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The Golden Bough A Study in Magic and Religion

J.G. Frazer

Sir James George Frazer originally set out to discover the origins of one ancient custom in Classical Rome - the plucking of the Golden Bough from a tree in the sacred grove of Diana, and the murderous succession of the priesthood there - and was led by his invetigations into a twenty-five year stud...

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The Joe Rogan Experience

This book, written by anthropologist James George Frazer, explored the origins of monarchy and kingship and suggested that early societies were organized around scapegoats who were eventually transformed into living gods.

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I'm, I'm always I don't know if this is an alternate history theory, but I'm always into the James Frazer, "Golden Bough", Ren Girard, "Violence and the Sacred History", where you know you have always...

— Episode: #2190 - Peter Thiel

Episode: #2190 - Peter Thiel

This book, written by anthropologist James George Frazer, explored the origins of monarchy and kingship and suggested that early societies were organized around scapegoats who were eventually transformed into living gods.

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I'm, I'm always I don't know if this is an alternate history theory, but I'm always into the James Frazer, "Golden Bough", Ren Girard, "Violence and the Sacred History", where you know you have always this question about the origins of monarchy and kingship and the, the, the sort of Girard, Frazer intuition is that it's something like, it is something like if every king is a kind of living god, then we have to also believe the opposite that maybe every god is a dead or murdered king, and that that somehow societies were organized around scapegoats.

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