Download or read book Dictionnaire des symboles des rites et des croyances written by Catherine Pont-Humbert and published by Hachette. This book was released on 1997 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dictionnaire des symboles mythes et croyances written by Corinne Morel and published by L' Archipel. This book was released on 2005 with total page 958 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pourquoi y a-t-il des coqs au sommet des clochers ? Que contient la boîte de Pandore ? Pourquoi sert-on des dragées lors d'un baptême ? Pourquoi le Phénix renaît-il de ses cendres ? Pourquoi ne faut-il pas poser le pain à l'envers ? D'où vient la superstition liée au nombre treize ? Pourquoi Brahmâ a-t-il quatre têtes ? Au cinéma, dans la publicité, et jusque dans nos rêves, symboles et allégories peuplent notre vie quotidienne, consciente et inconsciente. Parce qu'ils sont porteurs de messages initiatiques, de contenus archaïques et de savoirs occultes, connaître et explorer leur signification, c'est avant tout faire un voyage au cœur de soi-même. Car, même si nous l'ignorons, nous détenons tous cette connaissance immémoriale, qui relie chacun d'entre nous aux mythes, légendes, croyances et intuitions premières de l'humanité. Animaux, fleurs, parties du corps. couleurs, nombres, signes zodiacaux, objets domestiques, divinités, héros mythiques ou personnages bibliques : tels sont les éléments de ce langage crypté, celui de l'ère de l'image où nous vivons, que ce dictionnaire se propose de déchiffrer. Le lecteur y trouvera : 1000 entrées, classées par ordre alphabétique, avec un rappel étymologique et un condensé du sens général du symbole considéré, des proverbes, des extraits poétiques et des citations de grands auteurs ou de textes sacrés ; 150 histoires mythiques et légendaires, signalées par un pictogramme ; 300 tableaux et encadrés synthétiques mettant en évidence les significations importantes ou insolite ; de nombreuses illustrations, la plupart des symboles étant indissociables de leur représentation graphique. ; des renvois pour accéder facilement aux compléments thématiques et permettre une compréhension globale d'un même champ symbolique ; un index, pour trouver rapidement le symbole, la légende, le héros ou le mythe recherchés.
Download or read book Dictionnaire des symboles des mythes et des croyances written by Corinne Morel and published by . This book was released on 2018-10-24 with total page 960 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dictionnaire universel historique et comparatif de toutes les religions du monde written by François-Marie Bertrand (chan.) and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Religion magie rites symboles written by Albert Marinus and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Snakes People and Spirits Volume One written by Robert Hazel and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 567 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This two-volume publication offers an in-depth analysis of ophidian symbolism in Eastern Africa, while setting the topic within its regional and historical context: namely, with regards to the rest of Africa, ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, the Greek world, ancient Palestine, Arabia, India, and medieval and pre-Christian Europe. Through the ages, most of those areas have connected with Eastern Africa in a broad sense, where ophidian symbolism was as “rampant” and far-reaching, if not more so, as anywhere else on the continent, and perhaps in past civilisations. Much as in the wider context, snakes were held to be long-lived, closely related to holes, caverns, trees, and water, life and death, and credited with a liking for milk. Even though ophidian symbolism has always been developed out of the outstanding biological and ethological features of snakes, the process of symbolisation, which plays a crucial role in the elaboration of cultural systems and the shaping of human experience, was inevitably at work. This first volume deals with snakes as a zoological category; snake symbolism as perceived by encyclopaedists and psychologists; and ophidian symbolism as it occurred in ancient civilisations. It explores the traditional African scene in general with a view to set the scene for a more proximate baseline for comparison. The divide between animals and humans was porous, and snakes had a more or less equal footing in both the animal realm and the spiritual world. Key features of snake symbolism in traditional Eastern Africa are then examined in detail, especially phantasmagorical snakes, the rainbow serpent, snake-totems, and snake-related witches and ritual leaders, among others. In Eastern Africa, the meanings attributed to snakes were multifaceted and paradoxical. Overall, the two volumes of this publication show that African snake symbolism broadly echoed the diverse representations of ancient civilisations. The widely acknowledged assimilation of snakes to death and Evil is therefore unrepresentative, both historically and culturally.
