Golden Bough. A Study in Magic and Religion. Part 1: The Magic Art and the Evolution of Kings, Volume 2

VIII-DEPARTMENTAL KINGS OF NATURE-The King of the Wood and Nemi probably a departmental king of nature, Kings of Rain in Africa, Kings of Fire and Water in Cambodia

Episode 1 · 12:06

IX-THE WORSHIP OF TREES. PART 1.TREE SPIRITS. Great forests of ancient Europe,Tree-worship practised by all Aryan races in Europe, Trees regarded as animate, Tree-spirits, Sacrifices to trees, Trees sensitive to wounds, Apologies for cutting down trees, Bleeding trees, Trees threatened to make them bear fruit, Attempts to deceive spirits of trees and plants,Trees married to each other, Trees in blossom and rice in bloom treated like pregnant women, Trees tenanted by the souls of the dead, Trees as the abode

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IX-THE WORSHIP OF TREES PART 2. BENEFICIENT POWERS OF TREE-SPIRITS. Tree-spirit develops into anthropomorphic deity of the woods, Tree-spirits give rain and sunshine, Tree-spirits make crops to grow, The Harvest May and kindred customs, Tree-spirits make herds and women fruitful, Green boughs protect against witchcraft, Influence of treespirits on cattle among the Wends, Esthonians, and Circassians, Tree-spirits grant offspring or easy delivery to women.

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X-RELICS OF TREE-WORSHIP IN MODERN EUROPE. May-trees in Europe, especially England, May-garlands in England, May customs in France, Germany, and Greece, Whitsuntide customs in Russia, May-trees in Germany and Sweden, Midsummer trees and poles in Sweden, Village May-poles in England and Germany, Tree-spirit detached from tree and represented in human form, Esthonian tale, Tree-spirit represented simultaneously in vegetable and human form, The Little May Rose, The Walber, Green George, Double representation o

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XI-THE INFLUENCE OF THE SEXES ON VEGETATION. The marriage of the King and Queen of May intended to promote the growth of vegetation by homoeopathic magic, Intercourse of the sexes practised to make the crops grow and fruit-trees to bear fruit, Parents of twins supposed to fertilise the bananas in Uganda, Relics of similar customs in Europe, Continence practised in order to make the crops grow, Incest and illicit love supposed to blight the fruits of the earth by causing drought or excessive rain, Traces of

Episode 5 · 43:15

XII-THE SACRED MARRIAGE. PART 1. DIANA AS GODDESS OF FERTILITY. Dramatic marriages of gods and goddesses as a charm to promote vegetation, Diana as a goddess of the woodlands, Sanctity of holy groves in antiquity, The breaking of the Golden Bough a solemn rite, not a mere piece of bravado, Diana a goddess of the teeming life of nature, both animal and vegetable, Deities of woodlands naturally the patrons of the beasts of the woods, The crowning of hunting dogs on Diana's day a purification for their slaught

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XII-THE SACRED MARRIAGE. PART 2. THE MARRIAGE OF THE GODS. Marriages of the gods in Babylonia and Assyria, Marriage of the god Ammon to the Queen of Egypt, Apollo and his prophetess at Patara, Artemis and the Essenes at Ephesus, Marriage of Dionysus and the Queen at Athens, Marriage of Zeus and Demeter at Eleusis, Marriage of Zeus and Hera at Plataea, Marriage of Zeus and Hera in other parts of Greece, The god Frey and his human wife in Sweden, Similar rites in ancient Gaul, Marriages of gods to images or l

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XII-THE SACRED MARRIAGE. PART 3. SACRIFICES TO WATER-SPIRITS. Stories of the Perseus and Andromeda type, Water-spirits conceived as serpents or dragons, Sacrifices of human beings to water-spirits, Waterspirits as dispensers of fertility, Water-spirits bestow offspring on women, Love of river-spirits for women in Greek mythology, The Slaying of the Dragon at Furth in Bavaria, St. Remain and the Dragon at Rouen.

