PRIMITIVE CULTURE.
RESEARCHES INTO THE DEVELOPMENT OF MYTHOLOGY, PHILOSOPHY,
RELIGION, ART, AND CUSTOM.
BY
EDWARD B. TYLOR,
AUTHOR OF "RESEARCHES INTO THE EARLY HISTORY OF MANKIND," &C.
"Ce n'est pas dans les possibilités, c'est dans l'homme même qu'il faut étudier l'homme: il ne s'agit pas d'imaginer ce qu'il aurait pu ou dû faire, mais de regarder ce qu'il fait."
— De Brosses.
IN TWO VOLUMES.
VOL. II.
LONDON:
JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET.
1871.
(Rights of Translation and Reproduction reserved.)
CONTENTS
OF THE SECOND VOLUME.
CHAPTER XII.
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Doctrine of Soul's Existence after Death; its main divisions, Transmigration and Future Life — Transmigration of Souls: re-birth in Human and
Animal Bodies, transference to Plants and Objects — Resurrection of
Body scarcely held in savage religion — Future Life: a general though not universal doctrine of low races — Continued existence, rather than
Immortality; second death of Soul — Ghost of Dead remains on earth, especially if corpse unburied; its attachment to bodily remains — Feasts of the Dead … 1
CHAPTER XIII.
Journey of the Soul to the Land of the Dead — Visits by the Living to the
Regions of Departed Souls — Connexion of such legends with myths of
Sunset: the Land of the Dead thus imagined as in the West — Realization of current religious ideas, whether of savage or civilized theology, in narratives of visits to t…