This two-volume publication offers an in-depth analysis of ophidian symbolism in Eastern Africa, while setting the topic within its regional and historical context: namely, with regards to the rest of Africa, ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, the Greek world, ancient Palestine, Arabia, India, and medie...

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1. Verfasser:	Hazel, Robert (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Newcastle upon Tyne, UK Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2019
Schlagworte:	Mythos Schlangen Brauch Ostafrika Snakes / Africa, East Snakes / Symbolic aspects / Africa, East Africa, East / Social life and customs Africa, East / Civilization Civilization Manners and customs Snakes Africa, East
Zusammenfassung:	This two-volume publication offers an in-depth analysis of ophidian symbolism in Eastern Africa, while setting the topic within its regional and historical context: namely, with regards to the rest of Africa, ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, the Greek world, ancient Palestine, Arabia, India, and medieval and pre-Christian Europe. Through the ages, most of those areas have connected with Eastern Africa in a broad sense, where ophidian symbolism was as "rampant" and far-reaching, if not more so, as anywhere else on the continent, and perhaps in past civilisations. Much as in the wider context, snakes were held to be long-lived, closely related to holes, caverns, trees, and water, life and death, and credited with a liking for milk. Even though ophidian symbolism has always been developed out of the outstanding biological and ethological features of snakes, the process of symbolisation, which plays a crucial role in the elaboration of cultural systems and the shaping of human experience, was inevitably at work.
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