Description
The Golden Bough: Spirits of the Corn & of the Wild, Volume I of II by J. G. Frazer, Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Liverpool, is a foundational work in comparative mythology and religion. This first volume explores ancient beliefs in corn-spirits, tree-spirits, and dying-and-rising gods such as Osiris, Attis, Adonis, and Dionysus, illustrating the transition from magic to religious worship. Detailed accounts of fertility rituals, seasonal rites, and the sacred king (Rex Nemorensis) reveal how societies historically connected human life to the cycles of nature.
