Mature
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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Publish dateOct 17, 2018
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1I. The King of the Wood
36XXXVI. Human Representatives of Attis
2II. Priestly Kings
37XXXVII. Oriental Religions in the West
3III. Sympathetic Magic
38XXXVIII. The Myth of Osiris
4IV. Magic and Religion
39XXXIX. The Ritual of Osiris
5V. The Magical Control of the Weather
40XL. The Nature of Osiris
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6VI. Magicians as Kings
41XLI. Isis
7VII. Incarnate Human Gods
42XLII. Osiris and the Sun
8VIII. Departmental Kings of Nature
43XLIII. Dionysus
9IX. The Worship of Trees
44XLIV. Demeter and Persephone
10X. Relics of Tree Worship in Modern Europe
45XLV. The Corn-Mother and the Corn-Maiden in Northern Europe
11XI. The Influence of the Sexes on Vegetation
46XLVI. The Corn-Mother in Many Lands
12XII. The Sacred Marriage
47XLVII. Lityerses
13XIII. The Kings of Rome and Alba
48XLVIII. The Corn-Spirit as an Animal
14XIV. The Succession to the Kingdom in Ancient Latium
49XLIX. Ancient Deities of Vegetation as Animals
15XV. The Worship of the Oak
50L. Eating the God
16XVI. Dianus and Diana
51LI. Homeopathic Magic of a Flesh Diet
17XVII. The Burden of Royalty
52LII. Killing the Divine Animal
18XVIII. The Perils of the Soul
53LIII. The Propitiation of Wild Animals By Hunters
19XIX. Tabooed Acts
54LIV. Types of Animal Sacrament
20XX. Tabooed Persons
55LV. The Transference of Evil
21XXI. Tabooed Things
56LVI. The Public Expulsion of Evils
22XXII. Tabooed Words
57LVII. Public Scapegoats
23XXIII. Our Debt to the Savage
58LVIII. Human Scapegoats in Classical Antiquity
24XXIV. The Killing of the Divine King
59LIX. Killing the God in Mexico
25XXV. Temporary Kings
60LX. Between Heaven and Earth
26XXVI. Sacrifice of the King’s Son
61LXI. The Myth of Balder
27XXVII. Succession to the Soul
62LXII. The Fire-Festivals of Europe
28XXVIII. The Killing of the Tree-Spirit
63LXIII. The Interpretation of the Fire-Festivals
29XXIX. The Myth of Adonis
64LXIV. The Burning of Human Beings in the Fires
30XXX. Adonis in Syria
65LXV. Balder and the Mistletoe
31XXXI. Adonis in Cyprus
66LXVI. The External Soul in Folk-Tales
32XXXII. The Ritual of Adonis
67LXVII. The External Soul in Folk-Custom
33XXXIII. The Gardens of Adonis
68LXVIII. The Golden Bough
34XXXIV. The Myth and Ritual of Attis
69LXIX. Farewell to Nemi
35XXXV. Attis as a God of Vegetation
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