An Introduction to the History of ReligionMethuen, 1902 - 443 sider |
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... killing him in its inexorable and ruthless movement . Further , primitive man cannot decline to submit himself to the perilous test : he must make his experiments or perish , and even so his survival is conditional on his selecting the ...
... killing him in its inexorable and ruthless movement . Further , primitive man cannot decline to submit himself to the perilous test : he must make his experiments or perish , and even so his survival is conditional on his selecting the ...
Side 39
... kill the sentiment of the supernatural , but , on the contrary , lives on it and perverts it to its own uses , so there are few religions which succeed in entirely uprooting the belief in magic from the minds of the most backward ...
... kill the sentiment of the supernatural , but , on the contrary , lives on it and perverts it to its own uses , so there are few religions which succeed in entirely uprooting the belief in magic from the minds of the most backward ...
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... kills them , as moss kills off grass or ivy strangles the tree . The taboo laid on young mothers is extended to all women ; hence the separation of man and wife ( " I have scarcely ever seen anything like social intercourse between ...
... kills them , as moss kills off grass or ivy strangles the tree . The taboo laid on young mothers is extended to all women ; hence the separation of man and wife ( " I have scarcely ever seen anything like social intercourse between ...
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... kill some one of his clan . Thus the individual's only safety was in the help and protection of the clan to which he belonged outside that circle he was helpless and alone . In fine , the only type of friendship known to man , in this ...
... kill some one of his clan . Thus the individual's only safety was in the help and protection of the clan to which he belonged outside that circle he was helpless and alone . In fine , the only type of friendship known to man , in this ...
Side 100
... killing a bear , they try to persuade him to fall a willing sacrifice , by explaining to him at length the exalted and flattering uses to which his flesh , fat , and pelt will be put.3 The Arabs in the same way must apologise to an ...
... killing a bear , they try to persuade him to fall a willing sacrifice , by explaining to him at length the exalted and flattering uses to which his flesh , fat , and pelt will be put.3 The Arabs in the same way must apologise to an ...
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A. C. Benson altar amongst ancestor ancestor-worship ancient Athenian Bastian become belief blood ceremony chapter civilised clan clansmen Cloth communion consciousness Crown 8vo cult custom dead death deceased deity Demeter Demy 8vo Dionysus divine E. V. LUCAS Egypt Eleusinian Eleusis Ellis evolution existence explanation fact Fcap feast fetish flesh Frazer goddess gods Greece Greek H. C. BEECHING human Iacchus Ibid idea idol Illustrated Indians individual inference king leather Little Library magic maize man's meal Mensch METHUEN'S monotheism moral mysteries myth natural offered original Persephone person plant Polynesia polytheism Pott 8vo priest primitive reason religion religious rites ritual Robertson Smith sacramental sacred sacrifice savage Second Edition Semites soul species spirit stage stone supernatural supernatural powers Supra survival sympathetic magic taboo theory thiasus things taboo Third Edition tion totem animal tree tribe Tshi-speaking unclean victim worship Zagreus Zeus καὶ
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