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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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