Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2H. Holt, 1877 - Animism |
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... soul of a dead ancestor animates a child , and this is why it resembles its father or mother ; in Guinea a child bear- ing a strong resemblance , physical or mental , to a dead relative , is supposed to have inherited his soul ; and the ...
... soul of a dead ancestor animates a child , and this is why it resembles its father or mother ; in Guinea a child bear- ing a strong resemblance , physical or mental , to a dead relative , is supposed to have inherited his soul ; and the ...
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... souls of men and of beasts , can at least admit without difficulty the transmission of human souls into the bodies of the lower animals . A series of examples from among the native tribes of America , will serve well to show the various ...
... souls of men and of beasts , can at least admit without difficulty the transmission of human souls into the bodies of the lower animals . A series of examples from among the native tribes of America , will serve well to show the various ...
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... souls of their chiefs ; of Huron souls turning into turtle - doves after the burial of their bones at the Feast of the Dead ; of that pathetic funeral rite of the Iroquois , the setting free a bird on the evening of burial , to carry ...
... souls of their chiefs ; of Huron souls turning into turtle - doves after the burial of their bones at the Feast of the Dead ; of that pathetic funeral rite of the Iroquois , the setting free a bird on the evening of burial , to carry ...
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... souls of bad men became jackals , and good men snakes . The Zulus , while admitting that a man may turn into a wasp or lizard , work out in the fullest way the idea of the dead becoming snakes , a creature whose change of skin has so ...
... souls of bad men became jackals , and good men snakes . The Zulus , while admitting that a man may turn into a wasp or lizard , work out in the fullest way the idea of the dead becoming snakes , a creature whose change of skin has so ...
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... Souls . They can be born again as souls in new human bodies , and a soul who was poor before will now be rich . Many will not come back as men , but will become animals . To an African mother who has lost her child , it is a consolation ...
... Souls . They can be born again as souls in new human bodies , and a soul who was poor before will now be rich . Many will not come back as men , but will become animals . To an African mother who has lost her child , it is a consolation ...
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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