Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2H. Holt, 1877 - Animism |
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Page 194
... snake with great eyes and very fearful , the leopard creeping stealthily , the enemy approaching with his long assagai in his hand - these coming one after another to the place where the man has gone to pray in secret , and striving to ...
... snake with great eyes and very fearful , the leopard creeping stealthily , the enemy approaching with his long assagai in his hand - these coming one after another to the place where the man has gone to pray in secret , and striving to ...
Page 205
... snakes , birds , and so on . In a word , his conceptions of animating souls and presiding spirits as efficient causes of all nature are two groups of ideas which we may well find it hard to distinguish , for the sufficient reason that ...
... snakes , birds , and so on . In a word , his conceptions of animating souls and presiding spirits as efficient causes of all nature are two groups of ideas which we may well find it hard to distinguish , for the sufficient reason that ...
Page 218
... snakes issuing from their backs between their shoulders and curving over their heads , and other tribes actually drawn as human apes , are seen adoring the divine tree in the midst of unquestionable Buddhist surroundings . Tree ...
... snakes issuing from their backs between their shoulders and curving over their heads , and other tribes actually drawn as human apes , are seen adoring the divine tree in the midst of unquestionable Buddhist surroundings . Tree ...
Page 233
... snakes which swarm in the villages , reigned over by that huge chief monster , uppermost and greatest and as it were the grandfather of all , who dwelt in his snake - house beneath a lofty tree , and there received the royal offerings ...
... snakes which swarm in the villages , reigned over by that huge chief monster , uppermost and greatest and as it were the grandfather of all , who dwelt in his snake - house beneath a lofty tree , and there received the royal offerings ...
Page 234
... snakes , that the Dutchmen made it a means of clearing their warehouses of tiresome visitors ; as Bosman says , " If we are ever tired with the natives of this country , and would fain be rid of them , we need only speak ill of the snake ...
... snakes , that the Dutchmen made it a means of clearing their warehouses of tiresome visitors ; as Bosman says , " If we are ever tired with the natives of this country , and would fain be rid of them , we need only speak ill of the snake ...
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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