The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion

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Springer, 2016. febr. 19. - 756 oldal
Sir James George Frazer originally set out to discover the origins of one ancient custom in Classical Rome - the plucking of the Golden Bough from a tree in the sacred grove of Diana, and the murderous succession of the priesthood there - and was led by his invetigations into a twenty-five year study of primitive customs, superstitions, magic and myth throughout the world. The monumental thirteen-volume work which resulted has been a rich source of anthropological material and a literary masterpiece for more than half a century. Both the wealth of his illustrative material and the broad sweep of his argument can be appreciated in this very readable single volume.

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THE KING OF THE WOOD
1
PRIESTLY KINGS
9
Homoeopathic or Imitative Magic
33
MAGIC And ReligioN
48
MAGICIANS AS KINGS
83
INCARNATE HUMAN GODS
91
DEPARtmental Kings of Nature
106
Beneficent Powers of Treespirits
117
THE CORNMOTHER and the CORNMAIDEN IN NORTHERN PAGE 384
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THE CORNMOTHER IN Many Lands 1 The Cornmother in America
412
The Ricemother in the East Indies
413
The Spirit of the Corn embodied in Human Beings
419
The Double Personification of the Corn as Mother and Daughter
420
LITYERSES 1 Songs of the Cornreapers
424
Killing the Cornspirit
425
Human Sacrifices for the Crops
431

THE INFLUENCE OF THE SEXES ON VEGETATION
135
THE KINGS OF ROME AND ALBA
146
THE SUCCESSION TO THE KINGDOM IN ANCIENT LATIUM
152
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155
THE WORSHIP OF THE
159
THE BURDEN OF ROYALTY
168
THE PERILS OF THE SOUL
178
TABOOED ACTS
194
Chiefs and Kings tabooed
202
Warriors tabooed
210
Hunters and Fishers tabooed
216
The Meaning of Taboo
223
The Head tabooed
230
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237
OUR DEBT TO THE SAVAGE
262
THE Killing of the Divine KING 1 The Mortality of the Gods
264
Kings killed when their Strength fails
265
3 Kings killed at the End of a Fixed Term
274
TEMPORARY KINGS
283
SACRIFICE OF THE KINGS
289
SUCCESSION TO THE SOUL
293
THE KILLING OF THE TREESPIRIT 1 The Whitsuntide Muminers
296
Burying the Carnival
301
Carrying out Death 4 Bringing in Summer 5 Battle of Summer and Winter 262
307
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317
Death and Revival of Vegetation
318
Analogous Rites in India
319
The Magic Spring
320
THE MYTH OF ADONIS
324
ADONIS IN SYRIA
327
ADONIS IN CYPRUS
329
XXXII THE RITUAL OF ADONIS
335
THE GARDENS OF ADONIS
341
THE MYTH AND RITUAL OF ATTIS
347
ATTIS AS A GOD OF VEGETATION
352
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353
ORIENTAL RELIGIONS IN THE WEST
356
THE MYTH OF OSIRIS
362
THE RITUAL OF OSIRIS 1 The Popular Rites
368
The Official Rites
373
THE NATURE OF OSIRIS 1 Osiris a Corngod
377
Osiris a Treespirit
380
OSIRIS AND THE
384
DIONYSUS
385
DEMETER and PERSEPHONE
393
The Cornspirit slain in his Human Representatives
438
THE CORNSPIRIT AS AN ANIMAL 1 Animal Embodiments of the Cornspirit
447
The Cornspirit as a Wolf or a
448
The Cornspirit as a Cock
450
The Cornspirit as a Hare
452
The Cornspirit as a
453
The Cornspirit as a Goat
454
The Cornspirit as a Bull Cow or
457
The Cornspirit as a Horse or Mare
459
The Cornspirit as a Pig Boar or Sow
460
On the Animal Embodiments of the Cornspirit
462
ANCIENT Deities of VEGETATION AS ANIMALS 1 Dionysus the Goat and the Bull
464
Demeter the Pig and the Horse
469
3 Attis Adonis and the
471
Osiris the Pig and the Bull
472
Virbius and the Horse
476
EATING the God 1 The Sacrament of Firstfruits
479
Eating the God among the Aztecs
488
Many Manii at Aricia
491
HOMOEOPATHIC MAGIC OF A FLESH DIET
494
KILLING THE GOD IN MEXICO
587
THE FIREFESTIVALS OF EUROPE
609
THE BURNING OF HUMAN BEINGS IN THE FIRES
650
BALDER AND THE MISTLETOE
658
THE EXTERNAL SOUL IN FOLKTALES
667
THE EXTERNAL SOUL IN FOLKCUSTOM
679
THE GOLDEN BOUGH
701
FAREWELL TO NEMI
711
353
717
399
718
356
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412
722
413
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464
724
472
726
476
730
488
736
491
737
362
739
380
740
ISIS
742
381
753
382
754
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SIR JAMES GEORGE FRAZER (1854-1941) was one of the arly pioneers in the sociological study of religion. He began his career as a classicist but it is for his work in social anthropology that he is best remembered. His most famous work, The Golden Bough first appeared in 1890 in a two-volume edition but was twice revised and expanded, the third edition appearing in twelve volumes in 1911-15. Frazer's other works include Psyche's Task, Totemism and Exogamy, The Belief in Immortality and The Worship of the Dead and Folklore in the Old Testament.

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