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The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 2 of 2)

Name: The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 2 of 2)
Author: James George Frazer

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The concluding volume of Frazer's first edition expands the investigation into dying and reviving gods, fire festivals, and scapegoat rituals. This volume explores the death and resurrection myths of vegetation deities across cultures, examining figures like Osiris, Adonis, Attis, and Dionysus. Frazer analyzes European fire festivals, harvest customs, and the practice of ritual sacrifice including human sacrifice and the scapegoat. The work culminates in returning to the mystery of the King of the Wood at Nemi, proposing that this priest-king embodied the dying god who must be slain to ensure nature's renewal.

Also known asFrazer's Golden Bough · Magical Origins

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EditionFirst edition, Volume 2 of 2

Comparative ReligionComparative MythologyAnthropology of ReligionMythologyEuropean folklorevegetation deitiesfire festival ceremoniesAnthropologysympathetic magicvegetation magicFolklore Studiessocial anthropologyFolklorepurification ritualsWestern Anthropological / FolkloreAnthropological analysis

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Comparative Religion

Comparative religion texts on ritual, myth, sacrifice, belief, ancient religion, and cross-cultural theories of sacred practice.

Comparative Mythology

Comparative mythology texts on gods, hero cycles, symbolic patterns, classical myth, Indo-European myth, and cross-cultural mythic structures.

Folklore Studies

Folklore studies texts on folk tales, fairy belief, superstition, regional customs, oral tradition, and the collection of vernacular belief.

Anthropology of Religion

Anthropological texts on ritual, animism, totemism, taboo, early religion, culture, and theories of belief formation.

Contents28 chapters

01Contents
02Chapter III—(continued).
03§ 10.—The corn-spirit as an animal.
04§ 11.—Eating the god.
05§ 12.—Killing the divine animal.
06§ 13.—Transference of evil.
07§ 14.—Expulsion of evils,
08§ 15.—Scapegoats.
09§ 16.—Killing the god in Mexico.
10Chapter IV—The Golden Bough.
11§ 1.—Between heaven and earth.
12§ 2.—Balder.
13§ 3.—The external soul in folk-tales.
14§ 4.—The external soul in folk-custom.
15§ 5.—Conclusion.
16Note. Offerings of first-fruits.
17Index.
18Footnotes
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