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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

Pharmakos, the Scapegoat

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Pharmakos, like the dirt, katharma promising cleansing katharsis.

Psychology: magic, myth and ritual.

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