Arthur John Evans

The Mycenaean Tree and Pillar Cult and Its Mediterranean Relations

With Illustrations from Recent Cretan Finds

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Published in 1901, this highly illustrated work surveys the evidence for a common form of religious worship across the Mediterranean Mycenaean world.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 126
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Mai 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 297mm x 210mm x 7mm
• Gewicht: 349g
• ISBN-13: 9781108060912
• ISBN-10: 1108060919
• Artikelnr.: 37461781

Inhaltsangabe

1. Cretan caves and hypaethral sanctuaries
2. Sacred fig-tree and altar on a pnyxis from Knossos
3. The dove cult of primitive Greece
4. The association of sacred tree and pillar
5. The 'labyrinth' and the pillar shrines of the god of the double axe
6. The 'baetylos' and baetylic tables of offering
7. Zeus Kappotes
8. Sepulchral stylae
9. The tomb of Zeus
10. Small dimensions of the Mycenaean shrines
11. Aniconic cult images
12. Survivals of tree and pillar cult
13. The ficus ruminalis
14. Semitic religious sources
15. The horns of consecration
16. Trinities and other groups
17. The pillar of the house
18. Egyptian influences
19. The Egyptian element in the animal supporters
20. Sacred trees and foliated pillars
21. Architectural columns with animal supporters
22. Anthropomorphic figures of divinities
23. Mycenaean daemons
24. A Mycenaean 'bethshemesh'
25. Cult scenes relating to a warrior god
26. Sacred gateways
27. The dolmen shrines
28. Fresco representing small baetylic temple
29. Parallels to the baetylic shrines
30. An oriental pillar shrine.