About the Tasmanians Dr. Milligan says: "the Names of men and women borrowed them from natural objects and incidents, such as kangaroos, gutta-percha tree, snow, hail, thunder, wind, and also from the names of colors, etc.". Therefore, the surrounding objects give rise to a personal name and later through the above, taken wrongly themselves the ancestors of those who descended from the persons named in this way; is that these surrounding objects begin to ascribe a certain kind of personal properties similar to a human. The one who according to family legend, the ancestor of was "the Crab," will conceive of a crab in the form of beings hidden inner power like his own; belief in the origin from the "Palm tree" will generate the belief that the palm tree nest a certain kind of consciousness. Hence, as animals, plants and inanimate objects or forces that lent its name to different persons, will become more and more numerous, that will occur simultaneously with the the tribal expansion and multiplication of individuals requiring differences from each other, with this and many surrounding objects will acquire an imaginary private properties until it will finally boil down to the fact that according to Mr. Mac McLennan on the Fijians: "Plants and stones, and even all kinds of tools and armor, pots, and boats have their soul, which is immortal and like the soul of man, comes under the end Mbulu - the usual refuge of a shower left the body." So, therefore, if belief in the afterlife the second "I" that belonged to the deceased ancestor, the above total the provision on false images leads us further absolutely clear the interpretation of the origin of the phenomena of fetishism; we are able to understand how he aspires to become a General and even universal world view.
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About the Tasmanians
Dr. Milligan says: "the Names of men and women borrowed them from
natural objects and incidents, such as kangaroos, gutta-percha
tree, snow, hail, thunder, wind, and also from the names of colors, etc.".
Therefore, the surrounding objects give rise to a personal name and later
through the above, taken wrongly themselves the ancestors of those who
descended from the persons named in this way; is that
these surrounding objects begin to ascribe a certain kind of personal
properties similar to a human. The one who according to family legend, the ancestor of
was "the Crab," will conceive of a crab in the form of beings
hidden inner power like his own; belief in the origin
from the "Palm tree" will generate the belief that the palm tree nest
a certain kind of consciousness. Hence, as animals, plants and
inanimate objects or forces that lent its name to different persons, will
become more and more numerous, that will occur simultaneously with the
the tribal expansion and multiplication of individuals requiring differences from each other,
with this and many surrounding objects will acquire an imaginary
private properties until it will finally boil down to the fact that according to Mr.
Mac McLennan on the Fijians: "Plants and stones, and even all kinds of tools and
armor, pots, and boats have their soul, which is immortal and
like the soul of man, comes under the end Mbulu - the usual refuge of a shower
left the body." So, therefore, if belief in the afterlife
the second "I" that belonged to the deceased ancestor, the above total
the provision on false images leads us further absolutely clear
the interpretation of the origin of the phenomena of fetishism; we are able to understand
how he aspires to become a General and even universal world view.
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