Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2H. Holt, 1877 - Animism |
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... stage after stage of the world's civilization , scattered among the native races of America and Africa , established in old Egypt , elaborated by the Hindu mind into its great system of ethical philosophy , reviving and failing through ...
... stage after stage of the world's civilization , scattered among the native races of America and Africa , established in old Egypt , elaborated by the Hindu mind into its great system of ethical philosophy , reviving and failing through ...
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... stages . An elevation from the vegetable to the lower animal life , and thence onward through the higher animals to man , to say nothing of superhuman beings , does not here require even a succession of distinct individuals , but is ...
... stages . An elevation from the vegetable to the lower animal life , and thence onward through the higher animals to man , to say nothing of superhuman beings , does not here require even a succession of distinct individuals , but is ...
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... stages the householder rids himself with little scruple of an unwelcome inmate . The Green- landers would carry the dead out by the window , not by the door , while an old woman , waving a firebrand behind , cried " piklerrukpok ! " i ...
... stages the householder rids himself with little scruple of an unwelcome inmate . The Green- landers would carry the dead out by the window , not by the door , while an old woman , waving a firebrand behind , cried " piklerrukpok ! " i ...
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... stage into mere traditional ceremonies , at most tokens of affectionate remembrance of the dead , or works of charity to the living . The Roman Feralia in Ovid's time were a striking example of such transition , for while the idea was ...
... stage into mere traditional ceremonies , at most tokens of affectionate remembrance of the dead , or works of charity to the living . The Roman Feralia in Ovid's time were a striking example of such transition , for while the idea was ...
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... stages through which these fragments of old custom have come down , it would seem far - fetched indeed to trace their origin back to the savage and barbaric times of the institution of feasts of departed souls . 1 Legge , ' Confucius ...
... stages through which these fragments of old custom have come down , it would seem far - fetched indeed to trace their origin back to the savage and barbaric times of the institution of feasts of departed souls . 1 Legge , ' Confucius ...
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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