Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2H. Holt, 1877 - Animism |
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... Spirits , becomes a complete Philosophy of Natural Religion - Definition of Spirits similar to and apparently modelled on that of Souls -- Transition - stage : classes of Souls passing into good and evil Demons - Manes - Worship ...
... Spirits , becomes a complete Philosophy of Natural Religion - Definition of Spirits similar to and apparently modelled on that of Souls -- Transition - stage : classes of Souls passing into good and evil Demons - Manes - Worship ...
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... spirits of the dead who bring sickness , and assigned this as their reason for wishing to kill white men.1 In Africa , again , the belief is found among the Western negroes that they will rise again white , and the Bari of the White ...
... spirits of the dead who bring sickness , and assigned this as their reason for wishing to kill white men.1 In Africa , again , the belief is found among the Western negroes that they will rise again white , and the Bari of the White ...
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... spirits present in the hall of ancestors ; so multi- tudes in Europe and America live in an atmosphere that swarms with ghostly shapes - spirits of the dead , who sit over against the mystic by his midnight fire , rap and write in spirit ...
... spirits present in the hall of ancestors ; so multi- tudes in Europe and America live in an atmosphere that swarms with ghostly shapes - spirits of the dead , who sit over against the mystic by his midnight fire , rap and write in spirit ...
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... spirit also stays near the body for a time , and " unless the rites of burial were performed , it was believed that the spirits of the dead hovered for a time upon the earth , in a state of great unhappiness . Hence their extreme ...
... spirit also stays near the body for a time , and " unless the rites of burial were performed , it was believed that the spirits of the dead hovered for a time upon the earth , in a state of great unhappiness . Hence their extreme ...
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... spirits take their part of the feast . At the old Slavonic meals for the .dead , we read of the survivors sitting in silence and throw- ing morsels under the table , fancying that they could hear the spirits rustle , and see them feed ...
... spirits take their part of the feast . At the old Slavonic meals for the .dead , we read of the survivors sitting in silence and throw- ing morsels under the table , fancying that they could hear the spirits rustle , and see them feed ...
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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