Download or read book Original European Religions Volume X Valhalla and European Traditions written by W. Wagner and published by Blurb. This book was released on 2018-07-25 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DNA, history and archaeology have shown that the European people, or those of a close enough racial origin, have existed for around 40,000 years, of which Christianity has only been the dominant religion for less than one thousand. This volume reveals how much influence the Norse Gods have had upon High European culture. The author posits the major stories of the Norse Gods against later European tales and traditions, and shows how many of these stories are linked directly back to traditions inherited from the time of the earlier religion-including some mistakenly thought to be Christian in origin. Read the most famous stories from the Norse Gods, and of how they directly influenced the legend of Holy Roman Emperor King Barbarossa; Vitellus, Roman Prefect of the lower Rhine; the Cheru sword; the slaying of Atilla the Hun; the legend of the Lorelei of the Rhine; the Rhine Gold; the origin of Yule, and much more.
Download or read book Original European Religions Volume I The Rites of Old Europe 12 000 3 500 BC written by E. O. James and published by Blurb. This book was released on 2018-07-25 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DNA, history and archaeology have shown that the European people, or those of a close enough racial origin, have existed for around 40,000 years, of which Christianity has only been the dominant religion for less than one thousand. This volume sketches out the belief systems, values and religions of the "Old Europeans" whose religious practices preceded those of the Indo-European culture. It is of necessity scant, as no decipherable written records exist, and seemingly most oral traditions appear to have been wiped out. There are a large number of speculative works about pre-historic European religion, but the only proper understanding we can take from this time must come from the burial practices and buildings which remain from that time.
Download or read book Original European Religions Volume X Valhalla and European Traditions written by W. Wägner and published by . This book was released on 2013-07-18 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DNA, history and archaeology have shown that the European people have existed for around 40,000 years, of which Christianity has only been the dominant religion for less than one thousand.This volume reveals how much influence the Norse Gods have had upon High European culture. The author posits the major stories of the Norse Gods against later European tales and traditions, and shows how many of these stories are linked directly back to traditions inherited from the time of the earlier religion-including some mistakenly thought to be Christian in origin.Read the most famous stories from the Norse Gods, and of how they directly influenced the legend of Holy Roman Emperor King Barbarossa; Vitellus, Roman Prefect of the lower Rhine; the Cheru sword; the slaying of Atilla the Hun; the legend of the Lorelei of the Rhine; the Rhine Gold; the origin of Yule, and much more.Contents: Introduction; Myths and stories of the gods-The gods, their worlds and deeds-Odin,Wodan, Wuotan-Frigg, or Freya, and her handmaids-Thor or Thunar-Tyr, Tius or Zio-Heru, Cheru or Saxnot-Heimdal or Riger-Bragi and Iduna-The Wanes, Niörder, Freyer, Freya-Fate, Norns, Hel, Walkyries-Ögir and his companions-Loki-The other gods-The Golden Age-Sin-Iduna's departure-Baldur's death-Ögirs banquet-Loki in chains-Ragnarök-Lay of the Norse gods and heroes;Part first: Legends and myths: Creation of the world-Day and Night-Two first human beings-Allfather-Yggdrasil, the World-Ash-The divine kingdom-Influence of Christianity-The Runic language;Part Second: The Gods, Their Worlds And Deeds: The Norns-Dwarfs and Elves-Giants-Worlds and heavenly palaces;Part Third: Opponents Of The Gods: Loki and his kindred-The giants-Muspel and his sons-Surtur;Part Fourth: King Gylphi And The Ases: Gefion-Gylphi in Asgard;Part Fifth: Odin, Father Of The Gods And