The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 05 of 12)
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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 (54)
- Preface to the First Edition.
- Preface to the Second Edition.
- Preface to the Third Edition.
- Book First. Adonis.
- Chapter I. The Myth of Adonis.
- Chapter II. Adonis in Syria.
- Chapter III. Adonis in Cyprus.
- Chapter IV. Sacred Men and Women.
- § 1. An Alternative Theory.
- § 2. Sacred Women in India.
- § 3. Sacred Men and Women in West Africa.
- § 4. Sacred Women in Western Asia.
- § 5. Sacred Men in Western Asia.
- § 6. Sons of God.
- § 7. Reincarnation of the Dead.
- § 8. Sacred Stocks and Stones among the Semites.
- Chapter V. The Burning of Melcarth.
- Chapter VI. The Burning of Sandan.
- § 1. The Baal of Tarsus.
- § 2. The God of Ibreez.
- § 3. Sandan of Tarsus.
- § 4. The Gods of Boghaz-Keui.
- § 5. Sandan and Baal at Tarsus.
- § 6. Priestly Kings of Olba.
- § 7. The God of the Corycian Cave.
- § 8. Cilician Goddesses.
- § 9. The Burning of Cilician Gods.
- Chapter VII. Sardanapalus and Hercules.
- § 1. The Burning of Sardanapalus.
- § 2. The Burning of Croesus.
- § 3. Purification by Fire.
- § 4. The Divinity of Lydian Kings.
- § 5. Hittite Gods at Tarsus and Sardes.
- § 6. The Resurrection of Tylon.
- Chapter VIII. Volcanic Religion.
- § 1. The Burning of a God.
- § 2. The Volcanic Region of Cappadocia.
- § 3. Fire-Worship in Cappadocia.
- § 4. The Burnt Land of Lydia.
- § 5. The Earthquake God.
- § 6. The Worship of Mephitic Vapours.
- § 7. The Worship of Hot Springs.
- § 8. The Worship of Volcanoes in other Lands.
- Chapter IX. The Ritual of Adonis.
- Chapter X. The Gardens of Adonis.
- Book Second. Attis.
- Chapter I. The Myth and Ritual of Attis.
- Chapter II. Attis As a God of Vegetation.
- Chapter III. Attis As The Father God.
- Chapter IV. Human Representatives of Attis.
- Chapter V. The Hanged God.
- Chapter VI. Oriental Religions in the West.
- Chapter VII. Hyacinth.
- Footnotes
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