The Visual Perception of Deities from the Palaeolithic to the Present : Faces of Gods PDF
by Sirpa Aalto, Uta Herzog, Peter Hupfauf, Rudolf Simek
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Considering that figurines, such as the Venus from Willendorf, or the Lion Man of Hohlenstein-Stadel were already created approximately 30,000 years ago, it must be assumed that humans have had a desire to see a visual expression of their sacred beings for an exceedingly prolonged period of time. It is dialectical that visual interpretations of deities always result in a physical/body structure, resembling the shape of humans.
This book is a fusion of multiple independent investigations regarding visual interpretations of deities and religions over a period of 30,000 years. A survey about the psychological necessity for humans to create images of gods and goddesses provides the background for the book's presentation of images of deities, placed in a historical context. An accompanying text supports the illustrations to position them accordingly.
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- Format:PDF
- Pages:197 pages
- Publisher:Cambridge Scholars Publishing
- Publication Date:21/12/2020
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- ISBN:9781527564039
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- Format:PDF
- Pages:197 pages
- Publisher:Cambridge Scholars Publishing
- Publication Date:21/12/2020
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- ISBN:9781527564039