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Title |
Title of document |
Frazer on Osiris - Myth Theorized |
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Creator |
Author's name, affiliation, country |
Robert Segal; University of Aberdeen; United Kingdom |
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Subject |
Discipline(s) |
Religious Studies |
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Keyword(s) |
theory of myth; psychoanalysis; Freud; Otto Rank; Jung; Joseph Campbell; Oedipus; EB Tylor; JG Frazer; hero myths; Lord Raglan; Levi-Strauss; Karl Popper; Bruce Lincoln; Robert Ellwood; Girard; Burkert; Winnicott; James Lovelock; Gaia |
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Subject |
Subject classification |
Myth; Theory of Myth |
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Description |
Abstract |
In chapter four I present Frazer’s interpretation of just one of his four main Mediterranean gods: Osiris. On the one hand Frazer treats all four examples as gods from the start, even if in their myths they by no means are. Frazer does not treat them as cases of euhemerism, or the transformation of an exceptional king into a god, either at death or even during life. On the other hand Frazer treats the case of Osiris as that of euhemerism. He offers scant evidence for euhemerism in Osiris. Yet Osiris does fit euhemerism more closely than do Frazer’s other three Mediterranean gods of vegetation. For Frazer, Osiris parallels Jesus, who is prototypically euhemeristic. |
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Publisher |
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Equinox Publishing Ltd |
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Date |
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03-Feb-2023 |
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Peer-reviewed Article |
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Format |
File format |
PDF |
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Identifier |
Uniform Resource Identifier |
https://journals.equinoxpub.com/index.php/books/article/view/37558 |
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Identifier |
Digital Object Identifier |
10.1558/equinox.37558 |
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Source |
Journal/conference title; vol., no. (year) |
Equinox eBooks Publishing; Myth Theorized |
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Language |
English=en |
en |
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Rights |
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Copyright 2014 Equinox Publishing Ltd |