Download or read book Le symbolisme animal written by Jean-Paul Ronecker and published by Editions Dangles. This book was released on 1994 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Entre l'homme et l'animal, c'est une vieille histoire d'amour et de haine, tantôt affective, tantôt combative, allant de l'animal divinisé à la bête pourchassée, de la relation affectueuse à l'élevage alimentaire... Bien qu'issus du même règne, ce sont deux frères ennemis. Mais l'homme contemporain, aveuglé par l'intellectualisation et la technicité, a perdu le sens du sacré et du divin, et est à la recherche de ses racines, de ce lien qui l'unit à notre Grande Mère la Nature. Si l'homme est un animal évolué, il est surtout un animal dénaturé ; or, c'est justement dans sa propre animalité (et non bestialité) que réside la vraie nature humaine : l'animalité du coeur qui vibre à l'unisson de la Création sous toutes ses formes. Le but de cet ouvrage n'est pas de recopier les bestiaires du Moyen Age, mais de présenter le symbolisme animal venu de cultures, de régions, d'époques et de traditions différentes, pour montrer une image pan-culturelle de la représentation que se fait l'être humain du monde animal. L'animal est présent partout : dans les légendes, le folklore, les récits anciens, l'art, les religions, la pensée traditionnelle, les coutumes, les rêves, les croyances populaires... Il fait partie de l'histoire de l'homme. Il nous parle et nous accompagne. Si nous voulons voir le fond des choses, ne nous limitons pas aux seules apparences. Le symbolisme n'échappe pas à cette règle. Disséquer un animal ne nous apprendra rien sur sa naturelle réelle. Pour cela, au contraire, nous devons le comprendre, l'aimer, faire un avec lui. Seule la voie du coeur et de l'intuition peut nous ouvrir les portes de l'infini. Pour percevoir l'essence réelle, intime, de la nature et du monde, il nous faut regarder avec les yeux du coeur et non du haut de notre orgueil. Nous avons à retrouver cette animalité en nous, cette " raison du coeur " qui, loin d'être maudite, est en réalité divine. Elle est gage de salut par l'acceptation et le respect des lois naturelles de la Mère souveraine. En retrouvant la Nature en nous, nous pouvons nous ouvrir les portes du devenir... un devenir enfin humain.
Download or read book Dictionnaire des symboles mythes et croyances written by Corinne Morel and published by Archipoche Editions. This book was released on 2009 with total page 958 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pourquoi le Phénix renaît-il de ses cendres ? 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 ne faut-il pas poser le pain à l'envers ? Sur quel arbre cueille-t-on la pomme de la discorde ? D'où vient la superstition relative au nombre 13 ? 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 coeur de soi-même. Car nous renfermons tous cette connaissance immémoriale qui nous relie aux mythes, légendes, croyances et intuitions premières de l'humanité. Animaux, fleurs, couleurs, nombres, signes zodiacaux, objets domestiques, divinités, héros mythiques ou personnages bibliques : tels sont les éléments de ce langage crypté, que ce dictionnaire se propose de déchiffrer. 1000 entrées, classées par ordre alphabétique, avec un rappel étymologique et le 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 le picto ; 300 tableaux et encadrés synthétiques mettant en évidence les significations importantes ou insolites ; 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 thématique, pour trouver rapidement le symbole, la légende, le héros ou le mythe recherchés.
Download or read book Why We Play written by Roberte Hamayon and published by Hau. This book was released on 2016 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Play is one of humanity's straightforward yet deceitful ideas: though the notion is unanimously agreed upon to be universal, used for man and animal alike, nothing defines what all its manifestations share, from childish playtime to on stage drama, from sporting events to market speculation. Within the author's anthropological field of work (Mongolia and Siberia), playing holds a core position: national holidays are called "Games," echoing in that way the circus games in Ancient Rome and today's Olympics. These games convey ethical values and local identity. Roberte Hamayon bases her analysis of the playing spectrum on their scrutiny. Starting from fighting and dancing, encompassing learning, interaction, emotion and strategy, this study heads towards luck and belief as well as the ambiguity of the relation to fiction and reality. It closes by indicating two features of play: its margin and its metaphorical structure. Ultimately revealing its consistency and coherence, the author displays play as a modality of action of its own. "Playing is no 'doing' in the ordinary sense" once wrote Johan Huizinga. Isn't playing doing something else, elswhere and otherwise ?
Download or read book Body and Spirit in the Middle Ages written by Gaia Gubbini and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-08-10 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A crucial question throughout the Middle Ages, the relationship between body and spirit cannot be understood without an interdisciplinary approach – combining literature, philosophy and medicine. Gathering contributions by leading international scholars from these disciplines, the collected volume explores themes such as lovesickness, the five senses, the role of memory and passions, in order to shed new light on the complex nature of the medieval Self.
Download or read book Black Skin White Masks written by Frantz Fanon and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Black Skin, White Masks is a classic, devastating account of the dehumanising effects of colonisation experienced by black subjects living in a white world. First published in English in 1967, this book provides an unsurpassed study of the psychology of racism using scientific analysis and poetic grace.Franz Fanon identifies a devastating pathology at the heart of Western culture, a denial of difference, that persists to this day. A major influence on civil rights, anti-colonial, and black consciousness movements around the world, his writings speak to all who continue the struggle for political and cultural liberation.With an introduction by Paul Gilroy, author of There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack.
