Author: William Vaughn MoodyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
The Masque of Judgment
Author: William Vaughn MoodyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Bulletin
Author: Enoch Pratt Free Library of Baltimore CityPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
Epoch
Author: Percy MacKayePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Theater
Languages : en
Pages : 666
Book Description
"Bibliography: v.2 p. CIV-CVII.
The Literary Year-book
Author: Frederick George AflaloPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 990
Book Description
Chief Contemporary Dramatists
Author: Thomas Herbert DickinsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 700
Book Description
Figaro
Author: Chief Contemporary Dramatists
Author: Thomas H. DickinsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 700
Book Description
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Bulletin
Author: Library Company of PhiladelphiaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Classified
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
The Spiritual Power of Masks
Author: Nigel PennickPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1644114054
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 483
Book Description
• Reveals how mask rituals are akin to shamanic journeying and allow the mask wearer to personify an ancestral presence, spirit, deity, or power • Examines animal guising and shows how mask customs are tied to creation myths and the ancestral founders of a people, tribe, city, or nation • Looks at morris dancers and mummers in the UK, Krampuslauf and Perchtenlauf in Germanic areas, the Gorgon myths of Greece, Norse Berserker rituals, and the annual Black Forest rite to awaken ensouled masks every spring There is a spiritual power in masks that transports one into realms unseen and gives voice to things unspoken. Within the context of ritual, putting on a mask places the wearer at the intersection between the present and the past, the living and the dead, this world and the Otherworld. Masks make it possible to activate ancient archetypes, with the mask wearer reanimating or personifying an ancestral presence or spirit, a deity or power, an animal or a being of the eldritch world. In this illustrated study, Nigel Pennick explores the magical and spiritual aspects of mask wearing from ancient times to the present. He examines the many mask traditions around Europe and shows how mask rituals are similar to shamanic journeying and near-death experiences and can induce ecstatic states that allow the power signified by the mask to take possession of the individual wearing it. He also looks at the practice of dressing up as sacred animals and mask wearing as it relates to ostenta, events that occur suddenly and without warning that are considered a token or sign from the Otherworld. Unveiling the sacred power of masks, the author shows how masks allow us to transport into realms unseen, embody ancestors and otherworldly entities, and connect with traditions that stretch back to time immemorial.