They even switch race and gender, to emphasise Mr Mitchell's conceit that souls transmigrate through the generations.
From the economist.com
Unlike other Eastern traditions, the soul is not thought to transmigrate into other species and does not evolve but rather devolves birth after birth.
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I suppose the filmmakers want us to believe human souls transmigrate from generation to generation, sometimes into good people and sometimes into evil ones.
From the charlotteobserver.com
Hence a soul may transmigrate from one life form to another for countless of years, taking with it the karmas that it has earned, until it finds conditions that bring about the fruits.
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Hence a soul may transmigrate from one life form to another for countless of years, taking with it the karma that it has earned, until it finds conditions that bring about the required fruits.
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Reincarnate: be born anew in another body after death; "Hindus believe that we transmigrate"
Migrate: move from one country or region to another and settle there; "Many Germans migrated to South America in the mid-19th century"; "This tribe transmigrated many times over the centuries"
(transmigration) the passing of a soul into another body after death
Reincarnation is believed to occur when the soul or spirit, after the death of the body, comes back to Earth in a newborn body. This phenomenon is also known as transmigration of the soul.
(Transmigration (novel)) Transmigration is a science fiction book written in 1970 by J. T. McIntosh.
(Transmigration) the mass resettlement of people within a country to alleviate overcrowding or localized overpopulation.
(transmigration) In Asian religions, the idea that, at death, beings migrate or pass from one body or form of being to another.