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" The two moods are present, and in conflict, through the whole religious history of the human race. They stand as near each other, and as far apart, as Love and Lust. It will later be shown that even some of the most backward savages make a perhaps half-conscious... "
Myth, Ritual and Religion - Page 5
by Andrew Lang - 1899 - 719 pages
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Myth, Ritual and Religion, Volume 1

Andrew Lang - Religion - 1899 - 416 pages
...the mythical ideas uprise from another mood, that of playful a*nd erratic fancy. These two moods are conspicuous even in Christianity. The former, that...latter, they jealously guard their secret in sacred mysteries. It is improbable that reflective " black fellows " have been morally shocked by the flagrant...
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Myth, Ritual and Religion, Volume 1

Andrew Lang - Anthropology - 1901 - 390 pages
...that of playful and erratic fancy, is conspicuous in the buffoonery of Miracle Plays, in M drchen, these burlesque popular tales about our Lord and the...latter, they jealously guard their secret in sacred mysteries. It is improbable that reflective "black fellows" have been morally shocked by the flagrant...
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Myth, Ritual, and Religion, Volume 1

Andrew Lang - Myth - 1913 - 390 pages
...that of playful and erratic fancy, is conspicuous in the buffoonery of Miracle Plays, in M arc hen, these burlesque popular tales about our Lord and the...communicative ; as to the latter, they jealously guard then- secret in sacred 1 The hypothesis that the conception was borrowed from European creeds wUl be...
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Myth, Ritual & Religion, Volume 1

Andrew Lang - Social Science - 2005 - 389 pages
...that of playful and erratic fancy, is conspicuous in the buffoonery of Miracle Plays, in Ma/fehen, these burlesque popular tales about our Lord and the...later be shown that even some of the most backward savage* make a perhaps half-conscious distinction between their mythology and their religion. As to...
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Preludes: Essays on the Ludic Imagination, 1961-1981

Christine Downing - Imagination - 2005 - 308 pages
...popular tales about our Lord and the Apostles, and in the grotesque sculptures on sacred edifices. Trie two moods are present and in conflict through the whole religious history of the race. But how often the mood of playful fancy has been repressed and how one dimensional, how disembodied,...
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