SRS 1110 Study Guide - Final Guide: Dark Moon, Neolithic, Modern Paganism

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: SRS 1110
• Professor: Shelley Rabinovich

Document Summary

In community which worships two gods, growing light of the oak king, the dark of the. Holly king are recognized: king of the underworld had ruled since the beginning of winter, people celebrate the new child returning, where only goddess is worshiped the crone sheds her rags and reemerges as the. It is not yet a time to plant. Goddess: hobby horses and clowns and the cross-dressed people. Man: the sun is at its peak. Gardner: margaret murray also contributed to this ideology. Paganism from taking its place as a serious religious movement: victim mentality . A secret initiatory religion organized around ritual enactment of a particular myth. Sometimes enhanced with rigorous trials such as fasting, flogging, beholding sacred objects. Such religions confirm the mysteries of life. Most famous = the eleusinian mysteries (enacted the myth of demeter and her daughter,