Magic in Names And in Other Things
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Until Sir James Frazer published his Golden Bought the significance of taboo as applied to royal and sacerdotal persons was somewhat obscure. But the large array of examples which his industry has collected and his ingenuity interpreted, make it clear that the priest-king. Rex Nemorensis, was regarded as the incarnation of supernatural powers on whose unhindered and effective working the welfare of men depended.
110 MAGIC IN NAMES That being the behef, obviously the utmost care was used to prot...ect in every way the person in whom those powers were incarnated, markedly so in the secrecy of " hedging a king. " Among the rules which governed the minutest details of his life, the Flamen Dialis, who, as chief of the Roman hierarchy, was consecrated to the service of Jupiter, was forbidden to touch or even name a goat, a dog, raw meat, beans and ivy, lest harm might come to him for so doing. Plutarch was greatly puzzled in his search after a rational explanation of these and kindred matters, and he has many a fanciful comment upon them, erroneous as well as fanciful, because it did not occur to him that the explanation must be sought in the persistence of the barbaric ideas of remote ancestors.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Until Sir James Frazer published his Golden Bought the significance of taboo as applied to royal and sacerdotal persons was somewhat obscure. But the large array of examples which his industry has collected and his ingenuity interpreted, make it clear that the priest-king. Rex Nemorensis, was regarded as the incarnation of supernatural powers on whose unhindered and effective working the welfare of men depended.
110 MAGIC IN NAMES That being the behef, obviously the utmost care was used to prot...ect in every way the person in whom those powers were incarnated, markedly so in the secrecy of " hedging a king. " Among the rules which governed the minutest details of his life, the Flamen Dialis, who, as chief of the Roman hierarchy, was consecrated to the service of Jupiter, was forbidden to touch or even name a goat, a dog, raw meat, beans and ivy, lest harm might come to him for so doing. Plutarch was greatly puzzled in his search after a rational explanation of these and kindred matters, and he has many a fanciful comment upon them, erroneous as well as fanciful, because it did not occur to him that the explanation must be sought in the persistence of the barbaric ideas of remote ancestors.
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