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Liber XV · Indigenous & Ancient Religions

Liber XV

Indigenous and Ancient Religions

The religions of the ancient world and of indigenous peoples across the globe.

Before and beside the world religions stand the religions of ancient civilisations and of indigenous peoples. This section covers the gods and rites of ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece and Rome, the Norse and Celtic peoples, and Mesoamerica, and the living traditions of Native North America, Africa, Australia, Siberia and the Pacific. It looks at myth and cosmology, ancestors and spirits, sacrifice, shamanism and the sacred landscape, and treats these religions on their own terms rather than as primitive stages on the way to anything else.

Chapters

  1. Introduction1 article
  2. I.African Traditional Religions2 articles
  3. II.Ancient Egyptian Religion2 articles
  4. III.Australian & Pacific Religions2 articles
  5. IV.Celtic Religion1 article
  6. V.Greek Religion & Mysteries2 articles
  7. VI.Mesoamerican Religion2 articles
  8. VII.Mesopotamian Religion2 articles
  9. VIII.Native American Religions2 articles
  10. IX.Norse & Germanic Religion2 articles
  11. X.Roman Religion2 articles
  12. XI.Shamanism1 article

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