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Five Stages of Greek Religion

Chapter 51: Transcriber's Notes
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The author traces Greek religion through five stages, beginning with seasonal and tribal rites centered on vegetation and a recurring year-god whose death and rebirth promise renewal. That cycle-based, mother-goddess-focused worship is set against the later Olympian system of enduring immortal gods, after which a period of intensified spiritual inquiry and philosophical reinterpretation reshapes myths into more abstract meanings. The narrative then follows the emergence of mystery cults, savior figures, and widespread syncretism that blend older folk practices with newer beliefs, and concludes with a progressive transformation and attenuation of ancient rites as they survive in modified popular and Christian forms.


Transcriber's Notes

Pages x and 226 are blank in the original.

Ellipses match the original.

The following corrections have been made to the text.

Page 99: if[original has is] he a governor, it is his function

Page 139: some more full-blooded and less critical element[original has critica lelement]

Page 166: ('holy' and '[opening quote missing in original]sacred', or perhaps more exactly 'lawful' and 'tabu')

Page 184: proceeds straight to the traditional[original has traditiona]

Page 227: Antigonus Gonatas[original has Gonatus], [152:1]

Page 228: Chaldaeans[original has Chaldeans], 144, 151

Page 230: Kronos, 45[original has [43:2]]

Page 231: Mommsen, August, [14:1], [17:1],[comma missing in original] [18:1]

Page 232: Pausanias, [27:3], [54:2], passim[original has extraneous period]

Page 233: Plutarch, [27:3], [32:1], [34:2], [54:2], passim[original has extraneous period]

Page 234: Urdummheit,[comma missing in original] 2, 44, 72

Footnote [16:2] A. B. Cook, J. H. S. xiv,[comma missing in original] pp. 153-4

Footnote [28:1] [smooth breathing mark missing in original]Ἱκταῖος are common

Footnote [33:2] Rom. vi.[period missing in original] generally, 3-11

Footnote [53:1] Αθηναία[original has Ἁθηναία] is of course simply 'Athenian'

Footnote [53:1] ἁ ϝ[original has capital digamma—source document has small digamma]άνασσα;—ἁ θιὸς ἁ Γολγία

Footnote [90:1] see Life in Diog.[original has Diorg.] Laert.

Footnote [95:1] Diog.[original has Diorg.] Laert. vi. 96 ff.

Footnote [113:3] φεῦγε τὸ ἀκάτιον[original has κἀάτιον]

Footnote [152:2] Ferguson's Hellenistic Athens, e. g.[period missing in original] p. 108 f.

Footnote [164:3] Gal. iv.[period missing in original] 9

Footnote [197:1] Mullach, Fragmenta Philosophorum, iii.[period missing in original] 7