Origin of animal sacrifices.
Mythological motifs. · Creation and ordering of human life. · Origin of customs. · Origin of religious ceremonials. · view the constellation · filed as A1545.3
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
- ReferenceThe Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (abridged), Chapter LL. Eating the God
- ReferenceThe Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (abridged), Chapter XIXXIX. Tabooed Acts
- IndicThe Mahābhārata, Book 12, Section CCLXXVII
- IndicThe Mahābhārata, Book 13, Section III
- IndicThe Mahābhārata, Book 14, Section XXVIII
Scholars’ trail — 1reference
The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.
- India*Thompson-Balys.