Nature Worship and Taboo
Subtitle: Further Studies in the Soul of the Bantu 1932
Contributors: William Douglas Mackenzie (Introduction)
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Published: July 25, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780548053829
Subjects: Anthropology - Cultural; Ethnic & Tribal; Religion : Ethnic & Tribal; Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural; Social Science; Archaeology / Anthropology; Sociology
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.