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Lightning in the Andes and Mesoamerica : pre-columbian, colonial, and contemporary perspectives / John E. Staller and Brian Stross.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Staller, John E.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Indian cosmology.
- Indigenous peoples--Religion.
- Indigenous peoples.
- Indigenous peoples--Rites and ceremonies.
- Lightning--Religious aspects--Latin America.
- Lightning.
- Lightning--Latin America--Folklore.
- Latin America--Antiquities.
- Latin America.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (279 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Lightning has evoked a numinous response as well as powerful timeless references and symbols among ancient religions throughout the world. Thunder and lightning have also taken on various symbolic manifestations, some representing primary deities, as in the case of Zeus and Jupiter in the Greco/Roman tradition, and Thor in Norse myth. This book explores the symbolic elements surrounding lightning in their associated pre-Columbian religious ideologies.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-247) and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on Mar. 12, 2013).
- ISBN:
- 0-19-996776-8
- OCLC:
- 843882742
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