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The Golden Bough - Volume 10

James George Frazer

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. . .of the damsels conceived and after nine months gave birth to an emerald. So she wrapped it in cotton and placed it in her bosom, and in a few days it turned into a child, who received the name of Garanchacha and was universally recognized as a son of the sun.173 Again, the Samoans tell of a woman named Mangamangai, [pg 075] who became pregnant by looking at the rising sun. Her son grew up and was named “Child of the Sun.” At his marriage he applied to his mother for a dowry, but she bade him apply to his father, the sun, and told him how to go to him. So one morning he took a long vine and made a noose in it; then climbing up a tree he threw the noose over the sun and caught him fast. Thus arrested in his progress, the luminary asked him what he wanted, and being told by the young man that he wanted a present for his bride, the sun obli. . . Read More

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‎دوستانِ گرانقدر، این کتاب از 69 فصل تشکیل شده است که به موضوعاتی در خصوصِ مذهب و جادو و برخی از رسومات و قوانینِ مردمانِ باستان و حتی پس از آن پرداخته است و البته اشاراتی به داستان های اساتیری (اساطیری) نیز نموده است... که به هرحال کنکاش و پژوهشی که «جیمز فریزر» بریتانیایی انجام داده است، قابل ستای

Influential without bound and ere-breaking of ground, this is undeniably a major modern classic that reshaped its entire field. Of course, most of Frazier's theses have been broadly discredited, but it's not like you're studying comparative mythology to build bridges with it (although it's been prop

Sir James George Frazer (1854-1941) has been called, by Theories of Primitive Religion author E. E. Evans-Pritchard, "the best-known name in anthropology." His monumental The Golden Bough, which in its unabridged form eventually ran to 12 volumes plus an index volume, is a widely-read, landmark clas

This is such an important work. If you take it from the perspective of what it is, an anthology of rituals and belief systems found in religious and non religious cultures across the globe. As some other readers have pointed out it is not linear, it is also not well coordinated in way of connecting

ما چون وارثانِ ودیعه‌ای هستیم که اعصاری چنان دور و متمادی را پشت سر نهاده که خاطره‌ی پدیدآورندگانش از یادها رفته است و صاحبانش اکنون آن را داراییِ اصیل و تغییرناپذیر خود از آغاز جهان می‌دانند. اما تأمل و تحقیق نشان خواهد داد که ما بسیاری از آنچه را که یکسره مالِ خود می‌دانیم مرهون و مدیون پیشینیا

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الغصن الذهبي من الكتب التي حيرتني كثيرا في اختيار الترجمة التي اقرأها، فتوفر لي في نفس الوقت ترجمتان: ترجمة دار كلمة بيد محمد زياد، وترجمة الهيئة المصرية للتأليف بيد أحمد أبوزيد، وفي

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