The Mysterious Ritual Enclosed In The Phaistos Disc And The Kernos Stone

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The Mysterious Ritual Enclosed in the Phaistos Disc and the Kernos Stone

Author : Roberta Rio
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1467880892
Total Pages : 43 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (678 download)

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Download or read book The Mysterious Ritual Enclosed in the Phaistos Disc and the Kernos Stone written by Roberta Rio and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sometimes there are places that we find particularly attractive; places where we want to stay because something that is beyond our understanding calls to us. What I am about to describe to you belongs to this type of situation. The Phaistos Disc is a mystery. It belongs to that group of objects which are not interpretable through the classic historical-archaeological method. The Kernos Stone, however, is not considered to be a mystery: it is simply thought to be a surface for offerings. For traditional scholars, it is obvious what unites the Phaistos Disc to the Kernos Stone: they are both artifacts that belong to the archaeological heritage of Crete. Nothing more. But if we link these two objects in our imagination and, indeed, put one on top of the other, perhaps in the same place and at a specific day of the year, we would not only get the solution to an enigma, but also the magic combination to open the mystery that unites them and encloses them: an ancient ritual in which they were used together.

The Phaistos Disc

Author : Roberto Mason
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (279 download)

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Download or read book The Phaistos Disc written by Roberto Mason and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-31 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This books reveals shocking new secrets about the Phaistos Disc. There is a 46th distinct character hiding on the Phaistos Disc. The 46th character has been hiding in plain sight waiting for someone with a reason to go looking for it. The Phaistos Disc woman is hiding in Linear A variants. The UFO on the Phaistos Disc has a new mystery. The Phaistos Disc now hints at vocabulary from 3 separate ancient languages. The names of the gods and goddesses of the Minoans are revealed. A sacred cup ritual is revealed. The possible origin of the Phaistos Disc is revealed based on the place names listed on the Phaistos Disc itself. This book will also explore Linear A and other related writing systems with a wealth of hand drawn images. The message left from this 3,670 year old artifact is ready to be revealed to the modern world. What are the implications for humanity?

The Minoan Epiphany - A Bronze Age Visionary Culture

Author : Bruce Rimell
Publisher : Xibalba Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Minoan Epiphany - A Bronze Age Visionary Culture written by Bruce Rimell and published by Xibalba Books. This book was released on 2021-01-02 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The art and iconography of the Minoan civilisation of Bronze Age Crete is rightly described as having a refreshing vitality with a fortunate combination of stylisation and spontaneity in which the artist is able to transform conventional imagery into a personal expression. The dynamism, torsion and naturalism evident in Minoan art stands in stark contrast to the hieratic rigidity of other ancient civilisations, and nowhere is this more apparent than in the iconography of the Minoan Epiphany, a set of mainly glyptic (rings, seals, and seal impression) images which appear to depict religious celebrants experiencing direct and seemingly ecstatic encounters with deities. This collection of essays explores this central aspect of Minoan religion, taking a strongly archaeological focus to allow the artefacts to speak for themselves, and moving from traditional ‘representational’ interpretations into ‘embodied’ perspectives in which the ecstatic capabilities of the human body throw new light on Aegean Bronze Age ritual practices. Such ideas challenge rather passive assumptions modern Western observers hold about the nature of religious feelings and experiences, in particular the depictions of altered states of consciousness in ancient art, and the visionary potential of dance gestures. Speculative asides on the potential for a Minoan origin for Classical Greek humanism, and hints in the imagery on ancient Cretan conceptions of the cosmos, are set against sound archaeological theories to explain this lively and dynamic corpus of images. Beautifully illustrated with images and sketches of the relevant artefacts, this wide-ranging volume will stimulate audiences with archaeological, prehistorical and spiritual interests, as well as historians of religion and art. ‘The Minoan Epiphany’ also represents an influential antecendent to the Visionary Humanist philosophy which forms the majority of Bruce’s current independent research interests.

Minoans

Author : Rodney Castleden
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134880642
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book Minoans written by Rodney Castleden and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-01-04 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thoroughly researched, Rodney Castleden's Minoans: Life in Bronze Age Crete here sues the results of recent research to produce a comprehensive new vision of the peoples of Minoan Crete. Since Sir Arthur Evans rediscovered the Minoans in the early 1900s, we have defined a series of cultural traits that make the ‘Minoan personality’: elegant, graceful and sophisticated, these nature lovers lived in harmony with their neighbours, while their fleets ruled the seas around Crete. This, at least, is the popular view of the Minoans. But how far does the later work of archaeologists in Crete support this view? Drawing on his experience of being actively involved in research on landscapes processes and prehistory for the last twenty years, Castleden writes clearly and accessibly to provide a text essential to the study of this fascinating subject.

