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Free Download Thomas Galoppin, "Naming and Mapping the Gods in the Ancient Mediterranean: Spaces, Mobilities, Imaginaries"
English | ISBN: 311079649X | 2022 | 1089 pages | EPUB | 14 MB
Ancient religions are definitely complex systems of gods, which resist our understanding. Divine names provide fundamental keys to gain access to the multiples ways gods were conceived, characterized, and organized. Among the names given to the gods many of them refer to spaces: cities, landscapes, sanctuaries, houses, cosmic elements. They reflect mental maps which need to be explored in order to gain new knowledge on both the structure of the pantheons and the human agency in the cultic dimension. By considering the intersection between naming and mapping, this book opens up new perspectives on how tradition and innovation, appropriation and creation play a role in the making of polytheistic and monotheistic religions.