Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2H. Holt, 1877 - Animism |
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Page 68
... representing in symbolic ceremony the scenes of the other world , carried the corpse in the sacred boat across to the burial - place , on the western side of the sacred lake.1 So , too , the cavernous Sheol of the Israelites , the ...
... representing in symbolic ceremony the scenes of the other world , carried the corpse in the sacred boat across to the burial - place , on the western side of the sacred lake.1 So , too , the cavernous Sheol of the Israelites , the ...
Page 97
... represent the newer doctrine of a moral retribution . The idea of purgatorial suffering , which hardly seems to have entered the minds of the lower races , expands in immense vigour in the great Aryan religions of Asia . In Brahmanism ...
... represent the newer doctrine of a moral retribution . The idea of purgatorial suffering , which hardly seems to have entered the minds of the lower races , expands in immense vigour in the great Aryan religions of Asia . In Brahmanism ...
Page 101
... representing the starting - point . It is open to anyone to suppose that the doctrine of transmigration among American savages and African barbarians may have been degraded from elaborate systems of metempsychosis established among ...
... representing the starting - point . It is open to anyone to suppose that the doctrine of transmigration among American savages and African barbarians may have been degraded from elaborate systems of metempsychosis established among ...
Page 103
... represented in civilized belief , namely , that the life to come is in some distant earthly country . Moreover , the belief in a fiery abyss or Gehenna , which excites so intensely and lays hold so firmly of the imagination of the most ...
... represented in civilized belief , namely , that the life to come is in some distant earthly country . Moreover , the belief in a fiery abyss or Gehenna , which excites so intensely and lays hold so firmly of the imagination of the most ...
Page 117
... represent præ - Brahmanic and præ - Buddhistic conditions , wide and deep traces appear of an ancient and surviving cultus of ancestors . Turanian tribes spread over the northern regions of the Old World , a similar state of things may ...
... represent præ - Brahmanic and præ - Buddhistic conditions , wide and deep traces appear of an ancient and surviving cultus of ancestors . Turanian tribes spread over the northern regions of the Old World , a similar state of things may ...
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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