Dum�zil, Caillois and Bataille on transgressive sacrality

G. Dum�zil, Mitra-Varuna, 2nd ed. (Paris: Gallimard, 1948); R. Caillois, Man and the Sacred (Greenwood, 1980); G. Bataille, Theory of Religion (New York: Zone Books, 1989), and Erotism: Death and Sensuality (San Francisco: City of Lights Books, 1986), esp. Part 1, chaps. 5 and 6.