'When the World Was Young'
The Slain God #3: The Golden Bough by James G. Frazer, Chapter 2, The Perils of the Soul
Frazer begins his sketch of the sacral slave king of Japan and continues with the 'semi-barbarous people of Mexico, namely the Zapotec, drawing no diffusionist connection though there appears to be one, of Japanese cultural exchange with the western coast of the Americas.
The priest-king is considered “the dynamical centre of the universe, from which lin…