Аннотация:Soul is probably the most vital notion in any religion, though ideas about it vary greatly. The concept of soul accepted by a particular people helps to understand its world view as it encompasses several cultural layers at the same time. The greatest attention is usually paid to the processes happening with soul after death, though the special features of its lifetime existence are no less interesting. It was they that became our central research issue on the example of different North American Indian nations.
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