The Caves Of The Sun - Hardcover

Bailey, A

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0224030639 ISBN 13: 9780224030632

Verlag: Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1997

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Reseña del editor:

While some scholars today claim there is no single explanation or source for myth, others say that the answers to riddles posed by symbols and relics from the distant past should be sought in the human mind, rather than in the environment of early man. The influence of psychological interpretations posed by Freud and Jung have been powerful and, the author believes, detrimental to a true understanding of mankind's religious origins. In CAVES OF THE SUN, Adrian Bailey revives a long-discarded 18th-century theory that all myths, religions and folk tales can be traced to one source - the sun. He shows that solar cults were founded in order to influence and channel the life-giving forces of nature, and these can be identified in neanderthal cave dwellings of 60, 000 years ago. They can be seen too in the Ice Age cave art of Altamira and Lascaux, in the Neolithic bull cult of Anatolia and Crete, in the cave-sanctuaries of Mithra and in the great circles of Stonehenge and Avebury. It was the purpose of Stonehenge hitherto unconvincingly ascribed to astronomy or fertility worship, that first set Bailey off on his inquiry and led to his conclusion that all the evidence points in one direction.

Biografía del autor:

Adrian Bailey's interest in cave paintings of the Ice Age led to an enquiry into sybolism.He studied painting at the Byam Shaw School of Art and later at St Martin's in London, where his contemporaries included several other well established painters. He now divides his time between painting and travel journalism, both exhibiting and contributing to many national newspapers and magazines, as well as publishing several books on photography.

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• Verlag: Jonathan Cape Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0224030639
• ISBN 13: 9780224030632
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 320