Other seemingly inexplicable phenomena also now lose your a mysterious character. I'm talking about beliefs, as expressed in the cult complex monsters, on the most impossible hybrids animals, shapes, half man, half animal. The theory of fetishism as a primary phenomenon, if even to admit its fair in other respects, does not a proper explanation in this case. For example, the estimated ancestral the desire to think about all the actions of natural forces as a sort of personal manifestations; assume further that hence might arise the cult of animals, plants and even inanimate objects; and still clear the obstruction will be that will appear thus the cult, limited visible or observed things, How that vision will make the savage to imagine a combination of bird and mammal, and not only to imagine it, and read it as God. If we even assume that such the illusion could be caused by a belief in such a creature as man and half fish, we cannot still explain the predominance of the Eastern peoples such, for example, the idols that depict people with bird heads or Petushki legs instead of human, or with the heads of elephants. But if we take with us the above provision, the emergence of these ideas and this kind of worship will be only the indispensable investigation. Because traditions keep the memory of the ancestors as one or the other line. Say, the man nicknamed "Wolf", takes from a neighboring tribe wife, who is mentioned under the name of the animal who gave its name tribe, just like a woman. And here it may happen that the son of such a couple differ itself anything; then the rumor about him among posterity will read he was born from wolf and some other animal or from the wolf, and women. A misunderstanding arose in the above manner, due to their poverty language, will give rise to a belief in a creature that combines the attributes of both entities; and if the tribe will grow into a community, the idea of this kind of the creature will become the object of worship. One of the cases given by Mr. Mac McLennan, may be given here in illustration: "the Legend of the origin dicationic Kyrgyz", according to their stories, "from a red Greyhound and one of sultans, who had forty servants, - a very ancient origin."
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Other seemingly inexplicable phenomena also now lose your
a mysterious character. I'm talking about beliefs, as expressed in the cult complex
monsters, on the most impossible hybrids animals, shapes, half
man, half animal. The theory of fetishism as a primary phenomenon,
if even to admit its fair in other respects, does not
a proper explanation in this case. For example, the estimated ancestral
the desire to think about all the actions of natural forces as a sort of personal
manifestations; assume further that hence might arise the cult of animals,
plants and even inanimate objects; and still clear the obstruction
will be that will appear thus the cult, limited
visible or observed things, How that vision will make
the savage to imagine a combination of bird and mammal, and not only
to imagine it, and read it as God. If we even assume that such
the illusion could be caused by a belief in such a creature as man and
half fish, we cannot still explain the predominance of the Eastern peoples
such, for example, the idols that depict people with bird heads or
Petushki legs instead of human, or with the heads of elephants.
But if we take with us the above provision, the emergence of
these ideas and this kind of worship will be only the indispensable
investigation. Because traditions keep the memory of the ancestors as one or the other
line. Say, the man nicknamed "Wolf", takes from a neighboring tribe
wife, who is mentioned under the name of the animal who gave its name
tribe, just like a woman. And here it may happen that the son of such a couple
differ itself anything; then the rumor about him among posterity will read
he was born from wolf and some other animal or from the wolf, and
women. A misunderstanding arose in the above manner, due to their poverty
language, will give rise to a belief in a creature that combines the attributes of both entities; and
if the tribe will grow into a community, the idea of this kind of
the creature will become the object of worship. One of the cases given by Mr.
Mac McLennan, may be given here in illustration: "the Legend of
the origin dicationic Kyrgyz", according to their stories, "from a red Greyhound and
one of sultans, who had forty servants, - a very ancient origin."
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