The Primary aim of this book is to explain the remarkable rule which regulated the succession to the priesthood of Diana at Aricia. (...) If in the present work I have dwelt at some length on the worship of trees, it is not, I trust, because I exaggerate its importance in the history of religion, still less because I would deduce from it a whole system of mythology; it is simply because I could not ignore the subject in attempting to explain the significance of a priest who bore the title of King of the Wood, and one of whose titles to office was the plucking of a bough—the Golden Bough—from a tree in the sacred grove. But I am so far from regarding the reverence for trees as of supreme importance for the evolution of religion that I consider it to have been altogether subordinate to other factors, and in particular to the fear of the human dead, which, on the whole, I believe to have been probably the most powerful force in the making of primitive religion.- Taken from "The Golden Bough" written by Sir James George Frazer
✔ Author(s): Sir James George Frazer
✔ Title: The Golden Bough
✔ Rating : 4.2 out of 5 base on (67 reviews)
✔ ISBN-10: 1692144219
✔ ISBN-13: 9781692144210
✔ Language: English
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