The Golden Bough A Study in Magic and Religion
By James George Frazer
Length42h 20m
About this audiobook
James George Frazer attempted to define the shared elements of religious belief and scientific thought, discussing fertility rites, human sacrifice, the dying god, the scapegoat, and many other symbols and practices whose influences had extended into 20th-century culture. His thesis is that old religions were fertility cults that revolved around the worship and periodic sacrifice of a sacred king. Frazer proposed that mankind progresses from magic through religious belief to scientific thought. (Excerpt from Wikipedia)
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GenreLiterary Classics
Length42 hrs 20 mins
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FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateOct 17, 2018
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1I. The King of the Wood
2II. Priestly Kings
3III. Sympathetic Magic
4IV. Magic and Religion
5V. The Magical Control of the Weather
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6VI. Magicians as Kings
7VII. Incarnate Human Gods
8VIII. Departmental Kings of Nature
9IX. The Worship of Trees
10X. Relics of Tree Worship in Modern Europe
11XI. The Influence of the Sexes on Vegetation
12XII. The Sacred Marriage
13XIII. The Kings of Rome and Alba
14XIV. The Succession to the Kingdom in Ancient Latium
15XV. The Worship of the Oak
16XVI. Dianus and Diana
17XVII. The Burden of Royalty
18XVIII. The Perils of the Soul
19XIX. Tabooed Acts
20XX. Tabooed Persons
21XXI. Tabooed Things
22XXII. Tabooed Words
23XXIII. Our Debt to the Savage
24XXIV. The Killing of the Divine King
25XXV. Temporary Kings
26XXVI. Sacrifice of the King’s Son
27XXVII. Succession to the Soul
28XXVIII. The Killing of the Tree-Spirit
29XXIX. The Myth of Adonis
30XXX. Adonis in Syria
31XXXI. Adonis in Cyprus
32XXXII. The Ritual of Adonis
33XXXIII. The Gardens of Adonis
34XXXIV. The Myth and Ritual of Attis
35XXXV. Attis as a God of Vegetation
36XXXVI. Human Representatives of Attis
37XXXVII. Oriental Religions in the West
38XXXVIII. The Myth of Osiris
39XXXIX. The Ritual of Osiris
40XL. The Nature of Osiris
41XLI. Isis
42XLII. Osiris and the Sun
43XLIII. Dionysus
44XLIV. Demeter and Persephone
45XLV. The Corn-Mother and the Corn-Maiden in Northern Europe
46XLVI. The Corn-Mother in Many Lands
47XLVII. Lityerses
48XLVIII. The Corn-Spirit as an Animal
49XLIX. Ancient Deities of Vegetation as Animals
50L. Eating the God
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