Escape from EvilAn exploration of the natural history of evil. |
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... took place at birth , puberty , marriage , and death : by means of symbolically dying and being reborn via ritual the individual was elevated to new states of being . Life was not a curve as we see it , where birth is zero and death a ...
... took place at birth , puberty , marriage , and death : by means of symbolically dying and being reborn via ritual the individual was elevated to new states of being . Life was not a curve as we see it , where birth is zero and death a ...
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... took the least desirable part of the animal for himself . As Brown says , this was the core of truth in the myth of primitive communism . If someone had something you wanted , you asked for it and received it . But often this continuous ...
... took the least desirable part of the animal for himself . As Brown says , this was the core of truth in the myth of primitive communism . If someone had something you wanted , you asked for it and received it . But often this continuous ...
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... took possession of a piece of ground : the sacrifice expulsed the demonic spirits in the soil and released powers that literally purged the place and made building upon it safe.11 Now this idea of the flux and flow of power is hard for ...
... took possession of a piece of ground : the sacrifice expulsed the demonic spirits in the soil and released powers that literally purged the place and made building upon it safe.11 Now this idea of the flux and flow of power is hard for ...
Contents
Ritual as Practical Technics | 6 |
Economics as Expiation | 26 |
The Origin of Inequality | 38 |
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