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Grail Legend
Av Emma Jung, Marie-Louise von Franz
Häftad, 1998
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (2)
336 kr
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The Holy Grail and its quest is a legend that has had a powerful impact on our civilization and culture. The Grail itself is an ancient Celtic symbol of plenty as well as a Christian symbol of redemption and eternal life, the chalice that caught the blood of the crucified Christ. The story of the …
In Quest of the Hero
(Mythos Series)
Av Otto Rank, Fitzroy Richard Somerset Raglan m. fl.
Häftad, 1990
378 kr
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In Quest of the Hero makes available for a new generation of readers two key works on hero myths: Otto Rank's Myth of the Birth of the Hero and the central section of Lord Raglan's The Hero. Amplifying these is Alan Dundes's fascinating contemporary inquiry, "The Hero Pattern and the Life of …
Orpheus and Greek Religion
A Study of the Orphic Movement
Av William Keith Guthrie, L. Alderlink
Häftad, 1993
471 kr
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The tales told of Orpheus are legion. He is said to have been an Argonaut--and to have saved Jason's life. Rivers are reported to have stopped their flow to listen to the sounds of his lyre and his voice. Plato cites his poetry and Herodotus refers to "practices that are called Orphic." Did …
Door in the Sky
Coomaraswamy on Myth and Meaning
Av Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, Rama P. Coomaraswamy
Häftad, 1998
559 kr
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Ananda K. Coomaraswamy (1877-1947) was a pioneer in Indian art history and in the cultural confrontation of East and West. A scholar in the tradition of the great Indian grammarians and philosophers, an art historian convinced that the ultimate value of art transcends history, and a social thinker …
The Gnostic Jung
Selections From The Writings of C.G. Jung and His Critics
Av C. G. Jung, Robert A. Segal
Häftad, 1992
286 kr
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Gnosticism, together with alchemy, was for C G Jung the chief prefiguration of his analytical psychology. Jung did not simply interpret Gnostic texts psychologically but also cited them as confirmation of his psychology. The author has searched the Jungian corpus to bring together Jung's main …
Grail
From Celtic Myth to Christian Symbol
Häftad, 1991
412 kr
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The medieval legend of the Grail, a tale about the search for supreme mystical experience, has never ceased to intrigue writers and scholars by its wildly variegated forms: the settings have ranged from Britain to the Punjab to the Temple of Zeus at Dodona; the Grail itself has been described as …
Fire in the Dragon and Other Psychoanalytic Essays on Folklore
Häftad, 1992
458 kr
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The only Freudian to have been originally trained in folklore and the first psychoanalytic anthropologist to carry out fieldwork, Gza Rcheim (1891-1953) contributed substantially to the worldwide study of cultures. Combining a global perspective with encyclopedic knowledge of ethnographic sources, …
The Legend of the Baal-Shem
Av Martin Buber
Häftad, 1995
336 kr
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Offers an account of Hasidism, followed by twenty stories about the life of the Baal-Shem. This book is one of the earliest of Martin Buber's seven volumes on Hasidism and can be read not only as a collection of myth but as a key to understanding the central theme of Buber's thought: the I-Thou, or …
Hieroglyphics of Horapollo
Häftad, 1993
386 kr
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Written reputedly by an Egyptian magus, Horapollo Niliacus, in the fourth century C.E., The Hieroglyphics of Horapollo is an anthology of nearly two hundred "hieroglyphics," or allegorical emblems, said to have been used by the Pharaonic scribes in describing natural and moral aspects of the world. …
Gardens of Adonis
Spices in Greek Mythology - Second Edition
Häftad, 1994
471 kr
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Rich with implications for the history of sexuality, gender issues, and patterns of Hellenic literary imagining, Marcel Detienne's landmark book recasts long-standing ideas about the fertility myth of Adonis. The author challenges Sir James Frazer's thesis that the vegetation god Adonis-- whose …
Ancient Christian Magic
Coptic Texts of Ritual Power
Av Marvin W. Meyer, Richard Smith
Häftad, 1999
697 kr
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This thought-provoking collection of magical texts from ancient Egypt shows the exotic rituals, esoteric healing practices, and incantatory and supernatural dimensions that flowered in early Christianity. These remarkable Christian magical texts include curses, spells of protection from "headless …
Amor and Psyche
The Psychic Development of the Feminine: A Commentary on the Tale by Apuleius
Häftad, 1971
614 kr
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The renowned tale of Amor and Psyche, from Apuleius's second-century Latin novel The Golden Ass, is one of the most charming fragments of classical literature. Neumann chose it as the exemplar of an unusual study of feminine psychology. Unfolding the spiritual and mythical background of the pagan …
Eleusis
Archetypal Image of Mother and Daughter
Av Carl Kerényi
Häftad, 1991
429 kr
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The Sanctuary of Eleusis, near Athens, was the center of a religious cult that endured for nearly two thousand years and whose initiates came from all parts of the civilized world. Looking at the tendency to "see visions," C. Kerenyi examines the Mysteries of Eleusis from the standpoint not only of …
Road of Life and Death
A Ritual Drama of the American Indians
Av Paul Radin
Häftad, 1991
564 kr
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In this transcription of the Medicine Rite, the most sacred ritual of the Winnebago Indians, anthropologist Paul Radin captured a poetic source of profound importance to the understanding of mystical experience. Performed by medicine men upon the initiation of a member to their cult, this secret …
Hallaj
Mystic and Martyr - Abridged Edition
Av Louis Massignon, Herbert Mason
Häftad, 1994
403 kr
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Abridged from the four-volume The Passion of al-Hallaj, one of the major works of Western orientalism, this book explores the life and teaching of a famous tenth-century Sufi mystic and martyr, and in so doing describes not only his experience but also the whole milieu of early Islamic …
Wisdom of the Serpent
The Myths of Death, Rebirth, and Resurrection.
