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... living things and in the organs that embodied those qualities : teeth equaled biting and tearing power , with their uncanny smoothness and white luster and their terrible destructive- ness to living beings ; feathers equaled the freedom ...
... living things and in the organs that embodied those qualities : teeth equaled biting and tearing power , with their uncanny smoothness and white luster and their terrible destructive- ness to living beings ; feathers equaled the freedom ...
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... living things adds visible life power to the stream of life ; the more living 102 ESCAPE FROM EVIL.
... living things adds visible life power to the stream of life ; the more living 102 ESCAPE FROM EVIL.
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... living sacrifices was to bring extravagant new life into being . The sacrifice was a means for establishing a communion with the invisible world , making a circle on the flow of power , a bridge over which it could pass . So , for ...
... living sacrifices was to bring extravagant new life into being . The sacrifice was a means for establishing a communion with the invisible world , making a circle on the flow of power , a bridge over which it could pass . So , for ...
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Ritual as Practical Technics | 6 |
Economics as Expiation | 26 |
The Origin of Inequality | 38 |
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