TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hupfauf,Peter R.
AU  - Herzog,Uta
AU  - Simek,Rudolf
AU  - Aalto,Sirpa
TI  - The Visual Perception of Deities from the Palaeolithic to the Present: Faces of Gods 
SN  - 1527564037
AV  - BL485 .H87 2021
U1  - 202/.112 23
PY  - 2021///
CY  - Newcastle upon Tyne
PB  - Cambridge Scholars Publishing
KW  - Idols and images
KW  - Europe
KW  - History
KW  - Idoles et images
KW  - Histoire
KW  - fast
N2  - 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
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