The Life-Giving MythRoutledge, 5 nov. 2013 - 256 pages Myths are the expression of a form of knowledge essential to life. Including mainly previously unpublished work by A.M. Hocart the book examines such issues as: |
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... merely a strange kind of fiction , but for all illiterate peoples , and many that are not illiterate , myths form the most important part of their traditions , not merely justifying and sanctifying all their rites and customs , but ...
... merely a strange kind of fiction , but for all illiterate peoples , and many that are not illiterate , myths form the most important part of their traditions , not merely justifying and sanctifying all their rites and customs , but ...
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... merely similar , but is the same ritual . He reverts to this fact here and also shows that the ritual of initiation is the same in North America and Central Australia , that the sister's son has the same strange ritual functions in ...
... merely similar , but is the same ritual . He reverts to this fact here and also shows that the ritual of initiation is the same in North America and Central Australia , that the sister's son has the same strange ritual functions in ...
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... mere theatricals , that it was still part of the national ritual , and that the myths were enacted not merely to amuse , but because the religion demanded it . This connection of drama with religion is now generally known , but it is ...
... mere theatricals , that it was still part of the national ritual , and that the myths were enacted not merely to amuse , but because the religion demanded it . This connection of drama with religion is now generally known , but it is ...
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... merely for poets , we shall no more look to the Ramayana or the Vishnu Purana than we should to Milton's Paradise Lost or Morris's Earthly Paradise . We shall turn rather from the Sanskrit which was a dead language to that Sanskrit ...
... merely for poets , we shall no more look to the Ramayana or the Vishnu Purana than we should to Milton's Paradise Lost or Morris's Earthly Paradise . We shall turn rather from the Sanskrit which was a dead language to that Sanskrit ...
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... merely repeated the actions of other sacrificers before him . Thus one of the highest sacraments consists in setting up a mound , or altar , which represents the world . The sacrificer by the ritual recreates the earth , but he ...
... merely repeated the actions of other sacrificers before him . Thus one of the highest sacraments consists in setting up a mound , or altar , which represents the world . The sacrificer by the ritual recreates the earth , but he ...
Table des matières
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CHAPTER II Flying Through the Air | 28 |
CHAPTER III Turning Into Stone | 33 |
CHAPTER IV The Common Sense of Myth | 39 |
CHAPTER V The Purpose of Ritual | 46 |
CHAPTER VI Ritual and Emotion | 53 |
CHAPTER VII The Origin of Monotheism | 66 |
CHAPTER XVIII Baptism by Fire | 156 |
CHAPTER XIX Initiation and Manhood | 160 |
CHAPTER XX Initiation and Healing | 164 |
CHAPTER XXI Tattooing and Healing | 169 |
CHAPTER XXII Kinship Systems | 173 |
CHAPTER XXIII BloodBrotherhood | 185 |
CHAPTER XXIV Covenants | 190 |
CHAPTER XXV The Uterine Nephew | 195 |
CHAPTER IX Yakshas and Vaddas | 87 |
CHAPTER X Money | 97 |
CHAPTER XI Modern Critique | 105 |
CHAPTER XII In the Grip of Tradition | 117 |
CHAPTER XIII Snobbery | 129 |
CHAPTER XIV Chastity | 139 |
CHAPTER XV Saviours | 143 |
CHAPTER XVI The AgeLimit | 149 |
CHAPTER XVII Childhood Ceremonies | 153 |
CHAPTER XXVI Why Study Savages? | 199 |
CHAPTER XXVII Are Savages Custombound? | 205 |
CHAPTER XXVIII From Ancient to Modern Egypt | 208 |
CHAPTER XXIX India and the Pacific | 234 |
CHAPTER XXX Decadence in India | 240 |
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 249 |
Index | 251 |
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age-limit Amun ancient Ancient Egypt Azande baptism become believe Bhairava Brahmanic brother Buddhist called caste century ceremony Ceylon CHAPTER chief Christian civilisation common consecration covenant cross-cousin cult culture custom dead deity demons divine kingship E. E. Evans-Pritchard earth Egypt Egyptian emotion evidence existence explain fact father Fiji Fijian Fire-walking give gods Greek guest Hako idea India Indra initiation Islam island Jetavanarama Kambara king king's kinship system Lakemba language legends life-giving living male marry Maruts means merely modern monotheism mother's myth mythopeic nations nature never offering organisation origin priests primitive prosperity reason religion represents Rigveda rite ritual Rotuma royal rule sacred marriage sacrifice Sanskrit savages side Sinhalese snobbery social Soma specialised spirit stone stranger tama tattooing tell theory things tion told trace tradition tribe Väddas Vedic village Viti Levu Vritra word worship Yakshas