 | 1882 - 634 sider
...spirits are certainly recognised in Guiana. On one occasion during an eclipse of the sun the Arawaks, among whom I happened to be, rushed from their houses with loud shouts and yells, and with frantic gestures, to separate, as they explained, the sun and moon which were fighting. But,... | |
 | Everard Ferdinand Im Thurn - 1882 - 42 sider
...spirits are certainly recognised in Guiana. On one occasion during an eclipse of the sun the Arawaks, among whom I happened to be, rushed from their houses with loud shouts and yells, and with i'rantic gestures, to separate, as they explained, the sun and moon b which were fighting.... | |
 | 1882 - 632 sider
...spirits are certainly recognised in Guiana. On one occasion during an eclipse of the sun the Arawaks, among whom I happened to be, rushed from their houses with loud shouts and yells, and with frantic gestures, to separate, as they explained, the sun and moon which were fighting. But,... | |
 | George Thomas Bettany - 1891 - 298 sider
...cunning. On one occasion spirits, during an eclipse of the sun the Arawak men among whom Mr. Im Thurm was, rushed from their houses with loud shouts and yells....explained that a fight was going on between the sun and the moon, and that they were shouting to frighten and so to part them. The Indians have names meaning... | |
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... Indian mind. It has been presumed that traces of a belief in such a hierarchy have been found among other peoples, in their recognition of a sun-spirit, a moon-spirit, a water-spirit, and so on. Such spirits are certainly recognised in Guiana. On... 