The evolution of religion : $b An anthropological studyFarnell, Lewis Richard
Religion
The evolution of religion : $b An anthropological study
Farnell, Lewis Richard
Prayer; Religions; Rites and ceremonies
[58.1] _Vide_ Herzog, _Real-Encycl._, xii. p. 319.
[58.2] _Vide_ Trede, _Das Heidenthum in der römischen Kirche_, vol. i.
p. 280, “Neue und alte Fest-Lust.”
[60.1] _Vide_ Frazer’s _Golden Bough, passim_, especially vol. ii. pp.
115-168 (death and resurrection in rites of Adonis, Attis, Osiris,
Dionysos), and vol. iii. pp. 138-200: _cf._ articles by Bernard Cook
in _Classical Review_, 1903, 1904, on “Zeus Jupiter and the Oak”: we
must distinguish between the simulated death of the divine effigy, and
the simulated or real death of the human representative of divinity.
In Hellenic religion we can trace the idea in the worship of Pan, in
the legends and ritual of Artemis-Iphigenia and Aphrodite, vide _Cults
of the Greek States_, vol. ii. pp. 440-442, 650-652, and in the Cretan
worship of Zeus, vol. i. pp. 36-38: but it had lost its vitality in
the purely Hellenic cults of the classical period, and was only real
and energetic in the legends and ritual of Adonis and Dionysos.
[61.1] _Vide_ Dio Chrys., vol. ii. p. 16 (Dindorf), and K. O. Müller’s
_Sardon und Sardanapal_ (_Kleine Schriften_, vol. ii. p. 100): on a
coin published in British Museum Catalogue, “Lycaonia,” etc., pl.
xxxiii. 2, p. 180, we see the god on his lion standing on what may be
his pyre.
[62.1] _Vide_ especially Hippol., _Ref. Haeres._ 5, p. 118 (Miller):
Macrob., _Saturn._ 1, 21, 7: Arnobius, _Adv. Gent._ 5, 7, 16; 7, 49:
Julian, _Or._ 5, 168 C.
[62.2] _De error._ c. 22.
[63.1] For the Greek origin of the Christian apocalyptical literature,
_vide_ Dieterich, _Beitrage zur Erklärung der neu-entdeckten Petrus
Apokalypse_, Leipzig, 1893. The clearest trace of Orphic influence on
historic Christianity is the doctrine of purgatory, which was
popularised for the later ages by Vergil’s VIth _Æneid_: _vide_
especially the purgatorial theory in Servius’ Commentary, _Æn._ vi.
741.
[65.1] _Hibbert Journal_, January 1904.
[66.1] Alexis in Stobæus, _Florileg._ (Meineke), vol. iii. p. 83.
[67.1] _Vide_ Herzog, _Real-Encycl._, _s.v._ “Montanismus”: _cf._ the
article there on “Maria” and the chapter in Trede, _op. cit._ vol.
ii., “Die grosse Mutter.”
[68.1] Euseb. _v. Const._, iii. 43, 2.
[69.1] Vide _Cults of the Greek States_, pp. 650-652.
[69.2] One of the Babylonian goddesses is addressed in the same hymn
as “Mother, wife, and maid,” Jastrow, _Relig. Babyl. Assyr._, p. 459.
[70.1] Vide _Cults of the Greek States_, vol. ii., Artemis, R 133:
_cf._ Paus. 8, 13, 1.
[70.2] I am treating this question in an appendix to the Cybele
chapter in vol. iii. of my _Cults_, etc.
[71.1] _E.g._ fragment of Naumachius in Stobæus, _op. cit._, vol.
iii. pp. 16-17.
[72.1] _Vide_ specially Trede, _Das Heidenthum in der römischen
Kirche_: Renan, _Les origines du christianisme_, vol. vii. 572-573.
The resemblances are particularly striking between the Catholic and
the Isiac sacerdotalism.
[72.2] Hæres., 79.
[72.3] Herod., 4, 33.
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