Smith, WR

Japanese: Smith,W.R.(英語表記)SmithWR
Smith, WR

…Behind these ceremonies, therefore, lies the religious idea of ​​the ancients, who saw a clear analogy between the fertility of the earth and the fecundity of women. According to William Robertson Smith (1846-94) in The Religion of the Semites (1889), the ancient Semitic peoples identified the earth with women. Women were the fields and the fertile grapevines. …

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…したがって,これらの儀礼の背後には,大地のもつ豊饒性と女性の多産性とのあいだに明白な類比(アナロジー)をみた古代人の宗教的観念が横たわっている。スミスWilliam Robertson Smith(1846‐94)の《セム族の宗教》(1889)によると,古代セム民族は,大地と女性とを同一視していた。女は畑であり,たわわに房をつけたブドウの木であった。…

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