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source_text_path: texts/public-domain/comparative/project-gutenberg/golden-bough-volume-2-frazer.md
passage_locator:
label: 'The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 2 of 2) / CONTENTS
/ NOTE. OFFERINGS OF FIRST-FRUITS. / INDEX.; lines 11722-11964'
start: '11722'
end: '11964'
translation: 'The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 2 of 2)'
notes: Generated from OpenAI Batch run motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority;
human review required.
canonical_text:
quote: ''
summary: An index segment from Frazer’s comparative work lists topics and cross-references
concerning animal taboo and sacrifice, harvest and seasonal customs, sacred groves
and trees, fire festivals, sin-eating, puberty seclusion, ritual treatment of
hair, sacral kingship, weather-making, witch-expulsion, and named figures or rites
such as Virbius, Zeus and Hera, the Yule boar, the wren hunt, and the corn-spirit
as wolf.
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: The index lists the turtle as not eaten, as a sacred animal sacrificed, and
as an animal into which human souls are believed to transmigrate.
category: object
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: The passage lists rites or treatments connected with initiation, puberty,
seclusion, and girls or women among groups including the Ualaroi, Uapes, Watjobaluk,
Zulu, and in entries concerning secluded women.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:3
text: Several entries concern harvest customs, the last sheaf, threshing customs,
and names given to the binder of the last sheaf such as wheat-bride and wheat-dog.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- id: obs:4
text: The passage lists fire-related rites including the Vestal fire and fire festivals
or midsummer bonfires in several European localities.
category: object
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:5
text: The passage lists water kings, weather kings, rain-makers, wind-making, buying
and selling wind, and fighting the wind.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:6
text: Sin-eating is listed for Utch Kurgan and as a Welsh custom.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: obs:7
text: Tree-related entries include sacred groves, souls of trees, women and tree-spirits,
dancing round an oak-tree, and Zeus represented by an oak at Dodona.
category: object
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: obs:8
text: Animal-related ritual entries include the wren hunt, the corn-spirit as a
wolf, the Yule boar, the white dog sacrifice, and spared white mice.
category: object
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: obs:9
text: Entries concerning rulers include burning a king’s brothers, killing kings,
veiling a sultan, bodily requirements for rulers, qualities required for a king,
and weather or water kings.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: obs:10
text: The passage lists witch-expulsion and protection against witchcraft.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- id: obs:11
text: The passage lists hair and nail practices, including burying or secreting
cut hair, the hair of Vestal virgins, and rules from the Zend Avesta concerning
clippings of hair and nails.
category: object
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
- id: obs:12
text: The passage includes an entry for a representation of the marriage of Zeus
and Hera.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: Turtle
description: Animal listed as not eaten, as sacred and sacrificed, and as a recipient
form for transmigrated human souls.
role_refs:
- role:1
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: Girls or women at puberty or in seclusion
description: Human category appearing in entries on treatment of girls at puberty,
seclusion of women, and Zulu girls secluded at puberty.
role_refs:
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: Binder of the last sheaf
description: Person associated with harvest entries and named as wheat-bride or
wheat-dog in the index.
role_refs:
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: Weather, water, and rain-making figures
description: Ritual specialists or rulers listed under water kings, weather kings,
rain-makers, and wind-making customs.
role_refs:
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: Tree-spirits and trees with souls
description: Nonhuman or animating beings implied by entries on souls of trees and
women and tree-spirits.
role_refs:
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: fig:6
name_or_label: Corn-spirit as wolf
description: The corn-spirit is indexed as taking or being represented by wolf form.
role_refs:
- role:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: fig:7
name_or_label: Wren
description: Bird appearing in entries on hunting the wren and an English tradition
concerning that hunt.
role_refs:
- role:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: fig:8
name_or_label: Sacral rulers
description: Kings, sultans, and rulers appearing in entries about bodily requirements,
veiling, killing, burning of royal brothers, and weather or water authority.
role_refs:
- role:5
- role:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: fig:9
name_or_label: Witches
description: Figures named in entries about expulsion and protection against witchcraft.
role_refs:
- role:9
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- id: fig:10
name_or_label: Zeus and Hera
description: Divine pair appearing in an entry about a representation of their marriage.
role_refs:
- role:10
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
- id: fig:11
name_or_label: White dog
description: Animal appearing in an entry for sacrifice of the white dog.
