Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2H. Holt, 1877 - Animism |
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Page 49
... savage into civilized times , are no doubt given in good faith by the visionary himself , while others are imitations of these genuine accounts . Now such visions are naturally apt to reproduce the thoughts with which the seer's mind ...
... savage into civilized times , are no doubt given in good faith by the visionary himself , while others are imitations of these genuine accounts . Now such visions are naturally apt to reproduce the thoughts with which the seer's mind ...
Page 69
... savage doctrines with Isaac Taylor's ingenious supposition in his Physical Theory of Another Life , ' - the sun of each planetary system is the house of the higher and ultimate spiritual corporeity , and the centre of assembly to those ...
... savage doctrines with Isaac Taylor's ingenious supposition in his Physical Theory of Another Life , ' - the sun of each planetary system is the house of the higher and ultimate spiritual corporeity , and the centre of assembly to those ...
Page 70
... savage is not ill matched in such speculative lore with the white philosopher . Fifthly , as Paradise on the face of the earth , and Hades beneath it where the sun goes down , are regions whose existence is asserted or not denied by savage ...
... savage is not ill matched in such speculative lore with the white philosopher . Fifthly , as Paradise on the face of the earth , and Hades beneath it where the sun goes down , are regions whose existence is asserted or not denied by savage ...
Page 72
... savage tribes , we hear of the Peruvian Heaven , the glorious " Upper World , " and of the temporary abode of Aztec warriors on heavenly wooded plains , where the sun shines when it is night on earth , wherefore it was a Mexican saying ...
... savage tribes , we hear of the Peruvian Heaven , the glorious " Upper World , " and of the temporary abode of Aztec warriors on heavenly wooded plains , where the sun shines when it is night on earth , wherefore it was a Mexican saying ...
Page 74
... savage culture , but dwindles in the barbaric stage , and survives but feebly into the medieval . Secondly , the doctrine of a subterranean Hades holds as large a place as this in savage belief , and has held it firmly along the course ...
... savage culture , but dwindles in the barbaric stage , and survives but feebly into the medieval . Secondly , the doctrine of a subterranean Hades holds as large a place as this in savage belief , and has held it firmly along the course ...
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