The sacred body : materializing the divine through human remains in antiquity / edited by Nicola Laneri.

The human body represents the perfect element for relating communities of the living with the divine. This is clearly evident in the mythological stories that recount the creation of humans by deities among ancient and contemporaneous societies across a very broad geographical environment. Thus, par...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via EBSCO)
Other Authors:	Laneri, Nicola (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford ; Philadelphia : Oxbow Books, 2021.
Series:	Material religion in antiquity ; v. 1.
Subjects:	Funeral rites and ceremonies, Ancient. Human remains (Archaeology) Human body > Religious aspects. Human body > Symbolic aspects. Death > Religious aspects.