Adonis

A Study in the History of Oriental Religion is a reproduction of Book 1 of James G. Frazer s Adonis, Attis, Osiris, which forms Part IV of his most famous work, The Golden Bough, which is noted for its important contributions to the study of early religion and anthropology. The underlying theme of the work is Frazer s theory of a general development of modes of thought from the magical to the religious and, finally, to the scientific