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... early features of religion occur mainly in Greece after the Homeric age . It has been suggested , for example , by Mr. Walter Leaf , that Homer's people , the Achæans , were free from all such ideas as Totemism , worship of the dead ...
... early features of religion occur mainly in Greece after the Homeric age . It has been suggested , for example , by Mr. Walter Leaf , that Homer's people , the Achæans , were free from all such ideas as Totemism , worship of the dead ...
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... DIVINING ROD . HOTTENTOT MYTHOLOGY FETICHISM AND THE INFINITE THE EARLY HISTORY OF THE FAMILY . THE ART OF SAVAGES INDEX . PAGE I ΙΟ 29 45 64 87 103 121 143 156 180 197 212 245 276 305 CUSTOM AND MYTH . INTRODUCTION . THOUGH SOME of the.
... DIVINING ROD . HOTTENTOT MYTHOLOGY FETICHISM AND THE INFINITE THE EARLY HISTORY OF THE FAMILY . THE ART OF SAVAGES INDEX . PAGE I ΙΟ 29 45 64 87 103 121 143 156 180 197 212 245 276 305 CUSTOM AND MYTH . INTRODUCTION . THOUGH SOME of the.
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... Early History of the Family , ' ' The Divining Rod , ' and Star Myths , ' ' The Kalevala , ' and ' Fetichism . ' A few sentences in ' The Bull - Roarer , ' and ' Hot- tentot Mythology , ' appeared in essays in the Satur- day Review ...
... Early History of the Family , ' ' The Divining Rod , ' and Star Myths , ' ' The Kalevala , ' and ' Fetichism . ' A few sentences in ' The Bull - Roarer , ' and ' Hot- tentot Mythology , ' appeared in essays in the Satur- day Review ...
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... early pottery , for example , so closely alike everywhere that , in the British Museum , Mexican vases have , ere now , been mixed up on the same shelf with archaic vessels from Greece . In the same way , if a superstition or a riddle ...
... early pottery , for example , so closely alike everywhere that , in the British Museum , Mexican vases have , ere now , been mixed up on the same shelf with archaic vessels from Greece . In the same way , if a superstition or a riddle ...
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... early , and the kitchen cooly was doubtless cutting firewood in good time . E responded , in a tone of slight contempt , that no one could be cutting firewood at that hour , and the sounds were more suggestive of felling jungle ; and he ...
... early , and the kitchen cooly was doubtless cutting firewood in good time . E responded , in a tone of slight contempt , that no one could be cutting firewood at that hour , and the sounds were more suggestive of felling jungle ; and he ...
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