Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2H. Holt, 1877 - Animism |
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... Savage descriptions of the next world are often such ab- solute copies of this , that it is scarcely possible to say whether the dead are or are not thought of as having bodies like the living ; and a few pieces of evidence of this ...
... Savage descriptions of the next world are often such ab- solute copies of this , that it is scarcely possible to say whether the dead are or are not thought of as having bodies like the living ; and a few pieces of evidence of this ...
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... savage thought . There may well have been , and there may still be , low 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 ...
... savage thought . There may well have been , and there may still be , low 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 ...
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... savage mind quits the present to explore them , the measure of months . and years breaks down even within the narrow span of human life , and the survivor's thought of the soul of the departed dwindles and disappears with the personal ...
... savage mind quits the present to explore them , the measure of months . and years breaks down even within the narrow span of human life , and the survivor's thought of the soul of the departed dwindles and disappears with the personal ...
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... savage ; his friend or his enemy is dead , yet still in dream or open vision he sees the spectral form which is to his philosophy a real objective being , carrying personality as it carries likeness . This thought of the soul's ...
... savage ; his friend or his enemy is dead , yet still in dream or open vision he sees the spectral form which is to his philosophy a real objective being , carrying personality as it carries likeness . This thought of the soul's ...
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... savage culture , extends through barbaric life almost without a break , and survives largely and deeply in the midst of civi- lization . From the myriad details of travellers , mis- sionaries , historians , theologians , spiritualists ...
... savage culture , extends through barbaric life almost without a break , and survives largely and deeply in the midst of civi- lization . From the myriad details of travellers , mis- sionaries , historians , theologians , spiritualists ...
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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