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Author : John Middleton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Myth and Cosmos written by John Middleton and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bruce Lincoln
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780674864283
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (642 download)
Download or read book Myth, Cosmos, and Society written by Bruce Lincoln and published by . This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Lundwall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780692505786
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (57 download)
Download or read book Mythos and Cosmos written by John Lundwall and published by . This book was released on 2015-10-17 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bold new approach to myth studies, Mythos and Cosmos reexamines ancient myth through the template of oral thinking and oral cosmology. Contradicting decades of assumptions about the purpose and function of ancient mythology, Lundwall defines myth as "the oral imprinting press of pre-literate peoples" and shows that myth belongs to a complex and rational method of information transmission amongst oral peoples. Further, ancient mythology belonged to a cultus which incorporated ritual and symbol in a cosmological system which sought to found the sacred world.Where this work really shines is in its discussion of how ancient oral peoples saw their universe. Oral cosmology is far more complex than the simple "flat-earth" models discussed in current textbooks. Such myth cycles as the Epic of Gilgamesh, the Labors of Heracles, and the story of the Great Flood are seen completely differently when viewed from within ancient cosmological thought. Many strange features of ancient culture, such as the dancing chorus in Greek theater, are explained in rational and revolutionary ways. The pyramids, ziggurats, and megalithic-henges are also seen in a new light.While academic, the book is written for a general audience. It is a fascinating exploration in ancient history, comparative myth and religious studies, and the ancient mind.
Author : Anthony Aveni
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307816540
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Conversing with the Planets written by Anthony Aveni and published by Crown. This book was released on 2012-05-09 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An award-winning professor takes readers on a guided tour of the stunning celestial discoveries of past cultures. Interweaving the astronomy, mythology, and anthropology of ancient peoples, Aveni shows how to discover the harmony between their beliefs and their study of the sky through naked-eye observations. From CHAPTER ONE: "My tales of Venus and Mars, squash and corn, are designed to entice the reader away from some of the widely held notions about the discovery and exploration of nature that are ingrained in modern culture. I want us to walk some worthwhile paths that are not so well trod."
Author : Helge Kragh
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199209162
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)
Download or read book Conceptions of Cosmos written by Helge Kragh and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a historical account of how natural philosophers and scientists have endeavoured to understand the universe at large, first in a mythical and later in a scientific context. Starting with the creation stories of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, the book covers all the major events in theoretical and observational cosmology, from Aristotle's cosmos over the Copernican revolution to the discovery of the accelerating universe in the late 1990s. It presents cosmology as asubject including scientific as well as non-scientific dimensions, and tells the story of how it developed into a true science of the heavens. Contrary to most other books in the history of cosmology, it offers an integrated account of the development with emphasis on the modern Einsteinian andpost-Einsteinian period. Starting in the pre-literary era, it carries the story onwards to the early years of the 21st century.
Author : Guido Tonelli
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 037460049X
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (746 download)
Download or read book Genesis written by Guido Tonelli and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2021-04-13 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A breakout bestseller in Italy, now available for American readers for the first time, Genesis: The Story of How Everything Began is a short, humanistic tour of the origins of the universe, earth, and life—drawing on the latest discoveries in physics to explain the seven most significant moments in the creation of the cosmos. Curiosity and wonderment about the origins of the universe are at the heart of our experience of the world. From Hesiod’s Chaos, described in his poem about the origins of the Greek gods, Theogony, to today’s mind-bending theories of the multiverse, humans have been consumed by the relentless pursuit of an answer to one awe inspiring question: What exactly happened during those first moments? Guido Tonelli, the acclaimed, award-winning particle physicist and a central figure in the discovery of the Higgs boson (the “God particle”), reveals the extraordinary story of our genesis—from the origins of the universe, to the emergence of life on Earth, to the birth of human language with its power to describe the world. Evoking the seven days of biblical creation, Tonelli takes us on a brisk, lively tour through the evolution of our cosmos and considers the incredible challenges scientists face in exploring its mysteries. Genesis both explains the fundamental physics of our universe and marvels at the profound wonder of our existence.
Author : Sarah Allan
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791494497
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)
Download or read book The Shape of the Turtle written by Sarah Allan and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1991-02-21 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many Chinese philosophic concepts derive from an ancient cosmology. This work is the first reconstructions of the mythic thought of the Shang Dynasty (ca. 1700- 1100 B.C.) which laid the foundation for later Chinese patterns of thought. Allan regards the myth, cosmology, divination, sacrificial ritual, and art of the Shang as different manifestations of a common religious system and each is examined in turn, building up a coherent and consistent picture. Although primarily concerned with the Shang, this work also describes the manner in which Shang thought was transformed in the later textual tradition.
