RE: King Religions
May 18, 2009 at 5:01 am
(This post was last modified: May 18, 2009 at 5:02 am by Oldandeasilyconfused.)
@Jayp
Interesting opinion, impressive if you worked it out independently. I dare say people in the C19th were also impressed when Sir James Frazer came up with pretty much the same notion.
From Wiki:
Are you right? Probably,in part. I recommend your think of doing some Anthropology,you seem to have the knack.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Bough
Interesting opinion, impressive if you worked it out independently. I dare say people in the C19th were also impressed when Sir James Frazer came up with pretty much the same notion.
From Wiki:
Quote:The Golden Bough attempts to define the shared elements of religious belief, ranging from ancient belief systems to relatively modern religions such as Christianity. Its thesis is that old religions were fertility cults that revolved around the worship of, and periodic sacrifice of, a sacred king.
This king was the incarnation of a dying and reviving god, a solar deity who underwent a mystic marriage to a goddess of the Earth, who died at the harvest, and was reincarnated in the spring. Frazer claims that this legend is central to almost all of the world's mythologies.
Are you right? Probably,in part. I recommend your think of doing some Anthropology,you seem to have the knack.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Bough
