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  • Le gai sçavoir: Mélanges en hommage à Jean-Loïc

    Archaeopress Le gai sçavoir: Mélanges en hommage à Jean-Loïc

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    Book SynopsisThese vibrant Mélanges bring together texts by colleagues and friends to celebrate the life and work of an exceptional scientist, Jean-Loïc Le Quellec. Through the diversity of its contributions, this book bears witness to the transdisciplinarity, rigour and benevolence that characterise this great scientist. From epistemological reflections to scientific studies, memories, drawings and poems, each author makes his or her own contribution to this passionate and fascinating figure. This collection is an ode to curiosity, open-mindedness and scientific rigour, values that Jean-Loïc Le Quellec has passionately defended throughout his career.Table of ContentsQue veut dire « Tout est document » ? Voyez l’œuvre de Jean-Loïc Le Quellec – François-Xavier Fauvelle Introduction – Julien d’Huy, Frédérique Duquesnoy et Patrice Lajoye Au globe-trotteur polygrotte – Christophe Darmangeat La vie et l’œuvre de Jean-Loïc Le Quellec – Julien d’Huy, Frédérique Duquesnoy, Patrice Lajoye Préhistoire - Prehistory Peut-on effacer les images ? – François Bon Un mythe paléolithique à la Ségognole à Noisy-sur-École (Seine-et-Marne) – Alexandre Cantin, Médard Thiry et Boris Valentin « À ce stade, le mythologue prend le relais de l’archéologue » : archéologie et cosmogonie d’une femme-poisson néolithique – Vincent Charpentier et Julien d’Huy Les mythes de la femme préhistorique – Claudine Cohen Images rupestres et narrations – Claudia Defrasne Comment prouver une migration ? – Jean-Paul Demoule De Séfar à Cosquer, itinérances rupestres – Frédérique Duquesnoy Figurations originales d’habitats sédentaires à Égénéteï (Tagant, Mauritanie) – Yves Gauthier Un désert, une rencontre – Michel Grenet Danser au néolithique – Jean Guilaine Tadi dia Mbenza : culte de Mbenza et grottes ornées – Geoffroy Heimlich « Dead or alive ? » Considérations sur des animaux prédynastiques égyptiens représentés verticalement – Stan Hendrickx et Frank Förster Taches aveugles : vision critique – Romain Lahaye Les militaires romains dans le Sahara d’Auguste à Domitien – Yann le Bohec La chasse néolithique à la baleine en Corée – Sangmog Lee Les gravures rupestres de Tamgart Isserdane (Akka, Maroc) – Faysal Lemjidi Rendez-vous à l’ombre. Souvenirs d’un lieu particulier dans le Mesāk Settafet (Libye) – Fabio Maestrucci et Gianna Giannelli Singuliers amas – Grégor Marchand L’Égypte, entre déserts et vallée. Un cheminement singulier vers l’économie de production – Béatrix Midant-Reynes, François Briois et Tiphaine Dachy De quelques peintures d’Ozan Éhéré (Tasile-n-Ăžžǝr, Algérie) – Amel Mostefaï-Ithier Trois suppressions critiques et une fiction mythologique – Dominique Pasqualini À propos d’un petit livre jaune – Romain Pigeaud Le collectif des Magdaléniens du Lussac-Angles et ses représentations pariétales : une évolution continue – Geneviève Pinçon Les stèles de Gadiloméda (Éthiopie) – Bertrand Poissonnier Des Martiens dans la selva : fantasmes archéologiques d’Amazonie – Stéphen Rostain Proof of Concept: Radiocarbon Dating Both Organic and Mineral Carbon-Containing Compounds Using Plasma-Chemical Carbon Dioxide Extraction – Marvin W. Rowe, Eric Blinman, Shelby A. Jones and Caroline Welte Transgressions vers les mythologies des premiers hommes modernes – Ludovic Slimak Rites, Wrongs and Analogies: Religion and Ritual as Explanation of Prehistoric Rock Art – Anne Solomon and Paul Bahn Therianthropes, Animals and “Symbolic Wounds” in Southern African Rock Art: An Evolutionary Development Hypothesis (EDH) – J. Francis Thackeray Mythologie et folklore - Mythology and Folklore Comparative Mythology and the Human Past – Yuri E. Berezkin Mélusine, les fées au bain et l’au-delà dans les romans médiévaux – Françoise Clier-Colombani Devenir propriétaire en construisant sa