From Cosmogony to Exorcism in a Javanese Genesis: The Spilt Seed by Stephen C. Headley

From Cosmogony to Exorcism in a Javanese Genesis: The Spilt Seed

Stephen C. Headley

264 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction religion medium-paced

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In 1925, the influential Dutch anthropologist W. H. Rassers questioned the relationship of myth to ritual, taking as his case study the Javanese myth of the birth of the man-eating demon Kala. This myth, and its re-enactment, shed light on the soc...

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