 | Daniel Garrison Brinton - Mythology - 1897 - 290 pages
...study of ancient religions we must begin, not with the myth, but with the ritual "; because, he adds, " in almost every case the myth was derived from the ritual, and not the ritual from the myth."* If I do not follow these authorities, it is because my own studies have led me to a different opinion... | |
 | John Mackinnon Robertson - Christianity and other religions - 1900 - 518 pages
...swine. These are the theories of the Dark Ages. To-day even semi-orthodox scholarship decides that " So far as myths consist of explanations of ritual...with confidence that in almost every case the myth teas deriecd from the ritnal, and not the ritual from the myth ; for the ritual was fixed and the myth... | |
 | James Henry Leuba - Psychology, Religious - 1912 - 414 pages
...or marble ; at that moment he is an artist. If, in a fanciful mood, he prominent place that is too often assigned to it in the scientific study of ancient...explanations of ritual, their value is altogether secondary . . . the ritual was fixed and the myth was variable, the ritual was obligatory, and faith in the myth... | |
 | James Henry Leuba - Psychology, Religious - 1912 - 410 pages
...or marble ; at that moment he is an artist. If, in a fanciful mood, he prominent place that is too often assigned to it in the scientific study of ancient...explanations of ritual, their value is altogether secondary . . . the ritual was fixed and the myth was variable, the ritual was obligatory, and faith in the myth... | |
 | John Mackinnon Robertson - Free thought - 1916 - 258 pages
..." a simple transcript of a ceremony "; which is the equivalent of the doctrine of Eobertson Smith, that " in almost every case the myth was derived from the ritual, and not the ritual from the myth," and of the doctrine of K. 0. Miiller that " the mythus sprang from the worship, and not the worship... | |
 | Lewis Spence - Mythology - 1921 - 358 pages
...that is too often assigned to it in the scientific study of ancient faiths." Robertson Smith thought that in almost every case the myth was derived from the ritual, not the ritual from the myth. Ritual was fixed, and myth was variable. The one was obligatory, the... | |
 | George W. Stocking - Social Science - 1984 - 251 pages
...widespread, permanent, and obligatory. Smith therefore discounted the explanatory value of mythology: since "in almost every case the myth was derived from the ritual, and not the ritual from the myth," study must begin "not with myths, but with ritual and traditional usage" (18). Smith thus discarded... | |
 | Ninian Smart, John Clayton, Patrick Sherry, Steven T. Katz - Religion - 1988 - 356 pages
...Smith reversed this evaluation. 'In the antique religions mythology takes the place of dogma', but 'it may be affirmed with confidence that, in almost...derived from the ritual and not the ritual from the myth'.40 This led directly to a sociological rather than an individualistic approach, for while beliefs... | |
 | Saphinaz-Amal Naguib - Amon (Egyptian deity) - 1990 - 368 pages
...quant à la primauté du rite sur le mythe, débat lancé en 1889 par R. Smith qui déclara alors: «...it may be affirmed with confidence that in almost every case the myth was derived from ritual and not the ritual from the myth»8. Cette théorie fut reprise par nombre de savants représentants... | |
 | Turner B S Staff - Philosophy - 2004 - 498 pages
...tradition. This being so, it follows that mythology ought not to take the prominent place that is too often assigned to it in the scientific study of ancient...their value is altogether secondary, and it may be aflirmed with confidence that in almost every case the myth was derived from the ritual, and not the... | |
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So far as myths consist of explanations of ritual their value is altogether secondary, and it may be aflirmed with confidence that in almost every case the myth was derived from the ritual, and not the ritual from the myth... 
