Frasi di James Frazer
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Sir James George Frazer è stato un antropologo e storico delle religioni scozzese.

È fondamentale il suo contributo all'antropologia culturale e alla storia delle religioni. Wikipedia  

✵ 1. Gennaio 1854 – 7. Maggio 1941
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“The scapegoat upon whom the sins of the people are periodically laid, may also be a human being.”

James Frazer libro Il ramo d'oro

Origine: The Golden Bough (1890), Chapter 57, Public Scapegoats.

“To a modern reader the connexion at first site may not be obvious between the activity of the hangman and the productivity of the earth.”

James Frazer libro Il ramo d'oro

Origine: The Golden Bough (1890), Chapter 64, The Burning of Human Beings in the Fires (spelling as per text).

“The world cannot live at the level of its great men.”

James Frazer libro Il ramo d'oro

Origine: The Golden Bough (1890), Chapter 37, Oriental Religions in the West.

“Yet perhaps no sacrifice is wholly useless which proves there are men who prefer honour to life.”

James Frazer libro Il ramo d'oro

Origine: The Golden Bough (1890), Chapter 24, The Killing of the Divine King.

“The custom of burning a beneficent god is too foreign to later modes of thought to escape misinterpretation.”

James Frazer libro Il ramo d'oro

Origine: The Golden Bough (1890), Chapter 64, The Burning of Human Beings in the Fires.

“Man has created gods in his own likeness and being himself mortal he has naturally supposed his creatures to be in the same sad predicament.”

James Frazer libro Il ramo d'oro

Origine: The Golden Bough (1890), Chapter 24, The Killing of the Divine King.

“From time immemorial the mistletoe has been the object of superstitious veneration in Europe.”

James Frazer libro Il ramo d'oro

Origine: The Golden Bough (1890), Chapter 65, Balder and the Mistletoe.

“The temple of the sylvan goddess, indeed, has vanished, and the King of the Wood no longer stands sentinel over the Golden Bough.”

James Frazer libro Il ramo d'oro

Origine: The Golden Bough (1890), Chapter 69, Farewell to Nemi.

“For there are strong grounds for thinking that, in the evolution of thought, magic has preceded religion.”

James Frazer libro Il ramo d'oro

Origine: The Golden Bough (1890), Chapter 3, Sympathetic Magic.

“Ancient magic was the very foundation of religion.”

James Frazer libro Il ramo d'oro

Origine: The Golden Bough (1890), Chapter 4, Magic and Religion

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