The Life-Giving Myth

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Routledge, 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 Including mainly previously unpublished work by A.M. Hocart the book examines such issues as:
Why a queen should not have been married before; why a guest is sacred; why people are believed to have been turned into stone; how money originated.
These issues are considered as part of a socio-religious complex embraced in many parts of the world, both East and West. (There are chapters on the UK, India, Sri Lanka, Africa, Fiji, Egypt, and Ancient Greece).

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INTRODUCTION
6
CHAPTER I The Lifegiving Myth
9
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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