Of The Ases: i. Wodan, according to the oldest conceptions-The myths of the WildHunt and of the Raging Host-The sleeping heroes-The higher conception of Wodan-Odin at Geiröd's Palace-Odin, the discoverer of the Runes, and god of poetry and of wisdom-The draught of inspiration; Odin's visit to Gunlöd; Journey to Wafthrudnir-Odin's descendants;ii. Frigg and her maidens-Other goddesses related to Frigg;iii. Holda, Ostara-Berchta-The White Lady;iv. Thor, Thunar (Thunder) -Thor's deeds and journeys; Making of Miölnir-Journey to Utgard-Duel with Hrungnir-Journey to Hymir-Journey to Thrymheim to get back Miölnir-Journey to Geiröd's-gard-The Harbard Lay;v. Irmin vi. Tyr or Zio;vii. Heru or Cheru, Saxnot;viii. Heimdal, Riger;ix. Bragi and Iduna-Giant Thiassi steals Iduna;x. Uller;Part Sixth: The Wanes: xi. Niörder and Skadi xii. Freyer or Fro- The wonderful Quern Stones-Skirnir's Journey to Gerda-Young Swendal xiii. Freya, Frea or Frouwa-Freya and the young huntsman-Rerir and his love Helga-Swipdagerreturns to Menglada's Castle;Part Seventh: The Fates: Fate-Legend of Starkad-King Fridleif-The Norns-Hel-The Walkyries-Legend of King Kraki-Dises-Mandrake root;Part Eighth: Ögir And His Followers: Legend of the Lake Maiden-Legend of the Loreley-The Water-Neck;Part Ninth: Loki And His Race: The giant Skrymsli and the peasant-Loki's progeny-Loki's race;Part Tenth: The Other Ases: Widar-Hermodur the Swift-Wali or Ali, Skeaf-Legend of King Skeaf-Baldur and Hödur-Forseti;Part Eleventh: Signs Of The Approaching Destruction Of The World; The Golden Age-Sin-Iduna's departure.Part Twelfth: Baldur's Death: How Wala was conjured up-Loki visits Frigg in the dress of an old woman-Death of Baldur-Hermodur sent to the realm of the shades-Wali appears at Walhalla, and avenges Baldur.Part Thirteenth. Loki's Condemnation Ögir's banquet-Loki reviles the gods-Loki flees, is captured and put in chains-The faithful Sigyn.Part Fourteenth Ragnarök, The Twilight Of The Gods The Fimbul-Winter-The Last Battle-Surtur flings his fire-brands over the nine worlds-Renewal of the World-Lifand Lifthrasir-The Field of Ida-The Lay of Wala Index
Download or read book Original European Religions Volume I the Rites of Old Europe written by E. James and published by . This book was released on 2013-07-18 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume sketches out the belief systems, values and religions of the "Old Europeans" whose religious practices preceded those of the Indo-European culture.It is of necessity scant, as no decipherable written records exist, and seemingly most oral traditions appear to have been wiped out. There are a large number of speculative works about pre-historic European religion, but the only proper understanding we can take from this time must come from the burial practices and buildings which remain from that time.ContentsPrefaceChapter I: Palaeolithic Burial RitualThe Cult of Skulls: Monte Circeo; Ofnet; Ceremonial Interment in the Middle Palaeolithic: Le Moustier; La Chapelleaux-Saints; La Ferrassie.The Upper Palaeolithic: The Grimaldi Burials; Paviland and other UpperPalaeolithic Sepultures; The Palaeolithic Cult of the Dead.The Mesolithic Transition: Azilian-Tardenoisian Interments;Maglemosean; Ertebølle; Danish Dyssers.Chapter II. Megalithic Burial In EuropeEastern Mediterranean: Tholoi in Cyprus; Vaulted Tombs in Crete; TheCycladic Tombs; The Siculan Rock-cut Tombs. Western Mediterranean: Sardinian Gallery-tombs; Rock-cut Tombs and Navetas in the Balearic Isles; Maltese Megaliths. Iberian Peninsula: The Almerian Megaliths; South-west Iberian Tombs; Pyrenean Megaliths. Atlantic Europe: Megalithic Tombs in Brittany; The S.O.M. Culture. The British Isles: British Long Barrows; The Severny-Cotswold Barrows; The Boyne Passage-graves; The Clyde-Carlingford Gallery Graves; The Medway Megaliths. The Northern Megalithic Tombs: The Danish Passage-graves; Battle-axes and Single Graves.Chapter III. Cremation And InhumationCremation in Europe in the Bronze Age: Partial Cremation under LongBarrows; Round Barrows; Urn Burial; The Terramara Cemeteries; TheVillanovan Cemeteries; The Lausitz Urnfields; The Alpine Urnfields; The Hallstatt