The New Golden Bough: A New Abridgment of the Classic WorkClassic work first published 1890 on ancient and primitive myth, magic, religion, ritual, and taboo. |
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Adonis Africa ancient animal annually Apollodorus appears Athenaeus Attis believed Berlin blood body buried burning called Carnival carried celebrated ceremony Cinyras Corn-mother corn-spirit crops custom dance dead death deity Demeter Diodorus Siculus Dionysus divine earth effigy Egypt Egyptian festival fire flesh Folk-Lore Frazer fruits girl goddess gods Greek ground hand harvest head Herodotus human Indians killed king last sheaf legend Leipzig Lityerses London magic maize Mannhardt Midsummer mistletoe mother myth nature observed offered Old Woman Osiris Ovid Paphos Paris Pausanias Persephone person plant Plutarch priest primitive rain reapers reign Religion represented resurrection rice rites river sacred sacrifice sacrificed savage seed Shilluk Shrove Tuesday slain sometimes soul sowing spirit spring stone Strabo straw summer supposed taboo Tammuz temple Theocritus threshing throw tree tribe vegetation victim village W. W. Skeat women wood worship young Zeus