Motif
bloodless execution of sacred royalty
bloodless_execution_of_sacred_royalty
A motif of the Royal Legitimacy and Sacred Kingship family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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comparative
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The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 1 of 2) CHAPTER I. THE KING OF THE WOOD. / MACAULAY. / CHAPTER II. THE PERILS OF THE SOUL. / HEINE.; lines 4380-4462 confidence: high
“It is a common rule that royal blood must not be shed upon the ground”; the Siamese king is killed in an iron caldron so divine blood is not mixed with earth.
Kings, princes, nobles, chiefs, or royal kin are killed by methods designed to avoid spilling royal blood onto earth or exposing it.
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