Cemetery.Chapter IV. The Mystery Of BirthThe Mystery of Birth in Palaeolithic Times: Sculptured "Venuses"; CowrieShells; Fertility Dances. Neolithic and Chalcolithic Female Figurines: Anatolia, Cyprus and the Cyclades; Crete; The Mother goddess; The Great Minoan Goddess; The Maltese Goddess Cult; The Iberian Goddess Cult; Statue-menhirs; The Goddess Cult in Britain and Northern France.Chapter V. Fertility And The Food SupplyPalaeolithic Hunting Ritual; Increase Rites; The Control of the Chase; The Cultus in the Aegean: The Minoan-Mycenaean Goddess of Vegetation and the Young Male God; Zeus and Demeter. The Vegetation Cult in North-west Europe Aegean Influences in WessexChapter VI. The Sky-ReligionThe Idea of God: Animism and Polytheism; Supreme Beings; The Universality and Antiquity of the Sky-god. The Indo-European Sky-gods: The Indo-Aranian Sky-gods; Zeus and the Olympian Divine Family; The Sky-father and the Earth-mother; The Scandinavian Heavenly Deities; Sky-worship in Wessex.Chapter VII. Prehistoric ReligionThe Ritual Control of Natural Processes: The Nature and Function ofSymbols; Totemism and the Sacred Dance. Fertility and the Mystery of Birth and Generation: Generation and Maternity. The Goddess Cult. The Cult of the Dead: Palaeolithic; The Mediterranean; Western Europe.The Sky-religion. The Celestial Afterlife. The Concept of the Universal Sky-god.BibliographyIndex
Download or read book Original European Religions Volume VII the Celtic Gods written by J. Macculloch and published by . This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Celtic religion is possibly one of the most suppressed pre-Christian belief systems of Western Europe. Starting with a racial definition of the Celtic people, this work explores the gods of Celtic France, Britain and Ireland before moving on to a full and highly satisfying review of the major Celtic myths and legends. Read here of the heroism and struggle of Celtic legends such as Cúchulainn, Finn and the Fenians, and the real origins of "King" Arthur. This valuable work also discusses in full many of the controversial aspects of Celtic religion, and reveals the truth about Druids and allegations of Celtic human sacrifice-showing the latter to be unsubstantiated anti-Celtic Roman propaganda. Finally, this book shows how many aspects of Celtic religion have survived into the present-day, and still forms a vital and living part of European culture. A highly recommended and readable overview. Fully indexed. DNA, history and archaeology have shown that the European people, or those of a close enough racial origin, have existed for around 40,000 years, whereas Christianity has only been dominant in all of Europe for less than 1,000 years. These volumes, Original European Religions, are a vital resource for any European person seeking to learn about their real cultural heritage, roots and belief systems of their ancestors which existed before the intrusion of Christianity. Contents Part I: The Celts and their Religion Chapter I: The Origins Of The Celtic People Chapter II: The Gods of Gaul and the Continental Celts Chapter III: The Gods of the Gaels Chapter IV: The Irish Mythological Cycle Chapter V: Gods and Men Chapter VI: The Cult of the Dead Chapter VII: Sacrifice, Prayer, And Divination Chapter VIII: Festivals Chapter IX: The Druids Part II: The Celtic Myths Introduction Chapter I: The Gods of the Gaels Chapter II: The Gods Arrive Chapter III: The Rise of the Sun-God Chapter IV: The Gaelic Argonauts Chapter V: The War with the Giants Chapter VI: The Conquest of the Gods by Mortals Chapter VII: The Gods in Exile Chapter VIII: The Saga of Cúchulainn Chapter IX: Gaelic Love-Stories Chapter X: Finn and the Fenians Chapter XI: The Decline and Fall of the Gods Chapter XII: The Gods of the Britons Chapter XIII: The Adventures of the Gods of Hades Chapter XIV: The Wooing of Enchantments Chapter XVI: The Victories of Light Over Darkness Chapter XVII: The Mythological "Coming Of Arthur" Chapter XVIII: The Treasures of Britain Chapter XIX: Survival of Celtic Religion into Modern Times Conclusion Index Cover illustration: The 5,200 year-old Newgrange Barrow, County Meath, Ireland.