Author : Stefan Stenudd
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781517250911
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (59 download)
Download or read book Cosmos of the Ancients written by Stefan Stenudd and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-09-09 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The philosophers of Ancient Greece lived in a time when the gods were worshipped and the myths about them very much alive. They were generally regarded as accurate and there was no scientific evidence at hand to dismiss them. So, were they believed? This book explores to what extent the Greeks were able to question their own mythology. This is done by examining the cosmology of their philosophers and what roles they allowed therein for the gods - as much as possible according to their own words. To the philosophers, the quest to understand the world was neither made redundant by the mythology nor completely independent of it. If they were able to express doubts regarding the gods as well as the myths about them, and many of them certainly were, then their contemporaries must have been able to grasp the same. The Greeks were devoted to their mythology, but not all of them blindly so. Stefan Stenudd is a Swedish author and historian of ideas, who specializes on studies of the patterns of thought in creation myths.
Author : John Lundwall
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781973858140
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (581 download)
Download or read book Cosmos and Logos written by John Lundwall and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-09 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cosmos and Logos seeks to be a serious plain-written platform for reinvigorating seminal ideas of our cultural heritage. This journal is dedicated to what unites the human race---out sacred stories, rituals, creative imaginations, and religious cosmo-visions. In this issue you will discover beautiful archetypal art, essays on comparative myth and culture, psychological analyses on Christan birth and death narratives, an exploration of the Sufi path, poetry and lyrics, as well as archetypal analyses in cinema.
Author : Bruce Lincoln
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Myth, Cosmos, and Society written by Bruce Lincoln and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Adams Leeming
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780195102758
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (27 download)
Download or read book A Dictionary of Creation Myths written by David Adams Leeming and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alan Watts
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1462916732
Total Pages : 117 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (629 download)
Download or read book Tao of Philosophy written by Alan Watts and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 1999-10-15 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Tao of Philosophy is a literary adaptation of talks selected to introduce the new "Love of Wisdom" series by Alan Watts to today's audiences. The following chapters provide rich examples of the way in which the philosophy of the Tao is as contemporary today as it was when it flourished in China thousands of years ago. Perhaps most significantly, these selections offer modern society a clearer understanding of what it will take for a successful reintegration of humans in nature.
Author : Mircea Eliade
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (16 download)
Download or read book The Myth of the Eternal Return, Or, Cosmos and History written by Mircea Eliade and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Harry Lee Poe
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 0830839542
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (38 download)
Download or read book God and the Cosmos written by Harry Lee Poe and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2012-02-16 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theologian Harry Lee Poe and chemist Jimmy H. Davis argue that God's interaction with our world is a possibility affirmed equally by the Bible and the contemporary scientific record. Rather than confirming that the cosmos is closed to the actions of the divine, advancing scientific knowledge seems to indicate that the nature of the universe is actually open to the unique type of divine activity portrayed in the Bible.
Author : Mircea Eliade
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691238324
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)
Download or read book The Myth of the Eternal Return written by Mircea Eliade and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in English in 1954, this founding work of the history of religions secured the North American reputation of the Romanian émigré-scholar Mircea Eliade. Making reference to an astonishing number of cultures and drawing on scholarship published in no fewer than half a dozen European languages, The Myth of the Eternal Return illuminates the religious beliefs and rituals of a wide variety of archaic religious cultures. While acknowledging that a return to their practices is impossible, Eliade passionately insists on the value of understanding their views to enrich the contemporary imagination of what it is to be human. This book includes an introduction from Jonathan Z. Smith that provides essential context and encourages readers to engage in an informed way with this classic text.
Author : Norman Cohn
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300090888
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (98 download)
Download or read book Cosmos, Chaos, and the World to Come written by Norman Cohn and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All over the world people look forward to a perfect future, when the forces of good will be finally victorious over the forces of evil. Once this was a radically new way of imagining the destiny of the world and of mankind. How did it originate, and what kind of world-view preceded it? In this engrossing book, the author of the classic work The Pursuit of the Millennium takes us on a journey of exploration, through the world-views of ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, and India, through the innovations of Iranian and Jewish prophets and sages, to the earliest Christian imaginings of heaven on earth. Until around 1500 B.C., it was generally believed that once the world had been set in order by the gods, it was in essence immutable. However, it was always a troubled world. By means of flood and drought, famine and plague, defeat in war, and death itself, demonic forces threatened and impaired it. Various combat myths told how a divine warrior kept the forces of chaos at bay and enabled the world to survive. Sometime between 1500 and 1200 B.C., the Iranian prophet Zoroaster broke from that static yet anxious world-view, reinterpreting the Iranian version of the combat myth. For Zoroaster, the world was moving, through incessant conflict, toward a conflictless state--"cosmos without chaos." The time would come when, in a prodigious battle, the supreme god would utterly defeat the forces of chaos and their human allies and eliminate them forever, and so bring an absolutely good world into being. Cohn reveals how this vision of the future was taken over by certain Jewish groups, notably the Jesus sect, with incalculable consequences. Deeply informed yet highly readable, this magisterial book illumines a major turning-point in the history of human consciousness. It will be mandatory reading for all who appreciated The Pursuit of the Millennium.
Author : Mircea Eliade
Publisher : Bollingen
ISBN 13 : 9780691017778
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (177 download)
Download or read book The Myth of the Eternal Return written by Mircea Eliade and published by Bollingen. This book was released on 1971 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This essay on humanity's experience of history and its interpretation begins with a study of the traditional or mythological view and concludes with a comparative estimate of modern historiological approaches.
