Indo-European fire rituals : cattle and cultivation, cremation and cosmogony
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Indo-European fire rituals : cattle and cultivation, cremation and cosmogony
Routledge, 2023
- : pbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
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  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
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  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
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  United Kingdom
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  France
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Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [192]-209) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book
Explores Indo-European fire rituals and sacrifices throughout history and fire in its fundamental role in rites and religious practices.
Analyzes fire rituals as the unifying structure in time and space in Indo-European cultures from the Bronze Age onwards.
Asks the question how and why was fire the ultimate power in culture and cosmology?
Has a broad interdisciplinary audience including archaeology, ethnography, folklore, religious and Indo-European studies.
Table of Contents
- 1: Fire rituals and the Indo-European Heritage
- 2: Hearts in hearths - ancestors and deities
- 3: Seasonality and fire festivals
- 4. Cremation and cultivation in the North
- 5. Fires from heaven - The links between East and West
- 6. The Indo-Iranian culture and its rituals of fire
- 7. Cremation, sacrifice and cosmogony in Hinduism
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