10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «APOTROPAISM»
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The Authority of the Word: Reflecting on Image and Text in ...
In order to understand this type of devotion, I focus my discussion on one of its
constituent elements, the concept of apotropaism. Broadly speaking, apotropaism
is the process of averting evil or turning harm away from someone or something.
Celeste Brusati, Karl A. E.. Enenkel, Walter Melion, 2011
2
Greek Vase-Painting and the Origins of Visual Humour
See Hephaistos, Return of; donkey, comic; horse, comic; behaviour, improper;
gluttony,'; archetypes, comic and apotropaism, 39 and jumping in kraters, 87 and
urinating in an oinochoe, 48 and vomiting, 90 at the komos, 90 exaggerated, 8 6
in ...
Alexandre G. Mitchell, 2009
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The Background And Contents Of Paul's Cultic Atonement Metaphors
Apotropaism and Its Assimilation to Sacrifice McLean considers expulsion rituals
to be a kind of apotropaic rite, but the term apotropaic has long designated an
amulet or figure that diverts evil from the community.1 The curse transmission
ritual ...
apotropaism. (ap-ah-troh-PEY-iz-um) noun the use of magic or ritual to prevent
evil or bad luck. apotrope. (ap-ah-TROPE) noun amulets, talismans, and other
symbols used to ward off evil or misfortune. “It sounds so cool..., and how it's spelt
...
Robert Hartwell Fiske, 2011
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THE MAD PROFESSOR OF BABELDU
In the good old days in Atyap land, discipline, responsible and respected elders
versed in the ancient science and art of apotropaism spoke to death in an
apotropaic language that forced it to spare the young ones in particular. Now, we
have ...
Adamu Kyuka Usman Lilymjok, 2013
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Re-Membering Frankenstein: Healing the Monster in Every Man
Idealization is a hidden apotropaism; one idealizes whenever there is a secret
fear to be exorcised. What is feared is the unconscious and its magical influence.”
Archetypes ofthe Unconscious, CW Vol 9, p 192. Witches, bitches, Medusa, the ...
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Pilgrims and Pilgrimage in Ancient Greece
The Samothracian mysteries might therefore have been fertility rites.”
Ithyphallicism, however, has a strong connection with apotropaism, the warding
away of danger, which might fit in with the cult's promise to save men 'in dangers
on the sea', ...
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An Aesthetic Occupation: The Immediacy of Architecture and ...
25 Antonious, George, 154 n.24, 179- 180 n.i Apotropaism, 8, 10, 12, 18, 29, 39,
64, 66-67, 69-72. 90-9L 93-95. 97- 98, 107-108, 130, 131, 172 n.88, 194 n.i
AqsaMosque, xi, 3, 36, 53, 61, 68-69, 71, 83, 85, 88, 90, 92, 101, 103, 107, 158 n.
6, ...
Daniel Bertand Monk, 2002
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Becoming the Buddha: The Ritual of Image Consecration in ...
An esoteric apotropaism permeates the construction and consecration of Buddha
images and includes auspicious days for building an image, the correspondence
between chanted gatha and the Triple Gem, and installing Phra Upagutta to ...
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Apotropaic Magic: Evil, Ceremony, Magic (paranormal), ...
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Apotropaic magic is a ritual observance that is intended to turn away evil.
Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome, John McBrewster, 2010
