 On the one hand we have seen that it has been customary to kill the human or animal god in order to save his divine life from being weakened by the inroads of age. On the other hand we have seen that it has been customary to have a general expulsion of...  The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page 5661890Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | James George Frazer - 1890 - 407 pages
...the other hand we have seen that it has been customary to have a general expulsion of evils and sins once a year. Now, if it occurred to people to combine...be the employment of the dying god as a scapegoat. He was killed, not "originally to take away sin, but to save the divine life from the degeneracy of... | |
 | Sir Alfred C. Lyall - 1899
...suggested that in the practice of using the divinity as a scapegoat we have a combination of two customs, which were at one time distinct and independent. On...branches of wild trees in such a manner as to convince VOL. IL P 226 ASIATIC STUDIES CHAP. m. Mr Frazer that the object was to release the divine victim's... | |
 | James George Frazer - 1900
...the other hand we have seen that it has been customary to have a general expulsion of evils and sins once a year. Now, if it occurred to people to combine...be the employment of the dying god as a scapegoat. He was killed, not originally to take away sin, but to save the divine life from the degeneracy of... | |
 | Andrew Lang - 1901 - 316 pages
...there were human scapegoats, driven away with all evil on their heads. But, suggests Mr. Frazer, ' if it occurred to people to combine these two customs,...the result would be the employment of the dying god ' (god-man, king, or his proxy) ' as a scapegoat. He was killed, not originally to take away sin, but... | |
 | 1914
...the other hand we have seen that it has been customary to have a general expulsion of evils and sins once a year. Now, if it occurred to people to combine...be the employment of the dying god as a scapegoat.' Thus we climb the easy hill of conjecture, and view from the top an extensive prospect in which the... | |
 | New York. State Hospital Commission - 1916
...the other hand we have seen that it has been customary to hold a general expulsion of evils and sins once a year. Now, if it occurred to people to combine these twocustoms, the result would be the employment of the dying god as a scapegoat He was killed, not originally... | |
 | Kevin Schilbrack - 2004 - 278 pages
...commonly encountered in ancient societies: the sacrifice of a man who impersonated a god. Frazer writes: If it occurred to people to combine these two customs,...be the employment of the dying god as a scapegoat. He was killed, not originally to take away sin, but to save the divine life from the degeneracy of... | |
 | 1914
...the other hand we have seen that it has been customary to have a general expulsion of evils and sins once a year. Now, if it occurred to people to combine...be the employment of the dying god as a scapegoat.' Thus we climb the easy hill of conjecture, and view from the top an extensive prospect in which the... | |
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