Mountains and trees, rivers and springs : animistic beliefs and practices in ancient Mesopotamian religion
| 1. Verfasser: |
Perdibon, Anna
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| Körperschaft: |
ProQuest Ebook Central.
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| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
Wiesbaden :
Harrassowitz Verlag,
2019.
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| Umfang/Format: |
1 online resource (xvi, 220 pages) : illustrations. |
| Schriftenreihe: |
Leipziger altorientalistische Studien
Band 11. |
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| Parallelausgabe: |
Mountains and trees, rivers and springs : (Print version) |
| Online Zugang: |
Available online |
Inhaltsangabe:
- Chapter I
- Animism and Mesopotamian Religion; 1 What is animism? -History of the term in anthropological literature; 2 The state of research into Mesopotamian religion
- Chapter II
- Sacred Mountains and Mountain Deities; 1 The mountain: an entangled sacred being in Mesopotamia and beyond; 2 The mountain; 3 Specifically named mountains
- Chapter III
- River Deities, Cosmic Rivers and Sacred Springs; 1 Bodies of flowing water: places, persons and gods; 2 The divine River: mother, healer and judge; 3 Waters, springs and the Apsû; 4 Specifically named rivers; 5 Rivers as borders, ritual settings and communication channels
- Chapter IV
- Sacred Trees and Plant Persons; 1 Trees as sacred animate beings worldwide and in ancient Mesopotamia; 2 Cosmic trees, sacred trees and tree-persons; 3 The animate and relational universe of plants, wood and trees in the antiwitchcraft incantations and healing rituals
- Chapter V
- Nature, Divinity and Personhood in Ancient Mesopotamian Religion; 1 How animism can contribute to assess some emic notions of nature, divinity and personhood; 2 From myths to magic: animism, analogism and the community of living beings; 3 Mountains, rivers and trees: an entangled relationship
