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As a rule the myth is no explanation of the origin of the ritual to any one who does not believe it to be a narrative of real occurrences, and the boldest mythologist will not believe that.
At any rate, the god and his worshippers formed a natural unity, which was also bound up with the land they occupied.
Belief in a certain series of myths was neither obligatory as a part of the true religion, nor was it supposed that, by believing, a man acquired religious merit and conciliated the favour o... (more William Robertson Smith quotes)
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