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Books > Religion & Spirituality > Non-Christian religions > Pre-Christian European & Mediterranean religions > General
Prometheus the god stole fire from heaven and bestowed it on
humans. In punishment, Zeus chained him to a rock, where an eagle
clawed unceasingly at his liver, until Herakles freed him. For the
Greeks, the myth of Prometheus's release reflected a primordial law
of existence and the fate of humankind. Carl Kerenyi examines the
story of Prometheus and the very process of mythmaking as a
reflection of the archetypal function and seeks to discover how
this primitive tale was invested with a universal fatality, first
in the Greek imagination, and then in the Western tradition of
Romantic poetry. Kerenyi traces the evolving myth from Hesiod and
Aeschylus, and in its epic treatment by Goethe and Shelley; he
moves on to consider the myth from the perspective of Jungian
psychology, as the archetype of human daring signifying the
transformation of suffering into the mystery of the sacrifice."
Throughout history, the relationship between Jews and their land
has been a vibrant, much-debated topic within the Jewish world and
in international political discourse. Identity and Territory
explores how ancient conceptions of Israel-of both the land itself
and its shifting frontiers and borders-have played a decisive role
in forming national and religious identities across the millennia.
Through the works of Second Temple period Jews and rabbinic
literature, Eyal Ben-Eliyahu examines the role of territorial
status, boundaries, mental maps, and holy sites, drawing
comparisons to popular Jewish and Christian perceptions of space.
Showing how space defines nationhood and how Jewish identity
influences perceptions of space, Ben-Eliyahu uncovers varied
understandings of the land that resonate with contemporary views of
the relationship between territory and ideology.
Jane Harrison examines the festivals of ancient Greek religion
to identify the primitive "substratum" of ritual and its
persistence in the realm of classical religious observance and
literature. In Harrison's preface to this remarkable book, she
writes that J. G. Frazer's work had become part and parcel of her
"mental furniture" and that of others studying primitive religion.
Today, those who write on ancient myth or ritual are bound to say
the same about Harrison. Her essential ideas, best developed and
most clearly put in the Prolegomena, have never been eclipsed.
Christian Satanism will make you turn many heads. It is a religion
composed of Christian and Satanic thinking. People refute it but
those that follow it are only saying they accept both sides and use
both sides for fuller a better purposes. And it is like taking on
an anti- title title.
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