Av Joseph Lewis Henderson, Maud Oakes
Häftad, 1990
496 kr
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The tribal initiation of the shaman, the archetype of the serpent, exemplifies the death of the self and a rebirth into transcendent life. This book traces the images of spiritual initiation in religious rituals and myths of resurrection, poems and epics, cycles of nature, and art and dreaming. It …
Egyptian Hermes
A Historical Approach to the Late Pagan Mind
Av Garth Fowden
Häftad, 1993
428 kr
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Sage, scientist, and sorcerer, Hermes Trismegistus was the culture-hero of Hellenistic and Roman Egypt. A human (according to some) who had lived about the time of Moses, but now indisputably a god, he was credited with the authorship of numerous books on magic and the supernatural, alchemy, …
Mystic Tales from the Zohar
Häftad, 1998
619 kr
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Zohar, or "brilliant light," is the central text of Kabbalah. In Jewish mystical tradition, it is the meeting of midrash (storytelling that expands on events in the Bible) and myth. This selection offers original translations of eight of the most well developed narratives in the Zohar along with …
Navaho Religion
A Study of Symbolism
Häftad, 2014
1247 kr
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In this in-depth exploration of the symbols found in Navaho legend and ritual, Gladys Reichard discusses the attitude of the tribe members toward their place in the universe, their obligation toward humankind and their gods, and their conception of the supernatural, as well as how the Navaho …
Malinowski and the Work of Myth
Häftad, 2014
634 kr
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Bronislaw Malinowski (1884-1942) was a wide-ranging thinker whose ideas affected almost every branch of the social sciences. And nowhere is this impact more evident or more persistent than on the study of myth, ritual, and religion. He articulated as never before or since a program of seeing myths …
Glory of Hera
Greek Mythology and the Greek Family
Häftad, 2014
884 kr
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The ancient Athenians were "quarrelsome as friends, treacherous as neighbors, brutal as masters, faithless as servants, shallow as lovers--all of which was in part redeemed by their intelligence and creativity." Thus writes Philip Slater in this classic work on narcissism and family relationships …
Pandora's Box
The Changing Aspects of a Mythical Symbol
Av Dora Panofsky, Erwin Panofsky
Häftad, 2019
363 kr
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Pandora waas the "pagan Eve," and she is one of the rare mythological figures to have retained vitality up to our day. Glorified by Calderon, Voltaire, and Goethe, she is familiar to all of us, and "Pandora's box" is a household word. In this classic study Dora and Erwin Panofsky trace the history …
Malinowski and the Work of Myth
Inbunden, 2016
1437 kr
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Bronislaw Malinowski (1884-1942) was a wide-ranging thinker whose ideas affected almost every branch of the social sciences. And nowhere is this impact more evident or more persistent than on the study of myth, ritual, and religion. He articulated as never before or since a program of seeing myths …
Mambu
A Melanesian Millennium
Inbunden, 2016
2527 kr
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Perhaps the most famous modern-day millenarian movements are the "cargo cults" of Melanesia, active especially during the 1930s and 1950s. Melanesians had long believed that the sign of the millennium would be the arrival of their ancestors in ships bearing lavish material goods, and they …
Glory of Hera
Greek Mythology and the Greek Family
Inbunden, 2016
3787 kr
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The ancient Athenians were "quarrelsome as friends, treacherous as neighbors, brutal as masters, faithless as servants, shallow as lovers--all of which was in part redeemed by their intelligence and creativity." Thus writes Philip Slater in this classic work on narcissism and family relationships …
