{"collection":"Shamanism - Sacred Texts Collection","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_sha_anim_anim13_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_sha_anim_anim13_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_sha_anim_anim13_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/sha/anim/anim13.htm","summary":"THE continuance of the human soul's life is conditioned in various ways in different regions and stages of culture. Some tribes assign to souls a definite number of Post-mortem lives, which number may, however, have stood for indefinite continuance, being the tradition remaining from an earlier stage when ability to count above a small aggregate was uncommon. Thus Dyaks allot to the soul seven lives, after which it is annihilated.[1]Or continuance may be not the common fate, only that of a\u2026","tags":[],"text":null,"title":"Animism: Chapter XI. Modifications of the Idea of Continuance","tradition":"Shamanism - Sacred Texts Collection","translated_text":null,"word_count":1415}