Golden Bough
The golden bough is a reference to a mystical tree in a Greco-Roman myth. In the ancient tale the hero Aeneas consults the prophetess who is one of the Sybil at Cumae.
The Golden Bough also influenced the Cambridge Ritualists-Jane Harrison, Gilbert Murray, Francis Cornford, and Arthur Cook.
The New Golden Bough: A New Abridgement of the Classic Work by Sir James George Frazer: An excellent source-book about ancient cultures of magic and religion.
The Ancient Gods, by E. O.
Study that wonderful book "The Golden Bough," take the totem stories rooted, as Fraser asserts, in myth and legend.
(See Frazer's The Golden Bough.) Is there a possible connection between this lacteal diet prescribed by the Attic rite and St. Paul's allusion to the food for spiritual babes? Sallust gives a key to the esoteric interpretation of the Attic rituals.
With many of the others traditions it's nearly impossible to distinguish a practice tested for a hundred generations from one cooked up last week by someone who has just read The Golden Bough (or The White Goddess).
 See also: World, Goddess, Spirit, Spiritual, Ritual
  
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