Zalmoxis - The Vanishing God

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Contents......Page 2 Preface......Page 3 Religious Meanings of Ethnic Names......Page 5 Military Initiations: Ritual Transformation into a predatory animal......Page 7 The Club & the Standard......Page 9 The "Dacians" - A Martial Brotherhood......Page 11 Mythico-ritual scenarios of the wolf......Page 12 Carnivores, hunters, warriors......Page 14 Herodotus 4. 94-96......Page 15 The Underground Chamber......Page 17 Ritual Caves: Occultation & Epiphanies......Page 18 Zalmoxis & Immortalization......Page 20 Ecstatics & Thaumaturges......Page 22 The Shaman-Philosophers......Page 24 Greek Shamanism......Page 25 Zalmoxis, Ecstasy, & Immortality......Page 26 Etymologies & History of Religions......Page 27 Zalmoxis & Freyr......Page 28 The Sacrifice of the Messenger......Page 29 Gebeleizis......Page 30 Zalmoxis & the Healer-Priests......Page 32 Zalmoxis & Decaeneus......Page 33 Solitaries & Sages......Page 34 Dacia Capta......Page 37 The Metamorphosis of Zalmoxis......Page 39 The Cosmogonic Dive......Page 42 Southeastern European Versions......Page 43 Polish, Baltic, and Mordvinian Variants......Page 45 God's Weariness......Page 46 Slavic Dualism?......Page 48 Some Russian Legends......Page 51 The Cosmogonic Dive among the Ugrians......Page 52 Altaians, Mongols......Page 53 Buriats, Yakuts......Page 55 Iran......Page 57 North American Cosmogonies......Page 60 Aryan India......Page 61 Pre-Aryan India & Southeast Asia......Page 62 Origin & Dissemination of the Myth......Page 64 Structure & Meaning of the cosmogonic Dive......Page 66 4 - Prince Dragos & the "Ritual Hunt"......Page 69 The Chroniclers......Page 70 "Ritual Hunt" & Animal Guides......Page 71 Origin Myths......Page 73 Hunor & Magor......Page 75 The Aurochs & the Bull......Page 76 Religious Role of the Stag......Page 77 The Stag Hunt in India......Page 79 Indo-Aryans, Finno-Uggrians, Altaians......Page 81 Concluding Remarks......Page 84 Folk Poetry & Religious Folklore......Page 86 Some Balkan Ballads......Page 89 The Exegesis: Folklorists, Historians of Literature, Stilkritiker......Page 90 Construction Rites: Morphology & History......Page 93 Blood Sacrifices & Cosmogonic Myths......Page 95 Archaism & Survival......Page 97 Bandinus & the Incantatores......Page 99 Rites of Defense against the plague......Page 101 The Fall of the Rusali......Page 103 Shamanism & Incantations......Page 105 7 - The Cult of the Mandragora in Romania......Page 106 "A thing holy and touching..."......Page 117 Historians, Folklorists, Philosophers......Page 118 Traditionalists & Modernists......Page 120 Constantin Brailoiu's Exegesis......Page 122 The Prestige of the Ballad......Page 123 Analysis of the Themes......Page 124 Postexistence, Posthumous betrothals, "Mioritic Nuptials"......Page 127 Prehistory of the Ballad......Page 129 The "Terror of History" & the Shepher's Response......Page 130 Index......Page 132