CONTENTS
PREFACE TO NEW IMPRESSION.
PREFACE TO NEW EDITION.
MYTH, RITUAL, AND RELIGION CHAPTER I. SYSTEMS OF MYTHOLOGY
CHAPTER II. NEW SYSTEM PROPOSED
CHAPTER III. THE MENTAL CONDITION OF SAVAGES—CONFUSION WITH NATURE—TOTEMISM
CHAPTER IV. THE MENTAL CONDITION OF SAVAGES—MAGIC—METAMORPHOSIS—METAPHYSIC—PSYCHOLOGY
CHAPTER V. NATURE MYTHS
CHAPTER VI. NON-ARYAN MYTHS OF THE ORIGIN OF THE WORLD AND OF MAN
CHAPTER VII. INDO-ARYAN MYTHS—SOURCES OF EVIDENCE
CHAPTER VIII. INDIAN MYTHS OF THE ORIGIN OF THE WORLD AND OF MAN
CHAPTER IX. GREEK MYTHS OF THE ORIGIN OF THE WORLD AND MAN
CHAPTER X. GREEK COSMOGONIC MYTHS
CHAPTER XI. SAVAGE DIVINE MYTHS
PREFACE TO NEW IMPRESSION.
PREFACE TO NEW EDITION.
CHAPTER I.—SYSTEMS OF MYTHOLOGY.
Definitions of religion—Contradictory evidence—"Belief in
spiritual beings"—Objection to Mr. Tylor's definition—Definition
as regards this argument—Problem: the contradiction between
religion and myth—Two human moods—Examples—Case of Greece—
Ancient mythologists—Criticism by Eusebius—Modern mythological
systems—Mr. Max Muller—Mannhardt.
CHAPTER II.—NEW SYSTEM PROPOSED.
Chapter I. recapitulated—Proposal of a new method: Science of
comparative or historical study of man—Anticipated in part by
Eusebius, Fontenelle, De Brosses, Spencer (of C. C. C., Cambridge),
and Mannhardt—Science of Tylor—Object of inquiry: to find
condition of human intellect in which marvels of myth are parts of
practical everyday belief—This is the savage state—Savages
described—The wild element of myth a survival from the savage
state—Advantages of this method—Partly accounts for wide
DIFFUSION as well as ORIGIN of myths—Connected with general
theory of evolution—Puzzling example of myth of the water-
swallower—Professor Tiele's criticism of the method—
Objections to method, and answer to these—See Appendix B.
CHAPTER III.—THE MENTAL CONDITION OF SAVAGES—CONFUSION WITH
NATURE—TOTEMISM.
The mental condition of savages the basis of the irrational element
in myth—Characteristics of that condition: (1) Confusion of all
things in an equality of presumed animation and intelligence;
(2) Belief in sorcery; (3) Spiritualism; (4) Curiosity; (5) Easy
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