Motif
ritual taboo around liminal persons
ritual_taboo_around_liminal_persons
A motif of the Sacred Law and Social Order family, within the sub-family Taboo and Ritual Restriction. 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. 1 of 2) CHAPTER II. THE PERILS OF THE SOUL. / HEINE. / CHAPTER III. KILLING THE GOD. / FOOTNOTES; lines 10784-10940 confidence: medium
“The reader may observe how closely the taboos laid upon mourners resemble those laid upon kings.”
The passage explicitly states that taboos on mourners resemble taboos on kings, indicating a recurring ritual pattern around socially or ritually marked persons.
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