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PHILOSOPHICAL QUESTIONS AND BIOLOGICAL FINDINGS, PART II: PLAY, ART, RITUAL, AND RITUAL SACRIFICE
Zygon, 2020 This Part II of a two‐part article illustrates how research in evolutionary biology, anthropology, archeology, and psychology illuminates questions arising in philosophy—specifically questions about René Girard's theory of aggression. Part I looked at: (
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Atmosphère olfactive et festive du sanctuaire grec : l’odeur du divin
Pallas, 2018 Sacrifice was one of the most important rituals of the ancient Greeks. In this ritual, smells could be used to demarcate the profane from the sacred. The symbolic signification of odours (flowers, incense, trees, flesh, osphus…) was legitimated by myth ...
Véronique Mehl
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Asparkía, 2014 ResumenEn este trabajo se analiza la relación entre mujeres, animales y sacrificio en Bacantes de Eurípides a través de la animalización de Ágave y el colectivo de ménades, por un lado, y del tratamiento del sacrificio en relación con Penteo, por el otro,
Elsa Rodríguez Cidre
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Parts and Wholes: The Role of Animals in the Performance of Dolenjska Hallstatt Funerary Rites
Arts, 2020 There is a rich iconographic tradition demonstrating the importance of animals in ritual in the Dolenjska Hallstatt archaeological culture of Early Iron Age Slovenia (800–300 bce). However, the role of animals in mortuary practice is not well represented
Adrienne C. Frie
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Weaning Away from Idolatry: Maimonides on the Purpose of Ritual Sacrifices [PDF]
Religions, 2021 This essay explores Maimonides’ explanation of the Bible’s rationale behind the ritual sacrifices, namely to help wean the Jews away from idolatrous rites. After clearly elucidating Maimonides’ stance on the topic, this essay examines his view from different angles with various possible precedents in earlier rabbinic literature for such an ...
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With Regard to One Archetype of Ukrainian Musical Culture: Tripartite Music
Вісник Київського національного університету культури і мистецтв. Серія: Музичне мистецтво, 2018 Among the archaic archetypes of the Ukrainian musical culture, less researched ones belong to Indo-European (more specific – Indo-Iranian) origin. One of these is a tripartite music (troyista muzyka) that preserved deep links with pre-Christian (Scythian,
Іryna Zinkiv
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Gökçeada Hıristiyanlarında Kurban Geleneği
Dini Araştırmalar, 2015 Sacrifice tradition has taken place from primitive communities to our times in every period. It has had form in each religions as most important ritual in all of rituals.
İskender Oymak
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Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 2003 Over the last hundred years different attempts have been made to explain why sacrifices have had such a prominent place within many religious traditions.
Clemens Cavallin
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Sacrifice of God in Ancient Egypt: Myth and Ritual [PDF]
Bulletin of Science and Practice, 2019 Mythological beliefs about the first victim are archetypal for ancient cultures. According to ancient Egyptian mythology it is the god Osiris — the first mythical king of Egypt — who became the first victim having been killed by his twin brother Seth. Binary logic of the mythological consciousness based on the beliefs about conflicts and reconciliation
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Aśvamedha - A Vedic Horse Sacrifice
Aśvamedha - vedsko žrtvovanje konja
Studia Mythologica Slavica, 2005 The article investigates the ancient Vedic ritual of horse immolation, known as Aśvamedha. The ritual spans in time from a dawn of Hindu history to the early modern times. It explores its origins, and its cultural and social functions.
Roman Zaroff
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