The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 06 of 12)Frazer, James George
Religion
The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 06 of 12)
Frazer, James George
Magic; Mythology; Religion; Superstition
“Great burnings” for kings of Judah, i. 177 _sq._
—— Marriage, annual festival of the dead among the Oraons of Bengal, ii.
59
—— men, history not to be explained without the influence of, i. 311 _n._
2;
great religious systems founded by, ii. 159 _sq._;
their influence on the popular imagination, 199
—— Mother, popularity of her worship in the Roman empire, i. 298 _sq._
—— religious systems founded by individual great men, ii. 159 _sq._;
religious ideals a product of the male imagination, 211
Greece, date of the corn-reaping in, i. 232 _n._;
modern, marriage customs in, ii. 245 _sq._
Greek belief in serpents as reincarnations of the dead, i. 86 _sq._
—— Church, ceremonies on Good Friday in the, i. 254
—— feast of All Souls in May, ii. 78 _n._ 1
—— gods, discrimination of their characters, i. 119
—— mythology, Adonis in, i. 10 _sqq._
—— notion as to birth from trees and rocks, i. 107 _n._ 1;
of the noxious influence of moonshine on children, ii. 148
—— purification for homicide, i. 299 _n._ 2
—— use of music in religion, i. 54 _sq._
—— writers on the worship of Adonis, i. 223 _sq._
Gregory IV. and the feast of All Saints, ii. 83
Grenfell, B. P., and A. S. Hunt on corn-stuffed effigies of Osiris, ii. 90
_sq._
Grimm, Jacob, on hide-measured lands, ii. 250
Grotto of the Sibyl, at Marsala, i. 247
Growth and decay of all things associated with the waxing and waning of
the moon, ii. 132 _sqq._, 140 _sqq._
Guarayos Indians of Bolivia, their presentation of children to the moon,
ii. 145
Guardian spirits in the form of animals, i. 83;
in serpents, 83, 86
Guaycurus of Brazil, men dressed as women among the, ii. 254 _n._ 2
Guevo Upas, the Valley of Poison, in Java, i. 203 _sq._
Gujrat District, Punjaub, i. 94
Gurdon, Major P. R. T., on the Khasis of Assam, ii. 202, 203 _n._ 1, 210
_n._ 1
Gwanya, a worshipful dead chief, ii. 177
Gyges, king of Lydia, dedicates double-headed axe to Zeus, i. 182
Gynaecocracy a dream, ii. 211
Hadad, chief male deity of the Syrians, i. 15, 16 _n._ 1;
Syrian god of thunder and fertility, 163
Hadadrimmon, i. 164 _n._ 1;
the mourning of or for, 15 _n._ 4
Haddon, A. C., on worship of animal-shaped heroes, i. 139 _n._ 1
Hadrian, human sacrifice suppressed in reign of, i. 146
Hair, sacrifice of women’s, i. 38;
offered to goddess of volcano, 218;
of head shaved in mourning for dead gods, 225;
to be cut when the moon is waxing, ii. 133 _sq._
Halasarna in Cos, rites of Apollo and
Hercules at, ii. 259
Halfdan, the Black, King of Norway, dismembered after death, ii. 100
Halicarnassus, worship of Pergaean Artemis at, i. 35 _n._ 2
Hall of the Two Truths, the judgment hall in the other world, ii. 13
Halmahera, the Galelareese of, i. 220
Hamaspathmaedaya, old Iranian festival of the dead, ii. 67
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