maison en une nuit sur un communal : étude d’un fait de folklore juridique – Raymond Delavigne Le loup ne peut pas être domestiqué : une rumeur du XIXe siècle en Poitou-Charentes et ses connexions – Frédéric Dumerchat « Par les admirables qualitez qu’on a vues en elles… » L’érynge : de l’herbe aux cent têtes à la racine gorgonéenne – Annick Fédensieu La Chauve-souris – Galina Kabakova Des marteaux de saints – Patrice Lajoye Pour une casuistique de l’action à distance par le regard – Jacques E. Merceron Arruns fils de Porsenna, « hypostase » de Vidura ? – Marcel Meulder Luzel et la fileuse – Françoise Morvan Les Navi, démones de la naissance en Macédoine – Anastasia Ortenzio Quelques traditions étiologiques concernant la Shannon et leurs ramifications mythologiques – Guillaume Oudaer Sitologie des bachelleries – Bernard Robreau Trois affaires non résolues à l’ombre d’un poirier – Geoffroy de Saulieu. Dionysos et Alexandre : des retrouvailles au bout du monde – Pierre Sauzeau Éléments de culture sémito-indo-européenne – Bernard Sergent Le dessous des cartes : mythologie comparée – Marc Thuillard À propos des sorcières masquées : une hypothèse à l’occasion des termes slaves provenant de larva et masca – Stamatis Zochios Anthropologie - Anthropology L’harmonie universelle est une vaste toile d’araignée – Brenno Boccadoro Partage et Ostension : réseaux sociaux et expressions collectives – Véronique Campion-Vincent Les alphabets libyques. Emprunt et création – Dominique Casajus Le Temps du mythe – Philippe Descola Écologie et extrême droite : Lectures des « racines historiques de notre crise écologique » de Lynn White – Stéphane François Sur l’apport épistémique de Jean-Loïc Le Quellec, anthropologue et préhistorien – Philippe Grosos Entretien avec Roberte Hamayon – Roberte Hamayon Des Martiens dans la montagne bourbonnaise : nouvelles chroniques d’archéologie romantique – Damien Karbovnik Il n’y a de science que critique : esprit critique et rupture avec le sens commun – Bernard Lahire La Terre creuse, entre caverne originelle aryenne et mythologie politique transnationale – Nicolas Lebourg De la beauté des marais, des îles et des reflets vocaliques sur l’eau : retour sur la phonologie du maraîchin – Jean Léo Léonard et Julien Fulcrand Fin d’une prophétie ou prophétie de la fin ? La prophétie des papes de saint Malachie – Jean-Bruno Renard Tabula gratulatoria Nous aurions pu ne pas te rencontrer – Jean-Pierre Baron et Thomas Tully Au Sahara, les fleurs, les arbres… – Anne-Catherine Benchelah bouche d’ombre – Bernadète Bidaude Les pantoufles et le violon – François Bon La globalizzazione dei vandali – Donatella Calati e Roberta Simonis Une peinture à Jabbâren – Marie-Anne Civrac Un clin d’œil – Sylvia Lucie Eva Donon Sur le chemin d’Iherǝn – Quentin Faugeras Du Collège de France au désert, un confinement avant l’heure – Pauline de Flers, en union avec Philippe de Flers Évocation – équipe éditoriale de la Grande Oreille Chacun cherche son chat – Michel Hindenoch Ti-n Tekelt, 2004, site à rituel encore utilisé : clin d’œil à l’anthropologue – Nicole Honoré Un voyage à Taǧǝlahin – Souvenirs de Suzanne et Gérard Lachaud À la rencontre des violoneux – Denis Le Vraux Tabula gratulatoria – Michel Lorblanchet Le troupeau en mouvement – Marie Maka L’ocre rouge – André Markowicz Q Un théranthrope à Imərda – Marie-Jean Nézondet Jean-Loïc Le Quellec et le muséum d’Histoire naturelle de La Rochelle – Elise Patole-Edoumba Témoignage – Myriam Pellicane « Beetles and Rock Art in Libya » : archéologie, environnement et exploration pétrolière dans le Sahara libyen – Jean-Claude Ringenbach Aux noces de ton frère le vent – Thierry Robin Jean-Loïc Le Quellec, militant de la culture du peuple – Jany Rouger Jean-Loïc Le Quellec and GIS in South African Archaeology – Karim Sadr Hommage à Jean-Loïc Le Quellec – Marco Savini - AARS Laisser passer un peu de lumière – François-Xavier Vives A curious panel of therianthropes from Iherǝn – András Zboray Autrices et auteurs / Authors

