Prevalence of symbolism, mana, animism, magic, fetishism, totemism; the taboo (cf. our modern idea of 'principle'), the sacred, clean and unclean; 'dream logic'—spontaneous rationalizing or 'jumping at conclusions';... The 16th book of the Theodosian Code contains edicts relating to the ...
...Muller conceives that this belief in universally distributed personality (the word 'Animism' is not very clear) was the result of an historical necessity—not ofspeculation, but of language. 'Roots were all, or nearly all, expressive of action. . . . Hence a river could only be called...
Culture, behaviour peculiar to Homo sapiens, together with material objects used as an integral part of this behaviour. Thus, culture includes language, ideas, beliefs, customs, codes, institutions, tools, techniques, works of art, rituals, and ceremonie