Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2H. Holt, 1877 - Animism |
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Page 50
... snake - bridge or swinging log , the great dog standing on the other side , the villages of the dead beyond . The Zulus of our own day tell of men who have gone down by holes in the ground into the under- world , where mountains and ...
... snake - bridge or swinging log , the great dog standing on the other side , the villages of the dead beyond . The Zulus of our own day tell of men who have gone down by holes in the ground into the under- world , where mountains and ...
Page 80
... snakes and pike , but all things were of a hurtful , dismal kind , the woods dark and swarm- ing with wild beasts , the water black , the cornfields bearing seed of snakes ' teeth , and there stern pitiless old Tuoni , and his grim wife ...
... snakes and pike , but all things were of a hurtful , dismal kind , the woods dark and swarm- ing with wild beasts , the water black , the cornfields bearing seed of snakes ' teeth , and there stern pitiless old Tuoni , and his grim wife ...
Page 93
... snakes above . But the same critic condemns this moral " tag , " as a later addition to the genuine heathen picture of Manala , the under - world of the dead . Nor did Christianity scorn to borrow details from the religions it abolished ...
... snakes above . But the same critic condemns this moral " tag , " as a later addition to the genuine heathen picture of Manala , the under - world of the dead . Nor did Christianity scorn to borrow details from the religions it abolished ...
Page 152
... 5 . " * Doolittle , Chinese , ' vol . i . pp . 151 , 207 , 214 , vol . ii . p . 401 ; see Plath , ' Religion der alten Chinesen , ' part i . p . 59 , part ii . p . 101 . headed snake carried in a bag on his horse's back 152 ANIMISM .
... 5 . " * Doolittle , Chinese , ' vol . i . pp . 151 , 207 , 214 , vol . ii . p . 401 ; see Plath , ' Religion der alten Chinesen , ' part i . p . 59 , part ii . p . 101 . headed snake carried in a bag on his horse's back 152 ANIMISM .
Page 153
... snake carried in a bag on his horse's back ; the hero finds out the secret and kills the snake , and then the giant dies too . This tale is curious , as very likely indicating the original sense of a well - known group of stories in ...
... snake carried in a bag on his horse's back ; the hero finds out the secret and kills the snake , and then the giant dies too . This tale is curious , as very likely indicating the original sense of a well - known group of stories in ...
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