Indo-European Fire Rituals

Name: Indo-European Fire Rituals
Brand: Taylor & Francis > Stockholm University

Taylor & Francis > Stockholm University

Indo-European Fire RitualsCattle and Cultivation, Cremation and Cosmogony\nAuthor(s): Anders Kaliff, Terje Oestigaard\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032292939, 978-1032292939\nSynopsis\nIndo-European Fire Rituals is a comparative study of Indo-European fire rituals from modern folklore and ethnography in Scandinavia and archaeological material in Europe from the Bronze Age onwards to the Vedic origins of cosmos in India and todays cremations on open pyres in Hinduism.\n\nExploring Indo-European fire rituals and sacrifices throughout history and fire in its fundamental role in rites and religious practices, this book analyses fire rituals as the unifying structure in time and space in Indo-European cultures from the Bronze Age onwards. It asks the question how and why was fire the ultimate power in culture and cosmology? Fire as an agent and divinity was fundamental in all major sacrifices. In Europe, ritual fir.