Indo-European Fire Rituals: Cattle and Cultivation, Cremation and Cosmogony

ISBN-13: 9781032292984 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 288 str.

Terje Oestigaard

Opis

Indo-European Fire Rituals is a comparative study of Indo-European fire rituals from modern folklore and ethnography in Scandinavia and archaeological material in Europe from the Bronze Age onwards to the Vedic origins of cosmos in India and today’s cremations on open pyres in Hinduism.

Spis treści

1: Fire rituals and the Indo-European Heritage; 2: Hearts in hearths – ancestors and deities; 3: Seasonality and fire festivals; 4. Cremation and cultivation in the North; 5. Fires from heaven – The links between East and West; 6. The Indo-Iranian culture and its rituals of fire; 7. Cremation, sacrifice and cosmogony in Hinduism