 ... those who still think and speak mythologically, who are, in fact, at the present moment what the Hindus were before the collection of their sacred hymns, and the Greeks long before the days of Homer ? To find ourselves among a people who really believe...  Myths and Songs from the South Pacific - Página vipor William Wyatt Gill - 1876 - 328 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | 1876 - 594 páginas
...ourselves," he remarks, " among a people who really believe in gods and heroes and ancestral spirits, who still offer human sacrifices, who, in some cases,...waving ferns of the forests buried beneath our feet." What renders Mr. Gill's book peculiarly valuable is, that it is the record of what he saw of a religion... | |
 | University magazine - 1876 - 814 páginas
...? To find ourselves among a people who really believe in gods and heroes and ancestral spirits, who still offer human sacrifices, who in some cases devour...our feet. So much is written just now, and has been during the last fifty years, on human archaeology, on the growth and progress of the intellect, on... | |
 | 1876 - 612 páginas
...? To find ourselves among a people who really believe in gods and heroes and ancestral spirits, who still offer human sacrifices, who in some cases devour...waving ferns of the forests, buried beneath our feet.' It will make Professor Max Miiller's preface more acceptable tr> some readers, and less to others,... | |
 | 1876 - 814 páginas
...Homer? To find ourselves among a people who really believe in gods and heroes and ancestral spirits, who still offer human sacrifices, who in some cases devour...among the Megatheria, or the botanist among the waving terns of the forests, buried beneath our feet.' It will make Professor Max Müller's preface more acceptable... | |
 | 1876 - 618 páginas
...? To find ourselves among a people who really believe in gods and heroes and ancestral spirits, who still offer human sacrifices, who in some cases devour...if the zoologist could spend a few days among the Mcgatheria, or the botanist among the waving ferns of the forests, buried beneath our feet.' It will... | |
 | 1876 - 612 páginas
...? To find ourselves among a people who really believe in gods and heroes and ancestral spirits, who still offer human sacrifices, who in some cases devour...the flesh of animals on their altars, trusting that tho scent will be sweet to the nostrils of their gods, is as if the zoologist could spend a few days... | |
 | 1876 - 804 páginas
...'.' To find ourselves among a people who really believe in gods and heroes and ancestral spirits, who still offer human sacrifices, who in some cases devour their human victims, or, at all events, burn the tlesh of animals on their altars, trusting that the scent will be sweet to the nostrils of their gods,... | |
 | 1876 - 638 páginas
...? To find ourselves among a people who really believe in gods and heroes and ancestral spirits, who still offer human sacrifices, who in some cases devour their human victims, or, ixt all events, burn the flesh of animals on their altars, trusting that the scent will be sweet to... | |
 | Guthrie, Katherine Blanche - 1877 - 330 páginas
...gods, and * Professor Max Miiller. heroes, and ancestral spirits, who still offer human sacrifices, or, at all events, burn the flesh of animals on their altars, trusting that the scent will be pleasant in the nostrils of their gods" (in this case it was the odour of blood), " is as if the zoologist... | |
 | F. Max Muller - 1893 - 380 páginas
...Homer? To find ourselves among a people who really believe in gods and heroes and ancestral spirits, who still offer human sacrifices, who in some cases devour...animals on their altars, trusting that the scent will he sweet to the nostrils of their gods, is as if the zoologist could spend a few days among the megatheria,... | |
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