role_refs:
- role:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: fig:12
name_or_label: Virbius
description: Named figure indexed with a legend, relation to the Arician Diana,
connection with the horse, and a reason for being confounded with the sun.
role_refs:
- role:11
evidence_refs:
- ev:14
roles:
- id: role:1
label: sacrificial or hunted animal
assigned_to:
- fig:1
- fig:7
- fig:11
basis: The index explicitly lists turtle sacrifice, hunting the wren, and sacrifice
of the white dog.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:9
- id: role:2
label: soul-transmigration animal
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: The turtle entry includes belief in transmigration of human souls into turtles.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: role:3
label: puberty or seclusion subject
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: The index lists treatment of girls at puberty and women secluded.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: role:4
label: harvest rite participant
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: The binder of the last sheaf is named in entries as wheat-bride and wheat-dog.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: role:5
label: weather or natural-force mediator
assigned_to:
- fig:4
- fig:8
basis: Entries list weather kings, water kings, rain-makers, and wind-making.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:10
- id: role:6
label: tree-associated spirit
assigned_to:
- fig:5
basis: The passage includes entries on souls of trees and women and tree-spirits.
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: role:7
label: animal-form corn-spirit
assigned_to:
- fig:6
basis: The index gives 'Wolf, the corn-spirit as a'.
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: role:8
label: restricted or killable sacred ruler
assigned_to:
- fig:8
basis: Ruler entries mention veiling, required bodily qualities, and kings killed
or related royal figures burned.
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: role:9
label: expelled dangerous figure
assigned_to:
- fig:9
basis: Entries include expulsion of witches and protection against witchcraft.
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- id: role:10
label: divine marriage pair
assigned_to:
- fig:10
basis: The entry names Zeus and Hera in connection with a representation of marriage.
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
- id: role:11
label: indexed legendary figure
assigned_to:
- fig:12
basis: Virbius is indexed with a legend and interpretive cross-references.
evidence_refs:
- ev:14
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: turtle
literal_form: Turtle
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: sym:2
label: last sheaf
literal_form: Last sheaf at harvest
associated_figures:
- fig:3
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- id: sym:3
label: fire
literal_form: Vestal fire, fire festival, midsummer bonfire
associated_figures: []
taxonomy_refs:
- fire
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: sym:4
label: water and weather
literal_form: Water kings, rain-makers, weather kings, wind
associated_figures:
- fig:4
- fig:8
taxonomy_refs:
- water
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: sym:5
label: tree and sacred grove
literal_form: Sacred grove, tree-souls, oak-tree, oak at Dodona
associated_figures:
- fig:5
taxonomy_refs:
- tree
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: sym:6
label: wolf
literal_form: Wolf as corn-spirit
associated_figures:
- fig:6
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: sym:7
label: wren
literal_form: Wren hunted in custom and tradition
associated_figures:
- fig:7
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: sym:8
label: white dog
literal_form: White dog sacrifice
associated_figures:
- fig:11
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: sym:9
label: hair and nails
literal_form: Cut hair, hair of Vestal virgins, clippings of hair and nails
associated_figures: []
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
- id: sym:10
label: wine as blood of the vine
literal_form: Wine described in the index as the blood of the vine
associated_figures: []
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:15
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: 'Index cluster: animal taboo, sacrifice, and soul belief'
summary: The index groups animal-related entries involving taboo against eating,
sacrifice, hunting, spared animals, and transmigration of human souls into an
animal.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:7
- fig:11
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:7
- sym:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:9
- id: scene:2
label: 'Index cluster: agrarian and seasonal rites'
summary: The passage lists harvest customs, last-sheaf ceremonies, threshing customs,
May Day, Whitsuntide, midsummer fire customs, Yule, New Year, and related named
harvest figures.
figure_refs:
- fig:3
- fig:6
symbol_refs:
- sym:2
- sym:3
- sym:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- ev:5
- ev:9
- ev:16
- id: scene:3
label: 'Index cluster: sacred trees and groves'
summary: The passage lists sacred groves, tree-souls, tree-spirits, ritual dancing
around an oak-tree, and Zeus represented by an oak.
figure_refs:
- fig:5
symbol_refs:
- sym:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: scene:4
label: 'Index cluster: sacral kingship and natural control'
summary: The passage lists weather kings, water kings, rain-makers, wind-making,
ruler veiling, bodily requirements for kings, and killing or endangering royal
figures.
