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Lewis Spence. An Introduction to Mythology
An Introduction to Mythology
Table of Contents
PREFACE
AN INTRODUCTION TO MYTHOLOGY
CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY
CHAPTER II. THE PROGRESS OF MYTHIC SCIENCE
CHAPTER III. THE EVOLUTION OF THE GODS
CHAPTER IV. THE VARIOUS TYPES OF DEITY
CHAPTER V. THE VARIOUS CLASSES OF MYTH
CHAPTER VI. THE MAKING OF THE WORLD AND OF MAN (COSMOGONY)
CHAPTER VII. PARADISE AND THE PLACE OF PUNISHMENT
CHAPTER VIII. FOLKLORE AND MYTH
CHAPTER IX. RITUAL AND MYTH
CHAPTER X. THE WRITTEN SOURCES OF MYTH
CHAPTER XI. THE GREAT MYTHIC SYSTEMS OF THE WORLD
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Lewis Spence
Published by Good Press, 2021
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We have seen that the ancient Greeks had in their temples stones representing 'nameless gods' who seem to have been of fetish origin. Thus a fetish may almost seem an idol, and the line of demarcation between the great fetish and the idol is slender, the great fetish being a link between the smaller fetish and the complete god.
Myths showing fetishistic belief are few and obscure, but the writer recently unearthed, in the fishing village of Newhaven, near Edinburgh, one which is a good example of the survival of a fetish myth and of the rise of a fetish to godhead.
