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The Visual Perception of Deities from the Palaeolithic to the Present : Faces of Gods / by Peter Hupfauf, Uta Herzog, Rudolf Simek and Sirpa Aalto.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2021Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 1527564037
  • 9781527564039
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Visual Perception of Deities from the Palaeolithic to the Present.DDC classification:
  • 202/.112 23
LOC classification:
  • BL485 .H87 2021
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
Online resources: Summary: 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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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)2727496

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.

Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 12, 2021).

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