Frazer claims that this legend of rebirth was central to almost all of the world's mythologies:įrazer wrote in a preface to the third edition of The Golden Bough that while he had never studied Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, his friend James Ward, and the philosopher J. He died at the harvest and was reincarnated in the spring. The king was the incarnation of a dying and reviving god, a solar deity who underwent a mystic marriage to a goddess of the Earth.
įrazer based his thesis on the pre-Roman priest-king Rex Nemorensis at the fane of Nemi, who was ritually murdered by his successor. The lake of Nemi, also known as " Diana's Mirror", was a place where religious ceremonies and the "fulfillment of vows" of priests and kings were held. Frazer mistakenly states that the painting depicts the lake at Nemi, though it is actually Lake Avernus. Turner's 1834 painting of The Golden Bough. Turner's 1834 painting of the Golden Bough incident in the Aeneidįrazer's thesis was developed in relation to incident in the Aeneid, in which Aeneas and the Sibyl present the golden bough taken from a sacred grove to the gatekeeper of Hades to gain admission.
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