The Golden Bough. A Study in Magic and Religion. Part 3. The Dying God
Gelesen von Leon Harvey
James Frazer
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The fourth volume in Frazer's seminal 12 volume set on anthropology and traditional systems of belief. With this third part of The Golden Bough we take up the question, why had the King of the Wood at Nemi regularly to perish by the hand of his successor? Topics investigated include the practice and intention of human sacrifice, the mortality of gods, the regular killing of divine kings and spirits, and the superstitions surrounding the succession of the soul. - Summary by Leon Harvey (9 hr 29 min)
Chapters
I. THE MORTALITY OF THE GODS. Mortality of Savage Gods, Mortality of Greek Gods…
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II. THE KILLING OF THE DIVINE KING. Part I. PREFERENCE FOR A VIOLENT DEATH. Hu…
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II. PART 2. KINGS KILLED WHEN THEIR STRENGTH FAILS. Divine kings put to death, …
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II PART 3. KINGS KILLED AT THE END OF A FIXED TERM. Suicide of the kings of Qui…
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II PART 4. Octennial Tenure of the Kingship, Spartan kings liable to be deposed…
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II PART 5. FUNERAL GAMES. Tradition of the funeral origin of the great Greek ga…
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III. THE SLAYING OF THE KING IN LEGEND. Story of Lancelot and the proffered kin…
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IV. THE SUPPLY OF KINGS. Traces in legend of a custom of compelling men to acce…
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V. TEMPORARY KINGS. Annual abdication of kings and their places temporarily fil…
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VI.SACRIFICE OF THE KING'S SON. Temporary kings sometimes related by blood to t…
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VII. SUCCESSION TO THE SOUL. Tendency of a custom of regicide to extinguish a r…
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VIII. PART 1. THE KILLING OF THE TREE SPIRIT. PART 1. The Whitsuntide Mummers. …
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VIII. PART 2. PART 5. Sawing the Old Woman,Sawing the Old Woman at Mid-Lent in …
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NOTE A Chinese Indifference to Death. NOTE B Swinging as a Magical Rite. ADDENDA
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