Animals, Gods and Humans - Chapter 1 pot

... between humans and animals, the arenas served to brutalize and radicalize the divisions between humans and non -humans. And while the sacrifice served as a focus for the relationship between humans and ... number was 11 ,000 animals, both wild and tame, over 12 3 days in 10 8–9 CE during Trajan’s triumph (Dio, 68 .15 .1) . An alter- native, and a supplement to incr...

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... sanctuary was filled with fear and cried out for her parents and thus regained her voice (C1, ibid., 11 6 17 ). A viper opened the tumour of a certain Melissa (C2, ibid., 11 8 19 ). And a woman became pregnant ... horses and donkeys in their stables consecrated to Epona, adorn them in processions to Isis and sacrifice and worship heads of bulls and rams. Minucius Felix derides...

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... principle a contest of wits and skills between hunters and fishermen, between land animals and sea animals, but also between fish and fishermen, and between land animals and hunters (965F–966B, 975D, ... souls according to which humans could be reborn as animals and animals as humans (Haussleiter 19 35: 79 16 3). Orpheus felt that humans and animals were basically the...

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... about cross-species love relationships appear (Kindstrand 19 98: 2964; cf. Salisbury 19 94: 84 10 1). Humans are paired with a dog, a horse, a dolphin and a serpent, but also with a ram and a goose. ... animals and humans (Evans 19 69: 11 ff). According to Polemo, the lion is “brave, a bold hero, angry when hurt, long suffering, modest, generous, great-hearted and ready to spr...

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... suggested in Book 15 , that the spirit passes “from beast into human bodies” (15 .16 7–8). They imply a more fundamental division between animals and humans than between humans and gods, which is in accordance ... transformed into lower categories and back again, and in some rare cases, a human being may be transformed into a god. But while it is possible for humans and god...

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... business also thrived (Garnsey 19 99: 13 4; Corbier 19 89: 232–3). In the Graeco- Roman world, both gods and humans were nourished with the meat of sacrificial animals, but the gods did not consume the ... themselves and their wives and chil- dren, for their oxen and for the ground they have sown and planted” (For the Temples, 30 .10 ). That animals and humans had a m...

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... but in principle to all Christians, and especially to the martyrs, and later to virgins and ascetics (Clark 19 99: 212 15 ). THE ANIMAL SACRIFICE AND ITS CRITICS 15 8 extent in the different authors: ... die (52 :15 17 ). To sum up the teaching about animals and humans in the Gospel of Philip: There are animals of flesh and blood, animals in human form, gods who are characte...

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... snake or sea monster and is a magnified version of the serpent in Genesis and also an image of Satan (Revelation 12 :3, 12 :4, 12 :7, 12 :9, 12 :13 , 12 :16 , 12 :17 , 13 :2, 13 .4, 16 :13 , 20:2). The beasts (therion) ... fish (Luke 5 :1 7; John 21: 6 11 ), makes seven loaves and a few little fish feed thousands of people (Matthew 15 :34–8, cf. Matthew 14 :17 – 21; Mark 6:3...

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... but also in relation to defeated enemies and, not least, in relation to the Devil (Genesis 3 :15 ; Luke 10 :18 19 ; cf. Dölger 19 32; Bremmer 2002: 10 1). 17 In this passio, the Devil – in addition ... History, 6. 41. 11) . In the Martyrdom of Polycarp, a Phrygian named Quintus, who had originally given himself up, turned cowardly when he saw the wild animals, and lapsed (6. 41. 14)...

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... snake and the innocence of the dove (95:4 11 ), and where the one who is spiritually alert is likened to a gazelle that is saved from snares or to a bird that is rescued from a trap (11 3:33 11 4 :1) . ... mind and soul, and intensify the struggle against every folly of the passions of love and base wickedness, and love of praise, and fondness of contention, and tiresome jealo...

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