Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2H. Holt, 1877 - Animism |
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Page 109
... spirits whose essential similarity of origin is evident through all their wondrous variety of power and function . Much that the primitive animistic view thus explains , has been indeed given over by more advanced education to the ...
... spirits whose essential similarity of origin is evident through all their wondrous variety of power and function . Much that the primitive animistic view thus explains , has been indeed given over by more advanced education to the ...
Page 110
... spirits , are treated in like fashion , and pass without distinct breaks into every part of the general spiritual definition . The similar nature of soul and other spirit is , in fact , one of the commonplaces of animism , from its ...
... spirits , are treated in like fashion , and pass without distinct breaks into every part of the general spiritual definition . The similar nature of soul and other spirit is , in fact , one of the commonplaces of animism , from its ...
Page 111
... spirits . Thus Australians have been known to consider the ghosts of the unburied dead as becoming malignant demons . New Zealanders have supposed the souls of their dead to become so changed in nature as to be malignant to their ...
... spirits . Thus Australians have been known to consider the ghosts of the unburied dead as becoming malignant demons . New Zealanders have supposed the souls of their dead to become so changed in nature as to be malignant to their ...
Page 113
... spirits of their forefathers for good weather or luck in hunting , and fancying when an Indian falls into the fire that the ancestral spirits pushed him in to punish 1 Sir J. Shore in ' Asiatic Res . ' vol . iv . p . 331 . For some ...
... spirits of their forefathers for good weather or luck in hunting , and fancying when an Indian falls into the fire that the ancestral spirits pushed him in to punish 1 Sir J. Shore in ' Asiatic Res . ' vol . iv . p . 331 . For some ...
Page 114
... spirits of their departed friends or relations to bless or injure them as the case might be.2 In Tanna , the gods are spirits of departed ancestors , aged chiefs becoming deities after death , presiding over the growth of yams and fruit ...
... spirits of their departed friends or relations to bless or injure them as the case might be.2 In Tanna , the gods are spirits of departed ancestors , aged chiefs becoming deities after death , presiding over the growth of yams and fruit ...
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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