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Book Synopsis The Sun Gods of Ancient Europe by : Miranda Jane Aldhouse-Green
Download or read book The Sun Gods of Ancient Europe written by Miranda Jane Aldhouse-Green and published by Hippocrene Books. This book was released on 1990-12-31 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the development of male and female divinities associated with the sun in Europe from the Neolithic age to the Roman period. The text is nontechnical but dense enough to daunt a casual reader. Well illustrated with photographs and drawings. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Book Synopsis Our Sun God by : John Denham Parsons
Download or read book Our Sun God written by John Denham Parsons and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-11 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Our Sun God Or Christianity Before Christ" traces down the origins of the Judeo-Christian monotheism and the idea of one God. The author presents numerous similarities between the sole Judeo-Christian God and various forms of sun gods. From a Broad Church Point of View Pauline Christianity From a Gnostic Point of View Christianity in Existence Before Christ The Beginning The Hebrew Scriptures The Sun-god Iaou (Jehovah) Non-Jewish Evidence Concerning Iaou The Origin and Date of Genesis The Sun-god of the New Testament Sun-god Worship in the Days of the Fathers The Sun-god of Philosophy
Book Synopsis The Sun Gods of Ancient Europe by : Miranda Jane Aldhouse-Green
Download or read book The Sun Gods of Ancient Europe written by Miranda Jane Aldhouse-Green and published by Hippocrene Books. This book was released on 1990-12-31 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the development of male and female divinities associated with the sun in Europe from the Neolithic age to the Roman period. The text is nontechnical but dense enough to daunt a casual reader. Well illustrated with photographs and drawings. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Book Synopsis Sun Lore of All Ages by : William Tyler Olcott
Download or read book Sun Lore of All Ages written by William Tyler Olcott and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Sunny (dis)position by : Aaron Jackson Ivey
Download or read book A Sunny (dis)position written by Aaron Jackson Ivey and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis examines the sun-god's position in two of the earliest daughter mythologies of Indo-European culture: Vedic and Greek. My underlying question concerns whether or not the Indo-Europeans had ever viewed the sun-god as a major and, if so, why the sky-god instead became prominent. For Vedic mythology, my primary source is the £̀(gveda, in which numerous hymns are addressed to the sun-god S¿±rya. The poems of Homer and Hesiod offer the most insight regarding H♯3lios' place in archaic Greek religion, although later works provide additional information. By examining Vedic and Greco-Roman mythology, it becomes clear that the solar deity had already been relegated to a secondary position by late Indo-European culture. The daughter mythologies inherit the sky-god as supreme deity, but the sun-god remains a key figure, bringing light to mortals and gods.
Download or read book Ancient Sun God written by Hilton Hotema and published by . This book was released on 2022-02-25 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sun Gods written by Walton Slostad and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humans have worshiped the sun since the dawn of time
Book Synopsis The Gods and Goddesses of Old Europe: 7000 to 3500 BC Myths, Legends and Cult Images by : Marija Gimbutas
Download or read book The Gods and Goddesses of Old Europe: 7000 to 3500 BC Myths, Legends and Cult Images written by Marija Gimbutas and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1974 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Myths of the Sun (Sun Lore of All Ages) by : William Tyler Olcott
Download or read book Myths of the Sun (Sun Lore of All Ages) written by William Tyler Olcott and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Handbook of Religions in Ancient Europe by : Lisbeth Bredholt Christensen
Download or read book The Handbook of Religions in Ancient Europe written by Lisbeth Bredholt Christensen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-11 with total page 655 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Handbook of Religions in Ancient Europe" surveys the major religious currents of Europe before Christianity - the first continental religion with hegemonic ambition - wiped out most local religions. The evidence - whether archaeological or written - is notoriously difficult to interpret, and the variety of religions documented by the sources and the range of languages used are bewildering. The "Handbook" brings together leading authorities on pre-Christian religious history to provide a state-of-the-art survey. The first section of the book covers the Prehistoric period, from the Paleolithic to the Bronze Age. The second section covers the period since writing systems began. Ranging across the Mediterranean and Northern, Celtic and Slavic Europe, the essays assess the archaeological and textual evidence. Dispersed archaeological remains and biased outside sources constitute our main sources of information, so the complex task of interpreting these traces is explained for each case. The "Handbook" also aims to highlight the plurality of religion in ancient Europe: the many ways in which it is expressed, notably in discourse, action, organization, and material culture; how it is produced and maintained by different people with different interests; how communities always connect with or disassociate from adjunct communities and how their beliefs and rituals are shaped by these relationships. The "Handbook" will be invaluable to anyone interested in ancient History and also to scholars and students of Religion, Anthropology, Archaeology, and Classical Studies.
