Indo-European fire rituals : cattle and cultivation, cremation and cosmogony /: cattle and cultivation, cremation and cosmogony. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Anders Kaliff, Terje Oestigaard.
• Authors: Kaliff, Anders; Oestigaard, Terje
• Contents: 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
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 203.8; Ritual -- History; Fire -- Folklore; Fire -- Symbolic aspects; Indo-Europeans -- Social life and customs; Hindu funeral rites and ceremonies -- India; Bronze age -- Scandinavia
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000822878; 9781000822854
• Related ISBNs: 9781032292939; 9781032292984
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