Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2H. Holt, 1877 - Animism |
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... stone slabs which European visitors wonder at in the districts of the aborigines in India . Beside these , monumental stones are set up outside the village to the memory of men of note ; they are fixed on an earthen plinth where the ...
... stone slabs which European visitors wonder at in the districts of the aborigines in India . Beside these , monumental stones are set up outside the village to the memory of men of note ; they are fixed on an earthen plinth where the ...
Page 42
... stone of the tomb , it seems to them no matter that the poor or the birds really carry off the grain.1 Such rites as these are especially exposed to dwindle in survival . The offerings of meals and feasts to the dead may be traced at ...
... stone of the tomb , it seems to them no matter that the poor or the birds really carry off the grain.1 Such rites as these are especially exposed to dwindle in survival . The offerings of meals and feasts to the dead may be traced at ...
Page 56
... stone . Wynde herde he none blowe , But faste hit frese bothe hye and lowe . They browgte him to a felde full brode , Overe suche another never he yode , For of the lengthe none ende he knewe ; Thereover algate he moste nowe . As he ...
... stone . Wynde herde he none blowe , But faste hit frese bothe hye and lowe . They browgte him to a felde full brode , Overe suche another never he yode , For of the lengthe none ende he knewe ; Thereover algate he moste nowe . As he ...
Page 60
... stones , forming one of the balai , or sacred cairns , common in the district . But the popular belief , that a tiger would devour the chiefs who permitted a violation of the sacred place , soon received the sort of confirmation which ...
... stones , forming one of the balai , or sacred cairns , common in the district . But the popular belief , that a tiger would devour the chiefs who permitted a violation of the sacred place , soon received the sort of confirmation which ...
Page 62
... stone across the lake where wicked souls perish in the storm , till he reached the beautiful and happy island where there is no cold , no war , no bloodshed , but the creatures run happily about , nourished by the air they breathe ...
... stone across the lake where wicked souls perish in the storm , till he reached the beautiful and happy island where there is no cold , no war , no bloodshed , but the creatures run happily about , nourished by the air they breathe ...
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