Author: American Oriental SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
List of members in each volume.
Journal of the American Oriental Society
Author: American Oriental SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
List of members in each volume.
Journal of the American Oriental Society
Author: Journal of the American Oriental Society
Author: AnonymousPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 338216177X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 558
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1871. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
The Early History of the Mediterranean Populations, &c., in Their Migrations and Settlements
Author: Hyde ClarkePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Ancient India as Described by Ktêsias the Knidian
Author: CtesiasThe Post Labid
Author: William Milligan SloanePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Tradition, Modernity, and Postmodernity in Arabic Literature
Author: Issa J. BoullataPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789004117631
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
In this collection of essays, various manifestations of traditional as well as modern and postmodern themes and techniques in Arabic literature are explored. For the first time the tripartite concepts of tradition, modernity, and postmodernity in Arabic literary works are analyzed in one volume.
Buddha and Early Buddhism
Author: Arthur LilliePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Buddhism
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
On the Origin of Myths in Catastrophic Experience, vol. 1: Preliminaries
Author: Marinus Anthony van der SluijsPublisher: All-Round Publications
ISBN: 1999438329
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Creation myths around the world reveal an intricate network of recurrent motifs. Many of these are counterintuitive and not widely known, describing a time when the sky was low, the stars did not yet shine, multiple suns appeared, the moon was brighter than the sun, no land existed, deities and mortals maintained frequent contact, a 'world axis' in the form of a tree, ladder or giant man connected the earth with the sky, a devastating flood or fire ended the old order, and so forth. The present work, in multiple volumes, aims to find an origin for this cross-culturally and internally consistent body of traditions in a series of extraordinary natural events relating especially to the earth's transition from the last glacial period to the Holocene. This first volume sets the stage for the interdisciplinary hypothesis. Essential lines of research receive a historical introduction: comparative mythology, catastrophism and the study of the mythical world axis in relation to the earth's rotation. Various astronomical and meteorological interpretations that are not strictly catastrophist are explored for several types of myths about the sun, the moon and the world axis, but leave many of the most intriguing traditions unexplained. It is argued that a structural core of the worldwide mythology of 'creation and destruction', in which the cosmic axis takes pride of place, points to a specific period of dramatic natural circumstances in real prehistoric time. A new synopsis is provided of this universal mythological substrate. It emerges that the mythical world axis cannot have been based on a single object seen or imagined at one of the poles, as has usually been supposed. This surprising conclusion paves the way for the innovative geomagnetic theory proposed in volume 2.
Author: Wilhelm Spitta