Category: Mythology, Legends & Folklore
§ 1. Dionysus, the Goat and the Bull. § 2. Demeter, the Pig and the Horse. § 3. Attis, Adonis, and the Pig. § 4. Osiris, the Pig and the Bull. § 5. Virbius and the Horse.
(M228) We are now perhaps in a position to understand the ambiguous behaviour of the Aino and Gilyaks towards the bear. It has been shewn that the sharp line of demarcation whic...
12. CHAPTER XIV. THE PROPITIATION OF WILD ANIMALS BY HUNTERS.(M158) The explanation of life by the theory of an indwelling and practically immortal soul is one which the savage does not confine to human beings but extends to the animate c...
8. CHAPTER X. EATING THE GOD.(M38) We have now seen that the corn-spirit is represented sometimes in human, sometimes in animal form, and that in both cases he is killed in the person of his representative...
7. CHAPTER IX. ANCIENT DEITIES OF VEGETATION AS ANIMALS.(M1) However we may explain it, the fact remains that in peasant folk-lore the corn-spirit is very commonly conceived and represented in animal form. May not this fact explain t...
11. CHAPTER XIII. KILLING THE DIVINE ANIMAL.(M130) In the preceding chapters we saw that many communities which have progressed so far as to subsist mainly by agriculture have been in the habit of killing and eating their...
9. CHAPTER XI. THE SACRIFICE OF FIRST-FRUITS.(M89) In the preceding chapter we saw that primitive peoples often partake of the new corn and the new fruits sacramentally, because they suppose them to be instinct with a divi...
10. CHAPTER XII. HOMOEOPATHIC MAGIC OF A FLESH DIET.(M110) The practice of killing a god has now been traced amongst peoples who have reached the agricultural stage of society. We have seen that the spirit of the corn, or of othe...
14. CHAPTER XVI. THE TRANSMIGRATION OF HUMAN SOULS INTO ANIMALS.(M210) With many savages a reason for respecting and sparing certain species of animals is a belief that the souls of their dead kinsfolk are lodged in these creatures. Thus the...
13. CHAPTER XV. THE PROPITIATION OF VERMIN BY FARMERS.(M202) Besides the animals which primitive man dreads for their strength and ferocity, and those which he reveres on account of the benefits which he expects from them, there is...
6. Chapter XVII. Types of Animal Sacrament.§ 1. The Egyptian and the Aino Types of Sacrament. § 2. Processions with Sacred Animals. § 3. The Rites of Plough Monday. Note: The Ceremony of the Horse at Rice-Harvest Among T...
2. Chapter IX. Ancient Deities of Vegetation as Animals.§ 1. Dionysus, the Goat and the Bull. § 2. Demeter, the Pig and the Horse. § 3. Attis, Adonis, and the Pig. § 4. Osiris, the Pig and the Bull. § 5. Virbius and the Horse.
4. Chapter XIII. Killing The Divine Animal.3. Chapter X. Eating The God.1. Part V: Spirits of the Corn and of the Wild.5. Chapter XV. The Propitiation of Vermin by Farmers.