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    £125.09

  • Queer Heroes of Myth and Legend: A celebration of

    Octopus Publishing Group Queer Heroes of Myth and Legend: A celebration of

    15 in stock

    Book SynopsisHidden in the margins of history books, classical literature, and thousands of years of stories, myths and legends, through to contemporary literature, TV and film, there is a diverse and other-worldly super community of queer heroes to discover, learn from, and celebrate. Be captivated by stories of forbidden love like Patroclus & Achilles (explored in Madeleine Miller's bestseller Song of Achilles), join the cult of Antinous (inspiration for Oscar Wilde), get down with pansexual god Set in Egyptian myth, and fall for Zimbabwe's trans God Mawi. And from modern pop-culture, through Dan Jones's witty, upbeat style, learn more about 90s fan obsessions Xena: Warrior Princess and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Neil Gaiman's American Gods and the BBC's Doctor Who. Queer Heroes of Myth & Legend brings to life characters who are romantic, brave, mysterious, and always fantastical. It is a magnificent celebration of queerness through the ages in all its legendary glory.

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    £16.14

  • The Big Book of Celtic Gods and Goddesses

    Gill Books The Big Book of Celtic Gods and Goddesses

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    £13.84

  • Life, lore and song / 'Binneas an tSiansa':

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  • Thunder Bay Press Michigan The Crooked Tree: Indian Legends of Northern

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    £14.36

  • Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Proverbs of Africa

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    £18.99

  • Star Myths of the Greeks and Romans: A Sourcebook

    Phanes Press,U.S. Star Myths of the Greeks and Romans: A Sourcebook

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    Book SynopsisThe nightly appearence of the stars has been a source of endless wonder and speculation. This handbook looking at the 48 classical constellations includes the only surviving works on the constellation myths - Erathosthenes's "The Constellations" and Hyginus's "The Poetic Astronomy".

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  • Ghost Stories of Louisiana

    Ghost House Publishing Ghost Stories of Louisiana

    Book SynopsisIn Louisiana, disbelief in ghosts is not an option. Some of the best-known hauntings in the country are the unsettled spirits that have roamed the bustling French Quarter of New Orleans since its early days. But while the Crescent City teems with historic paranormal characters, the rest of Louisiana is also rife with intriguing and eerie ghost stories. Come explore the Pelican State and uncover its historic supernatural stars: * The ghost of an old woman killed in a car accident returns to her Baton Rouge home to comfort her grieving family. * A young girl''s spirit haunts several generations of a family in New Orleans'' Garden District. * A mysterious foreigner known only as ''''the Sultan'''' is massacred along with his servants, forever shrouding his French Quarter dwelling in the mysterious legend of his demise. * Visitors and staff at Oak Alley Plantation, St. James Parish, regularly encounter strange sights and frightening sounds. * Myriad spirits roam the rooms and halls of Myrtles Plantation of St. Francisville, already famous for the eerie tales from its past. * In life, Marie Laveau was undisputed voodoo queen of New Orleans; in death, she still imbues the city with dark magic. * And many more...

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  • Ghost Stories of Florida

    Ghost House Publishing Ghost Stories of Florida

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    £11.99

  • Ancient Technology in Peru and Bolivia

    Adventures Unlimited Press Ancient Technology in Peru and Bolivia

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    £19.80

  • Disinformation Company And the Last Neanderthal Bigfoot, Yeti: A

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  • Bigfoot Nation: The History of Sasquatch in North

    Adventures Unlimited Press Bigfoot Nation: The History of Sasquatch in North

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    £19.80

  • The Golden Sufi Centre Moshkel Gosha: A Story of Transformation

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    Book SynopsisThrough this ancient Persian story of a prickly-bush digger and his daughter who discover magical stones that bring wealth and disaster, this tale explores the different ways to nourish and care for the soul. As an invitation to the dimensions of love power and divine sustenance, MOSHKEL GOSHA''s magical story shows how to value and protect a deep longing for inner truth in the contemporary age. The commentary gives many valuable insights into the hidden significance of this story. It shows how an ancient Sufi teaching story contains the answer to one of today''s most important psychological and spiritual questions: how to let the healing and transformative power of the inner world become part of our everyday life.

