The Tree of Life a Study of Religion
The Tree of Life a Study of Religion
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1 This principle, it may be noted, is perhaps the original source of sacrifice. It is here mentioned merely to draw attention to the earlier and more regular course of primitive religious ideas. In the second place, it is very doubtful whether a real king or real god (as distinguished from effigies and proxies) is ever regarded as a scapegoat, who bears the sins of the people. Lastly to return to the Purim-theory it is to be borne in mind, when we consider the elusive nature of the evidence, th...at the theory itself, like the theory of Jewish human sacrifice, may be a piece of scientific myth-making. Tylor tells a good story of the Paulicians. About the year 700 they were violently accused by the Patriarch of Armenia ; he alleged that they worshipped the sun, "that they mix wheaten flour with the blood of infants, and therewith celebrate their communion, and when they have slain by the worst of deaths a boy, the first born of his mother, thrown from 1 Tylor, " P. C. , " I. 459 ff. , II.
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1 This principle, it may be noted, is perhaps the original source of sacrifice. It is here mentioned merely to draw attention to the earlier and more regular course of primitive religious ideas. In the second place, it is very doubtful whether a real king or real god (as distinguished from effigies and proxies) is ever regarded as a scapegoat, who bears the sins of the people. Lastly to return to the Purim-theory it is to be borne in mind, when we consider the elusive nature of the evidence, th...at the theory itself, like the theory of Jewish human sacrifice, may be a piece of scientific myth-making. Tylor tells a good story of the Paulicians. About the year 700 they were violently accused by the Patriarch of Armenia ; he alleged that they worshipped the sun, "that they mix wheaten flour with the blood of infants, and therewith celebrate their communion, and when they have slain by the worst of deaths a boy, the first born of his mother, thrown from 1 Tylor, " P. C. , " I. 459 ff. , II.
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