Eliseo Ferrer / The «Sacrifice of the Sacred King». Myth, ritual and meaning. (The Christian myth archaic origins).
Feb 27, 2022
ABSTRACT / The sacrificial and violent death of the Sacred King (the queen´s son or Neolithic goddess’s son) was the foremost part of an archaic ritual that, periodically, pursued the propitiatory influence of Earth Goddess ‘s invisible forces and energies on cosmos renewal and the tribe’s impurities and sins expiation. It was one of the primitive cultures and world’s protohistory’s most characteristic «religious» events which marked the thereafter man’s relationships with the «sacred» realm. This ancient and complex ritual phenomenon was typified by James G. Frazer in «The Golden Bough: A study in Magic and Religion» (1890–1922), as the «Sacrifice of the Sacred King».
