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Dudley Young

CONTENTS IX
PREFACE & ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS XI
INTRODUCTION XVII

PART ONE – ORIGINS OF THE SACRED The Evolution of Man in Nature

CHAPTER 1 – PERCEIVING THE WORLD: Science Versus Mythology 5
CHAPTER 2 – IN THE BEGINNING: From Monkey to Man 49
CHAPTER 3 – MALE VERSUS FEMALE: The Paleolithic Beginnings of Love and War 79
CHAPTER 4 – ON THE DANCING GROUND: Divinity Discovered and Innocence Lost 120

PART TWO – ILLUMINATIONS OF THE SACRED The Lawlines of Culture

CHAPTER 5 – DANGEROUS ECSTACIES: The Call to Ritual Drama 163
    5.1 Hunting 168
    5.2 War and Cannibalism 183
    5.3 Beauty 188
    5.4 Erotic Love 195
CHAPTER 6 – THINKING IN THE THEATER OF THE GODS: The Magic of Metamorphosis 208
    6.1 Shaman, His Mask and His Drum 208
    6.2 Language and the Magic of Representations 216
    6.3 Pollution and Chaos 229
    6.4 Sacred Swarms 237
    6.5 Trickster and Hermes: The Give and Take of Things That Change 249
CHAPTER 7 – ACTING IN THE THEATER OF THE GODS: The Mysteries of the Sacrificial Violence 268
    7.1 Housing the Sacred 269
    7.2 Sacrifice: The Mutilating Ecstasy 287
    7.3 The Scapegoat 298
    7.4 Dionysus and the Origins of Tragedy 306
    7.5 The Lamentation of Isis/Osiris 313

PART THREE: OCCLUSIONS OF THE SACRED – Moving from Myth into History

CHAPTER 8 – THE ECSTASIES OF LOVE AND WAR 341
    8.1 Genesis 3: Adam and Eve (Love) 341
    8.2 Genesis 4: Cain and Abel (War) 347
    8.3 The Epic of Gilgamesh 354
    8.4 Homer: Odysseus and the Cave of Polyphemos 364
    8.5 Finale: Poseidon and the Cretan Sea-Bull 384
APPENDIX:Etymologies of the Sacred in the Ancient World 399
NOTES 429
BIBLIOGRAPHY 463
INDEX 469

Origins of the Sacred

All levels and lines are dynamically spirally subject to the error of the nonword word existence, the euphemistically paradoxical self-contradiction, existence.

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