The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead Volume II
Excerpt: ...the island, holding converse with the dead, and even visiting the spirit-world. It was thus that the islanders, like so many other savages, explained the phenomena of dreams. We are told that some of the most important events in their national history were determined by dreams. 40 Again, they explained sneezing as the return of the soul to the body after a temporary absence. Hence in Rarotonga, when a person sneezes, the bystanders exclaim, as though addressing his spirit, Ha! you have come back! 41 Pg 230 How exactly the Hervey Islanders pictured to themselves the nature of the human soul, appears not to be recorded. Probably the…
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- ISBN: 978-1-153-65803-4
- EAN: 9781153658034
- Produktnummer: 14786901
- Verlag: Books LLC, Reference Series
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 184 S.
- Masse: H24.6 cm x B18.9 cm x D1.0 cm 368 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 368
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