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Myth, Ritual, and Kingship: Essays on the Theory and Practice of Kingship in the Ancient Near East and in Israel

Book by S. H. Hooke; Clarendon Press, 1958

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Kings and rulers--mythology, Mythology, Ritual

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...mark of this British Myth and Ritual School. The predilection for...the presupposition that the ancient Near East was the home of the...general pattern of myth and ritual in the Ancient Near East...81. 2 Cf. Hooke, Myth and Ritual , pp. 1 ff. The Myth and...
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Magic and Ritual in the Ancient World

Book by Paul Mirecki, Marvin Meyer; Brill, 2002

Subjects:

Magic, Ancient

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...rhetoric of reversal in which the ritual professionals are substituted...assuming that such existed in ancient Israelite society did not include...Moses. By Canaanizing rival ritual complexes from the indigenous...an investigation of magic as ritual in ancient Levantine archaeology...not marginalized syncretistic rituals...
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Ancient Magic and Ritual Power

Book by Marvin Meyer, Paul Mirecki; Brill, 2001

Subjects:

Magic, Ancient

Collections: History, Entire Library

...assume that the accompanying ritual included some such instru...presence of the images in the rituals that situates the mythical...A common aspect of healing ritual in ancient Egypt was the mythical re...state to a fire to be made in a ritual brazier. This might suggest...
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Citizen Bacchae: Women's Ritual Practice in Ancient Greece

Book by Barbara Goff; University of California Press, 2004

Subjects:

Greek Literature--History And Criticism, Religion And Literature--Greece, Religion In Literature, Rites And Ceremonies In Literature, Rites And Ceremonies--Greece, Women And Literature--Greece, Women In Literature, Women--Greece, Women--Religious Life--Greece

Collections: Religious Studies, Literature, Entire Library

...appropriate practitioners of many rituals connected to the agricultural...Womens activity in the sphere of ritual was thus determined not only...within Greek culture. Since ritual practice afforded women a public...field than elsewhere. The ritual sphere is perhaps the most...actually look for the women of ancient Greece. If we assume not womens...
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Ritual Bronzes of Ancient China

Book by Phyllis Ackerman; The Dryden Press, 1945

Subjects:

Bronzes, Chinese, China--Antiquities, China--Religion, Rites And Ceremonies--China

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RITUAL BRONZES OF ANCIENT CHINA PHYLLIS ACKERMAN The Iranian Institute THE DRYDEN PRESS PUBLISHERS NEW YORK 1945

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Portrait of a Priestess: Women and Ritual in Ancient Greece

Journal article by Denver Graninger; The Historian, Vol. 72, 2010

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Books--Book reviews, Portrait of a Priestess: Women and Ritual in Ancient Greece (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews

Collections: History, Entire Library

Portrait of a Priestess: Women and Ritual in Ancient Greece. by Denver Graninger Portrait of a Priestess: Women and Ritual in Ancient Greece. By Joan Breton Connelly. (Princeton...
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Citizen Bacchae: Women's Ritual Practice in Ancient Greece

Journal article by Rebecca H. Sinos; The Historian, Vol. 69, 2007

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Books--Book reviews, Citizen Bacchae: Women's Ritual Practice in Ancient Greece (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Womens Ritual Practice in Ancient Greece. by Rebecca...Citizen Bacchae: Womens Ritual Practice in Ancient...participants in the ritual life of their families and their cities. These rituals, Barbara Goff argues...assumption that the ancient Greeks saw their rituals as primarily social...to the sacred aim of ritual? Many of Goffs own...
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Landscapes, Gender, and Ritual Space: The Ancient Greek Experience

Journal article by Laura Gawlinski; The Historian, Vol. 67, 2005

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Books--Book reviews, Landscapes, Gender, and Ritual Space: The Ancient Greek Experience (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Gender, and Ritual Space: The Ancient Greek Experience. by Laura...Cole explores political and ritual space and the boundaries marked...gender and the female body. The ritual exclusion of women is related...Landscape, gender, and ritual fold together neatly in the...recognized as a goddess whose rituals and sanctuaries are associated...
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Ritual Sacrifice in Ancient Peru

Journal article by Penny Dransart; Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Vol. 10, 2004

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Books--Book reviews, Ritual sacrifice in ancient Peru (Book)--Book reviews

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Ritual Sacrifice in Ancient Peru. by Penny Dransart BENSON...evidence, which relates to the ritual hunting of deer and sea-lions...Her investigation of the ritual patterning she observes in...concerned with the making of ritual payments to mountain spirits...society go through initiation rituals from which they emerge as ancestors...
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Ritual and Politics in Ancient Mesopotamia

Journal article by Mark W. Chavalas; The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 126, 2006

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Books--Book reviews, Ritual and Politics in Ancient Mesopotamia (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: History, Entire Library

Ritual and Politics in Ancient Mesopotamia. by Mark W. Chavalas July 2001 ("Ritual and Politics in Ancient...religious significance of rituals and only recently have...evaluating the role of rituals in public and political...Reade ("Religious Ritual in Assyrian Sculpture...