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XIII-THE KINGS OF ROME AND ALBA. PART 1. NUMA AND EGERIA. Egeria a nymph of water and the oak, perhaps a form of Diana, Marriage of Numa and Egeria a reminiscence of the marriage of the King of Rome to a goddess of water and vegetation. PART 2. THE KING AS JUPITER. The Roman king personated Jupiter and wore his costume, The oak crown as a symbol of divinity, Personation of the dead by masked men among the Romans, The kings of Alba as personifications of Jupiter, Legends of the deaths of Roman kings point to

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XIV-THE KING'S FIRE. Sacred marriage of the Fire-god with a woman, Legends of the birth of Latin kings from Vestal Virgins impregnated by the fire, Vestal Virgins as wives of the Fire-god, The Vestal fire originally the fire on the king's hearth, The round temple of Vesta a copy of the old round hut of the early Latins, Rude pottery used in Roman ritual, Superstitions as to the making of pottery, Sanctity of the storeroom at Rome, The temple of Vesta with its sacred fire a copy of the king's house.

Episode 10 · 22:53

XV-THE FIRE-DRILL. Vestal fire at Rome rekindled by the fire-drill, Use of the fire-drill by savages, The fire-sticks regarded by savages as male and female, Fire-customs of the Herero, Sacred fire among the Herero maintained in the chiefs hut by his unmarried daughter, The Herero chief as priest of the hearth, Sacred Herero fire rekindled by fire-sticks, which are regarded as male and female, and are made from the sacred ancestral tree The sacred Herero hearth a special seat of the ancestral spirits, Sacre

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XVI-FATHER JOVE AND MOTHER VESTA. Similarity between the fire -customs of the Herero and the ancient Latins, Rites performed by the Vestals for the fertility of the earth and the fecundity of cattle, The Vestals as embodiments of Vesta, a mother-goddess of fertility, The domestic fire as a fecundating agent in marriage ritual, Newborn children and the domestic fire, Reasons for ascribing a procreative virtue to fire, Fire kindled by friction by human representatives of the Fire-father and Fire-mother, Fire

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XVII-THE ORIGIN OF PERPETUAL FIRES. Custom of perpetual fires probably originated in motives of convenience, Races reported to be ignorant of the means of making fire, Fire probably used by men before they knew how to kindle it, Savages carry fire with them as a matter of convenience, Prometheus the fire-bringer,Perpetual fires maintained by chiefs and kings, Fire extinguished at king's death.

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XVIII-THE SUCCESSION TO THE KINGDOM IN ANCIENT LATIUM. PART 1. The sacred functions of Latin kings in general probably the same as those of the Roman kings, Question of the rule of succession to the Latin kingship, List of Alban kings, List of Roman kings, Latin kingship apparently transmitted in female line to foreign husbands of princesses, Miraculous births of kings explained on this hypothesis, Marriage of princesses to men of inferior rank in Africa, Traces of female descent of kingship in Greece, And

Episode 14 · 54:46

XVIII-THE SUCCESSION TO THE KINGDOM IN ANCIENT LATIUM. PART 2. Similar combination perhaps in force at Rome, Personal qualities required in kings and chiefs, Succession to the throne determined by a race, Custom of racing for a bride, Contests for a bride other than a race, The Flight of the King (Regifugium) at Rome perhaps a relic of a contest for the kingdom and the hand of a princess, Confirmation of this theory from the practice of killing a human representative of Saturn at the Saturnalia, Violent end

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XIX-ST. GEORGE AND THE PARILIA. The early Italians a pastoral as well as agricultural people, The shepherds festival of the Parilia on 21st April, Intention of the festival to ensure the welfare of the flocks and herds and to guard them against witches and wolves, Festival of the same kind still held in Eastern Europe on 23rd April, St. George's Day, Precautions taken by the Esthonians against witches and wolves on St. George's Day, when they drive out the cattle to pasture for the first time, St. George's

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XX-THE WORSHIP OF THE OAK. PART 1. THE DIFFUSION OF THE OAK IN EUROPE, Jupiter the god of the oak, the sky, and thunder, Of these attributes the oak is probably primary and the sky and thunder secondary, Europe covered with oak forests in prehistoric times, Remains of oaks found in peat-bogs, Ancient lake dwellings built on oaken piles, Evidence of classical writers as to oak forests in antiquity, Oak-woods in modern Europe. PART 2. THE ARYAN GOD OF THE OAK AND THE THUNDER. Aryan worship of the oak and of t

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XXI-DIANUS AND DIANA. Recapitulation : Rise of sacred kings endowed with magical or divine powers, The King of the Wood at Nemi seems to have personified Jupiter the god of the oak and to have mated with Diana the goddess of the oak, Dianus (Janus) and Diana originally dialectically different forms of Jupiter and Juno, Janus (Dianus) not originally a god of doors, Double-headed figure of Janus (Dianus) derived from a custom of placing him as sentinel at doorways, Parallel custom among the negroes of Surinam

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