The Natural Genesis: Or, Second Part of A Book of the Beginnings, Containing an Attempt to Recover and Reconstitute the Lost Origines of the Myths and Mysteries, Types and Symbols, Religion and Language, with Egypt for the Mouthpiece and Africa as the Birthplace, Volume 1Williams and Norgate, 1883 |
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... Indians as nations united " under the influence of the Bear - tooth , " yet they were totally ignorant of each other's spoken language , and when two individuals of different nations wished to converse they did so freely by the language ...
... Indians as nations united " under the influence of the Bear - tooth , " yet they were totally ignorant of each other's spoken language , and when two individuals of different nations wished to converse they did so freely by the language ...
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... Indians of Guiana say that when the body decays in death the " Man in the eyes will not die , " the image reflected by the eye being emblematic of the shadow or soul . The Nootkas of Nootka Sound were found , by Lord , to be in ...
... Indians of Guiana say that when the body decays in death the " Man in the eyes will not die , " the image reflected by the eye being emblematic of the shadow or soul . The Nootkas of Nootka Sound were found , by Lord , to be in ...
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... Indian sign is made above the face . In making the signs for day , morning , noon , to - morrow , or yester- day , the subject must face the south with his back to the north , and right hand to the west . This attitude shows the Sabean ...
... Indian sign is made above the face . In making the signs for day , morning , noon , to - morrow , or yester- day , the subject must face the south with his back to the north , and right hand to the west . This attitude shows the Sabean ...
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... Indian signs . The lower , hinder part , and the left hand are feminine in the quarters north and west . The Indian sign for the female ( squaw ) is made by passing the flat extended hands with fingers joined down the sides of the head ...
... Indian signs . The lower , hinder part , and the left hand are feminine in the quarters north and west . The Indian sign for the female ( squaw ) is made by passing the flat extended hands with fingers joined down the sides of the head ...
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... Indian representations of death include a downward movement of the hand outstretched with the palm upward . The hand is lowered gradually with a wave - like motion . In another sign the palm of the hand is placed at a short distance ...
... Indian representations of death include a downward movement of the hand outstretched with the palm upward . The hand is lowered gradually with a wave - like motion . In another sign the palm of the hand is placed at a short distance ...
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