Folklore As An Historical Science
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This people, he says, "are rapidly forgetting their folk-talesand the legends of their gods [that is, their myths], while theirceremonial remains to a large extent intact and seems likely tocontinue so for some time. " Dr. Rivers attributes this to the effectof intercourse with other people. This intercourse has had nomissionary results and has not therefore affected their religiousrites and ceremonies, but has shown itself largely in the form of lossof interest in the stories of the past. [210...] In other words, and inaccordance with the definitions I am suggesting, the primitive mythsof the Todas have definitely assumed a secondary position asfolk-tale, and not a strong position at that, while religion has clungto rite and formula.
Primitive myth dislodged in this fashion is sometimes preserved in aspecial manner and for religious purposes in its ancient setting as abelief, or as a tradition belonging to sacred places and appertainingto sacred things. This is what has happened to the Genesis myth of theHebrews; it has also happened to some of the sacred myths of theHindus, and perhaps to some of the sacred myths of the Greeks.
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This people, he says, "are rapidly forgetting their folk-talesand the legends of their gods [that is, their myths], while theirceremonial remains to a large extent intact and seems likely tocontinue so for some time. " Dr. Rivers attributes this to the effectof intercourse with other people. This intercourse has had nomissionary results and has not therefore affected their religiousrites and ceremonies, but has shown itself largely in the form of lossof interest in the stories of the past. [210...] In other words, and inaccordance with the definitions I am suggesting, the primitive mythsof the Todas have definitely assumed a secondary position asfolk-tale, and not a strong position at that, while religion has clungto rite and formula.
Primitive myth dislodged in this fashion is sometimes preserved in aspecial manner and for religious purposes in its ancient setting as abelief, or as a tradition belonging to sacred places and appertainingto sacred things. This is what has happened to the Genesis myth of theHebrews; it has also happened to some of the sacred myths of theHindus, and perhaps to some of the sacred myths of the Greeks.
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