Indo-European fire rituals : cattle and cultivation, cremation and cosmogony

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Indo-European fire rituals : cattle and cultivation, cremation and cosmogony

Anders Kaliff and Terje Oestigaard

Routledge, 2023

  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [192]-209) and index

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内容説明

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.

目次

  • 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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