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Scholars and the Goddess: Historically Speaking, the "Ancient" Rituals of the Goddess Movement Are Almost Certainly Bunk

Magazine article by Charlotte Allen; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 287, January 2001

Subjects:

Goddesses, Religions, Witchcraft

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...Historically Speaking, the "Ancient" Rituals of the Goddess Movement Are...introduction to Wiccan teachings and rituals written by Starhawk (nee...by such things as Masonic ritual and a late-nineteenth...concerns the very existence of ancient Goddess worship. One problem...scholars say, is that the ancients were genuine polytheists...
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The Scholars and the Goddess - Historically Speaking, the "Ancient" Rituals of the Goddess Movement Are Almost Certainly Bunk

Magazine article by Charlotte Allen; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 287, January 2001

Subjects:

Goddess religion--Research, Paganism--History, Witchcraft--History, Witches--History

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...Historically Speaking, the "Ancient" Rituals of the Goddess Movement Are...introduction to Wiccan teachings and rituals written by Starhawk (nee...by such things as Masonic ritual and a late-nineteenth...concerns the very existence of ancient Goddess worship. One problem...scholars say, is that the ancients were genuine polytheists...
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Up from the Sand: In French Guiana, Giant Leatherback Turtles Emerge from the Surf in an Ancient Ritual of Life

Magazine article by Bernadette Gilbertas; International Wildlife, Vol. 28, September 1998

Subjects:

French Guiana--Plants and animals, Sea turtles--Behavior

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Up from the sand: in French Guiana, giant leatherback turtles emerge from the surf in an ancient ritual of life by Bernadette Gilbertas Enormous and all aglow, the moon slowly makes its appearance at the oceanside Indian village of...
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Pyramid Scheme: Rachel Cooke Is Spooked by the Resurrection of an Ancient Post-Death Ritual

Magazine article; New Statesman (1996), Vol. 140, October 31, 2011

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Mummifying Alan: Egypt's Last Secret (Television program)--Television program reviews, Television programs--Television program reviews

Collections: Entire Library

...by the Resurrection of an Ancient Post-Death Ritual. Mummifying Alan: Egypts...a salt well known to the ancient Egyptians. Thirty-five...which is important: the ancients believed that, as the mummy...Then again, forget the ancient Egyptians. Its our own attitudes...
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Unpeaceful Symbol: A Look at the History of the So-Called Peace Symbol Reveals That It Originated in Ancient Pagan Rituals, and That Its Use Has Been Primarily as a Token Not of Peace, but of Evil

Magazine article by Dennis Behreandt; The New American, Vol. 19, May 5, 2003

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Norse mythology, Peace movements--Analysis, Peace movements--History, Roman history, 509-30 BC (Republic), Runes, Signs and symbols--History, Signs and symbols--Religious aspects, Symbolism--Analysis, Symbolism--Religious aspects

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...Peace Symbol Reveals That It Originated in Ancient Pagan Rituals, and That Its Use Has Been...member of the CND was aware of the symbols ancient origins. In 1958, Eric Austin, a London...was reading a book on the runes, the ancient signs of the Norse world. He discovered...

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Orthodox Celebrations Follow Ancient Rituals

Newspaper article by Nancy Luebke; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), April 15, 2006

Subjects:

Palm Sunday

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Orthodox Celebrations Follow Ancient Rituals. by Nancy Luebke Byline: Nancy...m. April 23 and preserves ancient Christian rituals. At the midnight divine liturgy...around the church commemorates a ritual of ancient times when the newly...
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Sickening End to an Ancient Ritual at Horse Fair

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), June 12, 2007

Subjects:

Horses--Rites, ceremonies and celebrations, Horses--Trade shows

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Sickening End to an Ancient Ritual at Horse Fair. Byline: PAUL SIMS...washed. But this year, the annual ritual at the Appleby Horse Fair, which...reemerged but its rider continued the ritual, dunking the horses head under the...
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Sickening End to an Ancient Ritual at Horse Fair

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), June 12, 2007

Subjects:

Horses--Rites, ceremonies and celebrations

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Sickening End to an Ancient Ritual at Horse Fair. FOR almost 350 years...washed. But this year, the annual ritual at Appleby Horse Fair ended in a sickening...emerged but its rider continued the ritual, dunking the horses head under the...
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Ancient Signing in Ritual Was Byronic Moment - despite a Sloppy Start

Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), July 10, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Ancient Signing in Ritual Was Byronic Moment - despite a Sloppy Start. Byline: ElaineMorgan...Anyway, there I was. As in the Linnean Society, signing in is an ancient ritual held in an impressive venue - this time it was the Great Hall at...
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Aboriginal Dance Sends Spirit Safely Back Home; Elder Conducts Ancient Ritual as Skull Returns

Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), May 14, 2009

Subjects:

Indigenous peoples--Rites, ceremonies and celebrations

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Spirit Safely Back Home; Elder Conducts Ancient Ritual as Skull Returns. Byline: ALAN WESTON THE ancient tradition of the aboriginal smoking ceremony...He said: "The smoking ceremony is an ancient tradition which calls upon the spirits...

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Baths

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

BATHS in architecture. Ritual bathing is traceable to ancient Egypt, to prehistoric cities of the Indus River valley...period exist in the palaces at Knossos and Tiryns. The ancient Greeks devised luxurious bathing provisions, with heated...
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Wake

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...WAKE watch kept over a dead body, usually during the night preceding burial . Ancient peoples in various parts of the world observed the custom. As an ancient ritual, it was rooted in a concern that no person should be buried alive. After it...
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Gaster, Moses

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Its History and Traditions (1949), Purim and Hanukkah in Custom and Tradition (1950), Thespis: Ritual, Myth, and Drama in the Ancient Near East (1950), Holy and Profane: Evolution of Jewish Folkways (1955), and Myth, Legend, and...
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Prophet

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...priest suggests established ritual duties. The Prophetic Tradition in the Ancient Middle East Prophets are clearly...Prophecy and Society in Ancient Israel (1980); D. E...Early Christianity and the Ancient Mediterranean World (1983...
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Sacrifice

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...lamb is frequent. In the ancient liturgies, the Eucharist...the holy sacrifice." Other ancient cultures of the Middle East...religions with sacrificial rituals. Perhaps the most fully developed...particularly bloody and elaborate ritual of human sacrifice. Human...Ancient Greek Sacrificial Ritual and Myth (1983); U. M...

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