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The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life

Note 813 — Chapter VIII · THE IDEA OF THE SOUL

Joseph Ward Swain translation

Ibid., p. 81. This is the word for word translation of the terms employed, as Strehlow gives them: Dies du Körper bist; dies du der nämliche. In the myth, a civilizing hero, Mangarkunjerkunja, says as he presents to each man the churinga of his ancestor: "You are born of this churinga" (ibid., p. 76).

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