figure_refs:
- fig:4
- fig:8
symbol_refs:
- sym:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:10
- id: scene:5
label: 'Index cluster: bodily danger and ritual handling'
summary: The passage lists puberty seclusion, women’s blood, treatment of cut hair
and nails, veiling, and precautions connected with bodily substances or visibility.
figure_refs:
- fig:2
symbol_refs:
- sym:9
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:12
- ev:17
- id: scene:6
label: 'Index cluster: sin, expulsion, and protection'
summary: The passage lists sin-eating customs, expulsion of witches, driving out
Satan, and protection against witchcraft.
figure_refs:
- fig:9
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:11
- ev:18
- id: scene:7
label: 'Index entry: divine marriage representation'
summary: The passage includes an index entry for Zeus and Hera and the representation
of their marriage.
figure_refs:
- fig:10
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: animal sacrifice and ritual animal taboo
taxonomy_refs:
- sacrifice
basis: The index names turtle sacrifice, white dog sacrifice, animals not eaten,
the wren hunt, and other animal ritual entries.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:9
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage is an index and does not provide full ritual descriptions.
- id: motif:2
label: seasonal agrarian cycle customs
taxonomy_refs:
- seasonal_cycle
basis: The passage repeatedly lists harvest customs, last-sheaf rites, May Day,
Whitsuntide, midsummer, Yule, New Year, and fire festivals.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- ev:5
- ev:16
confidence: high
cautions: The index supplies topics and locations but not the sequence or meaning
of each custom.
- id: motif:3
label: sacred tree and grove
taxonomy_refs:
- sacred_tree_axis
basis: Entries mention sacred groves, tree-souls, women and tree-spirits, dancing
around an oak, and Zeus represented by an oak at Dodona.
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage does not elaborate cosmological axis or world-center functions.
- id: motif:4
label: initiation and puberty seclusion
taxonomy_refs:
- initiation
basis: The passage includes initiatory rites and the treatment or seclusion of girls
and women at puberty.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
confidence: medium
cautions: The index gives only brief headings without ritual detail.
- id: motif:5
label: sacral kingship under bodily restrictions or death
taxonomy_refs:
- royal_legitimacy
basis: Entries list ruler veiling, bodily defect restrictions, qualities required
for kings, kings killed, and burning of a king’s brothers.
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
confidence: medium
cautions: Royal legitimacy is inferred from ruler restrictions and offices, not
explicitly argued in the excerpt.
- id: motif:6
label: weather-making and control of natural forces
taxonomy_refs:
- sacred_exchange
basis: Entries list water kings, weather kings, rain-makers, wind-making, buying
and selling wind, and fighting the wind.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
confidence: low
cautions: The taxonomy reference is approximate; the index does not specify an exchange
structure.
- id: motif:7
label: sin-eating or transfer of moral burden
taxonomy_refs:
- sacred_exchange
basis: Sin-eating is named for Utch Kurgan and Wales.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
confidence: medium
cautions: The mechanism of transfer is not described in this index passage.
- id: motif:8
label: ritual expulsion of dangerous beings or forces
taxonomy_refs:
- sacrifice
basis: The passage lists expulsion of witches, protection against witchcraft, and
driving out Satan by the Wotjaks.
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- ev:18
confidence: low
cautions: The closest available taxonomy reference is imperfect; no explicit sacrifice
is given for witch-expulsion entries.
- id: motif:9
label: divine marriage representation
taxonomy_refs:
- sacred_marriage
basis: The index includes Zeus and Hera and a representation of their marriage.
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
confidence: medium
cautions: Only the index entry is present; no ritual context is described.
- id: motif:10
label: vegetation spirit slain at midsummer
taxonomy_refs:
- dying_and_returning
- seasonal_cycle
basis: The passage indexes the vegetation spirit in human shape and as slain at
midsummer.
evidence_refs:
- ev:19
confidence: medium
cautions: The entry states slaying but does not state return or rebirth in this
excerpt.
comparison_claims:
- id: claim:1
claim: The index places multiple geographically distinct harvest, last-sheaf, threshing,
May Day, Whitsuntide, midsummer, and Yule customs in the same reference field,
supporting a cautious same-function comparison as seasonal agrarian rites.
claim_level: same_function
target: seasonal agrarian custom cluster in the index
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- ev:5
- ev:16
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: medium
limitations: The excerpt is an index; it does not describe the customs in enough
detail to establish identical form or historical connection.
