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there are many examples of a nameless, faceless, suddenly acting and terrifying demon. Of this instantly arising and just as instantly departing fatal force man has no idea, they cannot call it by name and cannot enter into communion with it. Subsequently, there are ideas of
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and events with different powers of influence. In developed animism the transformation of a demon or god leads to its
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At an early stage in the development of mythological ideas, scholars suggest the existence of
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and the official cult. This opposition is particularly pronounced in
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Basic mythological motifs and terms. Inferior Mythology
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Myths of the Peoples of the World : Encyclopaedia
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original research
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mythological
divine
demons
spirits
gods
world religions
German
ethnographer
W. Mannhardt
spirits of vegetation
totemic cult
James George Frazer
Attis
Adonis
Osiris
Dionysus
dying and resurrecting
mythological fetishism
animism
Homer
demons of individual things
anthropomorphism
Demonology
Folk religion
Legendary creature

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