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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 19 hours, 29 minutes 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 19 hours, 29 minutes 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 19 hours, 30 minutes 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 19 hours, 30 minutes 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 19 hours, 30 minutes 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 19 hours, 30 minutes 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 19 hours, 30 minutes 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 on Humanities Commons 1 day, 11 hours ago
This 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 From Bethel to Pentecost: The Tower of the Tarot deck as the Tower of Babel on Humanities Commons 1 day, 12 hours ago
Images 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 The Exorcism in The Magical Book of Mary and the Angels (P. Heid. Inv. Kopt. 685, 9.13–24) opens with an invocation of the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus on Humanities Commons 6 months ago
The seven “names” invoked in P. Heid. Inv. Kopt. 685, 9.13–14, are here shown to be based upon the names of the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus, but drawn from a name-list characteristic of non-Coptic sources.
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Lloyd Graham deposited The sp tp.y (First Occasion) and the Dreamtime: Egyptian D.t as a parallel to Aboriginal tjukurrpa? in the group
Indigenous Studies on Humanities Commons 10 months, 3 weeks agoEgyptologists have long struggled to translate D.t nHH, with expressions ranging from ‘linear and circular eternity’ to ‘everlasting completedness and ongoingness’. Similarly, ethnologists have found it impossible to translate the pan-Australian Aboriginal concept of tjukurrpa, resorting to neologisms such as ‘the Dreamtime’ or ‘the Dreaming’.…[Read more]
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Lloyd Graham deposited The sp tp.y (First Occasion) and the Dreamtime: Egyptian D.t as a parallel to Aboriginal tjukurrpa? in the group
Egyptology on Humanities Commons 10 months, 3 weeks agoEgyptologists have long struggled to translate D.t nHH, with expressions ranging from ‘linear and circular eternity’ to ‘everlasting completedness and ongoingness’. Similarly, ethnologists have found it impossible to translate the pan-Australian Aboriginal concept of tjukurrpa, resorting to neologisms such as ‘the Dreamtime’ or ‘the Dreaming’.…[Read more]
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Lloyd Graham deposited The sp tp.y (First Occasion) and the Dreamtime: Egyptian D.t as a parallel to Aboriginal tjukurrpa? in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 10 months, 3 weeks agoEgyptologists have long struggled to translate D.t nHH, with expressions ranging from ‘linear and circular eternity’ to ‘everlasting completedness and ongoingness’. Similarly, ethnologists have found it impossible to translate the pan-Australian Aboriginal concept of tjukurrpa, resorting to neologisms such as ‘the Dreamtime’ or ‘the Dreaming’.…[Read more]
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Lloyd Graham's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 10 months, 3 weeks ago
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Lloyd Graham deposited The sp tp.y (First Occasion) and the Dreamtime: Egyptian D.t as a parallel to Aboriginal tjukurrpa? on Humanities Commons 10 months, 3 weeks ago
Egyptologists have long struggled to translate D.t nHH, with expressions ranging from ‘linear and circular eternity’ to ‘everlasting completedness and ongoingness’. Similarly, ethnologists have found it impossible to translate the pan-Australian Aboriginal concept of tjukurrpa, resorting to neologisms such as ‘the Dreamtime’ or ‘the Dreaming’.…[Read more]
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Lloyd Graham deposited Pre-Christian Ruins as Reservoirs of Supernatural Agency in Egypt, Ireland and Peru in the group
Irish Literature and Culture on Humanities Commons 11 months, 3 weeks agoThis note outlines several features common to the reception of ancient ruins by the Christian populations of three countries, each located on a different continent. Most of the sites were and are strongly associated with the realm of the dead. Fear of misadventure or calamity typically inspired a respectful avoidance of such pre-Christian sites…[Read more]
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Lloyd Graham deposited Pre-Christian Ruins as Reservoirs of Supernatural Agency in Egypt, Ireland and Peru in the group
Egyptology on Humanities Commons 11 months, 3 weeks agoThis note outlines several features common to the reception of ancient ruins by the Christian populations of three countries, each located on a different continent. Most of the sites were and are strongly associated with the realm of the dead. Fear of misadventure or calamity typically inspired a respectful avoidance of such pre-Christian sites…[Read more]
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Lloyd Graham deposited Pre-Christian Ruins as Reservoirs of Supernatural Agency in Egypt, Ireland and Peru in the group
Archaeology on Humanities Commons 11 months, 3 weeks agoThis note outlines several features common to the reception of ancient ruins by the Christian populations of three countries, each located on a different continent. Most of the sites were and are strongly associated with the realm of the dead. Fear of misadventure or calamity typically inspired a respectful avoidance of such pre-Christian sites…[Read more]
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Lloyd Graham deposited Pre-Christian Ruins as Reservoirs of Supernatural Agency in Egypt, Ireland and Peru in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 11 months, 3 weeks agoThis note outlines several features common to the reception of ancient ruins by the Christian populations of three countries, each located on a different continent. Most of the sites were and are strongly associated with the realm of the dead. Fear of misadventure or calamity typically inspired a respectful avoidance of such pre-Christian sites…[Read more]
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Lloyd Graham deposited Pre-Christian Ruins as Reservoirs of Supernatural Agency in Egypt, Ireland and Peru on Humanities Commons 11 months, 3 weeks ago
This note outlines several features common to the reception of ancient ruins by the Christian populations of three countries, each located on a different continent. Most of the sites were and are strongly associated with the realm of the dead. Fear of misadventure or calamity typically inspired a respectful avoidance of such pre-Christian sites…[Read more]
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