Ritual Cosmos
Author | : Evan M. Zuesse |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Evan M. Zuesse |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Eric Huntington |
Publisher | : University of Washington Press |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2019-01-20 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0295744073 |
Buddhist representations of the cosmos across nearly two thousand years of history in Tibet, Nepal, and India show that cosmology is a rich language for the expression of diverse religious ideas, with cosmological thinking at the center of Buddhist thought, art, and practice. In�Creating the Universe,�Eric Huntington presents examples of visual art and architecture, primary texts, ritual ideologies, and material practices�accompanied by extensive explanatory diagrams�to reveal the immense complexity of cosmological thinking in Himalayan Buddhism. Employing comparisons across function, medium, culture, and history, he exposes cosmology as a fundamental mode of engagement with numerous aspects of religion, from preliminary lessons to the highest rituals for enlightenment. This wide-ranging work will interest scholars and students of many fields, including Buddhist studies, religious studies, art history, and area studies.
Author | : Prudence M. Rice |
Publisher | : University Press of Colorado |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2019-04-14 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1607328895 |
Anthropomorphizing the Cosmos explores the sociocultural significance of more than three hundred Middle Preclassic Maya figurines uncovered at the site of Nixtun-Ch'ich' on Lake Petén Itzá in northern Guatemala. In this careful, holistic, and detailed analysis of the Petén lakes figurines—hand-modeled, terracotta anthropomorphic fragments, animal figures, and musical instruments such as whistles and ocarinas—Prudence M. Rice engages with a broad swath of theory and comparative data on Maya ritual practice. Presenting original data, Anthropomorphizing the Cosmos offers insight into the synchronous appearance of fired-clay figurines with the emergence of societal complexity in and beyond Mesoamerica. Rice situates these Preclassic Maya figurines in the broader context of Mesoamerican human figural representation, identifies possible connections between anthropomorphic figurine heads and the origins of calendrics and other writing in Mesoamerica, and examines the role of anthropomorphic figurines and zoomorphic musical instruments in Preclassic Maya ritual. The volume shows how community rituals involving the figurines helped to mitigate the uncertainties of societal transitions, including the beginnings of settled agricultural life, the emergence of social differentiation and inequalities, and the centralization of political power and decision-making in the Petén lowlands. Literature on Maya ritual, cosmology, and specialized artifacts has traditionally focused on the Classic period, with little research centering on the very beginnings of Maya sociopolitical organization and ideological beliefs in the Middle Preclassic. Anthropomorphizing the Cosmos is a welcome contribution to the understanding of the earliest Maya and will be significant to Mayanists and Mesoamericanists as well as nonspecialists with interest in these early figurines
Author | : Jacques Galinier |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Jacques Galinier surveys both traditional Otomí cosmology and colonial and contemporary Catholic rituals to illustrate the complexity of continuity and change in Mesoamerican religious ideology and practice. Galinier explores the problems of historical and family memory, models of space and time, the role of the human habitation in cosmology, shamanism and healing, and much more. He elucidates the way these realities are represented in a series of arresting oppositions -- both Otomí oppositions and the duality of indigenous and Catholic ritual life -- between the upper and lower human body. As Galinier details, in Otomí cosmology, psychological forces are stored at the very bottom of the body -- 'the World Below' -- in what translates roughly as an 'Old Bag'. This spiritual sack is saturated with 'rottenness and sex' and invades the collective unconscious of the Otomí cosmos. Drawing upon both Freud and theories of the carnivalesque, Galinier argues that this world below provides the foundation for an indigenous metapsychology that is at once very close and very far away from the Freudian conceptual apparatus.
Author | : Efrosyni Boutsikas |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2020-10-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 110848817X |
Reconstructs ancient rituals in their day/night/season combining them with relevant mythology and astronomical observations to understand the ritual's cosmological links.
Author | : Lauren M. Bausch |
Publisher | : Primus Books |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2019-02-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9789352903450 |
The eleven articles in this volume mark a significant advance in Vedic studies. Contributions range widely across critical topics in early, middle, and late Vedic texts and their commentaries, as well as classical themes in contemporary Sanskrit literature. Essays elucidate the explanations and arguments found in Brāhmana texts, the historical and ecological development of Vedic ritual, concepts and underlying messages in Vedic texts, anachronisms in commentarial exegesis, and literary devices in narrative. From a variety of philological, philosophical, ritual, gender, and literary approaches, these articles shed new light on our understanding of these seminal texts of Indian religion and philosophy. This book is dedicated to the life and work of Professor Ganesh Umakant Thite.
Author | : Margie Abbott |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 182 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Organic gardening |
ISBN | : 9780949656612 |
Introduction to rituals - Earth rituals - Air rituals - Water rituals - Fire rituals.
Author | : Glenys Livingstone |
Publisher | : iUniverse |
Total Pages | : 357 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0595349900 |
PaGaian Cosmology brings together a religious practice of seasonal ritual based in a contemporary scientific sense of the cosmos and female imagery for the Sacred. The author situates this original synthesis in her context of being female and white European transplanted to the Southern Hemisphere. Her sense of alienation from her place, which is personal, cultural and cosmic, fires a cosmology that re-stories Goddess metaphor of Virgin-Mother-Crone as a pattern of Creativity, which unfolds the cosmos, manifests in Earth's life, and may be known intimately. PaGaian Cosmology is an ecospirituality grounded in indigenous Western religious celebration of the Earth-Sun annual cycle. By linking to story of the unfolding universe this practice can be deepened, and a sense of the Triple Goddess-central to the cycle and known in ancient cultures-developed as a dynamic innate to all being. The ritual scripts and the process of ritual events presented here, may be a journey into self-knowledge through personal, communal and ecological story: the self to be known is one that is integral with place. PaGaian Cosmology may be used as a resource for individuals or groups seeking new forms of devotional expression and an Earth-based pathway to wisdom within.
Author | : H.E. Plutschow |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2023-11-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004420576 |
Author | : Jeremy Naydler |
Publisher | : Inner Traditions / Bear & Co |
Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 1996-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780892815555 |
Recreates the ancient Egyptian sacred path of spiritual unfolding.