The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 07 of 12)Frazer, James George
Religion
The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 07 of 12)
Frazer, James George
Magic; Mythology; Religion; Superstition
70 Euripides, _Bacchae_, 920 _sqq._, 1017; Nonnus, _Dionys._ vi. 197
_sqq._
71 Plutarch, _Isis et Osiris_, 35; Athenaeus, xi. 51, p. 476 A.
72 Diodorus Siculus, iii. 64. 2, iv. 4. 2; Cornutus, _Theologiae
Graecae Compendium_, 30.
73 Diodorus Siculus, iii. 64. 2; J. Tzetzes, _Schol. on Lycophron_,
209, 1236; Philostratus, _Imagines_, i. 14 (15).
74 Müller-Wieseler, _Denkmäler der alten Kunst_, ii. pl. xxxiii.;
Daremberg et Saglio, _Dictionnaire des Antiquités Grecques et
Romaines_, i. 619 _sq._, 631; W. H. Roscher, _Lexikon d. griech. u.
röm. Mythologie_, i. 1149 _sqq._; F. Imhoof-Blumer, “Coin-types of
some Kilikian Cities,” _Journal of Hellenic Studies_, xviii. (1898)
p. 165.
75 F. G. Welcker, _Alte Denkmäler_ (Göttingen, 1849-1864), v. taf. 2.
_ 76 Archaeologische Zeitung_, ix. (1851) pl. xxxiii., with Gerhard’s
remarks, pp. 371-373.
_ 77 Gazette Archéologique_, v. (1879) pl. 3.
78 Pausanias, viii. 19. 2.
79 Plutarch, _Quaestiones Graecae_, 36; _id._, _Isis et Osiris_, 35.
80 J. Tzetzes, _Schol. on Lycophron_, 1236.
81 Nonnus, _Dionys._ vi. 205.
82 Firmicus Maternus, _De errore profanarum religionum_, 6.
83 Euripides, _Bacchae_, 735 _sqq._; Scholiast on Aristophanes,
_Frogs_, 357.
M11 Dionysus as a goat. Live goats rent and devoured by his worshippers.
84 Hesychius, _s.v._ Ἔριφος ὁ Διόνυσος, on which there is a marginal
gloss ὁ μικρὸς αἴξ, ὁ ἐν τῷ ἔαρι φαινόμενος, ἤγουν ὁ πρώϊμος;
Stephanus Byzantius, _s.v._ Ἀκρώρεια.
85 Pausanias, ii. 35. 1; Scholiast on Aristophanes, _Acharn._ 146;
_Etymologicum Magnum_, _s.v._ Ἀπατούρια, p. 118. 54 _sqq._; Suidas,
_s.vv._ Ἀπατούρια and μελαναίγιδα Διόνυσον; Nonnus, _Dionys._ xxvii.
302. Compare Conon, _Narrat._ 39, where for Μελανθίδῃ we should
perhaps read Μελαναίγιδι.
86 Pausanias, ii. 13. 6. On their return from Troy the Greeks are said
to have found goats and an image of Dionysus in a cave of Euboea
(Pausanias, i. 23. 1).
87 Apollodorus, _Bibliotheca_, iii. 4. 3.
88 Ovid, _Metam._ v. 329; Antoninus Liberalis, _Transform._ 28;
_Mythographi Vaticani_, ed. G. H. Bode, i. 86, p. 29.
89 Arnobius, _Adversus nationes_, v. 19. Compare Suidas, _s.v._
αἰγίζειν. As fawns appear to have been also torn in pieces at the
rites of Dionysus (Photius, _Lexicon_, _s.v._ νεβρίζειν;
Harpocration, _s.v._ νεβρίζων), it is probable that the fawn was
another of the god’s embodiments. But of this there seems no direct
evidence. Fawn-skins were worn both by the god and his worshippers
(Cornutus, _Theologiae Graecae Compendium_, 30). Similarly the
female Bacchanals wore goat-skins (Hesychius, _s.v._ τραγηφόροι).
M12 Custom of rending and devouring animals and men as a religious rite.
Ceremonial cannibalism among the Indians of British Columbia.
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