Author: Edwin Sidney Hartland Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781519785169 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 456
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About the Legend of Perseus. The two incidents in the legend of Perseus which stood over for examination in the present volume were the rescue of Andromeda and the Medusa witch. Examining the rescue incident first, as it appears in Murchen and then in sagas, Mr. Hartland points out that, "popular as the story of the rescue of the devoted maiden is, and appealing as it does to the imagination, it is not a little remarkable that it appears to be indigenous only in the Old World." On the other hand, legends of the slaughter of a destructive monster, where there is no specific human being to deliver, not only extend beyond these limits, but frequently form part of the cosmogony of peoples alien in race and occupying distant portions of the globe. The question is, Does this difference in range of two distinct classes of rescue traditions help us to any satisfactory hypothesis as to the origin of the more important of the two - the Andromeda type? Noting first that the veneration of the lower animals is one of the rudest and oldest forms of religious conceptions, and was kept alive by the "amazing toughness of tradition " in cults of a much higher grade like those of Egypt and ancient Greece, Mr. Hartland goes on to point out that to living gods like these food was a daily necessity, and savage nations, on days of festival or under stress of some great impending calamity, "would not hesitate to give human flesh to such of those gods as were carnivorous. These two factors in the history of savage religion provide the necessary explanation of the monster dragon or serpent and the devoted maiden in the Andromeda tradition. There is left, then, only the rescue incident for elucidation, and Mr. Hartland meets this by the acute suggestion that if, by the concurrence of an advance in civilization and a political revolution, the worship of an animal deity demanding the sacrifice of a human being were suppressed, he would become in tradition a deadly monster, and the milder divinity who succeeded to his place in popular regard would be credited with his conquest and destruction.
Author: Edwin Sidney Hartland Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780666496966 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 464
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Excerpt from The Legend of Perseus, Vol. 2: A Study of Tradition in Story, Custom and Belief; The Life-Token The discussion of the Life-token has proved so important, going down to the very foundations of the savage philo Sophy of life, that I have found it impossible to bring to a close this study of the Legend of Perseus within the com pass of two volumes. A third, however, will complete the task, and will also include a supplementary Biblio graphical List and an Index. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Edwin Sidney Hartland Publisher: Nabu Press ISBN: 9781295375530 Category : Languages : en Pages : 274
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Author: Edwin Sidney Hartland Publisher: ISBN: 9789354003875 Category : Languages : en Pages : 460
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Author: Edwin Sidney Hartland
Author: Edwin Sidney Hartland
Author: Edwin Sidney Hartland
Author: Edwin Sidney Hartland
Author: Edwin Sidney Hartland
Author: Edwin Sidney Hartland
Author: Edwin Sidney Hartland
Author: Edwin Sidney Hartland
Author: Edwin Sidney Hartland
Author: Edwin Sidney Hartland