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
Ramsay, Sir W. M., on rock-hewn sculptures at Boghaz-Keui, i. 134 _n._ 1,
137 _n._ 4;
on priest-dynasts of Asia Minor, 140 _n._ 2;
on the god Tark, 147 _n._ 3;
on the name Olba, 148 _n._ 1;
on _Hierapolis_ and _Hieropolis_, 168 _n._ 2;
on Attis and Men, 284 _n._ 5;
on cruel death of the human representative of a god in Phrygia, 285
_sq._
Raoul-Rochette on Asiatic deities with lions, i. 138 _n._;
on the burning of doves to Adonis, 147 _n._ 1;
on apotheosis by death in the fire, 180 _n._ 1
Ratumaimbulu, Fijian god of fruit-trees, i. 90
Readjustment of Egyptian festivals, ii. 91 _sqq._
Reapers, Egyptian, their lamentations, i. 232, ii. 45;
invoke Isis, 117
Rebirth of infants, means taken to ensure the, i. 91, 93 _sqq._;
of the dead, precautions taken to prevent, 92 _sq._;
of Egyptian kings at the Sed festival, ii. 153, 155 _sq._
Red the colour of Lower Egypt, ii. 21 _n._ 1
—— -haired men burnt by Egyptians, ii. 97, 106
Reform, the prophetic, in Israel, i. 24 _sq._
Reformations of Hezekiah and Josiah, i. 25
Rehoboam, King, his family, i. 51 _n._ 2
Reincarnation of the dead, i. 82 _sqq._;
in America, 91;
in Australia, 99 _sqq._
Rekub-el, Syrian god, i. 16
Relations, spirits of near dead, worshipped, i. 175, 176;
at death become gods, ii. 180
Religion, volcanic, i. 188 _sqq._;
how influenced by mother-kin, ii. 202 _sqq._
—— and magic, combination of, i. 4;
and music, 53 _sq._
Religious ideals a product of the male imagination, ii. 211
—— systems, great permanent, founded by great men, ii. 159 _sq._
Remission of sins through the shedding of blood, i. 299
Remus, the birth of, ii. 235
Renan, E., on Tammuz and Adonis, i. 6 _n._ 1;
his excavations at Byblus, 14 _n._ 1;
on Adom-melech, 17;
on the vale of the Adonis, 29 _n._;
on the burnings for the kings of Judah, 178 _n._ 1;
on the discoloration of the river Adonis, 225 _n._ 4;
on the worship of Adonis, 235
Renouf, Sir P. le Page, on Osiris as the sun, ii. 126
Resemblance of the rites of Adonis to the festival of Easter, i. 254
_sqq._, 306
Resemblances of paganism to Christianity explained as diabolic
counterfeits, i. 302, 309 _sq._
Reshef, Semitic god, i. 16 _n._ 1
Resurrection of the dead conceived on the pattern of the resurrection of
Osiris, ii. 15 _sq._
—— of Attis at the vernal equinox, i. 272 _sq._, 307 _sq._
—— of Hercules (Melcarth), i. 111 _sq._
—— of Osiris dramatically represented in his rites, ii. 85;
depicted on the monuments, 89 _sq._;
date of its celebration at Rome, 95 _n._ 1;
symbolized by the setting up of the _ded_ pillar, 109
Resurrection of Tylon, i. 186 _sq._
Rhine, bathing in the, on St. John’s Eve, i. 248
Rhodes described by Strabo, i. 195 _n._ 3;
worship of Helen in, 292
Rhodesia, Northern, the Bantu tribes of, their worship of ancestral
spirits, ii. 174 _sqq._;
their worship of dead chiefs or kings, 191 _sqq._
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