Download or read book The Handbook of Religions in Ancient Europe written by Lisbeth Bredholt Christensen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-11 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Handbook of Religions in Ancient Europe" surveys the major religious currents of Europe before Christianity - the first continental religion with hegemonic ambition - wiped out most local religions. The evidence - whether archaeological or written - is notoriously difficult to interpret, and the variety of religions documented by the sources and the range of languages used are bewildering. The "Handbook" brings together leading authorities on pre-Christian religious history to provide a state-of-the-art survey. The first section of the book covers the Prehistoric period, from the Paleolithic to the Bronze Age. The second section covers the period since writing systems began. Ranging across the Mediterranean and Northern, Celtic and Slavic Europe, the essays assess the archaeological and textual evidence. Dispersed archaeological remains and biased outside sources constitute our main sources of information, so the complex task of interpreting these traces is explained for each case. The "Handbook" also aims to highlight the plurality of religion in ancient Europe: the many ways in which it is expressed, notably in discourse, action, organization, and material culture; how it is produced and maintained by different people with different interests; how communities always connect with or disassociate from adjunct communities and how their beliefs and rituals are shaped by these relationships. The "Handbook" will be invaluable to anyone interested in ancient History and also to scholars and students of Religion, Anthropology, Archaeology, and Classical Studies.
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Download or read book The Book That Changed Europe written by Lynn Hunt and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2010-03-31 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two French Protestant refugees in eighteenth-century Amsterdam gave the world an extraordinary work that intrigued and outraged readers across Europe. In this captivating account, Lynn Hunt, Margaret Jacob, and Wijnand Mijnhardt take us to the vibrant Dutch Republic and its flourishing book trade to explore the work that sowed the radical idea that religions could be considered on equal terms. Famed engraver Bernard Picart and author and publisher Jean Frederic Bernard produced The Religious Ceremonies and Customs of All the Peoples of the World, which appeared in the first of seven folio volumes in 1723. They put religion in comparative perspective, offering images and analysis of Jews, Catholics, Muslims, the peoples of the Orient and the Americas, Protestants, deists, freemasons, and assorted sects. Despite condemnation by the Catholic Church, the work was a resounding success. For the next century it was copied or adapted, but without the context of its original radicalism and its debt to clandestine literature, English deists, and the philosophy of Spinoza. Ceremonies and Customs prepared the ground for religious toleration amid seemingly unending religious conflict, and demonstrated the impact of the global on Western consciousness. In this beautifully illustrated book, Hunt, Jacob, and Mijnhardt cast new light on the profound insight found in one book as it shaped the development of a modern, secular understanding of religion.
Download or read book The Pre Christian Religions of the North written by Margaret Clunies Ross and published by Brepols Publishers. This book was released on 2019-01-09 with total page 635 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the millennia since pre-Christian religions were actively practised, European - and later contemporary - society has developed a fascination with the beliefs of northern Europe before the arrival of Christianity, which have been the subject of a huge range of popular and scholarly theories, interpretations, and uses. Indeed, the pre-Christian religions of the North have exerted a phenomenal influence on modern culture, appearing in everything from the names of days of the week to Hollywood blockbusters. Scholarly treatments have been hardly less varied. Theories - from the Middles Ages until today - have depicted these pre-Christian religious systems as dangerous illusions, the works of Satan, representatives of a lost proto-Indo-European religious culture, a form of 'natural' religion, and even as a system non-indigenous in origin, derived from cultures outside Europe. The Research and Reception strand of the Pre-Christian Religions of the North project establishes a definitive survey of the current and historical uses and interpretations of pre-Christian mythology and religious material, tracing the many ways in which people both within and outside Scandinavia have understood and been influenced by these religions, from the Christian Middle Ages to contemporary media of all kinds. The previous volume (I) traced the reception down to the early nineteenth century, while the present volume (II) takes up the story from c. 1830 down to the present day and the burgeoning of interest across a diversity of new as well as old media.