Download or read book The Gods of Ancient Europe written by and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Ancient Gods by : Edwin Oliver James
Download or read book The Ancient Gods written by Edwin Oliver James and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Great Myth of the Sun-gods by : Alvin Boyd Kuhn
Download or read book The Great Myth of the Sun-gods written by Alvin Boyd Kuhn and published by . This book was released on 193? with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis “The” Gods and Goddesses of Old Europe by : Marija Gimbutas
Download or read book “The” Gods and Goddesses of Old Europe written by Marija Gimbutas and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The European Sky Gods - Greeks (Folklore History Series) by : Arthur Bernard Cooke
Download or read book The European Sky Gods - Greeks (Folklore History Series) written by Arthur Bernard Cooke and published by Brown Press. This book was released on 2010-06 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This series of books on the pre-Christian beliefs of the early Europeans is a must for anybody wishing to understand the religious mind set of the Greeks, Romans, and Celts. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900's and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Book Synopsis Sun Gods, Sun Birds, Sacred Trees and Sacrificial Bulls with Immortality Across the Waters by : John Oxenham Goodman
Download or read book Sun Gods, Sun Birds, Sacred Trees and Sacrificial Bulls with Immortality Across the Waters written by John Oxenham Goodman and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-03 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inspiration for this book came from images of the bull sacrifice carried out by Mithras. Remains of 700 images of the bull-slaying scene were discovered in lands once part of the Roman Empire. Mithraism was a major Roman cult which preceded and influenced Christianity. The twelve signs of the zodiac surrounding Mithras may explain the number twelve for the disciples of Jesus, many of whom are rarely mentioned in the gospels. Other connections to Christianity abound and are investigated in this book. Statues, mosaics and reliefs of deities, persons and objects associated with the Mithraic Mysteries and other ancient cults have often been damaged by the elements and by humans through the passing of time. Important details are often missing. I have therefore tried to carefully redraw these ancient images so that the outline is clear and missing elements are reinserted. The 114 images I have produced are an indispensable part of this book. In order to understand Mithraism better, other ancient legends associated with bulls had to be examined, particularly the killing of the Heavenly Bull by Gilgamesh. A boat sailed into the great waters by Gilgamesh in search of a plant which would enable humans to live forever, is of course related to the tree of life in the Garden of Eden. The scene in which the serpent entices Adam and Eve to eat the forbidden fruit appears to have a near parallel in a Mithraic shrine near Frankfurt am Main, Germany which shows a serpent in a tree looking at Mithras who is in the act of slaying the bull. In ancient China, large maritime searches were organized for drugs which would prolong human life. Then, at a much later date the Eight Immortals (Ba Xian) appear in China and some of them eat the peaches of immortality and sail to a magic island where the drugs of immortality are said to be found. This similarity to the voyages of Utnapishtim and Gilgamesh seem hardly coincidental. Then there were the solar boats employed by the Egyptian sun god Ra in his quest for rebirth. There were crossings of the Nile from the land of the living on the eastern bank, to the land of the dead in the west where tombs and pyramids were located. The Babylonian story of Utnapishtim surviving a flood has parallels in the story of Noah and in related Greek, Indian and Chinese stories. Mithras too has a connection with water when he strikes a rock causing water to gush forth and he may have a relationship to the Persian goddess of the waters Anahita. The raven as a companion of Apollo and Mithras is obviously related to the constellation Corvus the Raven and in ancient China ravens were said to carry the sun across the sky. Then there is a dog attracted to the blood from the dying bull and we can imagine it to be Canis Major. In like manner the snake drawn to the blood of the bull may be Hydra the Water Snake, similar to the snake which seized the magic water plant from Gilgamesh. A scorpion (the zodiacal constellation Scorpio) bites the genitals of the bull and is located on the circle of the zodiac directly opposite Taurus. Scorpio is thus the antithesis of Taurus. This book is then an attempt to relate the Mithraic Mysteries to humanity's search for survival and immortality and to show how other mythologies approached this goal. Information is drawn not only from Greece, Rome and Europe but also from ancient China, Japan, India, Mesopotamia, Iran and Egypt. The sun, sunbirds, sacred trees and their fruit, sacrificial bulls and the crossing of the great waters were part of the mythologies surrounding survival. Many of these mythical beliefs were likely to have been known to Roman soldiers associated with Mithraism. Abundant heavenly connections are obvious when looking at the symbolism displayed in the sacrificial bull-slaying scene.
Book Synopsis Bogowie: A Study of Eastern Europe's Ancient Gods by : T.D. Kokoszka
Download or read book Bogowie: A Study of Eastern Europe's Ancient Gods written by T.D. Kokoszka and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2023-08-25 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: T.D. Kokoszka grew up in Texas with a Jewish mother and a Polish-American father. While he was aware of roots going back to Eastern Europe from both families, he found it hard to learn very much about them. He knew that Polish people would whack one another with palm leaves around Easter, and he knew that his great-grandmother purportedly believed in forest spirits known as borowy. However, it wasn't until he was in his teens that he became vaguely aware of an ancient people known as the Slavs who gave rise to the Polish, Ukrainian, Russian, Serbian, Bulgarian, Slovakian, Slovene, and Czech languages. It quickly became clear to him that this was a family of cultures currently under-represented in popular culture, and even in western scholarship. Not simply a regurgitation of scholarship from the Soviet period - and presenting new analyses by using previously neglected resources - Bogowie: A Study of Eastern Europe's Ancient Gods offers one of the most painstaking scholarly reconstructions of Slavic paganism. These new resources include not only an overview of folklore from many different Slavic countries but also comparisons with Ossetian culture and Mordvin culture, as well as a series of Slavic folktales that Kokoszka analyzes in depth, often making the case that the narratives involved are mythological and shockingly ancient. Readers will recognize many European folktale types and possibly learn to look at these folktales differently after reading this book.