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Lecture IV: The Scapegoat Mechanism | René Girard's Mimetic Theory

Johnathan Bi

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The Founding Murder of Perusha

The hymn of Perusha is one of these all-encompassing myths that does ground nourish and legitimize almost the entirety of the culture. In many pagan cultures, we should expect to find buried deep within them a founding murder institutionalized by myth That justifies and nourishes the most important institutions of society. The gods sacrificed the sacrifice by the sacrifice. Such were the first institutions. These powers had access to the firmament where the saints are, the original gods.

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