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Fire, water, heaven and earth : ritual practice and cosmology in ancient Scandinavia : an Indo-European perspective / Anders Kaliff ; [translation, Alan Crozier].
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kaliff, Anders.
- Language:
- English
- Swedish
- Subjects (All):
- Funeral rites and ceremonies, Ancient--Scandinavia.
- Funeral rites and ceremonies, Ancient.
- Indo-Europeans--Religion.
- Indo-Europeans.
- Northmen.
- Rites and ceremonies.
- Ritual.
- Scandinavia--Antiquities.
- Scandinavia.
- Antiquities.
- Ritual--Scandinavia.
- Cosmology, Ancient.
- Northmen--Rites and ceremonies.
- Mythology, Indo-European.
- Physical Description:
- 216 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Stockholm, Sweden : Riksantikvarieämbetet, 2007.
- Summary:
- Archaeological excavations of prehistoric Scandinavian graves and ritual sites often reveal seemingly enigmatic and contradictory features. Interpretation from a comparative Indo-European perspective allows a partly new approach to material which at first sight seems fragmentary and anonymous. The interpretations in this book proceed from cosmological beliefs occurring in various Indo-European traditions. The author discusses mortuary practices and votive customs in ancient Scandinavian tradition in a long-term perspective, with a comparative Indo-European approach.
- Contents:
- Religion as a force in the creation of culture : a revived research field
- The significance of terminology for interpretation
- Analogies and phenomenology
- The Indo-European context : problems and possibilities
- The Vedic analogy : an introduction
- The source material and the ancient Scandinavian conceptual world
- Cosmology and ritual practice
- Grave monuments and sacrificial altars : kindred ritual implements
- The cremation ritual and the ideas behind it
- Traces of Scandinavian fire sacrifice
- Fire sacrifice rituals and the elements
- Death and grinding : the annihilation of the body
- Ritual dismemberment and deposition
- Everyday life and ritual : different expressions of the same cosmology
- Rock and stone as a medium and a cultic implement
- Aspects of the dead as mythical beings.
- Notes:
- Translated from Swedish.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-216).
- ISBN:
- 9789172094505
- 9172094508
- OCLC:
- 181142274
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