The Origins of European Thought: About the Body, the Mind, the Soul, the World, Time and Fate

Framsida
Cambridge University Press, 11 feb. 1988 - 602 sidor
Onians' remarkable work of scholarship sought to deal with the very roots of European civilization and thought: the fundamental beliefs about life, mind, body, soul, and human destiny that are embodied in the myths and legends of the ancients. The volume is remains a fascinating collection of ideas and explanations of cultures as diverse as the Greeks and the Norse, the Celts and the Jews, and the Chinese and the Romans.
 

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The Earliest Greeks
1
Part I The Mind and the Body
11
Some Processes of Consciousness
13
The Organs of Consciousness
23
The Stuff of Consciousness
44
CognitionThe Five Senses
66
The Liver and the Belly
84
The Immortal Soul and the Body
91
Molpov iirtTiOevat TrerrpconEVOs etc
378
Ynip p6pov and the Relation of the Gods to Fate
390
The Jars of Zeus the Scales of Zeus and the Kfjpes
395
TimeHuap
411
Lachesis Klotho and Atropos
416
Phases of Body and Mind Sorrow Sleep Death etc
420
T𝞮𝝺os
426
Addenda
467

The 𝞇uXń
93
The Genius Numen etc
123
Anima and Animus
168
The Knees
174
The Strength
187
The Stuff of Life
200
RiverWorship and some Forms of the Lifesubstance
229
The World Beginnings of Greek Philosophy
247
Death and Cremation
254
The Offerings to the Dead and to the Gods
271
Nectar and Ambrosia
292
Fate and Time
301
On the Knees of the Gods
303
𝝿𝞮ípa𝝿a
310
The Weaving of Fate
349
Other PeoplesFate and Magic
352
I Winged Words
469
II Mars Woodpecker Wolf
470
III Liber liber free Freyr etc
472
IV Ancient Jewish Conceptions of the Mind or Soul the Spirit the Holy Spirit the Body and the Divinity of Christ
480
V Praecordia and the Liver
505
VI Bporros Gore and the Ichor of the Gods
506
VII Apocolocyntosis
507
VIII Mortarium Mortar
508
IX The Billie Blind or Belly Blind The Auld BellyBlind Man
509
XI Finis Fimus
510
XII Ancient and Modern Hindoo Conceptions of the Soul
511
XIII Ancient Chinese Conceptions of the Soul and some Chinese and European Beliefs about the Feet
520
A The treatment and the apparent significance of the head in the Old Stone Age
530
B The application of fire to the dead and its meaning in the Stone Age and after
543
Indexes
551
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