The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 06 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 (42)
- Chapter I. The Myth Of Osiris.
- Chapter II. The Official Egyptian Calendar.
- Chapter III. The Calendar of the Egyptian Farmer.
- § 1. The Rise and Fall of the Nile.
- § 2. Rites of Irrigation.
- § 3. Rites of Sowing.
- § 4. Rites of Harvest.
- Chapter IV. The Official Festivals of Osiris.
- § 1. The Festival at Sais.
- § 2. Feasts of All Souls.
- § 3. The Festival in the Month of Athyr.
- § 4. The Festival in the Month of Khoiak.
- § 5. The Resurrection of Osiris.
- § 6. Readjustment of Egyptian Festivals.
- Chapter V. The Nature of Osiris.
- § 1. Osiris a Corn-God.
- § 2. Osiris a Tree-Spirit.
- § 3. Osiris a God of Fertility.
- § 4. Osiris a God of the Dead.
- Chapter VI. Isis.
- Chapter VII. Osiris and the Sun.
- Chapter VIII. Osiris and the Moon.
- Chapter IX. The Doctrine of Lunar Sympathy.
- Chapter X. The King As Osiris.
- Chapter XI. The Origin of Osiris.
- Chapter XII. Mother-Kin And Mother Goddesses.
- § 1. Dying Gods and Mourning Goddesses.
- § 2. Influence of Mother-Kin on Religion.
- § 3. Mother-Kin and Mother Goddesses in the Ancient East.
- Notes.
- I. Moloch The King.
- II. The Widowed Flamen.
- § 1. The Pollution of Death.
- § 2. The Marriage of the Roman Gods.
- § 3. Children of Living Parents in Ritual.
- III. A Charm To Protect a Town.
- IV. Some Customs Of The Pelew Islanders.
- § 1. Priests dressed as Women.
- § 2. Prostitution of Unmarried Girls.
- § 3. Custom of slaying Chiefs.
- Index.
- Footnotes
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