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The thought of human visitors revealing the mysteries of the world beyond the grave , which indeed took no slight hold on Christian belief , attached itself in a remarkable way to the doctrine of Christ's descent into Hades .
The thought of human visitors revealing the mysteries of the world beyond the grave , which indeed took no slight hold on Christian belief , attached itself in a remarkable way to the doctrine of Christ's descent into Hades .
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They see no man on the voyage , no man at the landing . but a voice is heard that proclaims the name and rank and parentage of each newly arrived passenger , or if women , those of their husbands . Traces of this remarkable legend seem ...
They see no man on the voyage , no man at the landing . but a voice is heard that proclaims the name and rank and parentage of each newly arrived passenger , or if women , those of their husbands . Traces of this remarkable legend seem ...
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Traces of this remarkable legend seem to have survived , thirteen centuries later , in that endmost district of the Britannia of Procopius which still keeps the name of Bretagne . Near Raz , where the narrow promontory stretches ...
Traces of this remarkable legend seem to have survived , thirteen centuries later , in that endmost district of the Britannia of Procopius which still keeps the name of Bretagne . Near Raz , where the narrow promontory stretches ...
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Such difference as they make between the future conditions of different classes of souls , seems more often to belong to a remarkable intermediate doctrine , standing between the earlier continuance - theory and the later retribution ...
Such difference as they make between the future conditions of different classes of souls , seems more often to belong to a remarkable intermediate doctrine , standing between the earlier continuance - theory and the later retribution ...
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This corresponds in part with the remarkable threefold contrast of the future life among their Aztec kinsfolk . Mictlan , the Hades of the general dead , and Tlalocan , the Earthly Paradise , reached by certain special and acute ways of ...
This corresponds in part with the remarkable threefold contrast of the future life among their Aztec kinsfolk . Mictlan , the Hades of the general dead , and Tlalocan , the Earthly Paradise , reached by certain special and acute ways of ...
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| Title | Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2 Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Sir Edward Burnett Tylor |
| Author | Sir Edward Burnett Tylor |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | H. Holt, 1877 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 7 Oct 2008 |
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