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MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED
NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1900
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CONTENTS
CHAPTER III
KILLING THE GOD, pp. 1-448
§ 1. Killing the Divine King, pp. 1-59.-The high gods mortal, pp. 1-5;
human gods also mortal and therefore put to death in their prime, before
decay sets in, p. 5 sq.; common men for the same reason prefer a violent
death, pp. 6-8; the Chitomé, the Ethiopian kings of Meroe, and other
African kings and chiefs put to death, especially on any symptom of bodily
decay, pp. 8-13; in South India kings kill themselves after reign of twelve
years, p. 14 sq.; mitigation of this rule in case of king of Calicut, p. 15;
kings regularly succeeded by their murderers in Bengal, Passier in
Sumatra, and among the old Slavs, pp. 15-17; substitutes put to death
for Sultan of Java, p. 17 sq.; Dorian kings liable to be deposed every eight
years, on sign of falling star, p. 18 sq.; falling stars feared, pp. 19-21,
regarded as souls of dead, pp. 21-23; mock king put to death every year
at Babylonian festival of the Sacaea, probably as a substitute for the real
king, pp. 24-26; king of Ngoio killed after reign of one day, p. 26; in
Cambodia and Siam king abdicates annually and is replaced for a short
time by a temporary king, pp. 26-30; temporary king at the beginning of
each reign, p. 30 sq.; these temporary kings perform magical functions and
sometimes belong to the royal stock, pp. 31-34; members of royal families
liable to be sacrificed at Alus and Orchomenus in Greece, pp. 34-38;
kings and also common people sacrifice their children among the Semites,
pp. 38-40; references to the custom in Scripture, pp. 40-43; probably
the victims were the firstborn, pp. 43-47; this confirmed by tradition of
origin of Passover, pp. 47-50% children, especially the firstborn, sacrificed
by other peoples besides the Semites, pp. 51-55; thus king probably
allowed to sacrifice first his son and afterwards a criminal instead of him-
self, p. 55 sq.; soul of deceased transmitted to successor, pp. 56-59.
2. Killing the Tree-spirit, pp. 59-70.-King of the Wood probably killed formerly at end of set term, p. 59 sq.; pretence of killing leaf-clad repre- sentatives of tree-spirit (the Pfingstl, the Wild Man, the King) every year