Motif
ingestion transfers qualities of the consumed being
ingestion_transfers_qualities_of_the_consumed_being
A motif of the Sacred Substance and Divine Intoxication family, within the sub-family Enchanted Foods and Potions Causing Binding, Sleep, and Forgetting. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
2 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 2061-2136 confidence: high
The passage explains the rationale as a belief that “by eating the flesh of an animal or man he acquires not only the physical, but even the moral and intellectual qualities” of that being.
The passage states the general belief that eating animal or human flesh transfers qualities and supports it with examples involving courage, strength, agility, timidity, longevity, speech, and soul-power.
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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 2061-2136 confidence: high
The passage states that the reason for eating the god is connected to a belief that eating the flesh of an animal or man transfers that being's physical, moral, and intellectual qualities.
The passage states the general belief and supplies many examples in which animal or human substances are eaten to acquire courage, strength, agility, longevity, speech, or soul-substance, or avoided to prevent undesirable qualities.
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