Download or read book Barbarism and Religion Volume 5 Religion The First Triumph written by J. G. A. Pocock and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-01-06 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fifth volume in John Pocock's acclaimed sequence on Barbarism and Religion turns to the controversy caused by Edward Gibbon's treatment of the early Christian church. Examining this controversy in unprecedented depth, Pocock challenges the assumption that Gibbon wrote with the intention of destroying belief in the Christian revelation, and questions our understanding of the character of 'enlightenment'. Reconsidering the genesis, inception and reception of these crucial chapters of Decline and Fall, Pocock explores the response of Gibbon's critics, affirming that his reputation as an unbeliever was established before his history of the Church had been written. The magnitude of Barbarism and Religion is already apparent. Religion: The First Triumph will be read not just as a remarkable analysis of the making of Decline and Fall, but also as a comment on the collision of belief and disbelief, a subject as pertinent now as it was to Gibbon's eighteenth-century readers.
Download or read book Totalitarianism and Political Religions Volume 1 written by Hans Maier and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-10-14 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are used to distinguishing the despotic regimes of the 20th century - communism, fascism, National Socialism, Maoism - very precisely according to place and time, origins and influences. But what should we call that which they have in common? On this question, there has been and is still a passionate debate. This book documents the first international conference on this theme, a conference that took place in September of 1994 at the University of Munich. The book shows how new models for understanding political history arose from the experience of modern despotic regimes. Here, the most important concepts - totalitarianism and political religions - are discussed and tested in terms of their usefulness.
Download or read book Modern American Religion Volume 1 written by Martin E. Marty and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1997-06-21 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this second volume of two tracing the history of 20th-century American religion, Martin E. Marty tells the story of how America has survived religious disturbances and culturally prospered from them.
Download or read book The Bible in Folklore Worldwide written by Eric Ziolkowski and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2023-12-31 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: the Handbooks of the Bible and Its Reception (HBR) provide comprehensive introductions to individual topics in biblical reception history. They address a wide range of academic fields and interdisciplinary matters, including reception of the Bible in various contexts and historical periods; in diverse geographic areas; in particular cultural, social, and political contexts; and in relation to important biblical themes, topics, and figures.
Download or read book Volume 10 Interreligious Dialogue written by Giuseppe Giordan and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-07-15 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interreligious Dialogue: From Religion to Geopolitics discusses how interreligious dialogue takes place within, and is influenced by, important sociological categories. Starting from the study of interreligious sacred spaces, the book explores the patterns of interreligious governance and forms of interreligious social action.
Download or read book Norton Anthology of World Religions written by Cunningham, Lawrence S and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2015-02-18 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
This magisterial Norton Anthology, edited by world-renowned scholars, offers a portable library of more than 1,000 primary texts from the world’s major religions. To help readers encounter strikingly unfamiliar texts with pleasure; accessible introductions, headnotes, annotations, pronouncing glossaries, maps, illustrations and chronologies are provided. For readers of any religion or none, The Norton Anthology of World Religions opens new worlds that, as Miles writes, invite us "to see others with a measure of openness, empathy, and good will..."
Unprecedented in scope and approach, The Norton Anthology of World Religions: Christianity brings together over 150 texts from the Apostolic Era to the New Millennium. The volume features Jack Miles’s illuminating General Introduction—“How the West Learned to Compare Religions”—as well as Lawrence S. Cunningham’s “The Words and the Word Made Flesh,” a lively primer on the history and core tenets of Christianity.
Download or read book Religions of Rome Volume 2 A Sourcebook written by Mary Beard and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-06-28 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume two reveals the extraordinary diversity of ancient Roman religion. A comprehensive sourcebook, it presents a wide range of documents illustrating religious life in the Roman world - from the foundations of the city in the eighth century BC to the Christian capital more than a thousand years later. Each document is given a full introduction, explanatory notes and bibliography, and acts as a starting point for further discussion. Through paintings, sculptures, coins and inscriptions, as well as literary texts in translation, the book explores the major themes and problems of Roman religion, such as sacrifice, the religious calendar, divination, ritual, and priesthood. Starting from the archaeological traces of the earliest cults of the city, it finishes with a series of texts in which Roman authors themselves reflect on the nature of their own religion, its history, even its funny side. Judaism and Christianity are given full coverage, as important elements in the religious world of the Roman empire.
Download or read book The Athenaeum written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 830 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