- id: claim:2
claim: The two named entries for sin-eating, Utch Kurgan and Welsh custom, support
a cautious same-motif comparison at the level of a named ritual category.
claim_level: same_motif
target: sin-eating customs
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: medium
limitations: No ritual procedure is supplied, so the comparison rests only on the
shared index term.
- id: claim:3
claim: The index juxtaposes weather kings, water kings, rain-makers, and wind-making,
supporting a cautious same-function comparison of ritualized control or mediation
of weather and natural forces.
claim_level: same_function
target: weather-making and natural-force mediation pattern
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:10
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: low
limitations: The passage does not show whether these practices share agents, rites,
theology, or historical links.
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: quote
locator: lines 11722-11964, index entries 'Turtle' and 'Zuni'
quote_or_summary: '"Turtle, the, not eaten"; "sacrifice of the sacred"; "belief
in the transmigration of human souls into"; "Zuni sacrifice of the turtle".'
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/comparative/project-gutenberg/golden-bough-volume-2-frazer.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short quotation from supplied passage.
- id: ev:2
type: summary
locator: lines 11722-11964, entries 'Ualaroi', 'Uapes', 'Women', 'Watjobaluk', 'Zulu'
quote_or_summary: Index entries mention initiatory rites, treatment of girls at
puberty, secluded women, and Zulu girls secluded at puberty.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/comparative/project-gutenberg/golden-bough-volume-2-frazer.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized from supplied passage.
- id: ev:3
type: summary
locator: lines 11722-11964, harvest and last-sheaf entries
quote_or_summary: Entries for Udvarhely, Uelzen, Weiden, Westphalia, Wanzleben,
Wermland, Zabern, Zealand, and others list harvest, last-sheaf, reaping, threshing,
and harvest-home customs.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/comparative/project-gutenberg/golden-bough-volume-2-frazer.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized from supplied passage.
- id: ev:4
type: quote
locator: lines 11722-11964, entries 'Wheat-bride' and 'Wheat dog'
quote_or_summary: '"Wheat-bride, a name given to the binder of the last sheaf";
"Wheat dog, a name given to the binder of the last sheaf".'
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/comparative/project-gutenberg/golden-bough-volume-2-frazer.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short quotation from supplied passage.
- id: ev:5
type: summary
locator: lines 11722-11964, fire entries
quote_or_summary: The index lists Vestal fire, fire festivals at Val di Ledro, Vorarlberg,
Zürich, and midsummer fire or bonfire ceremonies in the Tyrol, Winenthal, and
Wolfeck.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/comparative/project-gutenberg/golden-bough-volume-2-frazer.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized from supplied passage.
- id: ev:6
type: quote
locator: lines 11722-11964, entries 'Water', 'Weather kings', 'West African rain-makers',
'Wind', 'Yakut', 'Zulu'
quote_or_summary: '"Water, kings of"; "Weather kings"; "West African rain-makers";
"Wind, buying and selling"; "fighting the"; "wind-making".'
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/comparative/project-gutenberg/golden-bough-volume-2-frazer.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short quotation from supplied passage.
- id: ev:7
type: quote
locator: lines 11722-11964, entries 'Utch Kurgan' and 'Welsh'
quote_or_summary: '"Utch Kurgan, sin eating"; "Welsh custom of sin eating".'
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/comparative/project-gutenberg/golden-bough-volume-2-frazer.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short quotation from supplied passage.
- id: ev:8
type: summary
locator: lines 11722-11964, tree and grove entries
quote_or_summary: Entries mention the sacred grove at Upsala, sacred groves of the
Wotjaks, Wanika belief in souls of trees, women and tree-spirits, Wends dancing
round the oak-tree, and Zeus represented by an oak at Dodona.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/comparative/project-gutenberg/golden-bough-volume-2-frazer.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized from supplied passage.
- id: ev:9
type: summary
locator: lines 11722-11964, animal entries
quote_or_summary: Entries mention hunting the wren, the corn-spirit as a wolf, the
Yule boar, sacrifice of the white dog, white mice spared, venison not eaten, and
animal-worship types.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/comparative/project-gutenberg/golden-bough-volume-2-frazer.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized from supplied passage.
