Homo necans : the anthropology of ancient Greek sacrificial ritual myth
Blood 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 study examines this question.
Print Book, English, ©1983
University of California Press, Berkeley, ©1983
334 Seiten ; 23 cm : Illustrationen
9780520036505, 9780520058750, 0520036506, 0520058755
635628601
Translator's Preface Preface to the English Edition List of Illustrations Introduction I. Sacrifice, Hunting, and Funerary Rituals II. Werewolves around the Tripod Kettle III. Dissolution and New Year's Festival IV. Anthesteria V. Eleusis Abbreviations and Bibliography Index
"Originally published in German by Walter de Gruyter & Co., Berlin, under the title Homo necans (1972)."
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