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Document Type: | Book |
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James George Frazer |
ISBN: | 9781482088274 1482088274 |
OCLC Number: | 995047900 |
Description: | 439 pages ; 28 cm |
Contents: | Ch. 1. The king of the wood -- Ch. 2. Priestly kings -- Ch. 3. Sympathetic magic -- Ch. 4. Magic and religion -- Ch. 5. The magical control of the weather -- Ch. 6. Magicians as kings -- Ch. 7. Incarnate human gods -- Ch. 8. Departmental kings of nature -- Ch. 9. The worship of trees -- Ch. 10. Relics of tree worship in modern Europe -- Ch. 11. The influence of the sexes on vegetation -- Ch. 12. The sacret marriage -- Ch. 13. The kings of Rome and Alba -- Ch. 14. Succession to the kingdom in ancient Latium -- Ch. 15. The worship of the oak -- Ch. 16. Dianus and Diana -- Ch. 17. The burden of royalty -- Ch. 18. The perils of the oul -- Ch. 19. Tabooed acts -- Ch. 20. Tabooed persons -- Ch. 21. Tabooed things -- Ch. 22. Tabooed words -- Ch. 23. Our debt to the savage -- Ch. 24. The killing of the divine king -- Ch. 25. Temporary kings -- Ch. 26. Sacrifice of the king's son -- Ch. 27. Succession to the soul -- Ch. 28. The killing of the tree-spirit -- Ch. 29. The myth of Adonis -- Ch. 30. Adonis in Syria -- Ch. 31. Adonis in Cyprus -- Ch. 32. The ritual of Adonis -- Ch. 33. The gardens of Adonis -- Ch. 34. The myth and ritual of Attis -- Ch. 35. Attis as a god of vegetation -- Ch. 36. Human representatives of Attis -- Ch. 37. Oriental religions in the West -- Ch. 38. The ritual of Osiris -- Ch. 40. The nature of Osiris -- Ch. 41. Isis -- Ch. 42. Osiris and the sun -- Ch. 43. Dionysus -- Ch. 44. Demeter and Persephone -- Ch. 45. Corn-mother and corn-maiden in N. Europe -- Ch. 46. Corn-mother in many lands -- Ch. 47. Lityerses -- Ch. 48. The corn-spirit as an animal -- Ch. 49. Ancient deities of vegetation as animals -- Ch. 50. Eating the god -- Ch. 51. Homeopathic magic of a flesh diet -- Ch. 52. Killing the divine animal -- Ch. 53. The propitiation of wild animals by hunters -- Ch. 54. Types of animal sacrament -- Ch. 55. The transference of evil -- Ch. 56. The public expulsion of evils -- Ch. 57. Public scapegoates -- Ch. 58. Human scapegoates in classical antiquity -- Ch. 59. Killing the god in Mexico -- Ch. 60. Between heaven and earth -- Ch. 61. The myth of balder -- Ch. 62. The fire-festivals of Europe -- Ch. 63. The interpreetation of the fire-festivals -- Ch. 64. The burning of human being in the fires -- Ch. 65. Balder and the mistletoe -- Ch. 66. The external soul in folk-tales -- Ch. 67. The external soul in folk-custom -- Ch. 68. The golden bough -- Ch. 69. Farewell to Nemi. |
Responsibility: | by James George Frazer. |
Abstract:
Frazer's groundbreaking study of myth and magic was among the first works of trans-historical anthropology, examining the world-wide beliefs in magic held by ancient peoples, and illuminating the ancient practices of nature worship, the myths of the dying god, and the divine sacrifice of kings.
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