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Combining Myrrh (bola) with Cubeb (kakkola): A Complex Figure of Speech for Hierophany
Tantric Buddhism expresses higher realities in the argot of enigmatic or allusive language, sandhyābhāṣā. Many terms for transgressive praxis in this argot are identified with the names of fragrant substances. One key phrase, “the combining of myrrh and cubeb” (bola-kakkola-yoga), which designates the process of hierophany, refers to ritual coition ...exaly +2 more sources
The meaning of Eliade’s hierophany: Implications of moral education
Korean Association for Learner-Centered Curriculum and Instruction, 2018exaly +2 more sources
Horizons, 1979
AbstractWithin the discussion of religious art there arises the fascinating question of how art can engender the awareness of those special (hierophanous) moments in culture where the sacred dimension breaks through into otherwise profane experience. This question requires a consideration of the peculiar relationship which a given art form has to its ...
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AbstractWithin the discussion of religious art there arises the fascinating question of how art can engender the awareness of those special (hierophanous) moments in culture where the sacred dimension breaks through into otherwise profane experience. This question requires a consideration of the peculiar relationship which a given art form has to its ...
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Eliade's Progressional View of Hierophanies
Religious Studies, 1972The purpose of this essay is to present a brief description and evaluation of Mircea Eliade's interpretation of religious symbols with an eye to certain methodological difficulties. Professor Eliade characterises the procedure of the historian of religions as being uniquely preoccupied with religious symbols, that is, with those symbols which are ...
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Peripheral Architectural Hierophanies. Claudio Caveri’s Sacred Architecture
2021With the development of secularizing modernity, the Sacred suffered a gradual retraction in its social, institutional and material expressions. However, architectural modernism built temples, one of the manifestations of the sacred or hierophanies according to Mircea Eliade.
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Crowning, rotating, and emanating hierophanies with elevatio aspect in wayside shrines
Semiotica, 2022Abstract My aim in this paper is to investigate the variants of directionality implied in visual hieratic texts as religious markers in the sacrosphere, which are substantially expressed in the form of a wayside shrine/cross. The methodological underpinnings for this project rely on the proposed semiotactics (cf. Haładewicz-Grzelak): the
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