Man and His Destiny in the Great Religions: An Historical and Comparative Study Containing the Wilde Lectures in Natural and Comparative Religion Delivered in the University of Oxford, 1954-1957 |
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... probably to gain power over the animal so mimed , or to propitiate its spirit after being slain by the huntsmen of the tribe ; other scholars have gone further in their speculations and have claimed to see in it what might aptly be ...
... probably to gain power over the animal so mimed , or to propitiate its spirit after being slain by the huntsmen of the tribe ; other scholars have gone further in their speculations and have claimed to see in it what might aptly be ...
Page 117
... probably ' neck ' or ' throat ' , whence by easy transition of imagery came the idea of the ' vital breath ' , somewhat after the manner of the Latin ' anima'.1 Association of ideas clearly worked to produce a variety of derivative ...
... probably ' neck ' or ' throat ' , whence by easy transition of imagery came the idea of the ' vital breath ' , somewhat after the manner of the Latin ' anima'.1 Association of ideas clearly worked to produce a variety of derivative ...
Page 121
... probably even beneath the waters of the great deep upon which the whole world is thought to rest . This abode of the dead is 1 Cf. von Rad , Formgesch . Problem , pp . 2 , 60 ; Brandon , pp . 76-82 . 2 Cf. J. Hempel in Record and ...
... probably even beneath the waters of the great deep upon which the whole world is thought to rest . This abode of the dead is 1 Cf. von Rad , Formgesch . Problem , pp . 2 , 60 ; Brandon , pp . 76-82 . 2 Cf. J. Hempel in Record and ...
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¹ Cf Accordingly Ahriman Ahura Mazdah Allah ancient Anthropologie religieuse appears ātman belief body Brandon Buddhist Buddhist Thought burial Chinese Christian concept concerned cult culture dead death deity divine doctrine Duchesne-Guillemin earth Egypt Egyptian Enkidu Enûma elish Epic of Gilgamesh Erman eschatology essential evidence evil existence expression fact faith fate funerary Gilgamesh gods gospel Granet Greek Hebrew Heidel human destiny human nature idea immortality Indian individual interpretation Iranian Israel Jesus Jewish living logic Lord magical man's mankind Mercer Mesopotamian Mithra moral mortuary Muḥammad namely nature and destiny Nilsson Numen Ohrmazd Oldenberg original Osiris Palaeolithic passage Paul philosophy post-mortem primitive Pyramid Texts Reallexikon regarded Religion represented resurrection Rig-Veda rites ritual S. G. F. Brandon seems significance Söderblom soteriology soul Speleers suggests Sumerian surely thou tion tomb tradition trans Upanisad Vedic Weltanschauung Widengren Yahweh Yahwist Yasna Zaehner Zarathustra Zeus Zoroastre Zurvan