Myths Of Fe
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Iron Age Myth And Materiality
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Author : Lotte Hedeager
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2011-04-29
Iron Age Myth And Materiality written by Lotte Hedeager and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-04-29 with History categories.
Iron Age Myth and Materiality: an Archaeology of Scandinavia AD 400-1000 considers the relationship between myth and materiality in Scandinavia from the beginning of the post-Roman era and the European Migrations up until the coming of Christianity. It pursues an interdisciplinary interpretation of text and material culture and examines how the documentation of an oral past relates to its material embodiment. While the material evidence is from the Iron Age, most Old Norse texts were written down in the thirteenth century or even later. With a time lag of 300 to 900 years from the archaeological evidence, the textual material has until recently been ruled out as a usable source for any study of the pagan past. However, Hedeager argues that this is true regarding any study of a society’s short-term history, but it should not be the crucial requirement for defining the sources relevant for studying long-term structures of the longue durée, or their potential contributions to a theoretical understanding of cultural changes and transformation. In Iron Age Scandinavia we are dealing with persistent and slow-changing structures of worldviews and ideologies over a wavelength of nearly a millennium. Furthermore, iconography can often date the arrival of new mythical themes anchoring written narratives in a much older archaeological context. Old Norse myths are explored with particular attention to one of the central mythical narratives of the Old Norse canon, the mythic cycle of Odin, king of the Norse pantheon. In addition, contemporaneous historical sources from late Antiquity and the early European Middle Age - the narratives of Jordanes, Gregory of Tours, and Paul the Deacon in particular - will be explored. No other study provides such a broad ranging and authoritative study of the relationship of myth to the archaeology of Scandinavia.
The Myth Of Santa Fe
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Author : Chris Wilson
language : en
Publisher: UNM Press
Release Date : 1997
The Myth Of Santa Fe written by Chris Wilson and has been published by UNM Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Architecture categories.
Debunks the great tourist myth, and explains how the Santa Fe architectural and design style, so popular with millions of visitors today, was consciously created by Anglos in the early 20th century.
Myth Of Iron
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Author : Dan Wylie
language : en
Publisher: University of Kwazulu Natal Press
Release Date : 2006
Myth Of Iron written by Dan Wylie and has been published by University of Kwazulu Natal Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa) categories.
Over the decades we have heard a great deal about Shaka, the famous - or infamous - of Zulu leaders. It may come as a surprise, therefore, that we do not know when he was born, nor what he looked like, nor precisely when or why he was assassinated. This book lays out the available evidence - mainly hitherto under-utilised Zulu oral testimonies.
100 Chemical Myths
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Author : Lajos Kovács
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2014-09-26
100 Chemical Myths written by Lajos Kovács and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-26 with Science categories.
100 Chemical Myths deals with popular yet largely untrue misconceptions and misunderstandings related to chemistry. It contains lucid and concise explanations cut through fallacies and urban legends that are universally relevant to a global audience. A wide range of chemical myths are explored in these areas; food, medicines, catastrophes, chemicals, and environmental problems. Connections to popular culture, literature, movies, and cultural history hold the reader’s interest whilst key concepts are beautifully annotated with illustrations to facilitate the understanding of unfamiliar material. Chemical Myths Demystified is pitched to individuals without a formal chemistry background to fledgling undergraduate chemists to seasoned researchers and beyond.
An Introduction To Mythology
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Author : Lewis Spence
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2016-03-15
An Introduction To Mythology written by Lewis Spence and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-15 with categories.