Ancient Greek Cults

Author :
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134346190
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (343 download)

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Download or read book Ancient Greek Cults written by and published by Routledge. This book was released on with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Minoan Religion

Author : Nanno Marinatos
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Minoan Religion written by Nanno Marinatos and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Girls and Women in Classical Greek Religion

Author : Matthew Dillon
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113436508X
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (343 download)

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Download or read book Girls and Women in Classical Greek Religion written by Matthew Dillon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has often been thought that participation in fertility rituals was women's most important religious activity in classical Greece. Matthew Dillon's wide-ranging study makes it clear that women engaged in numerous other rites and cults, and that their role in Greek religion was actually more important than that of men. Women invoked the gods' help in becoming pregnant, venerated the god of wine, worshipped new and exotic deities, used magic for both erotic and pain-relieving purposes, and far more besides. Clear and comprehensive, this volume challenges many stereotypes of Greek women and offers unexpected insights into their experience of religion. With more than fifty illustrations, and translated extracts from contemporary texts, this is an essential resource for the study of women and religion in classical Greece.

The Phaistos Disk

Author : Thomas Balistier
Publisher : Verlag Dr Thomas Balister
ISBN 13 : 9783980616805
Total Pages : 111 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (168 download)

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Download or read book The Phaistos Disk written by Thomas Balistier and published by Verlag Dr Thomas Balister. This book was released on 2000 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since it was discovered in 1908, the Phaistos Disk - one of the most important artifacts from Crete's minoan culture - has challenged scholars of diverse diciplines and captivated interests of amateurs. Its allure is primarily due to the fact that no one has been able to really solve its mystery. None of the numerous decipherments has found general acceptance or scientific approval. This book does not offer yet another attempt at deciphering the Disk. Rather, it is a short presentation of the various research efforts on the dating and origin, writing and language, as well as content and purpose of the Disk. This lively account of the most important aspects of a not-so-strictly-scholarly debate, which has gone on for decades, also includes a view of the putative solutions.

Cretan Sanctuaries and Cults

Author : Mieke Prent
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047406907
Total Pages : 813 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)

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Download or read book Cretan Sanctuaries and Cults written by Mieke Prent and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2005-06-01 with total page 813 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume documents the development of Cretan sanctuaries and associated cults from the end of the Late Bronze Age into the Archaic Period (c.1200–600 BC). The book supplies up-to-date site catalogues and discusses recurring types of sanctuaries, the history of their use and their religious and social functions, offering new insights into the period as a whole. Ancient Crete is known as an island whose religion displays a strong continuity with ‘Minoan’ traditions. The period of 1200–600 BC in general, however, is considered as one of profound socio-political and cultural change. This study explores the idea of ‘continuity’ by detailing the different processes and mechanisms involved in the maintenance of older cult traditions and provides balance by placing the observed changes in cult customs and the use of sanctuaries in the broader context of societal change.

The Living Goddesses

Author : Marija Gimbutas
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520229150
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (291 download)

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Download or read book The Living Goddesses written by Marija Gimbutas and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2001-01-12 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents evidence to support the author's woman-centered interpretation of prehistoric civilizations, considering the prehistoric goddesses, gods and religion, and discussing the living goddesses--deities which have continued to be venerated through the modern era.

Caves and the Ancient Greek Mind

Author : Yulia Ustinova
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191563420
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book Caves and the Ancient Greek Mind written by Yulia Ustinova and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2009-02-12 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caves and the Ancient Greek Mind analyses techniques of searching for ultimate wisdom in ancient Greece. The Greeks perceived mental experiences of exceptional intensity as resulting from divine intervention. They believed that to share in the immortals' knowledge, one had to liberate the soul from the burden of the mortal body by attaining an altered state of consciousness, that is, by merging with a superhuman being or through possession by a deity. These states were often attained by inspired mediums, `impresarios of the gods' - prophets, poets, and sages - who descended into caves or underground chambers. Yulia Ustinova juxtaposes ancient testimonies with the results of modern neuropsychological research. This novel approach enables an examination of religious phenomena not only from the outside, but also from the inside: it penetrates the consciousness of people who were engaged in the vision quest, and demonstrates that the darkness of the caves provided conditions vital for their activities.

