Volume 2

Primitive culture : researches into the development of mythology, philosophy, religion, language, art and custom / by Edward B. Tylor.

  • Tylor, Edward B. (Edward Burnett), 1832-1917.
Date:
1903
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Primitive culture : researches into the development of mythology, philosophy, religion, language, art and custom / by Edward B. Tylor. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CONTENTS OF THE SECOND VOLUME. CHAPTER XII. ANIMISM (continued). PAGE Doctrine of Soul’s Existence after Death ; its main divisions, Trans¬ migration 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 if not universal doctrine of low races—Continued exist¬ ence, rather than Immortality ; second death of Soul—Ghost of Dead remains on earth, especially if corpse unburied ; its attach¬ ment to bodily remains—Feasts of the Dead . . . . 1 CHAPTER XIII. ANIMISM (continued). 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 the Regions of Souls—Localization of the Future Life—Distant earthly region : Earthly Paradise, Isles of the Blest—Subterranean Hades or Sheol —Sun, Moon, Stars—Heaven—Historical course of belief as to such localization—Nature of Future Life—Continuance-theory, appar¬ ently original, belongs especially to the lower races—Transitional theories—Retribution-theory, apparently derived, belongs especially to the higher races—Doctrine of Moral Retribution as developed in the higher culture—Survey of Doctrine of Future State, from savage to civilized stages—Its practical effect on the sentiment and conduct of Mankind . . . ... 44