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  • Sun God  Moon Maiden

    Crossed Crow Books Sun God Moon Maiden

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    Book SynopsisThe Holy Grail is many things to many people. The medieval troubadour saw it as a vision of heaven. In the twenty-first century, the quantum physicist finds heaven in parallel universes. The shaman, who links prehistory with the modern world, travels in other dimensions knowing he will experience the parameters of existence. In SUN GOD AND MOON MAIDEN, Gordon Strong suggests that the presence of the Grail questions not only space and time but perception itself. The philosophy of Plato, the psychology of Jung and the nobility of kings are within the Grail''s domain. It resides in the endless galaxy of the mind. This interior landscape is where we discover yet more gateways into Inner Space, realms where we may come to know the universe, and ourselves. From Atlantis to Arthur''s Camelot, the path to Avalon still awaits. As Gordon Strong demonstrates in this fascinating book - encompassing mythology, magic and modern physics - the ancient wisdom of the Qabalah, the Tarot and Sacred Stone

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  • Haint Country

    The University Press of Kentucky Haint Country

    Book SynopsisThe hills of the Appalachia region hold secretsdark, deep, varied, and mysterious. These secrets are often told in the form of eerie, thrilling, and creepy folk tales that reveal strange sightings, curious oddities, and commonly serve as cautionary tales for eager and curious ears. These spine-tingling stories have been told and retold by family members, neighbors, and hillfolk for generations. Haint Country: Dark Folktales from the Hills and Hollers is a collection of weird, otherworldly, and supernatural phenomenon in Eastern Kentuckytales that have been recorded and documented for the first time. Collected and adapted by Matthew Sparks and Olivia Sizemore, the anthology explores stories of ghosts or haints, strange creatures or boogers, haunted locations or stained earth, uncanny happenings or high strangeness, and humorous Appalachian ghost stories. Contemporary yarns of black panthers, demons, and sightings of ghostly coal miners are narrated in the first person, reflecting the st

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  • Haint Country

    The University Press of Kentucky Haint Country

    Book SynopsisThe hills of the Appalachia region hold secretsdark, deep, varied, and mysterious. These secrets are often told in the form of eerie, thrilling, and creepy folk tales that reveal strange sightings, curious oddities, and commonly serve as cautionary tales for eager and curious ears. These spine-tingling stories have been told and retold by family members, neighbors, and hillfolk for generations. Haint Country: Dark Folktales from the Hills and Hollers is a collection of weird, otherworldly, and supernatural phenomenon in Eastern Kentuckytales that have been recorded and documented for the first time. Collected and adapted by Matthew Sparks and Olivia Sizemore, the anthology explores stories of ghosts or haints, strange creatures or boogers, haunted locations or stained earth, uncanny happenings or high strangeness, and humorous Appalachian ghost stories. Contemporary yarns of black panthers, demons, and sightings of ghostly coal miners are narrated in the first person, reflecting the st

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  • Ghost Stories of the Civil War

    Ghost House Books Ghost Stories of the Civil War

    Book SynopsisMore than 600,000 men died during the Civil War, but the conflict also displaced countless civilians. In this collection, noted authors Dan Asfar and Edrick Thay recount fascinating stories of soldiers, statesmen and star-crossed lovers, both ordinary and extraordinary, whose lingering spirits serve as a testament to America''s most devastating war: * Eyewitnesses spot the ghosts of Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis and Edgar Allan Poe at Fort Monroe, one of the few Union forts in the Confederate South. * In New Orleans, the spirits of General Pierre Beauregard and his fallen soldiers continue to fight the tragic Battle of Shiloh. * An anti-slavery crusader haunts Harpers Ferry, where he staged a munitions raid and was hanged before the war broke out. * ''''Old Green Eyes,'''' the disembodied head of a fallen soldier, terrifies visitors to Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park in Georgia. * In the cemetery of a former Ohio war prison, a battalion of Confederate dead rise from their anonymous graves. * An entire chapter explores the many specters of Gettysburg, the war''s most infamous battlefield. * For anyone interested in the paranormal, Ghost Stories of the Civil War will prove a chilling and unforgettable treat.

