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100 1 $aEliade, Mircea,$d1907-1986.
240 10 $aTraité d'histoire des religions.$lEnglish
245 10 $aPatterns in comparative religion /$cby Mircea Eliade ; translated by Rosemary Sheed.
260 0 $aNew York :$bWorld,$c1963.
300 $axvi, 484 p. ;$c21 cm.
490 0 $aMeridian book
500 $aTranslation of Traité d'histoire des religions.
504 $aIncludes bibliographies and indexes.
505 0 $aI. Approximations: the structure and morphology of the sacred -- 1. "Sacred" and "profane" -- 2. Difficulties of method -- 3. The variety among hierophanies -- 4. The multiplicity of hierophanies -- 5. The dialectic of hierophanies -- 6. The taboo and the ambivalence of the sacred -- 7. Mana -- 8. The structure of hierophanies -- 9. The revaluation of hierophanies -- 10. The complexity of "primitive" religion -- II. The sky and sky gods -- 11. Sacredness of the sky -- 12. Australian sky gods -- 13. Sky gods among the Andaman islanders, Africans, etc -- 14. "Deus otiosus" -- 15. New "divine forms" substituted for the sky gods -- 16. Fusion and substitution -- 17, The antiquity of supreme beings of the sky -- 18. Sky gods among the people of the Arctic and central Asia -- 19. Mesopotamia -- 20. Dyaus, Varuna -- 21. Varuna and sovereignty -- 22. Iranian sky gods -- 23. Ouranos -- 24. Zeus -- 25. Jupiter, Odin, Taranis, etc -- 26. Storm gods -- 27. Fecundators --
505 0 $a28. The spouse of the great mother -- 29. Yahweh -- 30. The supplanting of sky gods by fecundators -- 31. Sky symbolism -- 32. Ascension myths -- 33. Ascension rites -- 34. Ascension symbolism -- 35. Conclusion -- III. The sun and sun-worship -- 36. Hierophanies of the sun and "rationalization" -- 37. The "solarization" of supreme beings -- 38. Africa, Indonesia -- 39. Solarization among the Munda -- 40. Solar cults -- 41. Descent from the sun -- 42. The sun as hierophant and psychopomp -- 43. Egyptian sun cults -- 44. Solar cults in the classical east and the Mediterranean -- 45. India; the ambivalence of the sun -- 46. Sun heroes, the dead and the elect -- IV. The moon and its mystique -- 47. The moon and time -- 48. The coherence of all lunar epiphanies -- 49. The moon and the waters -- 50. The moon and vegetation -- 51. The moon and fertility -- 52. The moon, woman and snakes -- 53. Lunar symbolism -- 54. The moon and death -- 55. The moon and initiation --
505 0 $a56. The symbolism of lunar "becoming" -- 57. Cosmo-biology and mystical physiology -- 58. The moon and fate -- 59. Lunar metaphysics -- V. The waters and water symbolism -- 60. Water and the seeds of things -- 61. Water cosmogonies -- 62. Water as universal mother -- 63. The "water of life" -- 64. The symbolism of immersion -- 65. Baptism -- 66. The thirst of the dead -- 67. Miraculous and oracular springs -- 68. Water epiphanies and divinities -- 69. Nymphs -- 70. Poseidon, Aegir, etc -- 71. Water animals and emblems -- 72. Deluge symbolism -- 73. Summing up -- VI. Sacred stones: epiphanies, signs and forms -- 74. Stones as manifesting power -- 75. Burial megaliths -- 76. Fertilizing stones -- 77. "Sliding" -- 78. Stones with holes: "thunder-stones" -- 79. Meteorites and bethels -- 80. Stone epiphanies and symbolisms -- 81. Sacred stone, omphalos, "centre of the world" -- 82. Signs and forms -- VII. The earth, woman and fertility -- 83. The earth mother --
505 0 $a84. The primeval pair: sky and earth -- 85. The structure of Chthonian hierophanies -- 86. Chthonian maternity -- 87. Man's descent from the earth -- 88. Regeneration -- 89. Homo-humus -- 90. Cosmological solidarity -- 91. Soil and woman -- 92. Woman and agriculture -- 93. Woman and furrow -- 94. Synthesis -- VIII. Vegetation: rites and symbols of regeneration -- 95. A preliminary classification -- 96. The sacred tree -- 97. The tree as microcosm -- 98. The divinity dwelling in trees -- 99. The cosmic tree
505 0 $a100. The inverted tree -- 101. Yggdrasil -- 102. Plant epiphanies -- 103. Vegetation and great goddesses -- 104. Iconographic symbolism -- 105. Great goddess: tree life -- 106. The tree of knowledge -- 107. The guardians of the tree life -- 108. Monsters and gryphons -- 109. The tree and the cross -- 110. Rejuvenation and immortality -- 111. The archetype of simples -- 112. The tree as axis mundi -- 113. The myth of man' descent from a plant species -- 114. Transformation into plants -- 115. Relations between men and plants -- 116. The tree that regenerates -- 117. The marriage of trees -- 118. The May tree -- 119. "King" and "queen" -- 120. Sexuality an vegetation -- 121. Figures representing vegetation -- 122. Ritual contests -- 123. Cosmic symbolism -- 124. Summing-up -- IX. Agriculture and fertility cults -- 125. Agricultural rites -- 126. Woman, sexuality and agriculture -- 127. Agricultural offerings -- 128. The "power" of the harvest -- 129. Mythical personifications --
505 0 $a130. Human sacrifice -- 131. Human sacrifice among the Aztecs and the Khonds -- 132. Sacrifice and regeneration -- 133. End-of-the-harvest rituals -- 134. Seeds and the dead -- 135. Agricultural and funeral divinities -- 136. Sexual life and fertility of the fields -- 137. The 'ritual' function of the orgy -- 138. Orgy and reintegration -- 139. Agricultural mysticism and redemption -- X. Sacred places: temple, palace, "centre of the world" -- 140. Hierophanies and repetition -- 141. The consecration of space -- 142. The "construction" of the sacred space -- 143. The "centre of the world" -- 144. Cosmic patterns and construction rites -- 145. The symbolism of the "centre" -- 146. "Nostalgia for paradise" -- XI. Sacred time and the myth of eternal renewal -- 147. The heterogeneousness of time -- 148. The unity and contiguity of hierophanic time -- 149. Periodic recurrence: the eternal present -- 150. The restoration of mythical time -- 151. Non-periodic recurrence --
505 0 $a152. The regeneration of time -- 153. Yearly repetition of the creation -- 154. Repetitions of the creation attached to particular occasions -- 155. Total regeneration -- XII. The morphology and function of myths -- 156. Creation myths: exemplar myths -- 157. The cosmogonic egg -- 158. What myths reveal -- 159. Coincidentia oppositorum: the mythical pattern -- 160. The myth of divine androgyny -- 161. The myth of human androgyny -- 162. Myths of renewal, construction, initiation and so on -- 163. The make-up of a myth; Varuna and Vrta -- 164. Myth as "exemplar history" -- 165. The corruption of myths -- XIII. The structure of symbols -- 166. Symbolic stones -- 167. The degradation of symbols -- 168. Infantilization -- 169. Symbols and hierophanies -- 170. The coherence of symbols -- 171. The function of symbols -- 172. The logic of symbols.
650 0 $aReligions.
776 08 $iOnline version:$aEliade, Mircea, 1907-1986.$sTraité d'histoire des religions. English.$tPatterns in comparative religion.$dNew York : World, 1963$w(OCoLC)892036813
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