The Golden Bough: Balder the Beautiful. Between Heaven and Earth

The Golden Bough: Balder the Beautiful. Between Heaven and Earth
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Book Synopsis The Golden Bough: Balder the Beautiful. Between Heaven and Earth by : James George Frazer

Download or read book The Golden Bough: Balder the Beautiful. Between Heaven and Earth written by James George Frazer and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frazer's series which attempted to define the shared elements of religious belief and scientific thought, discussing fertility rites, human sacrifice, the dying god, the scapegoat, and many other symbols and practices whose influences had extended into 20th-century culture. His thesis is that old religions were fertility cults that revolved around the worship and periodic sacrifice of a sacred king. Frazer proposed that mankind progresses from magic through religious belief to scientific thought.


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