{"product_id":"2940015835229","title":"MYTH, RITUAL, AND RELIGION Volume I","description":"CONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  PREFACE TO NEW IMPRESSION.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  PREFACE TO NEW EDITION.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  CHAPTER I.--SYSTEMS OF MYTHOLOGY.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Definitions of religion--Contradictory evidence--\"Belief in\u003cbr\u003e  spiritual beings\"--Objection to Mr. Tylor's definition--Definition\u003cbr\u003e  as regards this argument--Problem: the contradiction between\u003cbr\u003e  religion and myth--Two human moods--Examples--Case of Greece--\u003cbr\u003e  Ancient mythologists--Criticism by Eusebius--Modern mythological\u003cbr\u003e  systems--Mr. Max Muller--Mannhardt.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  CHAPTER II.--NEW SYSTEM PROPOSED.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Chapter I. recapitulated--Proposal of a new method: Science of\u003cbr\u003e  comparative or historical study of man--Anticipated in part by\u003cbr\u003e  Eusebius, Fontenelle, De Brosses, Spencer (of C. C. C., Cambridge),\u003cbr\u003e  and Mannhardt--Science of Tylor--Object of inquiry: to find\u003cbr\u003e  condition of human intellect in which marvels of myth are parts of\u003cbr\u003e  practical everyday belief--This is the savage state--Savages\u003cbr\u003e  described--The wild element of myth a survival from the savage\u003cbr\u003e  state--Advantages of this method--Partly accounts for wide\u003cbr\u003e  DIFFUSION as well as ORIGIN of myths--Connected with general\u003cbr\u003e  theory of evolution--Puzzling example of myth of the water-\u003cbr\u003e  swallower--Professor Tiele's criticism of the method--\u003cbr\u003e  Objections to method, and answer to these--See Appendix B.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  CHAPTER III.--THE MENTAL CONDITION OF SAVAGES--CONFUSION WITH\u003cbr\u003e                  NATURE--TOTEMISM.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  The mental condition of savages the basis of the irrational element\u003cbr\u003e  in myth--Characteristics of that condition: (1) Confusion of all\u003cbr\u003e  things in an equality of presumed animation and intelligence;\u003cbr\u003e  (2) Belief in sorcery; (3) Spiritualism; (4) Curiosity; (5) Easy\u003cbr\u003e  credulity and mental indolence--The curiosity is satisfied, thanks\u003cbr\u003e  to the credulity, by myths in answer to all inquiries--Evidence for\u003cbr\u003e  this--Mr. Tylor's opinion--Mr. Im Thurn--Jesuit missionaries'\u003cbr\u003e  Relations--Examples of confusion between men, plants, beasts and\u003cbr\u003e  other natural objects--Reports of travellers--Evidence from\u003cbr\u003e  institution of totemism--Definition of totemism--Totemism in\u003cbr\u003e  Australia, Africa, America, the Oceanic Islands, India, North Asia--\u003cbr\u003e  Conclusions: Totemism being found so widely distributed, is a proof\u003cbr\u003e  of the existence of that savage mental condition in which no line\u003cbr\u003e  is drawn between men and the other things in the world.  This\u003cbr\u003e  confusion is one of the characteristics of myth in all races.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  CHAPTER IV.--THE MENTAL CONDITION OF SAVAGES--MAGIC--\u003cbr\u003e                 METAMORPHOSIS--METAPHYSIC--PSYCHOLOGY.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Claims of sorcerers--Savage scientific speculation--Theory of\u003cbr\u003e  causation--Credulity, except as to new religious ideas--\"Post hoc,\u003cbr\u003e  ergo propter hoc\"--Fundamental ideas of magic--Examples:\u003cbr\u003e  incantations, ghosts, spirits--Evidence of rank and other\u003cbr\u003e  institutions in proof of confusions of mind exhibited in magical\u003cbr\u003e  beliefs.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  CHAPTER V.--NATURE MYTHS.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Savage fancy, curiosity and credulity illustrated in nature myths--\u003cbr\u003e  In these all phenomena are explained by belief in the general\u003cbr\u003e  animation of everything, combined with belief in metamorphosis--Sun\u003cbr\u003e  myths, Asian, Australian, African, Melanesian, Indian, Californian,\u003cbr\u003e  Brazilian, Maori, Samoan--Moon myths, Australian, Muysca, Mexican,\u003cbr\u003e  Zulu, Macassar, Greenland, Piute, Malay--Thunder myths--Greek and\u003cbr\u003e  Aryan sun and moon myths--Star myths--Myths, savage and civilised,\u003cbr\u003e  of animals, accounting for their marks and habits--Examples of\u003cbr\u003e  custom of claiming blood kinship with lower animals--Myths of\u003cbr\u003e  various plants and trees--Myths of stones, and of metamorphosis\u003cbr\u003e  into stones, Greek, Australian and American--The whole natural\u003cbr\u003e  philosophy of savages expressed in myths, and survives in folk-lore\u003cbr\u003e  and classical poetry; and legends of metamorphosis.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  CHAPTER VI.--NON-ARYAN MYTHS OF THE ORIGIN OF THE WORLD AND OF MAN.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Confusions of myth--Various origins of man and of things--Myths of\u003cbr\u003e  Australia, Andaman Islands, Bushmen, Ovaherero, Namaquas, Zulus,\u003cbr\u003e  Hurons, Iroquois, Diggers, Navajoes, Winnebagoes, Chaldaeans,\u003cbr\u003e  Thlinkeets, Pacific Islanders, Maoris, Aztecs, Peruvians--\u003cbr\u003e  Similarity of ideas pervading all those peoples in various\u003cbr\u003e  conditions of society and culture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  CHAPTER VII.--INDO-ARYAN MYTHS--SOURCES OF EVIDENCE.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Authorities--Vedas--Brahmanas--Social condition of Vedic India--\u003cbr\u003e  Arts--Ranks--War--Vedic fetishism--Ancestor worship--Date of Rig-\u003cbr\u003e  Veda Hymns doubtful--Obscurity of the Hymns--Difficulty of\u003cbr\u003e  interpreting the real character of Veda--Not primitive but\u003cbr\u003e  sacerdotal--The moral purity not innocence but refinement.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  CHAPTER VIII.--INDIAN MYTHS OF THE ORIGIN OF THE WORLD AND OF MAN.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47165821714672,"sku":"2940015835229","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940015835229","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}