World MythologyCovers the myths and traditions, as well as social and cultural influences behind civilizations all around the world. |
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REINCARNATION OF THE HUMAN SOUL MYTHS AND STORIES surrounding personal names and human reincarnation are universal themes throughout the Arctic . The person consists of three souls ; the personal soul , the breath or free soul and the ...
REINCARNATION OF THE HUMAN SOUL MYTHS AND STORIES surrounding personal names and human reincarnation are universal themes throughout the Arctic . The person consists of three souls ; the personal soul , the breath or free soul and the ...
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Inuit believed that after death the personal soul travelled to either the Underworld , a place with an abundance of game animals and where the souls of dead kin and friends would be reunited , or to an upper world of eternal starvation ...
Inuit believed that after death the personal soul travelled to either the Underworld , a place with an abundance of game animals and where the souls of dead kin and friends would be reunited , or to an upper world of eternal starvation ...
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GUARDIAN SPIRIT Widely held belief in protecting spirits or angels , either an animal , the free soul of a sleeping person , or an ancestor . HEADS For some cultures heads contained the soul , and enemies were beheaded to take ...
GUARDIAN SPIRIT Widely held belief in protecting spirits or angels , either an animal , the free soul of a sleeping person , or an ancestor . HEADS For some cultures heads contained the soul , and enemies were beheaded to take ...
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