Homo Necans: The Anthropology of Ancient Greek Sacrificial Ritual and MythBlood sacrifice, the ritual slaughter of animals, has been basic to religion through history, so that it survives in spiritualized form even in Christianity. How did this violent phenomenon achieve the status of the sacred? This question is examined in Walter Burkert's famous study. |
Contents
SACRIFICE HUNTING AND FUNERARY RITUALS | 1 |
WEREWOLVES AROUND THE TRIPOD KETTLE | 83 |
DISSOLUTION AND NEW YEARS FESTIVAL | 135 |
83 | 151 |
135 | 158 |
ANTHESTERIA | 213 |
ELEUSIS | 248 |
The Myth of Kore and PigSacrifice | 256 |
Myesis and Synthema | 265 |
The Sacrifice in the Telesterion | 274 |
Initiation | 293 |
Abbreviations and Bibliography | 299 |
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Homo Necans: The Anthropology of Ancient Greek Sacrificial Ritual and Myth Walter Burkert Limited preview - 1983 |
Homo Necans: The Anthropology of Ancient Greek Sacrificial Ritual and Myth Walter Burkert Limited preview - 1983 |
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