The Cult Of Divine Birth In Ancient Greece

Author : M. Rigoglioso
Publisher : Springer
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2009-04-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780230620919

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The Cult of Divine Birth in Ancient Greece by M. Rigoglioso Pdf

Greek religion is filled with strange sexual artifacts - stories of mortal women's couplings with gods; rituals like the basilinna's "marriage" to Dionysus; beliefs in the impregnating power of snakes and deities; the unusual birth stories of Pythagoras, Plato, and Alexander; and more. In this provocative study, Marguerite Rigoglioso suggests such details are remnants of an early Greek cult of divine birth, not unlike that of Egypt. Scouring myth, legend, and history from a female-oriented perspective, she argues that many in the highest echelons of Greek civilization believed non-ordinary conception was the only means possible of bringing forth individuals who could serve as leaders, and that special cadres of virgin priestesses were dedicated to this practice. Her book adds a unique perspective to our understanding of antiquity, and has significant implications for the study of Christianity and other religions in which divine birth claims are central. The book's stunning insights provide fascinating reading for those interested in female-inclusive approaches to ancient religion.

Author : M. Rigoglioso
Publisher : Springer
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2010-09-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780230113121

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Virgin Mother Goddesses of Antiquity by M. Rigoglioso Pdf

This study of various female deities of Graeco-Roman antiquity is the first to provide evidence that primary goddesses were conceived of as virgin mothers in the earliest layers of their cults. By taking feminist analysis of divinities further, this book provides a fresh angle on our understanding of these deities.

Author : Jennifer Lynn Larson
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9780415324489

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Ancient Greek Cults by Jennifer Lynn Larson Pdf

Using archaeological, epigraphic and literary sources, and incorporating current scholarly theories, this volume offers an accessible account of the Greek gods for undergraduate students.

Author : Marguerite Mary Rigoglioso
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-30
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781591434146

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The Mystery Tradition of Miraculous Conception by Marguerite Mary Rigoglioso Pdf

• Explains how Mary was born into a lineage of powerful women who cultivated and passed on the ability to consciously conceive elevated beings • Includes a complete translation of the Infancy Gospel of James and reveals the hidden codes it contains relating to the practice of miraculous conception • Shows how Mary was trained and initiated in the “womb mysteries” and reveals the esoteric techniques she used to conceive Jesus Delving into one of the Virgin Mary’s forgotten gospels, the Infancy Gospel of James, Marguerite Mary Rigoglioso, Ph.D., reveals a truth that has been suppressed for nearly two millennia: that Mother Mary was not a passive bystander to her own pregnancy but an advanced member of a sacred order of women trained in divine conception. Unlocking the hidden codes of Mary’s gospel and other ancient source texts, the author reveals how Mary conceived Jesus through a careful process that she willed and initiated. She explains how Mary was born into a family of powerful priestesses, women who possessed, cultivated, and passed on the ability to consciously conceive elevated beings to help the planet. This lineage included Mary’s own mother, Anne, who conceived Mary with this method, her relative Elizabeth (mother of John the Baptist), and the biblical matriarch Sarah, the wife of Abraham and mother of Isaac. These women were schooled in the shamanic “womb mysteries,” secret knowledge of the capacity of the womb. Decoding the Infancy Gospel of James, the author shows how Mary was trained and initiated, reveals the esoteric techniques she used to conceive Jesus, and explores the birth itself and the mind-altering reality that accompanied it. By revealing the Virgin Mary as a trained holy woman and a conscious actor in the conception of Jesus, the author corrects the impression we have been given of a passive and bewildered girl who had no idea how or why she was pregnant. She also restores Mary as the empowered feminine orchestrator of these significant events, paralleling the redemption of Mary Magdalene in recent years. Explaining how and why virgin birth was accomplished, this book allows us to make sense of miraculous conception and reveals the power that lies in all women’s wombs.

Author : Sue Blundell,Margaret Williamson,Margaret Williamson**Nfa***
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2005-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134799855

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The Sacred and the Feminine in Ancient Greece by Sue Blundell,Margaret Williamson,Margaret Williamson**Nfa*** Pdf

In classical Greece women were almost entirely excluded from public life. Yet the feminine was accorded a central place in religious thought and ritual.This volume explores the often paradoxical centrality of the feminine in Greek culture, showing how out of sight was not out of mind. The contributors adopt perspectives from a wide range of disciplines, such as archaeology, art history, psychology and anthropology, in order to investigate various aspects of religion and cult. They include the part played by women in death ritual, the role of heroines, and the fact that goddesses had no childhood, at the same time posing questions about how we know what rituals meant to their participants. The Sacred and the Feminine in Ancient Greece is a lively and colourful exploration of the ways in which religion and ritual reveal women's importance in the Greek polis, showing how ideologies about female roles and behaviour were both endorsed and challenged in the realm of the sacred.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781134346196

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Ancient Greek Cults by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jane Ellen Harrison
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 717 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780691227467

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Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion by Jane Ellen Harrison Pdf

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.

Author : M. Rigoglioso
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1349381594

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Virgin Mother Goddesses of Antiquity by M. Rigoglioso Pdf

This study of various female deities of Graeco-Roman antiquity is the first to provide evidence that primary goddesses were conceived of as virgin mothers in the earliest layers of their cults. By taking feminist analysis of divinities further, this book provides a fresh angle on our understanding of these deities.

