The Golden Bough. Part VII. Balder The Beautiful. Volume II

James Frazer (1854 - 1941)

The eleventh volume of The Golden Bough series. Fire festivals in exotic nations, magical properties of flowers, the concept of the external soul, and a proposal to solve the mystery of ritual of the golden bough. Frazer's extensive researches into the origin, the evolution, and the meaning of killing of the king of the wood, is summarised with the help of analogies from the myths of other cultures, and finally explained as a symbolic cycle of death, rebirth, and the recharging of the sacred powers of the natural world thought to come from gods to man. (Summary by Leon Harvey)

Genre(s): Social Science (Culture & Anthropology), Other religions

Language: English

Keyword(s): religion (731), culture (75)

Group: The Golden Bough

Section Chapter Reader Time
Play 01 VI. Fire Festivals in other Lands Leon Harvey
00:39:52
Play 02 VII. The Burning of Human Beings in the Fire Leon Harvey
00:46:37
Play 03 VIII. The Magic Flowers of Midsummer Eve Leon Harvey
00:56:28
Play 04 IX. Balder and the Mistletoe Leon Harvey
00:34:26
Play 05 X. The External Soul in Folk-tales. Part 1. Leon Harvey
01:08:35
Play 06 X. The External Soul in Folk-tales. Part 2 Leon Harvey
00:59:24
Play 07 XI. The External Soul in Folk-custom. Part 1. Leon Harvey
00:12:29
Play 08 XI. The External Soul in Folk-custom. Part 2 Leon Harvey
01:08:14
Play 09 XI. The External Soul in Folk-custom. Part 3 Leon Harvey
00:45:25
Play 10 XI. The External Soul in Folk-custom. Part 4 Leon Harvey
00:12:04
Play 11 XI. The External Soul in Folk-custom. Part 5 Leon Harvey
00:57:49
Play 12 XI. The External Soul in Folk-custom. Part 6 Leon Harvey
00:45:42
Play 13 XII. The Golden Bough Leon Harvey
00:44:27
Play 14 XIII. Farewell to Nemi Leon Harvey
00:11:28
Play 15 NOTES. I. Snake Stones. II. The Transformation of Witches into Cats. III. African Balders. IV. The Mistletoe and the Golden Bough Leon Harvey
00:23:10