Comparative mythology corpus

Skin Of Slain Divine Animal As Image Or Bearer Of Divine Life

1 appearances across 1 tradition groups.

Evidence

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TraditionSourcePassageConfidenceEvidenceRecord
Comparative The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 2 of 2) The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 2 of 2) / CONTENTS; lines 2207-2282 high The passage focuses on the skin applied to the god's image, compares preserved buzzard and goat skins, and proposes that a slain divine animal's skin was kept as a memorial containing part of divine life and could become an image if stuffed or stretched on a frame. record