Laura Trussell

“But it was not to give him up to the gods that they killed him, not to “sacrifice” him in our sense, but to have him, keep him, eat him, live by him and through him, by his grace.”
― Jane Ellen Harrison, Ancient Art and Ritual

“Thus among the Carrier Indians 33 when a man wants to become a Lulem, or Bear, however cold the season, he tears off his clothes, puts on a bearskin and dashes into the woods, where he will stay for three or four days.”
― Jane Ellen Harrison, Ancient Art and Ritual

“Hebrew is a language which has no tenses at all, it has only aspects.”
― Jane Ellen Harrison, Aspects, Aorists and the Classical Tripos

“But sacrifice does not mean “death” at all.”
― Jane Ellen Harrison, Ancient Art and Ritual