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Cargando... Dying for the Gods: Human Sacrifice in Iron Age & Roman Europepor Miranda Aldhouse Green
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. A very interesting archaeological study of ritual human sacrifice in prehistory. A lot of info on various bog bodies.There's something that becomes apparent as you read the book. A lot of the sacrifices, especially the younger ones, have some sort of deformity or injury, often relating to the spine. I honestly can't recall if I've read this somewhere else before or not. But what strikes me is that, had I lived way back then, I could have been one of those bog bodies. Scoliosis was one of the deformities mentioned (for a sixteen-year-old girl). And one would think this would creep me out, right? Nah. In fact, I was thinking, yeah, it'd be pretty nifty to have people studying my body millennia after my death. ( ) sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
Sacrifice, like death, is one of the great taboo subjects of modern society. The notion that human sacrifice, murder most horrid and even cannibalism could be considered a most holy act is almost inconceivable. Yet the evidence for human sacrifice in north-west Europe, deriving from both archaeology and the testimony of Classical writers of the first centuries BC/AD, has to be confronted. This is the challenge of this original, but often disturbing, book. Brings together a wealth of archaeological, anthropological and historical evidence that has not been previously available is a valuable asset to scholars. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Google Books — Cargando... GénerosSistema Decimal Melvil (DDC)291.340940901Religions Other Religions Comparative Religion; Mythology (No Longer Used) Rites, Rituals, and Liturgies SacrificeClasificación de la Biblioteca del CongresoValoraciónPromedio:
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