Download or read book UNESCO General History of Africa Vol I Abridged Edition written by Jacqueline Ki-Zerbo and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This volume covers the period from the end of the Neolithic era to the beginning of the seventh century of our era. This lengthy period includes the civilization of Ancient Egypt, the history of Nubia, Ethiopia, North Africa and the Sahara, as well as of the other regions of the continent and its islands."--Publisher's description
Download or read book Black written by Michel Pastoureau and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About the history of the color black, its various meanings and representations.
Download or read book Individuals and Materials in the Greco Roman Cults of Isis SET written by Valentino Gasparini and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 1191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Individuals and Materials in the Greco-Roman Cults of Isis Valentino Gasparini and Richard Veymiers present a collection of reflections on the individuals and groups which animated one of Antiquity’s most dynamic, significant and popular religious phenomena: the reception of the cults of Isis and other Egyptian gods throughout the Hellenistic and Roman worlds. These communities, whose members seem to share the same religious identity, for a long time have been studied in a monolithic way through the prism of the Cumontian category of the “Oriental religions”. The 26 contributions of this book, divided into three sections devoted to the “agents”, their “images” and their “practices”, shed new light on this religious movement that appears much more heterogeneous and colorful than previously recognized.
Download or read book The Bear written by Michel Pastoureau and published by Belknap Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From antiquity to the Middle Ages, the bear's centrality in cults and mythologies left traces in European languages, literatures, and legends. Michel Pastoureau considers how this once venerated creature was deposed by Christianity and continued to sink lower in the symbolic bestiary before rising again in Pyrrhic triumph as the teddy bear.
Download or read book Animals in Ancient Greek Religion written by Julia Kindt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-07-29 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides the first systematic study of the role of animals in different areas of the ancient Greek religious experience, including in myth and ritual, the literary and the material evidence, the real and the imaginary. An international team of renowned contributors shows that animals had a sustained presence not only in the traditionally well-researched cultural practice of blood sacrifice but across the full spectrum of ancient Greek religious beliefs and practices. Animals played a role in divination, epiphany, ritual healing, the setting up of dedications, the writing of binding spells, and the instigation of other ‘magical’ means. Taken together, the individual contributions to this book illustrate that ancient Greek religion constituted a triangular symbolic system encompassing not just gods and humans, but also animals as a third player and point of reference. Animals in Ancient Greek Religion will be of interest to students and scholars of Greek religion, Greek myth, and ancient religion more broadly, as well as for anyone interested in human/animal relations in the ancient world.
Download or read book The Native Mind and the Cultural Construction of Nature written by Scott Atran and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analysis of the cognitive consequences of diminished contact with nature examines the relationship between how people think about the natural world and how they act on it, and how these are affected by cultural differences.
Download or read book Whylah Falls written by George Elliott Clarke and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whylah Falls is a passionate play about poets and the lies they tell in the pursuit of love.
Download or read book Initiation into the Mysteries of the Ancient World written by Jan N. Bremmer and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2014-07-28 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ancient Mysteries have long attracted the interest of scholars, an interest that goes back at least to the time of the Reformation. After a period of interest around the turn of the twentieth century, recent decades have seen an important study of Walter Burkert (1987). Yet his thematic approach makes it hard to see how the actual initiation into the Mysteries took place. To do precisely that is the aim of this book. It gives a ‘thick description’ of the major Mysteries, not only of the famous Eleusinian Mysteries, but also those located at the interface of Greece and Anatolia: the Mysteries of Samothrace, Imbros and Lemnos as well as those of the Corybants. It then proceeds to look at the Orphic-Bacchic Mysteries, which have become increasingly better understood due to the many discoveries of new texts in the recent times. Having looked at classical Greece we move on to the Roman Empire, where we study not only the lesser Mysteries, which we know especially from Pausanias, but also the new ones of Isis and Mithras. We conclude our book with a discussion of the possible influence of the Mysteries on emerging Christianity. Its detailed references and up-to-date bibliography will make this book indispensable for any scholar interested in the Mysteries and ancient religion, but also for those scholars who work on initiation or esoteric rituals, which were often inspired by the ancient Mysteries.
Download or read book Draconomicon written by Andy Collins and published by . This book was released on 2003-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An art-filled sourcebook for all things draconic in the Dungeons & Dragons world, this title includes information on playing dragons and dragon-like creatures, how to run a dragon in a fight, and how to both fight dragons and work with them as allies. The book itself is designed in a prestige format, with heavy use of art throughout and constructed of premium materials. (Games/Gamebooks/Crosswords)
Download or read book Before We Visit the Goddess written by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-04-25 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A new novel from the author of Oleander Girl, a novel in stories, built around crucial moments in the lives of 3 generations of women in an Indian/Indian-American Family"--
Download or read book Current Research in Egyptology written by Christelle Alvarez and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2016-07-31 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sixteenth Current Research in Egyptology (CRE) conference was held from the 15–18 April 2015 at the University of Oxford and once again provided a platform for postgraduates and early career Egyptologists, as well as independent researchers, to present their research. These proceedings for CREXVI represent the wide-range of themes that were offered by delegates during the conference. Papers focus on the theme of travel in ancient Egypt from a wide range of perspectives such as concrete or abstract travels, travel in space and time, travel inside, to, or from Egypt, travel in literature, travel of beliefs and ideas or travel of objects.