Greek and Roman Textiles and Dress

Author : Mary Harlow
Publisher : Oxbow Books
ISBN 13 : 178297718X
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (829 download)

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Download or read book Greek and Roman Textiles and Dress written by Mary Harlow and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty chapters present the range of current research into the study of textiles and dress in classical antiquity, stressing the need for cross and inter-disciplinarity study in order to gain the fullest picture of surviving material. Issues addressed include: the importance of studying textiles to understand economy and landscape in the past; different types of embellishments of dress from weaving techniques to the (late introduction) of embroidery; the close links between the language of ancient mathematics and weaving; the relationships of iconography to the realities of clothed bodies including a paper on the ground breaking research on the polychromy of ancient statuary; dye recipes and methods of analysis; case studies of garments in Spanish, Viennese and Greek collections which discuss methods of analysis and conservation; analyses of textile tools from across the Mediterranean; discussions of trade and ethnicity to the workshop relations in Roman fulleries. Multiple aspects of the production of textiles and the social meaning of dress are included here to offer the reader an up-to-date account of the state of current research. The volume opens up the range of questions that can now be answered when looking at fragments of textiles and examining written and iconographic images of dressed individuals in a range of media. The volume is part of a pair together with Prehistoric, Ancient Near Eastern and Aegean Textiles and Dress: an interdisciplinary anthology edited by Mary Harlow, Cécile Michel and Marie-Louise Nosch

Guide to Cretan Antiquities

Author : Kōstēs Davaras
Publisher : Park Ridge, N.J. : Noyes Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Guide to Cretan Antiquities written by Kōstēs Davaras and published by Park Ridge, N.J. : Noyes Press. This book was released on 1976 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Pre-palatial

Author : Keith Branigan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Pre-palatial written by Keith Branigan and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Kommos: The Greek sanctuary

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780691026336
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book Kommos: The Greek sanctuary written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Philistines and Aegean Migration at the End of the Late Bronze Age

Author : Assaf Yasur-Landau
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139485873
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book The Philistines and Aegean Migration at the End of the Late Bronze Age written by Assaf Yasur-Landau and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-06-16 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study, Assaf Yasur-Landau examines the early history of the biblical Philistines who were among the 'Sea Peoples' who migrated from the Aegean area to the Levant during the early twelfth century BC. Creating an archaeological narrative of the migration of the Philistines, he combines an innovative theoretical framework on the archaeology of migration with new data from excavations in Greece, Turkey, Cyprus, Syria, Lebanon, and Israel and thereby reconstructs the social history of the Aegean migration to the southern Levant. The author follows the story of the migrants from the conditions that caused the Philistines to leave their Aegean homes, to their movement eastward along the sea and land routes, to their formation of a migrant society in Philistia and their interaction with local populations in the Levant. Based on the most up-to-date evidence, this book offers a new and fresh understanding of the arrival of the Philistines in the Levant.

Yavneh

Author : Raz Kletter
Publisher : Saint-Paul
ISBN 13 : 9783727816673
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (166 download)

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Download or read book Yavneh written by Raz Kletter and published by Saint-Paul. This book was released on 2010 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the words of late Professor Moshe Kochavi, the Philistine repository pit at Yavneh is the kind of discovery made only once every fifty years. It is the richest repository pit ever found from Bronze and Iron Ages Israel/Palestine, containing thousands of cultic finds originating from a temple, including an unprecedented number - more than a hundred - of cult stands (so-called 'architectural models') carrying rich figurative art, dozens of fire-pans, chalices and other objects. The present volume includes the full publication of the excavation, the stratigraphy, the cult stands and the figures detached from cult stands, several clay and stone altars and some pottery vessels related to burning of plant material, most likely incense. This exceptional book raises a host of highly important and intriguing questions. Is this a favissa, or even a genizah? Why are many cult stands badly broken, while some are intact - were cult stands broken on purpose? What is the explanation for the unique stratigraphy and for the layer of gray ash in the pit - was fire kindled inside as part of a ritual? How do we know that these finds are Philistine? Are they part of the 'furniture' of the temple or objects dedicated by worshippers as votives? Do the figures on the cult stands represent mortal beings, or divinities? If divinities, can we relate them with Biblical or extra-biblical data on the gods of the Philistines? What was the function/s of cult stands? Were they models of buildings, supports for images, offering tables, altars, or perhaps incense burners? Why are female figures dominant, while male figures are virtually absent? In discussing such topics, Yavneh I treats issues that are central to many fields of study: religion and cult in Iron Age Israel/Palestine; the history and archaeology of the Philistines and their 'western' relations; Near Eastern iconography, the meaning of cult stands/architectural models and the understanding of votive objects and of repository pits in general. Literally salvaged from the teeth of a bulldozer, these rare finds are now published. Generations of scholars will discuss and reinterpret them - there is no 'final word' for such finds and hence, this final excavation volume is not an end, but a beginning.