Paul W. Nash
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Elisabeth Moreau's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 2 years, 3 months ago
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Lloyd Graham deposited From Bethel to Pentecost: The Tower of the Tarot deck as the Tower of Babel in the group
History of Games and Play on Humanities Commons 2 years, 4 months agoImages of the Tower of Babel (Gen 11:1-9) in illustrated Christian manuscripts are suggestively similar to representations on the Tower card in many versions of the Tarot deck; both genres show the Tower being destroyed from above, with oversized persons falling head-first from it. In terms of connections between heaven and earth, the antithetical…[Read more]
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Lloyd Graham deposited From Bethel to Pentecost: The Tower of the Tarot deck as the Tower of Babel in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 2 years, 4 months agoImages of the Tower of Babel (Gen 11:1-9) in illustrated Christian manuscripts are suggestively similar to representations on the Tower card in many versions of the Tarot deck; both genres show the Tower being destroyed from above, with oversized persons falling head-first from it. In terms of connections between heaven and earth, the antithetical…[Read more]
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Lloyd Graham deposited A life in the balance: Divine judgement by weighing in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 4 months agoThis paper compares psychostasia and/or kerostasia concepts from Indo-European, Semitic and adjacent cultures, and relates them to Cognitive Metaphor Theory. In the context of metaphysical weighing, the religions of ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome all associated lightness with goodness and/or a favourable outcome; Hinduism does likewise. The…[Read more]
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Lloyd Graham deposited A life in the balance: Divine judgement by weighing in the group
Islamicate Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 4 months agoThis paper compares psychostasia and/or kerostasia concepts from Indo-European, Semitic and adjacent cultures, and relates them to Cognitive Metaphor Theory. In the context of metaphysical weighing, the religions of ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome all associated lightness with goodness and/or a favourable outcome; Hinduism does likewise. The…[Read more]
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Lloyd Graham deposited A life in the balance: Divine judgement by weighing in the group
Egyptology on Humanities Commons 2 years, 4 months agoThis paper compares psychostasia and/or kerostasia concepts from Indo-European, Semitic and adjacent cultures, and relates them to Cognitive Metaphor Theory. In the context of metaphysical weighing, the religions of ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome all associated lightness with goodness and/or a favourable outcome; Hinduism does likewise. The…[Read more]
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Lloyd Graham deposited A life in the balance: Divine judgement by weighing in the group
Ancient Near East on Humanities Commons 2 years, 4 months agoThis paper compares psychostasia and/or kerostasia concepts from Indo-European, Semitic and adjacent cultures, and relates them to Cognitive Metaphor Theory. In the context of metaphysical weighing, the religions of ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome all associated lightness with goodness and/or a favourable outcome; Hinduism does likewise. The…[Read more]
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Lloyd Graham deposited A life in the balance: Divine judgement by weighing in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 2 years, 4 months agoThis paper compares psychostasia and/or kerostasia concepts from Indo-European, Semitic and adjacent cultures, and relates them to Cognitive Metaphor Theory. In the context of metaphysical weighing, the religions of ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome all associated lightness with goodness and/or a favourable outcome; Hinduism does likewise. The…[Read more]
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