| William Mariner - 1817 - 632 sider
...equally its reward ; nay, artificial bodies have equal good luck with men, and hogs, and yams. If an nxe or a chisel is worn out or broken up, away flies its...other pell-mell into the regions of immortality. Such is-the Fiji philosophy, but the Tonga people deny -it, unwilling to think that the residence of the... | |
| Constable and co, ltd - 1827 - 722 sider
...canoes, houses, and all the broken utensils of this frail world, tumbling along one over the other, into the regions of immortality. Such is the Fiji...residence of the gods should be encumbered with so much rubbish. The natives of Otaheite entertain similar notions respecting these things, viz. that brutes,... | |
| Edward Burnett Tylor - 1874 - 528 sider
...this doctrine, the Fiji people can show you a sort of natural well, or deep hole in the ground, atone of their islands, across the bottom of which runs...other pell-mell into the regions of immortality." A full generation later, the Rev. Thomas Williams, while remarking that the escape of brntes and lifeless... | |
| C. E. van Kesteren, R. A. van Sandick, J. E. de Meyier - 1884 - 896 sider
...find a situation on the plains of Bolotoo; and, to confirm this doctrine, the Fiji people can show you a sort of natural well, or deep hole in the ground,...the other pell-mell into the regions of immortality" *). Dit geloof moet oorspronkelijk algemeen zijn geweest, en hieruit laat zich de gewoonte verklaren... | |
| Edward Burnett Tylor - 1889 - 532 sider
...Fiji people can show you a sort of natural well, or deep hole in the ground, at one of their isknds, across the bottom of which runs a stream of water,...other pell-mell into the regions of immortality." A full generation later, the Rev. Thomas Williams, while remarking that the escape of brutes and lifeless... | |
| Thomas Firminger Thiselton Dyer - 1898 - 470 sider
...may clearly see the souls of men and women, beasts and plants, stocks and stones, canoes and horses, and of all the broken utensils of this frail world,...other, pell-mell, into the regions of immortality.' As it has been observed, animistic conceptions of this kind are no more irrational than the popular... | |
| Alfred Ernest Crawley - 1909 - 324 sider
...and to confirm this doctrine the Fiji people can show you a sort of natural 1 See above, pp. 9, 93. well, or deep hole in the ground, at one of their...other pell-mell into the regions of immortality." l In Fiji, as it has been phrased, " there is a heaven even for coco-nuts." 2 Returning to the soul... | |
| George Alexander Wilken - 1912 - 600 sider
...stones, canoes and houses, and of all the broken utensils of this frail world, swimming, or ralher tumbling along one over the other pell-mell into the regions of immortality" M1). Dit geloof moet oorspronkelijk algemeen zijn geweest, en hieruit laat zich de gewoonte verklaren,... | |
| James George Frazer - 1913 - 526 sider
...find a situation on the plains of Bolotoo ; and, to confirm this doctrine, the Fiji people can show you a sort of natural well, or deep hole in the ground,...viz. that brutes, plants, and stones exist hereafter, but it is not mentioned that they extend the idea to objects of human invention."1 According to one... | |
| Edward Burnett Tylor - 1920 - 524 sider
...at one of their islands, across the bottom of which runs a stream of water, in which you may dearly perceive the souls of men and women, beasts and plants,...other pell-mell into the regions of immortality.' A full generation later the Rev. Thomas Williams, while remarking that the escape of brutes and lifeless... | |
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