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The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 04 of 12)

Chapter 33: Index.
By James George Frazer
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The volume examines ancient and folk rituals in which human representatives of deity, often kings or seasonal figures, are killed or ritually sacrificed to secure cosmic order and vegetation renewal. The author argues that fear of a weakening sacred body prompted violent replacements: fixed tenures, mock or temporary kings, and the killing of a tree-spirit and other symbolic deaths recur across cultures. Chapters survey variants—annual, triennial, octennial rites; funeral games; mock human sacrifices; carnival burials; and spring revival ceremonies—tracing beliefs about succession of the soul, supply of kings, and magical springs that link human fate to seasonal cycles.

Index.

Ababua, the, 65
Abbas, the Great, 157
Abchases, their memorial feasts, 98, 103
Abdication, annual, of kings, 148;
of father when his son is grown up, 181;
of the king on the birth of a son, 190
Abeokuta, the Alake of, 203
Abipones, the, 63
Abraham, his attempted sacrifice of Isaac, 177
Abruzzi, the, 66, 67; burning an effigy of the Carnival in the, 224;
Lenten custom in the, 244 sq.
Abstract notions, the personification of, not primitive, 253
Academy at Athens, funeral games held in the, 96
Acaill, Book of, 39
Accession of a Shilluk king, ceremonies at the, 23 sq.
Acropolis at Athens, the sacred serpent on the, 86 sq.
Adonis or Tammuz, 7
Aesculapius restores Hippolytus or Virbius to life, 214
Africa, succession to the soul in, 200 sq.
—— North, festivals of swinging in, 284
Agathocles, his siege of Carthage, 167
Agrigentum, Phalaris of, 75
Agrionia, a festival, 163
Agylla, funeral games at, 95
Ahaz, King, his sacrifice of his children, 169 sq.
Akurwa, 19, 23, 24
Alake, the, of Abeokuta, custom of cutting off the head of his corpse, 203
Alban kings, 76
Albania, expulsion of Kore on Easter Eve in, 265
Alcibiades of Apamea, his vision of the Holy Ghost, 5 n.3
Alexander the Great, funeral games in his honour, 95
Algonkin women, their attempts to be impregnated by the souls of the dying, 199
Altdorf and Weingarten, Ash Wednesday at, 232
Alus, sanctuary of Laphystian Zeus at, 161, 164
Amasis, king of Egypt, 217
Amelioration in the character of the gods, 136
American Indians, their Great Spirit, 3
Andaman Islanders, their ideas as to shooting stars, 60
Angamis, the, 13
Angel of Death, 177 sq.
Angola, the Matiamvo of, 35
Angoni, the, of British Central Africa, 156 n.2
Angoy, king of, 39
Anhouri, Egyptian god, 5
Animals sacred to kings, 82, 84 sqq.;
transformations into, 82 sqq.
Annam, natives of, their indifference to death, 136 sq.
Annual abdication of kings, 148
—— renewal of king's power at Babylon, 113
—— tenure of the kingship, 113 sqq.
Antichrist, expected reign of, 44 sq.
Aphrodite, the grave of, 4
Apollo, buried at Delphi, 4;
servitude of, 70 n.1, 78;
and the laurel, 78 sqq.;
as slayer of the dragon at Delphi, 78, 79, 80 sq.;
at Thebes, 79;
purged of the dragon's blood in the Vale of Tempe, 81
Ardennes, effigies of Carnival burned in the, 226 sq.
Ares, the grave of, 4
Ariadne and Theseus, 75
Ariadne's Dance, 77
Arician grove, ritual of the, 213
Arizona, mock human sacrifices in, 215
Arnold, Matthew, on the English middle class, 146
Artemis, Munychian, sacrifice to, 166 n.1; mock human sacrifice in the ritual of, 215 sq.
Artemisia, wife of Mausolus, 95
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Ascanius, 76
Ascension Day, 222 n.1; the “Carrying out of Death” on, at Braller, 247 sqq.
Ash Wednesday, Burial of the Carnival on, 221;
death of Caramantran on, 226;
effigies of Carnival or of Shrove Tuesday burnt or buried on, 226, 228 sqq.
Asherim, sacred poles, 169
Ass, son of a god in the form of an, 124 sq.;
the crest or totem of a royal family, 132, 133
“Assegai, child of the,” 183
Asses and men, redemption of firstling, 173
Assyrian eponymate, 116 sq.
Astarte, the moon-goddess, 92
Astronomical considerations determining the early Greek calendar, 68 sq.
Athamas and his children, legend of, 161 sqq.
Athena, human sacrifices to, 166 n.1
Athenaeus, 143
Athenian festival of swinging, 281
Athens, funeral games at, 96;
hand of suicide cut off at, 220 n.
Attacks on kings permitted, 22, 48 sqq.
Aun or On, king of Sweden, 57; sacrifices his sons, 160 sq., 188
Aurora Australis, fear entertained by the Kurnai of the, 267 n.1
Australia, custom of destroying firstborn children among the aborigines of, 179 sq.;
magical rites for the revival of nature in Central, 270
Australian aborigines, their ideas as to shooting stars, 60 sq.
—— funeral custom, 92
Avebury, Lord, 146 n.1, 273
Baal, Semitic, 75;
human sacrifices to, 167 sqq., 195
Babylon, festival of Zagmuk at, 110, 113
Babylonian gods, mortality of the, 5 sq.
—— legend of creation, 110
—— myth of Marduk and Tiamat, 105 sq., 107 sq.
Bacchic frenzy, 164
Baganda, the, 11
Ball, V., 279
Ballymote, the Book of, 100
Balwe in Westphalia, Burying the Carnival at, 232
Banishment of homicide, 69 sq.
Banna, a tribe accustomed to strangle their firstborn children, 181 sq.
Barber, Rev. Dr. W. T. A., 145 n., 275
Barcelona, ceremony of “Sawing the Old Woman” at, 242
Barongo, the, 10, 61
Bashada, a tribe accustomed to strangle their firstborn children, 181 sq.
Bashkirs, their horse-races at funerals, 97
Bath of ox blood, 201
Battle of Summer and Winter, 254 sqq.
Bautz, Dr. Joseph, on hell fire, 136 n.1
Bavaria, Whitsuntide mummers in, 207 sq.;
Carrying out Death in, 233 sqq.;
dramatic contests between Summer and Winter in, 255 sq.