The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 08 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 (30)
- Chapter IX. Ancient Deities of Vegetation as Animals.
- § 1. Dionysus, the Goat and the Bull.
- § 2. Demeter, the Pig and the Horse.
- § 3. Attis, Adonis, and the Pig.
- § 4. Osiris, the Pig and the Bull.
- § 5. Virbius and the Horse.
- Chapter X. Eating The God.
- § 1. The Sacrament of First-Fruits.
- § 2. Eating the God among the Aztecs.
- § 3. Many Manii at Aricia.
- Chapter XI. The Sacrifice of First-Fruits.
- Chapter XII. Homoeopathic Magic of a Flesh Diet.
- Chapter XIII. Killing The Divine Animal.
- § 1. Killing the Sacred Buzzard.
- § 2. Killing the Sacred Ram.
- § 3. Killing the Sacred Serpent.
- § 4. Killing the Sacred Turtles.
- § 5. Killing the Sacred Bear.
- Chapter XIV. The Propitiation of Wild Animals by Hunters.
- Chapter XV. The Propitiation of Vermin by Farmers.
- § 1. The Enemies of the Crops.
- § 2. Mouse Apollo and Wolf Apollo.
- Chapter XVI. The Transmigration of Human Souls Into Animals.
- Chapter XVII. Types of Animal Sacrament.
- § 1. The Egyptian and the Aino Types of Sacrament.
- § 2. Processions with Sacred Animals.
- § 3. The Rites of Plough Monday.
- Note: The Ceremony of the Horse at Rice-Harvest Among The Garos.
- Index.
- Footnotes
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