Motif
ritual tree as crop-quickening power
ritual_tree_as_crop_quickening_power
A motif of the Sacred Time and Ritual Cycle family, within the sub-family Crop Spirits and Agricultural Fertility. 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) MACAULAY. / CHAPTER II. THE PERILS OF THE SOUL. / HEINE. / CHAPTER III. KILLING THE GOD.; lines 6297-6380 confidence: medium
Frazer says young Oraon and Munda people cut a young Karma tree or branch at rice-planting time and return with it in triumph, dancing, singing, and beating drums.
The Karma tree is ceremonially brought in, honored, given barley sprouts, and interpreted by Frazer as fostering rice growth through a tree-spirit or grove deity power.
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