Themis, a study of the social origins of Greek ... - Warburg Institute

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n] Religion reflects group emotion 49
To resume So far we have seen that the religion
Kouros
of
and the
the Kouretes, and of Dionvsos and his ,h;.
substantial,, the same. Both are the refleXn^a^X^
and of socal conditions which are matriarchal and iP hasTZe° he
figures of Mother and Child. The cardinal doctrine of both
ehgmns . the doctrine of the New Birth, and this doctrine is the
reflects of the nte of social initiation. One element in makmg the
of a god we have seen to be the projection of collective
emotnm, the reaction of man on his fellow mi. But man d Is
not stt m the void reacting on his fellow man; we have now to
consider h,s reaction on the world of nature that surrounds him
H.