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In the Beginning...: Magico-Religious Behavior of the Paleanthropians |
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Orientatio. Tools to make tools. The ``domestication'' of fire |
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The ``opaqueness'' of prehistoric documents |
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Symbolic meanings of burials |
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The controversy concerning deposits of bones |
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Rock paintings: Images or symbols? |
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Rites, thought, and imagination among the Paleolithic hunters |
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The Longest Revolution: The Discovery of Agriculture-Mesolithic and Neolithic |
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Work, technology, and imaginary worlds |
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The heritage of the Paleolithic hunters |
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The domestication of food plants: Origin myths |
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Woman and vegetation. Sacred space and periodical renewal of the world |
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Neolithic religions of the Near East |
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The spiritual edifice of the Neolithic |
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Religious context of metallurgy: Mythology of the Iron Age |
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The Mesopotamian Religions |
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``History begins at Sumer.'' |
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The first myth of the flood |
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Descent to the underworld: Inanna and Dumuzi |
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The Sumero-Akkadian synthesis |
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Sacrality of the Mesopotamian sovereign |
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Gilgamesh in quest of immortality |
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Religious Ideas and Political Crises in Ancient Egypt |
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The unforgettable miracle: The ``First Time.'' |
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Theogonies and cosmogonies |
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The responsibilities of an incarnate god |
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The pharaoh's ascent to heaven |
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Syncope: Anarchy, despair, and ``democratization'' of the afterlife |
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Theology and politics of ``solarization.'' |
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Akh-en-Aton, or the unsuccessful reform |
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Final synthesis: The association Re-Osiris |
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Megaliths, Temples, Ceremonial Centers: Occident, Mediterranean, Indus Valley |
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Ceremonial centers and megalithic constructions |
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The ``enigma of the megaliths.'' |
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Ethnography and prehistory |
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The first cities of India |
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Protohistorical religious concepts and their parallels in Hinduism |
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Crete: Sacred caves, labyrinths, goddesses |
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Characteristic features of Minoan religion |
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Continuity of the pre-Hellenic religious structures |
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The Religions of the Hittites and the Canaanites |
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Anatolian symbiosis and Hittite syncretism |
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The ``god who disappears.'' |
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Conflicts between divine generations |
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A Canaanite pantheon: Ugarit |
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Baal conquers the sovereignty and triumphs over the Dragon |
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Baal confronts Mot: Death and return to life |
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Canaanite religious vision |
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``When Israel Was a Child'' |
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The first two chapters of Genesis |
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Paradise lost. Cain and Abel |
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Before and after the flood |
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The religion of the patriarchs |
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Abraham, ``Father of the Faith'' |
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Moses and the departure from Egypt |
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Religion under the judges: The first phase of syncretism |
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The Religion of the Indo-Europeans. The Vedic Gods |
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Protohistory of the Indo-Europeans |
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The first pantheon and the common religious vocabulary |
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The Indo-European tripartite ideology |
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Varuna, primordial divinity: Devas and Asuras |
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Varuna, universal king and magician: rta and maya |
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Indra, champion and demiurge |
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Agni, chaplain of the gods: Sacrificial fire, light, and intelligence |
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The god Soma and the drink of ``non-death'' |
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Two Great Gods in the Vedic period: Rudra-Siva and Visnu |
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India before Gautama Buddha: From the Cosmic Sacrifice to the Supreme Identity Atman-Brahman |
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Morphology of the Vedic rituals |
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The supreme sacrifices: asvamedha and purusamedha |
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Initiatory structure of rituals: Initiation (diksa), royal consecration (rajasuya) |
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Cosmogonies and metaphysics |
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The doctrine of sacrifice in the Brahmanas |
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Eschatology: Identification with Prajapati through sacrifice |
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Tapas: Technique and dialectic of austerities |
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Ascetics and ecstatics: Muni, vratya |
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The Upanishads and the quest of the rsis: How can deliverance from the ``fruits'' of one's own acts be obtained? |
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The identity atman-Brahman and the experience of ``inner light'' |
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The two modalities of the Brahman and the mystery of the atman captive in matter |
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Zeus and the Greek Religion |
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Theogony and struggles between divine generations |
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Triumph and sovereignty of Zeus |
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The myth of the first races: Prometheus, Pandora |
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The consequences of the primordial sacrifice |
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Man and destiny: The meaning of the ``joy of life'' |
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The Olympians and the Heroes |
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The fallen great god and the smith-magician: Poseidon and Hephaestus |
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Apollo: Contradictions reconciled |
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From ``vision'' to knowledge |
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Hermes, ``the companion of man.'' |
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The goddesses. I: Hera, Artemis |
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The goddesses. II: Athena, Aphrodite |
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The myth: Persephone in Hades |
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The initiations: Public ceremonies and secret rituals |
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Can the Mysteries be known? |
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``Secrets'' and ``Mysteries'' |
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Zarathustra and the Iranian Religion |
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The life of Zarathustra: History and myth |
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The revelation of Ahura Mazda: Man is free to choose good or evil |
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``Transfiguration'' of the world |
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The religion of the Achaemenids |
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The Iranian king and the New Year festival |
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The problem of the Magi. The Scythians |
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New aspects of Mazdaism: The cult of Haoma |
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Exaltation of the god Mithra |
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Ahura Mazda and the eschatological sacrifice |
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The soul's journey after death |
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The resurrection of the body |
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The Religion of Israel in the Period of the Kings and the Prophets |
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Kingship and the monarchy: The apogee of syncretism |
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Isaiah: ``A remnant of Israel'' will return |
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The promise made to Jeremiah |
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The fall of Jerusalem. The mission of Ezekiel |
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Religious valorization of the ``terror of history'' |
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Dionysus, or Bliss Recovered |
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Epiphanies and occultations of a ``twice-born'' god |
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The archaism of some public festivals |
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Euripides and Dionysiac orgiasm |
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When the Greeks rediscover the presence of the God |
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| List of Abbreviations |
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| Present Position of Studies: Problems and Progress. Critical Bibliographies |
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| Index |
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