Heritage as source : histories and images of Osun Osogbo -- Heritage as novelty : revitalizing Yoruba art in the spirit of modernism -- Heritage as project : hybridity and the reauthentication of the Osun Grove -- Heritage as style : travel, interaction, and the branding of Osog…
This book provides a better understanding of the ubiquitous deity in Yoruba pantheon, an objective which is brilliantly achieved. The author's extensive fieldwork involved close interactions with the leaders and votaries of the Esu cult, particularly in two major Yoruba cities w…
"Kathleen Herbert sifts through the royal genealogies, charms, verse and other sources to find clues to the names and attributes of the Gods and Goddesses of the early English. The earliest account of English heathen practices reveals that they worshipped the Earth Mother and ca…
The importance of the eternal feminine as a way to a constructive, non-exploitative worldview is brilliantly mirrored in these four essays by Campbell and other eminent authors.
The Barbarians Speak re-creates the story of Europe's indigenous people who were nearly stricken from historical memory even as they adopted and transformed aspects of Roman culture. The Celts and Germans inhabiting temperate Europe before the arrival of the Romans left no writt…
In 2009, the Peruvian government apologized to its citizens of African descent for the exclusion enacted against them from the colonial period to the present. While this gesture initiated a long-awaited process of addressing the history of enslavement and its lasting impacts for…
Ancient civilizations had great respect for Fire-worshipping. Indus civilization was highly popular for its Fire-worshiping. This Fire-worship is known as Yajn͂ a. The word Yajn͂ a itself is a vast term. It covers many factors of human life starting from birth to death. Not only F…
In Late Antique Rome the worship of the sun penetrated into Christian belief and practice. This is usually explained in terms of a type of syncretism, where the sun god in Roman religion during this time (often seen as being at the apex of the pantheon) was conflated with the Ch…
The invasion of Mesoamerica by the Spanish in the 16th century generated a shift from a religion that worshipped many gods, each of which represented the gifts of the land, into one that centered in the belief of a single god. Though the attempted eradication of the ancient reli…
This study interrogates the ritual function of Aztec agricultural deities across various media to discover how material objects were perceived as animate and sacred. In addition, it addresses the following themes as they relate to the objects themselves: the instantiation of sac…
