Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2H. Holt, 1877 - Animism |
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Page 69
... idea of volcanos another striking mythic feature . being mouths of the under - world seems not unexampled among the lower races , for we hear of certain New Zealanders casting their dead down into a crater.2 But in connexion with the ...
... idea of volcanos another striking mythic feature . being mouths of the under - world seems not unexampled among the lower races , for we hear of certain New Zealanders casting their dead down into a crater.2 But in connexion with the ...
Page 71
... idea that the blue heaven is a rock encircling the earth , inside which are the sun , moon , and stars , and outside which dwell the people of heaven ; the modern negro's belief that there is a firmament stretched above like a cloth or ...
... idea that the blue heaven is a rock encircling the earth , inside which are the sun , moon , and stars , and outside which dwell the people of heaven ; the modern negro's belief that there is a firmament stretched above like a cloth or ...
Page 72
... idea , the modern Iroquois speak of the soul going upward and westward , till it comes out on the beauteous plains of heaven , with people and trees and things as on earth.2 In South America the Guarayos , representatives in some sort ...
... idea , the modern Iroquois speak of the soul going upward and westward , till it comes out on the beauteous plains of heaven , with people and trees and things as on earth.2 In South America the Guarayos , representatives in some sort ...
Page 81
... idea of a subterranean region of departed spirits was a familiar thought , with familiar words to express it , quite naturally use these words in Biblical translation as the equivalents of Sheol . To the Greek . Septuagint , Sheol was ...
... idea of a subterranean region of departed spirits was a familiar thought , with familiar words to express it , quite naturally use these words in Biblical translation as the equivalents of Sheol . To the Greek . Septuagint , Sheol was ...
Page 83
... ideas have even held their place on into Christian thought , in pictures like that of the Limbus Patrum , the Hades ... idea of a spirit outliving the body , without considering the fate of this spirit to depend at all upon the conduct ...
... ideas have even held their place on into Christian thought , in pictures like that of the Limbus Patrum , the Hades ... idea of a spirit outliving the body , without considering the fate of this spirit to depend at all upon the conduct ...
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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