In the preface to his "Introduction to Mythology" Mr. Spence remarks: "Thirty years ago, if a student of myth had been asked who Janus was, he would probably have replied: 'A Roman god of origins.' To-day he might see in him a development of the 'kirn-baby!'" It is thus that relativity is becoming the keyword in the sciences; and in this instance mythology ceases to be the recording of specific myths for their informative or documentary value, and becomes the comparison of myths to determine their common denominators. It is a short step, however, from the grouping of myths by parallelisms or recurrences to the explanation of these parallelisms by the formulation of some underlying principle; for these comparisons show "a regularity of development not to be accounted for by motiveless fancy, but by laws of formation." One finds, for instance, the continual recurrence of the Deluge in the myths of peoples scattered over the entire earth; and if the Hebrew myth is explained as a borrowing from the Babylonian, how is the prevalence of the same subject accounted for in the American Indian? Is this due to some purely physical relationship? Or does it testify to a certain broad similarity in all human brains? On this phase of the subject Mr. Spence is at great pains to maintain no thesis at all; although he does summarize what has been done in the way of establishing monistic principles, while he himself holds to the opinion that such efforts have been more invigorating than true, and that the interrelations of mythology should be formulated on a less wholesale basis. In his 'chapter dealing with the bearing of myth on folklore, he gives some interesting material relating to the metamorphosis of the former into the latter. The belief in the power of iron, for instance, to ward off evil fairies may be connected with the times of the pre-historic bronze-users, whose weapons were shivered to pieces by the users of iron; iron thus coming to be looked upon as a magic power. If the writer of this note could be permitted to add his mite to knowledge, may not this old iron-spirit be traced in a modest form even to present-day America? In the children's game of "iron-tag," the person who stands on iron can not he tagged by the person who is "it." -The Freeman, Vol. 4 [1921]
The Celtic Myths
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Author : Miranda Aldhouse-Green
language : en
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Release Date : 2015-02-02
The Celtic Myths written by Miranda Aldhouse-Green and has been published by Thames & Hudson this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02-02 with Social Science categories.
Introduces the world of the Celts, their gods and goddesses, heroes, monsters and villains. As well as vividly exploring the tales, the author brings her expertise in the archaeology of the Iron Age and particularly shamanism to bear on the mythical worlds she describes, with evidence as diverse as the Gundestrup Cauldron and the famous bog bodies. Starting with a discussion of how myths are transmitted and by whom, the author continues with an account of the Irish and Welsh myths and their key actors and motifs, before moving on to consider themes such as heroes, animals, women, environment and the Otherworld. Finally, the author asks how the myths survived the Christianization of Europe and looks at the influence of monastic chroniclers on the tales, which they preserved and adapted. Includes more than 80 illustrations
The Iron Star And What It Saw On Its Journey Through The Ages
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Author : John Preston True
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1899
The Iron Star And What It Saw On Its Journey Through The Ages written by John Preston True and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1899 with Iron categories.
Myths And Songs From The South Pacific
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Author : William Wyatt Gill
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1876
Myths And Songs From The South Pacific written by William Wyatt Gill and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1876 with Folk literature categories.
Fairy Tale As Myth Myth As Fairy Tale
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Author : Jack Zipes
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Release Date : 2013-04-06
Fairy Tale As Myth Myth As Fairy Tale written by Jack Zipes and has been published by University Press of Kentucky this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-06 with Social Science categories.
" Explores the historical rise of the literary fairy tale as genre in the late seventeenth century. In his examinations of key classical fairy tales, Zipes traces their unique metamorphoses in history with stunning discoveries that reveal their ideological relationship to domination and oppression. Tales such as Beauty and the Beast, Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, and Rumplestiltskin have become part of our everyday culture and shapers of our identities. In this lively work, Jack Zipes explores the historical rise of the literary fairy tale as genre in the late seventeenth century and examines the ideological relationship of classic fairy tales to domination and oppression in Western society. The fairy tale received its most "mythic" articulation in America. Consequently, Zipes sees Walt Disney's Snow White as an expression of American male individualism, film and literary interpretations of L. Frank Baum's The Wizard of Oz as critiques of American myths, and Robert Bly's Iron John as a misunderstanding of folklore and traditional fairy tales. This book will change forever the way we look at the fairy tales of our youth.
Celtic Myths
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Author : Miranda Jane Aldhouse-Green
language : en
Publisher: British Museum Press
Release Date : 1993
Celtic Myths written by Miranda Jane Aldhouse-Green and has been published by British Museum Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
Savage goddesses of war, sun-gods, human sacrifice and the mysteries of the Otherworld are some of the themes explored in this title. The ancient Celts inhabited much of Europe between about 600 BC and AD 400. They were not a literate society, but important sources of evidence for their mythology and beliefs do survive. The vernacular myths of Ireland and Wales - tales of deities, superhuman heroes and magical beasts - were written down in a later period by Christian scribes but preserve much of the earlier pagan mythology.