Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2H. Holt, 1877 - Animism |
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... pass into a wild beast or pariah ; he who adulterously dishonours his guru or spiritual father shall be a hundred times re - born as grass , a bush , a creeper , a carrion bird , a beast of prey ; the cruel shall become blood- thirsty ...
... pass into a wild beast or pariah ; he who adulterously dishonours his guru or spiritual father shall be a hundred times re - born as grass , a bush , a creeper , a carrion bird , a beast of prey ; the cruel shall become blood- thirsty ...
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... pass into the Messiah , for are not these initials in the very name of Ad ( a ) m , and does not Ezekiel say that ... pass into a brute . He who gives a Jew unclean meat to eat , his soul shall enter into a leaf , blown to and fro by the ...
... pass into the Messiah , for are not these initials in the very name of Ad ( a ) m , and does not Ezekiel say that ... pass into a brute . He who gives a Jew unclean meat to eat , his soul shall enter into a leaf , blown to and fro by the ...
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... passing from body to body as general among the medieval Nestorians , even a somewhat intelligent priest consulting him as to the souls of brutes , whether they could find refuge elsewhere so as not to be compelled to labour after death ...
... passing from body to body as general among the medieval Nestorians , even a somewhat intelligent priest consulting him as to the souls of brutes , whether they could find refuge elsewhere so as not to be compelled to labour after death ...
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... have an evident fitness to the character of the human beings whose souls are to pass into them , so that the savage VOL . II . C philosopher's fancy of transferred souls offered something like an explanation ANIMISM . 17.
... have an evident fitness to the character of the human beings whose souls are to pass into them , so that the savage VOL . II . C philosopher's fancy of transferred souls offered something like an explanation ANIMISM . 17.
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... Passing from these metaphysical doctrines of civilized theology , we now take up a series of beliefs higher in prac- tical moment , and more clearly conceived in savage thought . There may well have been , and there may still be , low ...
... Passing from these metaphysical doctrines of civilized theology , we now take up a series of beliefs higher in prac- tical moment , and more clearly conceived in savage thought . There may well have been , and there may still be , low ...
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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