Author : Mathias Svalina
Publisher :
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 31,87 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Poetry
ISBN :
Poetry. Expanding the palette of contemporary surrealism while harkening back to the stories and prayers at the origin of poetry, DESTRUCTION MYTH is a series of absurdist myths of creation and destruction that are at times both inventively silly and surprisingly emotionally direct. This book attempts the world again and again, only to find that even the most ridiculous of creations contains the seeds of its own destruction.
Author : Stephanie Dalley
Publisher : Oxford Paperbacks
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 38,72 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0199538360
The stories translated here all of ancient Mesopotamia, and include not only myths about the Creation and stories of the Flood, but also the longest and greatest literary composition, the Epic of Gilgamesh. This is the story of a heroic quest for fame and immortality, pursued by a man of great strength who loses a unique opportunity through a moment's weakness. So much has been discovered in recent years both by way of new tablets and points of grammar and lexicography that these new translations by Stephanie Dalley supersede all previous versions. -- from back cover.
Author : Alan Dundes
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 24,17 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520063532
Author : Mehmet-Ali Ataç
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 34,96 MB
Release : 2018-03-08
Category : Art
ISBN : 1108688403
Discussions of apocalyptic thought and its sources in the ancient Near East, particularly Mesopotamia, have a long scholarly history, with a renewed interest and focus in the recent decades. Outside Assyriological scholarship as well, studies of the apocalyptic give significant credit to the ancient Near East, especially Babylonia and Iran, as potential sources for the manifestations of this phenomenon in the Hellenistic period. The emphasis on kingship and empire in apocalyptic modes of thinking warrants special attention paid to the regal art of ancient Mesopotamia and adjacent areas in its potential to express the relevant notions. In this book, Mehmet-Ali Ataç demonstrates the importance of visual evidence as a source for apocalyptic thought. Focusing on the so-called investiture painting from Mari, he relates it to parallel evidence from the visual traditions of the Assyrian Empire, ancient Egypt, and Hittite Anatolia.
Author : Jenny Hval
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 119 pages
File Size : 14,32 MB
Release : 2018-10-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 178663385X
Jo is in a strange new country for university and having a more peculiar time than most. In a house with no walls, shared with a woman who has no boundaries, she finds her strange home coming to life in unimaginable ways. Jo's sensitivity and all her senses become increasingly heightened and fraught, as the lines between bodies and plants, dreaming and wakefulness, blur and mesh. This debut novel from critically acclaimed artist and musician Jenny Hval presents a heady and hyper-sensual portrayal of sexual awakening and queer desire.
Author : Bruce Lincoln
Publisher :
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 50,31 MB
Release : 2013-10-01
Category :
ISBN : 9780674864283
Author : Joan Holub
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 31,96 MB
Release : 2013-12-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1442488441
The Olympians must face the fierce giant Typhon in order to find magic seeds that will help grow the earth after the terrible drought brought upon the land by Hyperion.
Author : Ruby Blondell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 35,70 MB
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 0190263539
Helen of Troy engages with the ancient origins of the persistent anxiety about female beauty, focusing on this key figure from ancient Greek culture in a way that both extends our understanding of that culture and provides a useful perspective for reconsidering aspects of our own.
Author : John C. Whitcomb (Jr.)
Publisher : P & R Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 33,89 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781596383951
Over fifty years ago Henry Morris and John Whitcomb joined together to write a controversial book that sparked dialogue and debate on Darwin and Jesus, science and the Bible, evolution and creation -- culminating in what would later be called the birth of the modern creation science movement. Now, fifty years, forty-nine printings, and 300,000 copies after the initial publication of The Genesis Flood, P & R Publishing has produced a fiftieth anniversary edition of this modern classic. - Back cover.
Author : Mary Ann Mattoon
Publisher : Daimon
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 36,82 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 3856305831
The 14th Congress for Analytical Psychology was held 23-28 August 1998 in the ancient city of Florence, Italy. The theme, 'Destruction and Creation: Personal and Cultural Transformations', is especially appropriate to the Italian setting, with that nation's history of destruction, both from nature and from human activity, and its tradition -- especially in Florence -- of creative individuals and institutions. The theme is fitting, also, to the context of Jungian psychology, with its emphasis on these and other pairs of opposites, with their integral role in psychic wholeness. Acknowledging, also, that destruction is indispensable to creation, some Jungians prefer the term 'creative unconscious' to the traditional 'collective unconscious'.
