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Author: Adamnanus (de Iona)
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Languages : en
Pages : 610
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Author: Adamnanus (de Iona)
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Languages : en
Pages : 610
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Author: Adamnan
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1291534180
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 212
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Adamnan's renowned and readable life of the turbulent saint who was (perhaps) the first copyright infringer, condemned by a court, fugitive and saint, founder of abbeys and the symbol of the lovely columbine flower, the dove in flight. Presentation full colour versionCallender Mediaeval Text seriesCallender Peace Studies / Callender Saints
Author: Alfred Cort Haddon
Publisher: New York : Putnam
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Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 470
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Author: Mandell Creighton
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 870
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Languages : en
Pages : 432
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Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 790
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Author: Adamnan
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1291522913
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 139
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The life of St Columbia - Columkille, ' the dove of the church', his emblem the flying dove within the lovely columbine flower - who left Ireland in a rage, founded monasteries and, himself turbulent, started the tranquil church of Iona. A beautiful life by a one of his successor abbots. Callender Peace Studies /. Callender Saints
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Languages : en
Pages : 422
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Author: Inns of Court (London). - Lincoln's Inn
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 988
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Author: Jan N. Bremmer
Publisher: Peeters Publishers
ISBN: 9789042918436
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 286
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The Strange World of Human Sacrifice is the first modern collection of studies on one of the most gruesome and intriguing aspects of religion. The volume starts with a brief introduction, which is followed by studies of Aztec human sacrifice and the literary motif of human sacrifice in medieval Irish literature. Turning to ancient Greece, three cases of human sacrifice are analysed: a ritual example, a mythical case, and one in which myth and ritual are interrelated. The early Christians were the victims of accusations of human sacrifice, but in turn imputed the crime to heterodox Christians, just as the Jews imputed the crime to their neighbours. The ancient Egyptians rarely seem to have practised human sacrifice, but buried the pharaoh's servants with him in order to serve him in the afterlife, albeit only for a brief period at the very beginning of pharaonic civilization. In ancient India we can follow the traditions of human sacrifice from the earliest texts up to modern times, where especially in eastern India goddesses, such as Kali, were long worshipped with human victims. In Japanese tales human sacrifice often takes the form of self-sacrifice, and there may well be a line from these early sacrifices to modern kamikaze. The last study throws a surprising light on human sacrifice in China. The volume is concluded with a detailed index
