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Chargement... The Cat in Magic and Mythpar M. Oldfield Howey
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. EL GATO EN LA MITOLOGÍA, LA RELIGIÓN Y LA MAGIA El inexcrutable gato, a traves del tiempo y de la historia, ha sido siempre un poderoso símbolo. Más que cualquier otro animal, representa la naturaleza dual de la divinidad: demiurgo bondadoso y destructor implacable. En este libro fascinante, M. Oldfield Howey ha recopilado manifestaciones del culto gatuno de muchas partes del mundo, desde Finlandia al Japón. Primero examina Egipto, donde el gato es identificado con las diosas gatas Bast y Sekhmet. Luego, en un viaje a través de la brujería, la religión y el folklore, nos ofrece una ilustración contemporánea de los templos gatunos de Burma y Tailandia. Howey utiliza una rica variedad de fuentes, parte leyenda y parte mito. La documentación historica se complementa con cincuenta curiosas ilustraciones. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
The cat has symbolized a host of concepts: good and evil, light and darkness, religion and black magic. This intriguing book traces the history of these fascinating creatures — from vampire and clairvoyant cats to cats in heraldry, as sacrificial objects, and idols of secret sects. Includes 50 black-and-white illustrations. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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This would be quite charming but the book's contents let it down somewhat. I'm not so bothered by the author's total credulity about psychic and ghost stories or slight antagonism to the established church which, as he says, was responsible for centuries of persecution of so-called witches. However, the material is quite ramblingly set out and is quite annecdotal with various stories quoted verbatim, plus some of the conclusion about Egyptian and Biblical scholarship are rather questionable now, and certainly have been updated since, which makes it difficult to rely upon.
There is also a tendency to quote Latin or French originals - in one case about a whole page of French - without a translation for those who aren't learned in these areas. The attitude towards cats is also quite personally adoring and a bit twee, and the subject is rather superficial in coverage. So I can only give this an OK 2 star rating. ( )