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  • Les Belles Lettres Mythes Grecs Et Sources Orientales

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  • Les Belles Lettres Les Sagas Legendaires

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  • Les Belles Lettres Diodore de Sicile, Mythologie Des Grecs

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  • Les Belles Lettres Mythanalyse de la Rome Antique

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    £33.00

  • Classiques Garnier Abrege de l'Origine de Tous Les Cultes: Edition

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    £69.35

  • Brepols N.V. Calling the Soul of the Dead: Texts of Mongol

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    £78.85

  • Brepols N.V. Werewolves in Old Norse-Icelandic Literature:

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    £91.27

  • Brepols Publishers The Cheirograph of Adam in Armenian and Romanian

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    £107.35

  • Enki und Ninmaḫ: Eine mythische Erzählung in

    JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Enki und Ninmaḫ: Eine mythische Erzählung in

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    Book SynopsisEnki und Ninmaḫ ist die moderne Bezeichnung einer mythischen Erzählung in sumerischer Sprache, deren Hauptakteure Enki, der Gott der Kunstfertigkeit und der Weisheit, und Ninmaḫ, die Muttergöttin, sind. Der Text schildert zuerst die Erschaffung des Menschen als Ersatzarbeiter für die Götter und berichtet dann von einem Wettstreit zwischen Enki und Ninmaḫ um die Fähigkeit, das Schicksal der Menschen zu bestimmen. Ninmaḫ erschafft sieben kranke Wesen, Enki ist jedoch in der Lage, ihnen eine passende Arbeit zuzuweisen. Damit erklärt der Text die Existenz von kranken Menschen und bestätigt Enkis Überlegenheit.Manuel Ceccarelli liefert eine neue kritische Textausgabe von Enki und Ninmaḫ. Dabei liegt der Schwerpunkt auf der philologischen Analyse und der religionsgeschichtlichen Deutung. Besondere Aufmerksamkeit wird auch den humoristischen und satirischen Aspekten des Wettstreites gewidmet.

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  • Europa und der Stier oder der Brautraub des Zeus:

    Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Europa und der Stier oder der Brautraub des Zeus:

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    Book SynopsisDie Geschichte von der Entführung Europas durch Zeus gehört zu den berühmtesten mythologischen Erzählungen der antiken Literatur. Sie ist in der Neuzeit stets als eines der zahlreichen Liebesabenteuer verstanden worden, mit denen Zeus seine Gattin Hera zu betrügen pflegte, und niemand ist bisher auf den Gedanken gekommen, dass sie in der Antike als ein Brautraub gegolten haben könnte, also um eine Entführung mit dem Ziel einer Eheschließung. Genau das jedoch wird in diesem Buch nachgewiesen. Nach zwei vorbereitenden Kapiteln wird die These mit der Bildsprache der archäologischen Denkmäler (Vasenbilder) und den fragmentarisch erhaltenen Texten der frühen griechischen Dichtung (Hesiod und Aischylos) begründet. Danach wird sie appliziert auf die hellenistische Dichtung (Moschos), auf die Europa-Ode des Horaz, auf Ovids Metamorphosen und auf das spätantike Epos Dionysiaka des Nonnos. Dabei erweist sich, dass die Deutung der Entführung Europas als Brautraub des Zeus, so wie sie für die antiken Autoren noch selbstverständlich war, eine unabdingbare Voraussetzung für das Verständnis ihrer Texte ist. Auch für die Europa-Ode des Horaz, für die sich bislang keine plausible Erklärung gefunden hat, bietet das Buch einen neuen schlüssigen Interpretationsansatz.

