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Man, God, and magic / Ivar Lissner ; translated from the German by J. Maxwell Brownjohn.
Author
Lissner, Ivar, 1909-1967
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Uniform title
Aber Gott war da.
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
New York : Putnam, [1961]
Description
344 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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Firestone Library - Stacks
GN470.L69
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Civilization, Ancient
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Evenki (Asian people)
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Anthropology
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Prehistoric peoples
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Translator
Brownjohn, John
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Summary note
Scholarly study of the prevalence of monotheism among primitive peoples, ancient and modern, presented by a German anthropologist.
Notes
Translation of Aber Gott war da.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-332).
Contents
Spirituality is life
The problem of our time
Man 600,000 years ago
No more primitive than ourselves
Early man in America
Never a time without history
The origin of American Indians
American Indians and the supreme being
The death of the Yaghan
The Alacaluf: earliest of all Americans
The Selknam and their god Temaukl
Paleo-Asiatics and Tungus
The Taiga
The wolf has an "evil heart"
The Tungus: a dying race
The Tungus' original home
The bear knows all
An offering of bears' skulls
God and worship seventy thousand years ago
Cro-Magnon man
Handprints, statuettes, wands and religious art
The Gilyaks
The bear festival
Sorcery, magic and religious cults
Animism
The shaman's secret
Shamanism twenty thousand years ago
Alfred Rust's great discovery
Reindeer sacrifice in 16,000 B.C.
Man: the unsolved mystery
The second beam of the cross.
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LCCN
61005698
OCLC
387887
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