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Mithraic Iconography and Ideology.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Boston :
BRILL,
2015.
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| Colección: | Études Préliminaires Aux Religions Orientales Dans l'Empire Romain Ser.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- MITHRAIC ICONOGRAPHY AND IDEOLOGY; TABLE OF CONTENTS; ILLUSTRATIONS; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; a) Relief types of composition; b) Tauroctone subtypes ; c) Scope and method of analysis; d) Local differences in ideology; I THE MITHRAIC CAVE; a) Naturalistic; b) Artificial; c) Architectural; d) Origin of the cave motive; e) Association of cave and cattle thief; f) Fusion of cave types; 1. Relief of Poetovio II (1510); 2. Relief of Poetovio III (1579); 3. Relief of Nersae (650); 4. Relief of Quadraro (321); 5. Origins of pictorial art; II FOUR TAUROCTONE ASSISTANTS; a) Dog.
- 1. Other associations on the monuments 2. In Iran ; 3. In Egypt ; 4. In Greece: guardian between two worlds; b) Snake; 1. Other associations on the monuments ; 2. On bases from Rome (525-6) and Trier (992); 3. Emerges from a hole; 4. At the middle of the Mithraeum ; 5. Mithraic origin not Zoroastrian ; 6. In Greek religion.
- 7. Pneumatic soul in transition: Mithraic metempsychosis8. A cosmic Agathos Daimon of Fire; 9. As female and generative power; c) Raven ; 1. And eagle ; 2. Other associations on the monuments; 3. Altars of Poetovio (1496) and Carnuntum (1706); 4. A bird of sky power; 5. As Varegan, incarnation of Verethraghna; 6. Bird of night, cock of morning; d) Scorpion; 1. Other associations on the monuments; 2. Beneficent rather than hostile; 3. Of Semitic rather than Iranian origin; III. THE TORCHBEARERS: Cautes and Cautopates; a) Western iconography earlier; 1. Western type; 2. Eastern type.
- B) Normal and South Iranian position1. Sometimes not differentiated by their torches; 2. Eastern type on subtypes C, D, and E; 3. South Iranian positions on subtypes C and D; 4. Diversity of types in Middle Europe especially; c) Origins of Western and Eastern typologies; d) Differences in their ideologie; e) Connections with the death of the bull; f) Connections with the seasons; 1. Seasonal and other symbols; 2. Confusions in seasonal ideology; g) Color symbolism and the seasons: Capua fresco (181).
- 1. Barberini fresco (390) 2. Third century tauroctone painting (386); 3. On Esquiline tauroctone relief (350); h) Cosmic associations on Heddernheim III monument (1127); 1. Cautes with globe (918), Cautopates with key (1110 1163); 2. Cautopates with rain, Moon bust, and Natura dei symbols; i) Their positions in the Mithraea; j) The torchbearers will; IV. THE ZODIAC AND MITHRAIC ORIENTATION; a) Anatolian-Mesopotamian typology of the signs.