . Nevertheless , prudent ethnographers must often doubt accounts of such , for this reason , that the savage who declares that the dead live no more , may merely mean to say that they are ...
... races destitute of any belief in a Future State . Nevertheless , prudent ethnographers must often doubt accounts of such , for this reason , that the savage who declares that the dead live no more , may merely mean to say that they are ...
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... race , a poem of the Dinka tribe of the White Nile , concerning Dendid the Creator : " On the day when Dendid made ... races as a whole , we shall at least not be ill - advised in taking as one of its general and principal elements the ...
... race , a poem of the Dinka tribe of the White Nile , concerning Dendid the Creator : " On the day when Dendid made ... races as a whole , we shall at least not be ill - advised in taking as one of its general and principal elements the ...
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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