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  • Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis: Ein ungleicher

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    Book SynopsisDie sumerische Erzählung von Enmerkara und dem Herrn von Arata ist Teil des thematisch orientierten Uruk-Zyklus, der die Vormacht Sumers Ã"ber den fernen, an Rohstoffen reichen Osten beschreibt und zelebriert. Den Kern der Geschichte bildet ein intellektueller Wettstreit, durch welchen Enmerkara, der mächtige Herr von Uruk, und sein östlicher Widerpart, der namenlose Herr der legendären Statt Arata, um die Gunst der ihnen gemeinsamen Göttin Innana buhlen. Das rhetorische Meisterwerk besticht durch seinen Unterhaltungswert. Die subtil gezeichneten Charaktere der beiden Kontrahenten und die wortgewandten Dialoge lassen fÃ"r den Adressaten des Textes in keinem Moment Zweifel an der Ãbermacht Enmerkaras aufkommen, und die unbeholfenen, bisweilen gar komisch anmutenden Reaktionen des Herrn von Arata tragen nicht minder zu diesem Bild bei. Die insgesamt 637 Zeilen von Enmerkara und der Herr von Arata sind in 23 Manuskripten der altbabylonischen Zeit Ã"berliefert. Sie werden hier in Form einer Partitur mit rekonstruiertem Text, Ãbersetzung, Kommentar und zum Teil auch in Kopie vorgelegt. Die Einleitung bietet eine Textanalyse, in der neben der Struktur und dem Inhalt der Erzählung auch die Protagonisten und der geographische Rahmen des Geschehens untersucht werden.

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    £109.24

  • Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Gottliche Korper - Gottliche Gefuhle: Was Leisten

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    2 in stock

    £76.95

  • Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Coleres Et Repentirs Divins: Actes Du Colloque

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    10 in stock

    £109.25

  • Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht Le jeune héros: Recherches sur la formation et la

    20 in stock

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    20 in stock

    £90.00

  • Academic Press Fribourg Göttliche Körper - Göttliche Gefühle: Was leisten

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    10 in stock

    £70.00

  • Academic Press Fribourg Laws of Heaven - Laws of Nature: Legal

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  • Universitatsverlag Winter 'An Epistle of Noble Poetrye: 'A Middle English

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    £81.93

  • Emotionen im 'Tristan': Untersuchungen zu ihrer

    V&R unipress GmbH Emotionen im 'Tristan': Untersuchungen zu ihrer

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    Book SynopsisFrom the viewpoint of emotion theory, Gottfried von StraÃ

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    £61.12

  • Bearskin Quiver: A Collection of Southwestern

    Daimon Verlag Bearskin Quiver: A Collection of Southwestern

    Book SynopsisOnce upon a time, an Apache story tells us, the trickster called Coyote killed a bear so that he could make a suitable quiver for his magical arrows. You shouldn''t have done that, someone warned Coyote. That skin will only bring you bad luck. And so it has been for Coyote ever since, chased by bears and humans alike. In this charming collection of folktales from long ago, we read of the creation of the world, of the ways of animals, of the beguiling Coyote, of the world in which we live and other worlds that hide just beyond our sight. Drawn from the oral literatures of some twenty South-western American Indian peoples, these stories teach us about the constants of those dry places: about how the clouds form in the sky, how the heat rises from the ground, how the animals move about from one shady spot to another, and how the people once lived their lives. All these stories show us -- as the great anthropologist, Claude Lévi-Strauss, observed -- that folktales are not mere afterthoughts of literature, just pleasant stories to tell around the campfire, but rather valuable tools for reflection upon our own lives.

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  • North Wind & the Sun: and Other Fables of Aesop

    Daimon Verlag North Wind & the Sun: and Other Fables of Aesop

    Book SynopsisFor 2,500 years, adults and children alike have been listening to the stories of Aesop. Originating in the folk wisdom of rural Asia Minor, these popular fables have been retold, repurposed, and altered over the centuries; in the process, they have sometimes been changed so much that they bear little resemblance to their simple forebears, which ask their listeners and readers to think for themselves, to supply their own conclusions. In this collection, Gregory McNamee draws on the Greek originals to provide Aesop''s fables in a form that Aesop himself might recognise -- ones in which fleas and foxes converse, people sometimes learn from their errors, and things are not always what they seem.

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  • V&R unipress GmbH Formen der Erinnerung.: Mediengeschichte des

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    £95.40

  • Ediciones Akal Sagas celtas primitivas Primitive Celtic Sagas

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    £17.19

  • Swing Mitología Celta Y Nórdica

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    £15.81

  • HarperCollins India Dwapar Katha: The Stories of the Mahabharata

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