Motif
cultivated plant or corn deity worship
cultivated_plant_or_corn_deity_worship
A motif of the Sacred Time and Ritual Cycle family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
comparative
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The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 2 of 2) The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 2 of 2) / CONTENTS; lines 1508-1544 confidence: high
The author says it is hard to decide whether Apis and Mnevis embodied Osiris as corn-spirit or were separate deities fused with him; their worship by all Egyptians is contrasted with purely local sacred animal cults.
The author identifies worship of cultivated plants, especially corn, with the worship of Osiris and Isis and discusses Osiris as corn-god or corn-spirit.
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