Download or read book Lina Wertm ller written by Josette Déléas and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2009-07-30 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anecdotes savoureuses, temoignages passionnes, revelations intimes, la vie de Lina, dramaturge-cineaste, se dessine, et son uvre, vertigineux tourbillon de paradoxes, confond les critiques. Attention: ses propos sont crus, son humour, irresistible "
Download or read book Snakes People and Spirits Volume Two written by Robert Hazel and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2020-05-07 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This two-volume publication offers an in-depth analysis of ophidian symbolism in Eastern Africa, while setting the topic within its regional and historical context: namely, with regards to the rest of Africa, ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, the Greek world, ancient Palestine, Arabia, India, and medieval and pre-Christian Europe. Through the ages, most of those areas have connected with Eastern Africa in a broad sense, where ophidian symbolism was as “rampant” and far-reaching, if not more so, as anywhere else on the continent, and perhaps in past civilisations. Much as in the wider context, snakes were held to be long-lived, closely related to holes, caverns, trees, and water, life and death, and credited with a liking for milk. Even though ophidian symbolism has always been developed out of the outstanding biological and ethological features of snakes, the process of symbolisation, which plays a crucial role in the elaboration of cultural systems and the shaping of human experience, was inevitably at work. This second volume focuses on southern Abyssinia, an area of Eastern Africa latu senso where the connection between snakes and paramount religious leaders was especially far-reaching. Their clans were said to be the outcome of sexual encounters between a young woman and an ophidian. These leaders bred and fed snakes. Some of them buried dead snakes in their compounds. Their curse was likened to the bite of a deadly serpent. This volume is devoted to a few communities of southern Abyssinia, notably the Oromo, an important group that has fascinated European travellers, missionaries, and social science specialists over a period of 150 years. The rich Oromo ethnographic record lends itself to full-circle analysis. This volume represents a significant contribution to the study of the mysterious “snake priests” of the Oromo, Hoor, Konso, and Burji peoples. In Eastern Africa, the meanings attributed to snakes were multifaceted and paradoxical. Overall, the two volumes of this publication show that African snake symbolism broadly echoed the diverse representations of ancient civilisations. The widely acknowledged assimilation of snakes to death and Evil is therefore unrepresentative, both historically and culturally.
Download or read book Dictionnaire des symboles written by Jean Chevalier and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Women Filmmakers written by Jacqueline Levitin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-29 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This wide-ranging volume of new work brings together women filmmakers and critics who speak about what has changed over the past twenty years. Including such filmmakers as Margarethe von Trotta, Deepa Mehta, and Pratibha Parmar, and such critics as E. Ann Kaplan, this comprehensive volume addresses political, artistic, and economic questions vital
Download or read book Dico des signes et symboles religieux written by Patrick Banon and published by Éditions Actes Sud. This book was released on 2012-05-16T00:00:00+02:00 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comment lire les signes de l'univers ; comment les hommes se servent de ces signes pour prédire l'avenir ; comment, enfin, ils se sont mis à créer leurs propres signes pour entrer en relation avec les divinités... : au-delà des clivages religieux, ce livre remonte à la source de tous les symboles qui nous entourent.
Download or read book Dictionnaire des croyances et symboles de l Antiquit written by Jean-Claude Belfiore and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 1073 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "De "abeille" à "zodiaque", le Dictionnaire des symboles et croyances de l'Antiquité passe en revue un certain nombre de notions, de termes, d'entités, d'êtres - réels, imaginaires, mythologiques... Toutes ces entrées relèvent de la symbolique, des croyances et superstitions qui avaient cours dans l'Antiquité grecque et romaine et, plus généralement, dans le monde ancien du pourtour méditerranéen, et qui imprégnaient la vie des sociétés d'alors. L'auteur nous invite donc à une promenade tant à travers le monde minéral, végétal ou animal que dans le monde des signes, des nombres, des couleurs. Il nous entraîne sur terre et sous terre, dans les mers et dans les cieux, à la rencontre de divinités, d'animaux fantastiques, d'objets précieux. Son propos est illustré de centaines de citations et de dizaines d'extraits de textes anciens. Il présente les diverses facettes de chaque symbole retenu, émaillant son texte, au ton souvent très personnel, d'histoires et d'anecdotes aussi bien tragiques ou cruelles que drôles et légères. L'ouvrage comprend également des tableaux récapitulatifs, un glossaire des termes spécialisés, un index thématique des principales notions et articles associés ainsi qu'une large bibliographie regroupant les références essentielles utilisées pour la rédaction de ce dictionnaire"--P. [4] of cover.
Download or read book Dictionnaire des religions written by Marguerite-Marie Thiollier and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paru originellement en 1966, ce petit dictionnaire passe en revue non seulement les grandes figures humaines et les divinités mais également les doctrines, les rites, les objets, les lieux et autres réalités liées au vaste monde des religions. Les articles généralement assez étoffés demeurent accessibles à un large public. Système de renvois.
Download or read book Volume 10 Philosophy of Religion written by Guttorm Fløistad and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-10-31 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present volume is a continuation of the series Contemporary Philosophy. As with the earlier volumes in the series, the present Chronicles purport to give a survey of significant trends in contemporary philosophy. The need for such surveys has, I believe, increased rather than decreased over the years. The philosophical scene appears, for various reasons, more complex than ever before. The continuing process of specialization in most branches, the increasing contact between p- losophers from various cultures, the emergence of new schools of thought, particularly in philosophical logic and in the philosophy of language and ethics, and the increasing attention being paid to the h- tory of philosophy in discussions of contemporary problems, are the most important contributing factors. Surveys of the present kind are a valuable source of knowledge of this complexity. The surveys may therefore help to strengthen the Socratic element of modern philosophy, the intercultural dialogue or Kommunikationsgemeinschaft. So far, nine volumes have been published in this series, viz. P- losophy of Language and Philosophical Logic (Volume 1), Philosophy of Science (Volume 2), Philosophy of Action (Volume 3), Philosophy of Mind (Volume 4), African Philosophy (Volume 5), Medieval Age P- losophy (Volumes 6/1 and 6/2), Asian Philosophy (Volume 7), Philo- phy of Latin America (Volume 8), and Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art (Volume 9).
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