Schlangenritual

A travelogue and at the same time a key text of modernism: the young Hamburg researcher set off for New Mexico at the turn of the century after his brother's wedding in New York. Tired of civilization, he searched for the "eternal Indianism in the helpless human soul". When observing tribal rituals, he paid particular attention to the snake as a symbol of lightning, which Indian magic uses in weather magic. A quarter of a century later, with the text printed here, the now famous scholar came to a self-understanding that shows how in Indian, Greek and Biblical mythology the snake symbol embodies the change from fear to reason. In this ? published by Gertrud Bing and Fritz Saxl ? This version, edited by Gertrud Bing and Fritz Saxl, contains an essay by Ulrich Raulff, which is fundamental for Warburg research.