Trees Of Paradise And Pillars Of The World
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Trees of Paradise and Pillars of the World
Author | : Elizabeth A. Newsome |
Publsiher | : University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 2010-07-05 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780292788022 |
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Assemblies of rectangular stone pillars, or stelae, fill the plazas and courts of ancient Maya cities throughout the lowlands of southern Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, and western Honduras. Mute testimony to state rituals that linked the king's power to rule with the rhythms and renewal of time, the stelae document the ritual acts of rulers who sacrificed, danced, and experienced visionary ecstasy in connection with celebrations marking the end of major calendrical cycles. The kings' portraits are carved in relief on the main surfaces of the stones, deifying them as incarnations of the mythical trees of life. Based on a thorough analysis of the imagery and inscriptions of seven stelae erected in the Great Plaza at Copan, Honduras, by the Classic Period ruler "18-Rabbit-God K," this ambitious study argues that stelae were erected not only to support a ruler's temporal claims to power but more importantly to express the fundamental connection in Maya worldview between rulership and the cosmology inherent in their vision of cyclical time. After an overview of the archaeology and history of Copan and the reign and monuments of "18-Rabbit-God K," Elizabeth Newsome interprets the iconography and inscriptions on the stelae, illustrating the way they fulfilled a coordinated vision of the king's ceremonial role in Copan's period-ending rites. She also links their imagery to key Maya concepts about the origin of the universe, expressed in the cosmologies and mythic lore of ancient and living Maya peoples.
Ancient Egypt Light Of The World 2 Vol set
Author | : Massey |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2013-10-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781134568918 |
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First published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The Ritual Practice of Time
Author | : Lars Kirkhusmo Pharo |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 2013-11-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9789004252363 |
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Drawing upon the category “ritual practices of time” the book offers a comparative analytical model and theoretical insights about calendars in Mesoamerica and in general. This comprehensive study systematically explicates how ritual practises are represented and conceptualised in intellectual systems and societies.
Lightning Warrior
Author | : Matthew G. Looper |
Publsiher | : University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 279 |
Release | : 2003-12-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780292705562 |
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Using epigraphic, iconographic, and stylistic analyses, this study explores the integrated political-religious meanings of Quirigua's monumental sculptures during the eighth-century A.D. reign of the city's most famous ruler, K'ak' Tiliw. In particular, Matthew Looper focuses on the role of stelae and other sculpture in representing the persona of the ruler not only as a political authority but also as a manifestation of various supernatural entities with whom he was associated through ritual performance.-publisher description.
Ancient Egypt The Light of the World 12 volumes in 1
Author | : Gerald Massey |
Publsiher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 646 |
Release | : 1907 |
Genre | : Christianity and other religions |
ISBN | : 9781312265288 |
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The Origins of the World s Mythologies
Author | : E.J. Michael Witzel |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 665 |
Release | : 2012-12-13 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780199710157 |
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This remarkable book is the most ambitious work on mythology since that of the renowned Mircea Eliade, who all but single-handedly invented the modern study of myth and religion. Focusing on the oldest available texts, buttressed by data from archeology, comparative linguistics and human population genetics, Michael Witzel reconstructs a single original African source for our collective myths, dating back some 100,000 years. Identifying features shared by this "Out of Africa" mythology and its northern Eurasian offshoots, Witzel suggests that these common myths--recounted by the communities of the "African Eve"--are the earliest evidence of ancient spirituality. Moreover these common features, Witzel shows, survive today in all major religions. Witzel's book is an intellectual hand grenade that will doubtless generate considerable excitement--and consternation--in the scholarly community. Indeed, everyone interested in mythology will want to grapple with Witzel's extraordinary hypothesis about the spirituality of our common ancestors, and to understand what it tells us about our modern cultures and the way they are linked at the deepest level.
Ascensions on High in Jewish Mysticism
Author | : Moshe Idel |
Publsiher | : Central European University Press |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2005-02-15 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9786155053788 |
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Ascensions on high took many forms in Jewish mysticism and they permeated most of its history from its inception until Hasidism. The book surveys the various categories, with an emphasis on the architectural images of the ascent, like the resort to images of pillars, lines, and ladders. After surveying the variety of scholarly approaches to religion, the author also offers what he proposes as an eclectic approach, and a perspectivist one. The latter recommends to examine religious phenomena from a variety of perspectives. The author investigates the specific issue of the pillar in Jewish mysticism by comparing it to the archaic resort to pillars recurring in rural societies. Given the fact that the ascent of the soul and pillars constituted the concerns of two main Romanian scholars of religion, Ioan P. Culianu and Mircea Eliade, Idel resorts to their views, and in the Concluding Remarks analyzes the emergence of Eliade's vision of Judaism on the basis of neglected sources.
Journal of Field Arfchaeology
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 532 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 9182736450XXX |
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