Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2H. Holt, 1877 - Animism |
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Page 42
... rites as these are especially exposed to dwindle in survival . The offerings of meals and feasts to the dead may be traced at their last stage into mere traditional ceremonies , at most tokens of affectionate remembrance of the dead ...
... rites as these are especially exposed to dwindle in survival . The offerings of meals and feasts to the dead may be traced at their last stage into mere traditional ceremonies , at most tokens of affectionate remembrance of the dead ...
Page 90
... rites and the giving of offerings , seems scarcely known to the lowest savages . It is worth while , however , to notice some statements which seem to mark its appearance at the level of high savagery or low barbarism . Thus in the ...
... rites and the giving of offerings , seems scarcely known to the lowest savages . It is worth while , however , to notice some statements which seem to mark its appearance at the level of high savagery or low barbarism . Thus in the ...
Page 164
... rites of stone - worship are not unexampled among the Hindus proper . Shashtî , protectress of children , receives ... rite belonging originally to a low civilization , probably a rite of the rude indigenes of the land , whose religion ...
... rites of stone - worship are not unexampled among the Hindus proper . Shashtî , protectress of children , receives ... rite belonging originally to a low civilization , probably a rite of the rude indigenes of the land , whose religion ...
Page 178
... rites of a relative whose body cannot be recovered . He can even protest against being treated as an idolater at all , declaring the images of his gods to be but symbols , bringing to his mind thoughts of the real deities , as a ...
... rites of a relative whose body cannot be recovered . He can even protest against being treated as an idolater at all , declaring the images of his gods to be but symbols , bringing to his mind thoughts of the real deities , as a ...
Page 179
... rites of worship . By a certain art to connect these invisible spirits with visible objects of corporeal matter , that such may be as it were animated bodies , effigies dedicate and subservient to the spirits - this is what he calls ...
... rites of worship . By a certain art to connect these invisible spirits with visible objects of corporeal matter , that such may be as it were animated bodies , effigies dedicate and subservient to the spirits - this is what he calls ...
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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