Studies On Mythology And Uralic Shamanism
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| Author | : Mihály Hoppál |
| Publisher | : Akademiai Kiads |
| Total Pages | : 204 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : |
A collection of essays focusing on comparative mythology, which have appeared in various journals, most out of print, over the past 15 years. The essays provide a picture of the history and development of comparative research into Finno-Urgic mythology and of its state at the end of the 20th century. Common to these writings is a consistent semiotic approach which can be used in the description of mythological and belief systems. The book is distributed by ISBS. The author is a senior research fellow at the Institute of Ethnologyat the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and director of the European Folklore Institute. Distributed by ISBS. c. Book News Inc.
| Author | : Frog |
| Publisher | : BoD - Books on Demand |
| Total Pages | : 490 |
| Release | : 2018-03-05 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 952222376X |
Mythic discourses in the present day show how vernacular heritage continues to function and be valuable through emergent interpretations and revaluations. At the same time, continuities in mythic images, motifs, myths and genres reveal the longue durée of mythologies and their transformations. The eighteen articles of Mythic Discourses address the many facets of myth in Uralic cultures, from the Finnish and Karelian world-creation to Nenets shamans, offering multidisciplinary perspectives from twenty eastern and western scholars. The mythologies of Uralic peoples differ so considerably that mythology is approached here in a broad sense, including myths proper, religious beliefs and associated rituals. Traditions are addressed individually, typologically, and in historical perspective. The range and breadth of the articles, presenting diverse living mythologies, their histories and relationships to traditions of other cultures such as Germanic and Slavic, all come together to offer a far richer and more developed perspective on Uralic traditions than any one article could do alone.
| Author | : Dragoş Gheorghiu |
| Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 281 |
| Release | : 2018-04-18 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1527509559 |
This long awaited book discusses both ancient and modern shamanism, demonstrating its longevity and spatial distribution. The book is divided into eleven thought-provoking chapters that are organised into three sections: mind-body, nature, and culture. It discusses the clear associations with this sometimes little-understood ritualised practice, and asks what shamanism is and if tangible evidence can be extracted from a largely fragmentary archaeological record. The book offers a novel portrayal of the material culture of shamanism by collating carefully selected studies by specialists from three different continents, promoting a series of new perspectives on this idiosyncratic and sometimes intangible phenomenon.
| Author | : Hoppál Mihály (etnográfus) |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9789630598194 |
| Author | : Mariko Namba Walter |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
| Total Pages | : 1088 |
| Release | : 2004-12-15 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1576076466 |
A guide to worldwide shamanism and shamanistic practices, emphasizing historical and current cultural adaptations. This two-volume reference is the first international survey of shamanistic beliefs from prehistory to the present day. In nearly 200 detailed, readable entries, leading ethnographers, psychologists, archaeologists, historians, and scholars of religion and folk literature explain the general principles of shamanism as well as the details of widely varied practices. What is it like to be a shaman? Entries describe, region by region, the traits, such as sicknesses and dreams, that mark a person as a shaman, as well as the training undertaken by initiates. They detail the costumes, music, rituals, artifacts, and drugs that shamans use to achieve altered states of consciousness, communicate with spirits, travel in the spirit world, and retrieve souls. Unlike most Western books on shamanism, which focus narrowly on the individual's experience of healing and trance, Shamanism also examines the function of shamanism in society from social, political, and historical perspectives and identifies the ancient, continuous thread that connects shamanistic beliefs and rituals across cultures and millennia.
| Author | : Gary Edson |
| Publisher | : McFarland |
| Total Pages | : 307 |
| Release | : 2012-09-18 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0786490888 |
An in-depth look into the foundations of mysticism and alchemy, this book describes both physical and spiritual aspects of the various theories and practices of transformation, with attention to the beliefs of Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, Sufism, Tantrism, Taoism and Yoga. The connection between early mystical pursuits and the development of alchemy from ancient China, India, and Egypt through Moorish Spain and into Latin Europe are illuminated, along with the activities of early alchemists. The book, which is heavily illustrated, describes the beliefs, experiments, and secret messages that drew the believers and dreamers of the world together in search of wealth and immortality.
| Author | : Alby Stone |
| Publisher | : Heart of Albion |
| Total Pages | : 207 |
| Release | : 2003 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1872883680 |
| Author | : Art Leete |
| Publisher | : Universal-Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 312 |
| Release | : 2004 |
| Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
| ISBN | : 1581124031 |
The understanding of shamanism in its variety of forms and manifestations has become vital in our understanding of the origins and development of ideological systems of the human family. Though not a religion, shamanism is the first formalization of the human quest for meaning, understanding and participation in the mysteries of the cosmic drama. It is a global phenomenon; cultural specific practices and beliefs reflecting and embodying universal "truths." This book is a collection of the papers presented at the 6th Conference of the International Society for Shamanistic Research held at the Viljandi Kultuurikolledz, Viljandi, Estonia in August of 2001. It represents the contemporary work of international scholarship in its attempt to understand the complexities of shamanism, both ancient and surviving. Increasingly the study of shamanism is interdisciplinary. These papers and articles offer, as well, an example of the mix of disciplines presently coming to bear on the study of shamanism.
| Author | : Theresa Bane |
| Publisher | : McFarland |
| Total Pages | : 417 |
| Release | : 2014-01-10 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0786488948 |
This exhaustive volume catalogs nearly three thousand demons in the mythologies and lore of virtually every ancient society and most religions. From Aamon, the demon of life and reproduction with the head of a serpent and the body of a wolf in Christian demonology, to Zu, the half-man, half-bird personification of the southern wind and thunder clouds in Sumero-Akkadian mythology, entries offer descriptions of each demon's origins, appearance and cultural significance. Also included are descriptions of the demonic and diabolical members making up the hierarchy of Hell and the numerous species of demons that, according to various folklores, mythologies, and religions, populate the earth and plague mankind. Very thoroughly indexed.
| Author | : Theresa Bane |
| Publisher | : McFarland |
| Total Pages | : 430 |
| Release | : 2013-08-28 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1476612420 |
Fairies have been revered and feared, sometimes simultaneously, throughout recorded history. This encyclopedia of concise entries, from the A-senee-ki-waku of northeastern North America to the Zips of Central America and Mexico, includes more than 2,500 individual beings and species of fairy and nature spirits from a wide range of mythologies and religions from all over the globe.
