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By Sergei Aleksandrovich Tokarev
Sergei Aleksandrovich Tokarev was once born in Tula on 29 December 1899. He graduated with honors from Tula grammar college and entered Moscow collage. instantly after the revolution, stipulations in Moscow in 1918 have been harmful and hard, and Tokarev went again to the obvious protection of his domestic province of Tula. He taught Russian and Latin in neighborhood faculties for 4 years. Tokarev lower back to Moscow collage in 1922, the place he started social and ancient stories. He got a country scholarship, and supplemented his source of revenue by means of giving deepest classes. In 1924 he bought a role as a bibliographer on the crucial Library.
After graduating on 25 June 1925, Tokarev utilized to proceed learn within the university's graduate Institute of background. He submitted a thesis on "totemic society", a fully-fledged paintings of study. His software was once supported by means of a brief yet very flattering advice from Viacheslav Petrovich Volgin. accredited in November 1925, Tokarev used to be enrolled within the Institute in January 1926, becoming a member of what later grew to become the ethnology section.
In the spring of 1926 Tokarev awarded a record on Australian totemism. within the 1926/1927 educational 12 months he ready a document on Melanesian religions and gave a conversation on Australian kinship structures. In June 1927 Tokarev awarded a record at the fiscal constitution of English Manors within the thirteenth to fifteenth centuries. In 1927/1928 Tokarev again to the Melanesian subject matter with a record at the social procedure of those humans. His post-graduate education used to be accomplished in 1929, even supposing formally he didn't graduate until eventually 1 January 1930
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Not every spirit is an object of fear or worship. The spirits of ordinary people are not worshipped, and there is no related cult. Animistic beliefs are also rooted in male secret soci eties. These are secret sorcerer societies that practise some types of black and medicinal magic. Members of the society dress up in fearsome costumes and masks, pretend ing to be spirits, frighten the uninitiated as they extort from them "money" (shell strings) and other valuables. In some parts of Melanesia there are "village", that is, open Suqe societies, one of the most important public institutions (they are related to religious notions only in directly: the members of the higher Suqe ranks are regar ded as people possessing especially strong Mana) .
Subsequently the misswnaries tried to make a divinity out of it and even used its name in translat ing Christian texts as the name of God. The focus of most myths was Torno, the first ancestor. He was also a culture hero who taught his descendants all the crafts and various skills. Vedda is a small hunting tribe that lives in the mountains of the interior part of Sri Lanka and a small group, on the island's northeastern coast. For many centuries the Yedda lived near more advanced neighbours-the Singhalese and, in the northeast, near the Tamils.
This motif was a peculiar mythological interpretation of the earth's surface. The main gods born of the alliance between Sky and Land were Rongo, the male personification of the moon; Tane, the god of the sun, trees and birds. Maui, a culture hero, was born of the alliance between Tane and Hina, the female personification of the moon. Another major god was Tangaroa, the personification of the sea and fish. And there was Tu, the god of war and at the same time the creator of man. He gave rise to the first man, Tiki, the forefather of the Maori people.