Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2H. Holt, 1877 - Animism |
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... future life . To the Hindu the body is but the temporary receptacle of the soul , which , " bound in the chains of deeds " and " eating the fruits of past actions , " promotes or degrades itself along a series of embodiments in plant ...
... future life . To the Hindu the body is but the temporary receptacle of the soul , which , " bound in the chains of deeds " and " eating the fruits of past actions , " promotes or degrades itself along a series of embodiments in plant ...
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... future lives . Memory , it is true , fails generally to recal these past births , but memory , as we know , stops short of the beginning even of this present life . When King Bimsara's feet were burned and rubbed with salt by command of ...
... future lives . Memory , it is true , fails generally to recal these past births , but memory , as we know , stops short of the beginning even of this present life . When King Bimsara's feet were burned and rubbed with salt by command of ...
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... Future Life according to Science . ' His attempt to revive the ancient belief , and to con- nect it with the evolution - theory of modern naturalists , is carried out with more than Buddhist elaborateness . Body is the habitat of soul ...
... Future Life according to Science . ' His attempt to revive the ancient belief , and to con- nect it with the evolution - theory of modern naturalists , is carried out with more than Buddhist elaborateness . Body is the habitat of soul ...
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... future 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 ...
... future 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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... Future State . Nevertheless , prudent ethnographers must often doubt accounts of such , for this reason , that the savage who declares that the dead live no more , may merely mean to say that they are dead . When the East African is ...
... Future State . Nevertheless , prudent ethnographers must often doubt accounts of such , for this reason , that the savage who declares that the dead live no more , may merely mean to say that they are dead . When the East African is ...
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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