Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2H. Holt, 1877 - Animism |
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Page 49
... stand to prove . Moreover , visits from or to the dead are matters of per- sonal experience and personal testimony . When in dream or vision the seer beholds the spirits of the departed , they give him tidings from the other world , or ...
... stand to prove . Moreover , visits from or to the dead are matters of per- sonal experience and personal testimony . When in dream or vision the seer beholds the spirits of the departed , they give him tidings from the other world , or ...
Page 50
... standing on the other side , the villages of the dead beyond . The Zulus of our own day tell of men who have gone down by holes in the ground into the under- world , where mountains and rivers and all things are as here above , and ...
... standing on the other side , the villages of the dead beyond . The Zulus of our own day tell of men who have gone down by holes in the ground into the under- world , where mountains and rivers and all things are as here above , and ...
Page 60
... stand in a clump , and the pinangs in a row , Thither direct thy steps , Laillah being set aside . " Mr. Jonathan Rigg had lived ten years among these people , and knew them well , yet had never found out that their paradise was on this ...
... stand in a clump , and the pinangs in a row , Thither direct thy steps , Laillah being set aside . " Mr. Jonathan Rigg had lived ten years among these people , and knew them well , yet had never found out that their paradise was on this ...
Page 84
... standing between the earlier continuance - theory and the later retribution - theory . The idea of the next life being similar to this seems to have developed into the idea that what gives prosperity and re- nown here will give it also ...
... standing between the earlier continuance - theory and the later retribution - theory . The idea of the next life being similar to this seems to have developed into the idea that what gives prosperity and re- nown here will give it also ...
Page 89
... standing in the lower ethics . " The good are good warriors and hunters , " said a Pawnee chief ; whereupon the author who mentions the saying remarks that this would also be the opinion of a wolf , if he could express it . Neverthe ...
... standing in the lower ethics . " The good are good warriors and hunters , " said a Pawnee chief ; whereupon the author who mentions the saying remarks that this would also be the opinion of a wolf , if he could express it . Neverthe ...
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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