 | Constable and co, ltd - 1827 - 722 sider
...artificial bodies have equal good luck with men, hogs and yams. If an axe or a chisel is worn out, away flies its soul for the service of the gods. If a house is taken down, its immortal part will find a situation on the plains of Bolotoo. And, to confirm this doctrine, the... | |
 | William Mariner - 1827 - 366 sider
...artificial bodies have equal good luck with men, hogs and yams. If an axe or a chisel is worn out, away flies its soul for the service of the gods. If a house is taken down, its immortal part will find a situation on the plains of Bolotoo. And, to confirm this doctrine, the... | |
 | Walter Lawry - 1850 - 164 sider
...bodies have equal good luck with men, and hogs, and yams. If an axe or chisel is worn out or broken, away flies its soul for the service of the gods. If a house is taken down, or in any way destroyed, its immortal part finds a situation in the plains of Bulu. As a confirmation... | |
 | Walter Lawry - 1850 - 330 sider
...bodies have equal good luck with men, and hogs, and yams. If an axe or chisel is worn out or broken, away flies its soul for the service of the gods. If a house is taken down, or in any way destroyed, its immortal part finds a situation in the plains of Bulu. As a confirmation... | |
 | 1852 - 950 sider
...with life whatever has to do with the affairs of this -world. Thus the Fijians believe that if an axe or a chisel is worn out or broken up, away flies its soul for the service of the gods. Again, a belief common to the Greeks and the Germans was that the progenitors of mankind were born... | |
 | 1872 - 810 sider
...other contemporary savages, when questioned, expressly declare that this is their belief. " If an axe or a chisel is worn out or broken up, away flies its soul for the service of the gods." The Algonquins told Charlevoix that since hatchets and kettles have shadows, no less than men and women,... | |
 | George French Angas - 1866 - 500 sider
...a plant die, its soul goes at once to " bulu." If an axe or chisel is worn out or broken, away goes its soul for the service of the gods. If a house is taken down or destroyed, its immortal part finds a situation on the plains of " bulu." As a confirmation of this... | |
 | John Fiske - 1873 - 268 sider
...other contemporary savages, when questioned, expressly declare that this is their belief. " If an axe or a chisel is worn out or broken up, away flies its soul for the service of the gods'." The Algonquins told Charlevoix that since hatchets and kettles have shadows, no less than men and women,... | |
 | Edward Burnett Tylor - 1874 - 528 sider
...good luck with men, and hogs, and yams. If an axe or a chisel is worn out or broken up, away flics its soul for the service of the gods. If a house is...and, to confirm 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... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - 1875 - 646 sider
...its reward ; nay, artificial bodies have equal ' good luck with men, and hogs, and yams. If an axe ' or a chisel is worn out or broken up,, away flies...will find ' a situation on the plains of Bolotoo.' The Finns believed that all inanimate objects had their ' haltia,' or soul.4 Sproat,5 speaking of NW... | |
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If an animal or a plant die, its soul immediately goes to Bolotoo; if a stone or any other substance is broken, immortality is equally its reward; nay, artificial bodies have equal good luck with men, and hogs, and yams. If an axe or a chisel is worn... 
