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... humanity is one main source of divine legends and of theogonies - The process of the generation and development of gods can be witnessed in India - Mythology developes into polytheism out of the mystery of death , out of wonder at the ...
... humanity is one main source of divine legends and of theogonies - The process of the generation and development of gods can be witnessed in India - Mythology developes into polytheism out of the mystery of death , out of wonder at the ...
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... human victims , and upon those who would not either sacrifice or make offering -looking down upon such a religious chaos , throughout a vast region never subdued or levelled ( like all Western Asia ) by Mahomedan or Christian monotheism ...
... human victims , and upon those who would not either sacrifice or make offering -looking down upon such a religious chaos , throughout a vast region never subdued or levelled ( like all Western Asia ) by Mahomedan or Christian monotheism ...
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... human beings , is so obvious in its primitive reason , and so common throughout India , that it needs no detailed ... humanity ; and the terror spread abroad by such a pest become wholly preternatural has led to the institution of a ...
... human beings , is so obvious in its primitive reason , and so common throughout India , that it needs no detailed ... humanity ; and the terror spread abroad by such a pest become wholly preternatural has led to the institution of a ...
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... human ways , soon rises to be an elfin king of the monkey tribe , next becomes a powerful genius , and latterly emerges into the full glory of divine Avatar , surrounded by the most extravagant fables to explain away the simian head and ...
... human ways , soon rises to be an elfin king of the monkey tribe , next becomes a powerful genius , and latterly emerges into the full glory of divine Avatar , surrounded by the most extravagant fables to explain away the simian head and ...
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... human occult power . The idea which suggests fear and ( con- sequently ) worship of Spiritual beings invisible , without form , name , or specific substantiality , is , I suppose , deeper and more abstract . It pervades the whole ...
... human occult power . The idea which suggests fear and ( con- sequently ) worship of Spiritual beings invisible , without form , name , or specific substantiality , is , I suppose , deeper and more abstract . It pervades the whole ...
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Page 23 - ... both supernatural ; in the next generation the names of the elder gods get introduced into the story, and so the marvellous tradition works itself into a myth, until nothing but a personal incarnation can account for such a series of prodigies. The man was an Avatar of Vishnu or Siva ; his supreme apotheosis is now complete, and the Brahmans feel warranted in providing for him a niche in the orthodox Pantheon.
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