Nature Worship and Taboo
Subtitle: Further Studies in the Soul of the Bantu 1932
Contributors: William Douglas Mackenzie (Introduction)
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Published: October 15, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9781417976676
Subjects: Ethnic or tribal religions; Social & cultural anthropology; Ethnic & Tribal; Social Science; Archaeology / Anthropology; Sociology; Anthropology - Cultural; Religion-Ethnic & Tribal; Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural
First sentence: THE theory that the worship of the heavenly bodies was the beginning of religion is now generally abandoned; but Indo-Europeans worshipped personifications of natural phenomena before the oldest of their documents were written, and some of their descendants do so still.