Magic and Religion

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• Publisher: The Big Nest
• Year: 2020
• eBook ISBN: 9781787361782
• Edition: 0

The primary aim of this book is to explain the remarkable rule which regulated the succession to the priesthood of Diana at Aricia. When I first set myself to solve the problem more than thirty years ago, I thought that the solution could be propounded very briefly, but I soon found that to render it probable or even intelligible it was necessary to discuss certain more general questions, some of which had hardly been broached before.

Table of contents

• Preface
• I. The King of the Wood
• II. Priestly Kings
• III. Sympathetic Magic
• IV. Magic and Religion
• V. The Magical Control of the Weather
• VI. Magicians as Kings
• VII. Incarnate Human Gods
• VIII. Departmental Kings of Nature
• IX. The Worship of Trees
• X. Relics of Tree Worship in Modern Europe
• XI. The Influence of the Sexes on Vegetation
• XII. The Sacred Marriage
• XIII. The Kings of Rome and Alba
• XIV. The Succession to the Kingdom in Ancient Latium
• XV. The Worship of the Oak
• XVI. Dianus and Diana
• XVII. The Burden of Royalty
• XVIII. The Perils of the Soul
• XIX. Tabooed Acts
• XX. Tabooed Persons
• XXI. Tabooed Things
• XXII. Tabooed Words
• XXIII. Our Debt to the Savage
• XXIV. The Killing of the Divine King
• XXV. Temporary Kings
• XXVI. Sacrifice of the King’s Son
• XXVII. Succession to the Soul
• XXVIII. The Killing of the Tree-Spirit
• XXIX. The Myth of Adonis
• XXX. Adonis in Syria
• XXXI. Adonis in Cyprus
• XXXII. The Ritual of Adonis
• XXXIII. The Gardens of Adonis
• XXXIV. The Myth and Ritual of Attis
• XXXV. Attis as a God of Vegetation
• XXXVI. Human Representatives of Attis
• XXXVII. Oriental Religions in the West
• XXXVIII. The Myth of Osiris
• XXXIX. The Ritual of Osiris
• XL. The Nature of Osiris
• XLI. Isis
• XLII. Osiris and the Sun
• XLIII. Dionysus
• XLIV. Demeter and Persephone
• XLV. The Corn-Mother and the Corn-Maiden in Northern Europe
• XLVI. The Corn-Mother in Many Lands
• XLVII. Lityerses
• XLVIII. The Corn-Spirit as an Animal
• XLIX. Ancient Deities of Vegetation as Animals
• L. Eating the God
• LI. Homeopathic Magic of a Flesh Diet
• LII. Killing the Divine Animal
• LIII. The Propitiation of Wild Animals By Hunters
• LIV. Types of Animal Sacrament
• LV. The Transference of Evil
• LVI. The Public Expulsion of Evils
• LVII. Public Scapegoats
• LVIII. Human Scapegoats in Classical Antiquity
• LIX. Killing the God in Mexico
• LX. Between Heaven and Earth
• LXI. The Myth of Balder
• LXII. The Fire-Festivals of Europe
• LXIII. The Interpretation of the Fire-Festivals
• LXIV. The Burning of Human Beings in the Fires
• LXV. Balder and the Mistletoe
• LXVI. The External Soul in Folk-Tales
• LXVII. The External Soul in Folk-Custom
• LXVIII. The Golden Bough
• LXIX. Farewell to Nemi