Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2H. Holt, 1877 - Animism |
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Page 53
... sick , on the seventh day when his fever was burning like a furnace , everyone left him , and the doors were shut . Then there stood before him an all - beauteous youth in a white garment , who led him through a chasm into Hades , as he ...
... sick , on the seventh day when his fever was burning like a furnace , everyone left him , and the doors were shut . Then there stood before him an all - beauteous youth in a white garment , who led him through a chasm into Hades , as he ...
Page 76
... sick , as they left this world , leading their old lives , and having their wives with them again , though indeed , as the Araucanians said , they have no more children , for they are but souls.1 Soul - land is dream - land in its ...
... sick , as they left this world , leading their old lives , and having their wives with them again , though indeed , as the Araucanians said , they have no more children , for they are but souls.1 Soul - land is dream - land in its ...
Page 88
... sickness or old age was to go down into the dismal loathly house of Hela the Death- goddess ; if the warrior's fate on the field of battle were denied him , and death came to fetch him from a peaceful couch , yet at least he could have ...
... sickness or old age was to go down into the dismal loathly house of Hela the Death- goddess ; if the warrior's fate on the field of battle were denied him , and death came to fetch him from a peaceful couch , yet at least he could have ...
Page 105
... sick and aged into a better life , and encourages suicide when life is very hateful here . When the half - way house between continuance and retribution is reached , and the idea prevails that the manly virtues which give rank and ...
... sick and aged into a better life , and encourages suicide when life is very hateful here . When the half - way house between continuance and retribution is reached , and the idea prevails that the manly virtues which give rank and ...
Page 113
... sick and aged , thoughts of horror and hatred do not preponderate in ideas of deified ancestors , who are regarded on the whole as kindly patron spirits , at least to their own kinsfolk and worshippers . Manes - wor- ship is one of the ...
... sick and aged , thoughts of horror and hatred do not preponderate in ideas of deified ancestors , who are regarded on the whole as kindly patron spirits , at least to their own kinsfolk and worshippers . Manes - wor- ship is one of 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