On the Origin of Myths in Catastrophic Experience, vol. 1: Preliminaries
Author | : Marinus Anthony van der Sluijs |
Publisher | : All-Round Publications |
Total Pages | : 442 |
Release | : 2019-01-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1999438329 |
Creation myths around the world reveal an intricate network of recurrent motifs. Many of these are counterintuitive and not widely known, describing a time when the sky was low, the stars did not yet shine, multiple suns appeared, the moon was brighter than the sun, no land existed, deities and mortals maintained frequent contact, a 'world axis' in the form of a tree, ladder or giant man connected the earth with the sky, a devastating flood or fire ended the old order, and so forth. The present work, in multiple volumes, aims to find an origin for this cross-culturally and internally consistent body of traditions in a series of extraordinary natural events relating especially to the earth's transition from the last glacial period to the Holocene. This first volume sets the stage for the interdisciplinary hypothesis. Essential lines of research receive a historical introduction: comparative mythology, catastrophism and the study of the mythical world axis in relation to the earth's rotation. Various astronomical and meteorological interpretations that are not strictly catastrophist are explored for several types of myths about the sun, the moon and the world axis, but leave many of the most intriguing traditions unexplained. It is argued that a structural core of the worldwide mythology of 'creation and destruction', in which the cosmic axis takes pride of place, points to a specific period of dramatic natural circumstances in real prehistoric time. A new synopsis is provided of this universal mythological substrate. It emerges that the mythical world axis cannot have been based on a single object seen or imagined at one of the poles, as has usually been supposed. This surprising conclusion paves the way for the innovative geomagnetic theory proposed in volume 2.
Deleuze and Theology
Author | : Christopher Ben Simpson |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 245 |
Release | : 2012-11-02 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0567217264 |
What can a theologian do with Deleuze? While using philosophy as a resource for theology is nothing new, Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995) presents a kind of limit-case for such a theological appropriation of philosophy: a thoroughly "modern" philosophy that would seem to be fundamentally hostile to Christian theology-a philosophy of atheistic immanence with an essentially chaotic vision of the world. Nonetheless, Deleuze's philosophy can generate many potential intersections with theology opening onto a field of configurations: a fractious middle between radical Deleuzian theologies that would think through theology and reinterpret it from the perspective of some version of Deleuzian philosophy and other theologies that would seek to learn from and respond to Deleuze from the perspective of confessional theology-to take from the encounter with Deleuze an opportunity to clarify and reform an orthodox Christian self-understanding.
Intercultural Transmission in the Medieval Mediterranean
Author | : Stephanie L. Hathaway |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 245 |
Release | : 2012-10-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1441139087 |
The cross-fertilisation in written and material culture across borders in the medieval world.
Zeus
Author | : Arthur Bernard Cook |
Publisher | : Hardpress Publishing |
Total Pages | : 576 |
Release | : 2012-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781290391429 |
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City and Empire in the Age of the Successors
Author | : Ryan Boehm |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2018-02-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520969227 |
In the chaotic decades after the death of Alexander the Great, the world of the Greek city-state became deeply embroiled in the political struggles and unremitting violence of his successors’ contest for supremacy. As these presumptive rulers turned to the practical reality of administering the disparate territories under their control, they increasingly developed new cities by merging smaller settlements into large urban agglomerations. This practice of synoikism gave rise to many of the most important cities of the age, initiated major shifts in patterns of settlement, and consolidated numerous previously independent polities. The result was the increasing transformation of the fragmented world of the small Greek polis into an urbanized network of cities. Drawing on a wide array of archaeological, epigraphic, and textual evidence, City and Empire in the Age of the Successors reinterprets the role of urbanization in the creation of the Hellenistic kingdoms and argues for the agency of local actors in the formation of these new imperial cities.
The English Catalogue of Books
Author | : Sampson Low |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1900 |
Release | : 1926 |
Genre | : English imprints |
ISBN | : |
Volumes for 1898-1968 include a directory of publishers.
The Trouble with Gravity
Author | : Richard Panek |
Publisher | : Mariner Books |
Total Pages | : 261 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0544526740 |
Gravity in our myths -- Gravity in motion -- Gravity as a fiction -- Gravity as a fact -- Gravity as an equal -- Gravity in excelsis -- Gravity in our bones.