...of an animal or man whom he regards as divine. By eating the body of the god he shares in the god's attributes and powers. And when the god is a corn-god,...his blood ; and so by eating the bread and drinking. 1 Magyar, Reitm in Siid-Afrika in daijahrea 1849-1857, pp. 273-276. * Casalis, The Basutos, p. 257...

...To quote Mr. Frazer, the savage believes that ' by eating the body of the god he shares in the god's attributes and powers; and when the god is a corn-god,...blood of his god. Thus the drinking of wine in the rite of a vine-god, like Dionysus, is not an act of revelry; it is a solemn sacrament.' 1 Experience...

...wine drinks the blood, and so receives into himself the soul or spirit of the god of the vine." l " By eating the bread and drinking the wine, the worshipper...body and blood of his god. Thus the drinking of wine at the rites of a vine-god like Dionysus is not an act of revelry, it is a solemn sacrament." 2 Those...

...human or animal form," and says, " by eating the body of the god [the worshipper] shares in the god's attributes and powers. And when the god is a corngod,...is a vine-god, the juice of the grape is his blood. . . . Thus the drinking of wine 1 "The family belief [in Australia] is that some one individual of...

...that it is divine, and with the expectation of sharing thereby in the god's attributes and powers. " When the god is a corn-god, the corn is his proper...worshipper partakes of the real body and blood of the god." 1 The corn and wine were the transmuted elements of the vegetation-god's body. Herbert Spencer...

...powers; and when the god is a eorn-god, the eorn is his proper body; when he is a vine-god, the juiee of the grape is his blood; and so, by eating the bread...blood of his god. Thus the drinking of wine in the rite of a vine-god, like Dionysus, is not an aet of revelry; it is a solemn saerament.'2 Experienee...