Tuesday 30 October 2012

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The god is dying. Appealing to the dying god, sacrificing to help him, the people find in his demise a source of strength and purification and rejuvenation. The dying god, and by extension, those who are sacrificed in his cause, perform the function of scapegoat. Frazer (1955) illuminates the cultural. roots of this notion, the source of its fascination to us. It was the Aztecs, Frazer says, who raised this practice to its extreme, who sacrificed the lives of multitudes, especially young people, in an effort to keep their gods young and vital

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