Author : Emma Stafford
Publisher : Classical Press of Wales
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2000-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781914535246

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Worshipping Virtues by Emma Stafford Pdf

The Greeks, in Dr. Johnson's phrase, 'shock the mind by ascribing effects to non-entity'. The culture of ancient Greece was thronged with personifications. In poetry and the visual arts, personified figures of what might seem abstractions claim our attention. This study examines the logic, the psychology and the practice of Greeks who worshipped these personifications with temples and sacrifices, and addressed them with hymns and prayers. Emma Stafford conducts case-studies of deified 'abstractions', such as Peitho (Persuasion), Eirene (Peace) and Hygieia (Health). She also considers general questions of Greek psychology, such as why so many of these figures were female. Modern scholars have asked, Did the Greeks believe their own myths? This study contributes importantly to the debate, by exploring widespread and creative popular theology in the historical period.

Author : Dean Miller
Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781627125666

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Beliefs, Rituals, and Symbols of Ancient Greece and Rome by Dean Miller Pdf

Greek and Roman mythology is forever linked for a myriad of reasons. Historians believe this could be because many of the Roman deities were adopted from the Greek. However, there are many that were not shared and are proudly only Roman, or only Greek. This comprehensive atlas presents dictionary entries about the major gods, heroes, and imaginary creatures of Greek and Roman mythology, along with information on some key historical figures and philosophical schools of thought. In this impressive book, the entries unfold through a pictorial and illustrated journey. Through a robust glossary, sidebars, and thematic introductions the social studies content of this fascinating subject becomes easily digestible, even for the most reluctant reader, while the further reading section inspires future research.

Author : Jan Bremmer
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2008-04-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789047432715

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Greek Religion and Culture, the Bible and the Ancient Near East by Jan Bremmer Pdf

This book greatly enhances our knowledge of the interrelationship of Greek religion & culture and the Ancient Near East by offering important analyses of Greek myths, divinities and terms like ‘magic’ and 'paradise', but also of the Greek contribution to the Christian notion of atonement.

Author : Patrick Curry,William Rowlandson
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781443850124

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Daimonic Imagination by Patrick Curry,William Rowlandson Pdf

From the artistic genius to the tarot reader, a sense of communication with another order of reality is commonly affirmed; this ‘other’ may be termed god, angel, spirit, muse, daimon or alien, or it may be seen as an aspect of the human imagination or the ‘unconscious’ in a psychological sense. This volume of essays celebrates the daimonic presence in a diversity of manifestations, presenting new insights into inspired creativity and human beings’ relationship with mysterious and numinous dimensions of reality. In art and literature, many visual and poetic forms have been given to the daimonic intelligence, and in the realm of new age practices, encounters with spirit beings are facilitated through an increasing variety of methods including shamanism, hypnotherapy, mediumship and psychedelics. The contributors to this book are not concerned with ‘proving’ or ‘disproving’ the existence of such beings. Rather, they paint a broad canvas with many colours, evoking the daimon through the perspectives of history, literature, encounter and performance, and showing how it informs, and has always informed, human experience.

Author : Irene Polinskaya
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 718 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004262089

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A Local History of Greek Polytheism by Irene Polinskaya Pdf

This book provides the first comprehensive and detailed study of the deities and cults of the important Greek island-state of Aigina from the Geometric to Classical periods (800-400 BCE). It rests on a thorough first-hand reconsideration of the archaeological, epigraphic and literary evidence. The development of the local cults is reconstructed, along with their interrelationships and how they responded to the social needs of the Aiginetans. Revising other recent models of interpretation, the author proposes a distinctive approach, informed by anthropology and social theory, to the study of the religious life of the ancient Greeks. On this basis, she uses the case of Aigina to explore fundamental issues such as the nature and variety of local religious worlds and their relationship to the panhellenic concepts and practices of Greek religion.

Author : Louise Bruit Zaidman,Pauline Schmitt Pantel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1992-12-17
Category : History
ISBN : 0521423570

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Religion in the Ancient Greek City by Louise Bruit Zaidman,Pauline Schmitt Pantel Pdf

This book is a translation into English of La religion grecque by Louise Bruit Zaidman and Pauline Schmitt Pantel, described by Dr Simon Price as 'an excellent book, by far the best introduction to the subject in any language'. It is the purpose of the book to consider how religious beliefs and cultic rituals were given expression in the world of the Greek citizen - the functions performed by the religious personnel, and the place that religion occupied in individual, social and political life. The chapters cover first ritual and then myth, rooting the account in the practices of the classical city while also taking seriously the world of the imagination. For this edition the bibliography has been substantially revised to meet the needs of a mainly student, English-speaking readership. The book is enriched throughout by illustrations, and by quotations from original sources.

Author : M. Rigoglioso
Publisher : Springer
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2010-09-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780230113121

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Virgin Mother Goddesses of Antiquity by M. Rigoglioso Pdf

This study of various female deities of Graeco-Roman antiquity is the first to provide evidence that primary goddesses were conceived of as virgin mothers in the earliest layers of their cults. By taking feminist analysis of divinities further, this book provides a fresh angle on our understanding of these deities.