Motif
deity incarnate in the intoxicated votary
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A motif of the Sacred Substance and Divine Intoxication family, within the sub-family Possession, Inspiration, and Revelry. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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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 4464-4506 confidence: high
The Aztecs are described as treating pulque as dangerous because wild deeds under its influence were acts of the wine-god possessing and inspiring the drinker; insulting a tipsy man could be punished as disrespect to the wine-god incarnate in him.
In the Aztec example, the tipsy person is treated as possessed by the wine-god, and insulting him is disrespect toward the god incarnate in the votary.
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