THE GOLDEN BOUGH. A STUDY IN MAGIC AND RELIGION. Part 5. Spirits Of The Corn And Of The Wild. Volume 2
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1919
English
- IX. Ancient Deities Of Vegetation As Animals. Part 1.
- IX. Ancient Deities Of Vegetation As Animals. Part 2.
- X. Eating The God. Part 1.
- X. Eating The God. Part 2.
- X. Eating The God. Part 3.
- XI. Sacrifice Of First Fruits.
- XII. Homoeopathic Magic Of A Flesh Diet.
- XIII. Killing The Devine Animal.
- XIV. Propitation Of Wild Animals By Hunters. Part 1.
- XIV. Propitation Of Wild Animals By Hunters. Part 2.
- XV. The Propitation Of Vermin By Farmers.
- XVI. The Transmigration Of Human Souls Into Animals.
- XVII. Types Of Animal Sacrament.
- NOTE. The Ceremony of the Horse at Rice-harvest among the Garos.
The eighth volume in The Golden Bough collection, and second volume of The Spirits of the Corn and of the Wild. The investigations into the superstitions and rituals to propitiate fertility in primitive agriculture are expanded further to cover the link between the belief in the dying and reviving gods to the transmutation of the souls of animals into crops. Frazer discusses his speculation of the evolution belief systems depending on the level of agricultural development between hunting, grazing, and farming, and the relics of totemism and taboo. Divine animals, Gods portrayed as and replenished from totem animals, rituals of hunting, gathering, harvesting, eating, and sacrifice, and special attention to man's relations with his favoured animals are addressed in depth. - Summary by Leon Harvey
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