Review of Osiris and the Egyptian Ressurection and Adonis and Esmun, 1912
The attention, then, of scholars all over Europe is now fully focussed on
the year-gods
who die and live again
Everywhere, it
would seem, the focus of attention has shifted from the canonical immortals
This focus of
attention is but one phase, we think, of a wider movement
It is, however,
an open secret
that we may
expect shortly from the pen of our most learned Greek mythologist
a monograph on
the Father of Gods and Men,
the Olympian,
Zeus himself.
We shall look
eagerly to see whether behind the figure even of Zeus is
found to lurk
the shifting
shape of a year-daimon,
a god who does
not
‘live at ease’
but dies each
year that he and his worshippers may live anew.
Small details of analogy or rather of identity are here perhaps more convincing
than any large general comparison
they
both express, though it would seem unconsciously: a tendency only just become
articulate
Wow, I guess that year-daimons thing was just a trend? Never heard of them! So wild.
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ReplyDeletealternative title: The Uncanonical Immortals, or Fleeting Scholarly Fads. It was all so grand!
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