Myth and ritual school (Topical Term)

Work cat.: 97-20350: Myth and ritual : an anthology, c1998.

Dict. compar. relig.: art. Myth and ritual (School of comparative religion which says myth and ritual inseparable and specifically insists that in ancient near eastern and egyptian mythology the sacral king represents the vegetative god, whose perpetually repeating cycle of death and resurrection is celebrated in the New Year Festival and depicted in myth)

Eliade encyc. relig.: v. 10, pp. 282-285, under art. Myth and ritual school (Two prom. but dif. branches of school in Great Britain and Scandinavia; both concentrate on O.T. and A.N.E.)