 | James George Frazer - Dying and rising gods - 1890 - 436 pages
...this be omitted, they believe that the departed soul has not entered the mansions of the blessed." ' But it is with the death of the god-man — the divine...priest — that we are here especially concerned. The people of Congo believed, as we have seen, that if their pontiff the Chitome" were to die a natural... | |
 | James George Frazer - Dying and rising gods - 1900 - 498 pages
...this be omitted, they believe that the departed soul has not entered the mansions of the blessed." 8 But it is with the death of the god-man — the divine...priest — that we are here especially concerned. The people of Congo believed, as we have seen, that if their pontiff the Chitome were to die a natural... | |
 | James George Frazer - Magic - 1912 - 332 pages
...out a weary life of weakness and decrepitude.5 § 2. Kings hilled when their Strength fails Divine But it is with the death of the god-man — the divine king todeath* or P"est — that we are here especially concerned. The The mystic kings of Fire and Water... | |
 | James George Frazer - Folklore - 1922 - 806 pages
...thus killing the man-god and transferring hi* soul, while yet at its prime, to a vigorous successor. The mystic kings of Fire and Water in Cambodia are not allowed to die a natural death. Hence when one of them is seriously ill and the elders think that he cannot... | |
 | Charles J. Stivale - Philosophy - 1998 - 388 pages
...transferred to a vigorous successor before it has been seriously impaired by the threatened decay. . . . The mystic kings of Fire and Water in Cambodia are not allowed to die a natural death" (1922 [1960], 309-310). Jesse Weston (1920) studies Arthurian legend, from... | |
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The mystic kings of Fire and Water in Cambodia are not allowed to die a natural death. Hence when one of them is seriously ill and the elders think that he cannot recover, they stab him to death.4 The people of Congo believed, as we have seen,6 that if... 