Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2H. Holt, 1877 - Animism |
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Page 58
... original legend of earlier date , and as such contrasts with a story really dating from early in the fifteenth century - William Staunton's descent into Purgatory , where the themes of the old sincerely - believed visionary lore are ...
... original legend of earlier date , and as such contrasts with a story really dating from early in the fifteenth century - William Staunton's descent into Purgatory , where the themes of the old sincerely - believed visionary lore are ...
Page 83
... original part of the doctrine of the future life . On the contrary , if we judge that men in a primitive state of culture arrived at the notion of a surviving spirit , and that some races , but by no means all , afterwards reached the ...
... original part of the doctrine of the future life . On the contrary , if we judge that men in a primitive state of culture arrived at the notion of a surviving spirit , and that some races , but by no means all , afterwards reached the ...
Page 91
... original native doctrine . It is in the elaborate religious systems of more organized nations , in modern Brahmanism and Buddhism , and degraded forms of Chris- tianity , that the special adaptation of the doctrine of re- tribution to ...
... original native doctrine . It is in the elaborate religious systems of more organized nations , in modern Brahmanism and Buddhism , and degraded forms of Chris- tianity , that the special adaptation of the doctrine of re- tribution to ...
Page 109
... original ones of the series . It was best , from this point of view , to begin with a careful study of souls , which are the spirits proper to men , animals , and things , before extending the survey of ANIMISM . 109.
... original ones of the series . It was best , from this point of view , to begin with a careful study of souls , which are the spirits proper to men , animals , and things , before extending the survey of ANIMISM . 109.
Page 125
... original home , we shall be able to trace it along from grade to grade of civiliza- tion , breaking away piecemeal under the influence of new medical theories , yet sometimes expanding in revival , and at least in lingering survival ...
... original home , we shall be able to trace it along from grade to grade of civiliza- tion , breaking away piecemeal under the influence of new medical theories , yet sometimes expanding in revival , and at least in lingering survival ...
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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