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THE death of the Divine King, which may well be regarded as the central picture of Sir James Frazer's shield of Achilles, has been considered by Prof. Moret alone among the Frazer lecturers, and he had concerned himself especially with the Egyptian evidence. Prof. C. G. Seligman made it his object to repair this omission in his Frazer lecture entitled “Egypt and Negro Africa: a Study in Divine Kingship”, delivered in the University of Liverpool on November 30. He reviewed the evidence which he and his colleagues have collected in Africa, with the view of shedding new light on the subject, confining himself to the position of the Divine King in living cultures.
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The Divine King in Africa. Nature 132, 903–904 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/132903a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/132903a0