Encyclopedia of Religion

upper world. At Ur, it was the Sun who punished a corrupt judge for taking bribes and oppressing the people. Shamash was the god ...

Su ̄ rya, who seems to represent the actual disk of the sun. Su ̄ rya had the power to drive away darkness, witches, and evil dr ...

Apollo. Cornutus, writing about Greek mythology in the first century BCE, says that the sun is Apollo and the moon is his sister ...

The Sun portrayed in these coins is not Oriental; he has the features of the Greek Apollo, wearing a crown with solar rays. Some ...

down the sun and at the winter solstice to hasten his progress toward spring. It is presumed that these rites are a projection o ...

lavishly decorated with gold. In the main square, the Inca emperor himself was enthroned during festivals. From that square it w ...

lest account of the religions of the ancient Near East is to be found in Thorkild Jacobsen’s The Treasures of Darkness: A Histor ...

elements across a fair sampling of tribal groups. Attention will also be given to contemporary movements among many Native Ameri ...

moisture it has gathered from the stream near which it grew, and then it dies. The tree thus recapitulates the major themes of t ...

In 1941 the charismatic Shoshoni Sun Dance leader John Truhujo brought the Sun Dance back to the Crow through the support of the ...

Walker, James R. The Sun Dance and Other Ceremonies of the Oglala Division of the Teton Dakota. New York, 1917. The best and mos ...

Indian communities and to break down tribal cohesion by introducing Western religious choice and the paradigm of denominationali ...

being introduced by the kuncen. Incense is burned and magi- cal formulas (jampes) pronounced, after which the supplicant awaits ...

born in Eksjö, Sweden, the son of a lieutenant-colonel and a homemaker. The peak of Sundén’s academic career came late in life. ...

issue dedicated entirely to Sundén’s role theory), provides an eloquent substitute. Holm, Nils G. “Role Theory and Religious Exp ...

inspired prophetic example (sunnat al-nab ̄ı). The most com- mon literary vehicle of the sunnat al-nab ̄ı, the h:ad ̄ıth, func- ...

Another group found proximity to Muh:ammad in a dif- ferent device—physical descent. For them, maintaining proximity to his sunn ...

in to the point at which, by the fourteenth century, no fur- ther significant variation was anticipated—a situation ex- pressed ...

translate the term ́su ̄nyam. “Emptiness,” “openness,” “noth- ingness,” “nonsubstantiality,” “relativity,” and “the inex- hausti ...

holding a view of emptiness, of nonexistence rather than exis- tence, of “it is not” rather than “it is.” Rather, one should avo ...