Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2H. Holt, 1877 - Animism |
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... existence men are afflicted with deformities , the stealer of food shall be dyspeptic , the scandal - monger shall have foul breath , the horse - stealer shall go lame , and in consequence of their deeds men shall be born idiots , blind ...
... existence men are afflicted with deformities , the stealer of food shall be dyspeptic , the scandal - monger shall have foul breath , the horse - stealer shall go lame , and in consequence of their deeds men shall be born idiots , blind ...
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... existence . Four times he became Maha Brahma , twenty times the dewa Sekra , and many times or few he passed through such stages as a hermit , a king , a rich man , a slave , a potter , a gambler , a curer of snake bites , an ape , an ...
... existence . Four times he became Maha Brahma , twenty times the dewa Sekra , and many times or few he passed through such stages as a hermit , a king , a rich man , a slave , a potter , a gambler , a curer of snake bites , an ape , an ...
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... existence had made them fit for , from the body of a philosopher or a lover down to the body of a tyrant and usurper ; of souls transmigrating into beasts and rising . again to man according to the lives they led ; of birds that were ...
... existence had made them fit for , from the body of a philosopher or a lover down to the body of a tyrant and usurper ; of souls transmigrating into beasts and rising . again to man according to the lives they led ; of birds that were ...
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... the Sun ; the pure spirits who form its mass of burning gases , pour out germs and life to start the course of planetary existence . ( Note to 2nd edition . ) evidence for his continuity of culture . What , we 16 ANIMISM .
... the Sun ; the pure spirits who form its mass of burning gases , pour out germs and life to start the course of planetary existence . ( Note to 2nd edition . ) evidence for his continuity of culture . What , we 16 ANIMISM .
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... existence , but which it is difficult to handle in definite terms , and much more to trace historically by comparing the views of lower and 1 Swedenborg , ' The True Christian Religion , ' 13. Compare the notion attributed to the ...
... existence , but which it is difficult to handle in definite terms , and much more to trace historically by comparing the views of lower and 1 Swedenborg , ' The True Christian Religion , ' 13. Compare the notion attributed to the ...
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