: Sirpa Aalto, Uta Herzog, Peter Hupfauf, Rudolf Simek
: Visual Perception of Deities from the Palaeolithic to the Present Faces of Gods
: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
: 9781527564039
: 1
: CHF 185,00
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: Allgemeines, Lexika
: English
: 197
: DRM
: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet
: PDF
Considering that figurines, such as the Venus from Willendorf, or the Lion Man of Hohlenstein-Stadel were already created approximately 30,000 years ago, it must be assumed that humans have had a desire to see a visual expression of their sacred beings for an exceedingly prolonged period of time. It is dialectical that visual interpretations of deities always result in a physical/body structure, resembling the shape of humans. This book is a fusion of multiple independent investigations regarding visual interpretations of deities and religions over a period of 30,000 years. A survey about the psychological necessity for humans to create images of gods and goddesses provides the background for the book's presentation of images of deities, placed in a historical context. An accompanying text supports the illustrations to position them accordingly.