The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 1 of 2)
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The Golden A Study in Comparative Religion (retitled The Golden A Study in Magic and Religion in its second edition) is a wide-ranging, comparative study of mythology and religion, written by the Scottish anthropologist Sir James George Frazer (1854–1941). It was first published in two volumes in 1890; in three volumes in 1900; the third edition, published 1906–15, comprised twelve volumes. The work was aimed at a wide literate audience raised on tales as told in such publications as Thomas Bulfinch's The Age of Fable, or Stories of Gods and Heroes (1855). Frazer offered a modernist approach t...
Chapters (23)
- Dedication.
- Preface.
- Chapter I. The King Of The Wood.
- § 1.—The Arician Grove.
- § 2.—Primitive man and the supernatural.
- § 3.—Incarnate gods.
- § 4.—Tree-worship.
- § 5.—Tree-worship in antiquity.
- Chapter II. The Perils Of The Soul.
- § 1.—Royal and priestly taboos.
- § 2.—The nature of the soul.
- § 3.—Royal and priestly taboos (continued).
- Chapter III. Killing The God.
- § 1.—Killing the divine king.
- § 2.—Killing the tree-spirit.
- § 3.—Carrying out Death.
- § 4.—Adonis.
- § 5.—Attis.
- § 6.—Osiris.
- § 7.—Dionysus.
- § 8.—Demeter and Proserpine.
- § 9.—Lityerses.
- Footnotes
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