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Mountains and Trees, Rivers and Springs : Animistic Beliefs and Practices in ancient Mesopotamian Religion /

The animated picture of myths and magic, prayers and offerings in ancient Mesopotamian Religion, is a reflection of a world where gods and humans were part of a much more complex and multi-layered system, where every single part was closely connected with each other in a dense network of symbolic an...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Perdibon, Anna
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz Verlag, 2019.
Colección:Leipziger altorientalistische Studien ; Bd. 11.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Chapter I
  • Animism and Mesopotamian Religion; 1 What is animism? -History of the term in anthropological literature; 2 The state of research into Mesopotamian religion
  • Chapter II
  • Sacred Mountains and Mountain Deities; 1 The mountain: an entangled sacred being in Mesopotamia and beyond; 2 The mountain; 3 Specifically named mountains
  • Chapter III
  • River Deities, Cosmic Rivers and Sacred Springs; 1 Bodies of flowing water: places, persons and gods; 2 The divine River: mother, healer and judge; 3 Waters, springs and the Apsû; 4 Specifically named rivers; 5 Rivers as borders, ritual settings and communication channels
  • Chapter IV
  • Sacred Trees and Plant Persons; 1 Trees as sacred animate beings worldwide and in ancient Mesopotamia; 2 Cosmic trees, sacred trees and tree-persons; 3 The animate and relational universe of plants, wood and trees in the antiwitchcraft incantations and healing rituals
  • Chapter V
  • Nature, Divinity and Personhood in Ancient Mesopotamian Religion; 1 How animism can contribute to assess some emic notions of nature, divinity and personhood; 2 From myths to magic: animism, analogism and the community of living beings; 3 Mountains, rivers and trees: an entangled relationship