- id: ev:10
type: summary
locator: lines 11722-11964, ruler entries
quote_or_summary: Entries mention burning the king’s brothers in Uganda, kings killed
in Unyoro and among Zulu, the veiling and bodily requirements of the Sultan of
Wadai, qualities required for the king of the Zoolas, and water or weather kings.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/comparative/project-gutenberg/golden-bough-volume-2-frazer.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized from supplied passage.
- id: ev:11
type: quote
locator: lines 11722-11964, entries 'Witchcraft' and 'Witches'
quote_or_summary: '"Witchcraft, protection against"; "Witches, expulsion of".'
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/comparative/project-gutenberg/golden-bough-volume-2-frazer.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short quotation from supplied passage.
- id: ev:12
type: summary
locator: lines 11722-11964, hair and nail entries
quote_or_summary: Entries mention cut hair buried in Ugi, cut hair and nails secreted
by the Wanyoro, hair of Vestal virgins, strength thought to be in hair at Zacynthus,
and Zend Avesta directions about clippings of hair and nails.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/comparative/project-gutenberg/golden-bough-volume-2-frazer.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized from supplied passage.
- id: ev:13
type: quote
locator: lines 11722-11964, entry 'Zeus and Hera'
quote_or_summary: '"Zeus and Hera, representation of the marriage of".'
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/comparative/project-gutenberg/golden-bough-volume-2-frazer.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short quotation from supplied passage.
- id: ev:14
type: summary
locator: lines 11722-11964, entry 'Virbius'
quote_or_summary: Virbius is indexed with a legend, a possible explanation of his
relation to the Arician Diana, an association with the horse, and a reason for
being confounded with the sun.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/comparative/project-gutenberg/golden-bough-volume-2-frazer.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized from supplied passage.
- id: ev:15
type: quote
locator: lines 11722-11964, entry 'Wine'
quote_or_summary: '"Wine the blood of the vine"; "abstention from".'
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/comparative/project-gutenberg/golden-bough-volume-2-frazer.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short quotation from supplied passage.
- id: ev:16
type: summary
locator: lines 11722-11964, seasonal entries
quote_or_summary: The passage lists Twelfth Day, May Day, Whitsuntide, midsummer,
Yule, and New Year customs, including Yule boar and Yule straw.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/comparative/project-gutenberg/golden-bough-volume-2-frazer.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized from supplied passage.
- id: ev:17
type: summary
locator: lines 11722-11964, bodily-substance and visibility entries
quote_or_summary: The index includes veiling, reluctance to be photographed, being
not seen eating, superstitions concerning women’s blood, and related precautions.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/comparative/project-gutenberg/golden-bough-volume-2-frazer.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized from supplied passage.
- id: ev:18
type: summary
locator: lines 11722-11964, entries 'Wotjaks' and related expulsion entries
quote_or_summary: The Wotjaks are indexed with sacred groves and driving out Satan;
witches are indexed with expulsion and witchcraft protection.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/comparative/project-gutenberg/golden-bough-volume-2-frazer.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized from supplied passage.
- id: ev:19
type: quote
locator: lines 11722-11964, entry 'Vegetation'
quote_or_summary: '"Vegetation, spirit of, in human shape"; "slain at midsummer".'
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/comparative/project-gutenberg/golden-bough-volume-2-frazer.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short quotation from supplied passage.
confidence:
extraction: medium
motif_candidates: medium
comparison_claims: low
notes: The passage is an index, so it reliably identifies indexed topics and cross-references
but rarely gives full narrative scenes, ritual sequences, or meanings. Motif assignments
are therefore cautious and require human review against the referenced pages.
reviewer_status:
status: needs_review
reviewer: ''
reviewed_at: ''
notes: Machine-generated draft from OpenAI Batch; not human-reviewed.
extracted_by: openai_batch:gpt-5.5
extracted_at: '2026-04-28'
notes: |-
Only the supplied line range and metadata were used. Taxonomy references were limited to the available lists and omitted where unsupported or too approximate.
batch_run_id=motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority
custom_id=motif_extract:comparative-golden-bough-volume-2-frazer-gutenberg__l11722-l11964
passage_sha256=b352fe7710d60a6fb91edf3900815184bb597be4ec92c2a29e6f37a4d6b4aac7