The Golden Bough
A Study in Magic and Religion
The notion of a man-god, or of a human being endowed with divine or supernatural powers, belongs essentially to that earlier period of religious history in which gods and men are still viewed as beings of much the same order, and before they are divided by the impassable gulf which, to later thought, opens out between them. Strange, therefore, as may seem to us the idea of a god incarnate in human form, it has nothing very startling for early man, who sees in a man-god or a god-man only a higher degree of the same supernatural powers which he arrogates in perfect good faith to himself. -from Chapter VII: Incarnate Human Gods…
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- ISBN: 978-1-59605-685-5
- EAN: 9781596056855
- Produktnummer: 2249297
- Verlag: Cosimo Classics
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
- Seitenangabe: 732 S.
- Masse: H22.2 cm x B14.5 cm x D4.6 cm 1'108 g
- Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken mit Schutzumschlag
- Gewicht: 1108
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