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... religion and even refer to ritual as the special language of religion , since the ultimate mysteries , cosmic and divine , that the high religions confront can only be obscured and mocked by words . But ritual pervades life : any act ...
... religion and even refer to ritual as the special language of religion , since the ultimate mysteries , cosmic and divine , that the high religions confront can only be obscured and mocked by words . But ritual pervades life : any act ...
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... religious holidays , the Sabbath spread from Babylon across the world , mainly through three religions ; Judaism ... religion before 600 B.C. combined these essential attributes , including transportability in small units and ...
... religious holidays , the Sabbath spread from Babylon across the world , mainly through three religions ; Judaism ... religion before 600 B.C. combined these essential attributes , including transportability in small units and ...
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... Religion . New York : 1948 . Malinowski's handling of magic , myth , and religion corrects the rationalist bias and lack of field experience of Frazer without condescension or gratuitous disparagement . Coral Gardens and Their Magic ...
... Religion . New York : 1948 . Malinowski's handling of magic , myth , and religion corrects the rationalist bias and lack of field experience of Frazer without condescension or gratuitous disparagement . Coral Gardens and Their Magic ...
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PROLOGUE | 3 |
THE MINDFULNESS OF MAN | 14 |
IN THE DREAMTIME LONG AGO | 48 |
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abstract achieved activities agriculture ancient animal anxiety Aurignacian became beginning Bertrand Gille brain Bronze Age bureaucracy Çatal Hüyük cave cave paintings century cities civilization collective command complex consciousness creature cultivation daily destruction divine domestication dream earliest economic effective effort Egypt Egyptian environment established esthetic evidence existence fact functions gods human machine hunter hunting images institution interpretation king kingship Kurt Goldstein labor language later Lower Egypt Magdalenian magic Marduk means megamachine ment merely mesolithic Mesopotamia military mind mode modern myth nature neolithic Oakes Ames observation once operations organization original paleolithic performed physical plants play possible practice primitive production pyramid of Djoser rational religion ritual sacred sacrifice Sargon of Akkad sexual significant social speech stone Sumer Sumerian survival symbolic technical thousand tion took tool-making traits turn village watermill weapons whole words York