The Last Omen Of Heaven
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Author | : Thomas Kwoba |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 80 |
Release | : 2015-08-25 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 1329490142 |
'The Last Omen of Heaven' is a body of poetry contesting a dark romance with tragedy. It highlights the greatness and struggles of the heart with love, passion, praise and nostalgia. This is man's immortal story.
Author | : S J Marshall |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 2015-12-14 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1317849299 |
The Mandate of Heaven was originally given to King Wen in the 11th century BC. King Wen is credited with founding the Zhou dynasty after he received the Mandate from Heaven to attack and overthrow the Shang dynasty. King Wen is also credited with creating the ancient oracle known as the Yijing or Book of Changes. This book validates King Wen's association with the Changes. It uncovers in the Changes a record of a total solar eclipse that was witnessed at King Wen's capital of Feng by his son King Wu, shortly after King Wen had died (before he had a chance to launch the full invasion). The sense of this eclipse as an actual event has been overlooked for three millennia. It provides an account of the events surrounding the conquest of the Shang and founding of the Zhou dynasty that has never been told. It shows how the earliest layer of the Book of Changes (the Zhouyi) has preserved a hidden history of the Conquest.
Author | : Francis John Bodfield Hooper |
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Total Pages | : 460 |
Release | : 1876 |
Genre | : Bible |
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Author | : Lillian Lan-ying Tseng |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 479 |
Release | : 2020-03-17 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1684175097 |
Tian, or Heaven, had multiple meanings in early China. It had been used since the Western Zhou to indicate both the sky and the highest god, and later came to be regarded as a force driving the movement of the cosmos and as a home to deities and imaginary animals. By the Han dynasty, which saw an outpouring of visual materials depicting Heaven, the concept of Heaven encompassed an immortal realm to which humans could ascend after death. Using excavated materials, Lillian Tseng shows how Han artisans transformed various notions of Heaven—as the mandate, the fantasy, and the sky—into pictorial entities. The Han Heaven was not indicated by what the artisans looked at, but rather was suggested by what they looked into. Artisans attained the visibility of Heaven by appropriating and modifying related knowledge of cosmology, mythology, astronomy. Thus the depiction of Heaven in Han China reflected an interface of image and knowledge. By examining Heaven as depicted in ritual buildings, on household utensils, and in the embellishments of funerary settings, Tseng maintains that visibility can hold up a mirror to visuality; Heaven was culturally constructed and should be culturally reconstructed.
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Publisher | : Canongate Books |
Total Pages | : 60 |
Release | : 1999-01-01 |
Genre | : Bibles |
ISBN | : 0857861018 |
The final book of the Bible, Revelation prophesies the ultimate judgement of mankind in a series of allegorical visions, grisly images and numerological predictions. According to these, empires will fall, the "Beast" will be destroyed and Christ will rule a new Jerusalem. With an introduction by Will Self.
Author | : Shirley Jackson Case |
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Total Pages | : 442 |
Release | : 1919 |
Genre | : Bible |
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Author | : James George Frazer |
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Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 1912 |
Genre | : Magic |
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Frazer's series which attempted to define the shared elements of religious belief and scientific thought, discussing fertility rites, human sacrifice, the dying god, the scapegoat, and many other symbols and practices whose influences had extended into 20th-century culture. His thesis is that old religions were fertility cults that revolved around the worship and periodic sacrifice of a sacred king. Frazer proposed that mankind progresses from magic through religious belief to scientific thought.
Author | : Nicholas Patrick Wiseman |
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Total Pages | : 524 |
Release | : 1884 |
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Total Pages | : 524 |
Release | : 1884 |
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Total Pages | : 706 |
Release | : 1884 |
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