Animals, Gods and Humans - Chapter 5 potx

... 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 half-goats, half -humans and gods ... Questions, 36). Gods disguised themselves as animals, as Zeus did when he visited Leda as a swan and Europa as a bull, and when he carried off Ganymede as an eagle; and...

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... 2 .51 .3). However, Porphyry states that birds understand the gods more quickly than humans and pass the message on to humans as best they can (On Abstinence, 3 .5. 5). Similarly, Iamblichus (2 45 3 25 ... 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 domes...

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... 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, 976D–E). ... dishonourable, and stupid, and only slaves, women, and little children” (3.49.1–3) or, as Celsus also said: “wool-workers, cobblers, laundry- workers, and the most illitera...

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... animals and humans is ignored in radical ways, for instance in the many stories of rein- carnation across species and, not least, in the stories of love and friendship between a human and an animal. ... tendency in Pliny and Aelian conveys the message that animals VEGETARIANISM, NATURAL HISTORY AND PHYSIOGNOMICS 72 are sometimes and on some points better than humans, and tha...

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... suggested in Book 15, that the spirit passes “from beast into human bodies” ( 15. 167–8). 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 gods...

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... Graeco- Roman world, both gods and humans were nourished with the meat of sacrificial animals, but the gods did not consume the animal flesh in the same way as humans, they did not chew and swallow ... between gods and humans. It was the cult of ethnic communities, people who were orga- nized through kinship, had a common ancestor and connections to a traditional homeland,...

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... 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 characterized as animals, and ... offered up to God alive and then died, man is offered up to God dead and then lives (55 :3 5) . Behind this antithesis lies the idea that humans are spiritually born through bapt...

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... and teachers are more valuable than shep- herds and fishermen, metaphorical sheep and fish are more valuable than their real-life counterparts (cf. I Timothy 5: 17). Real animals do not neces- sarily ... cosmic proportions, and a basic duality between oppression and despair on the one hand and hope and victory on the other. The seer describes in imaginative language the heavenl...

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... of the games, Blandina, together with a young boy, was exposed to “the scourges, the animals, and the hot griddle, she was at last tossed into a net and exposed to a bull” (1 .55 ). In this way, ... by land and sea, both by night and day, being bound to ten leopards, I mean a band of soldiers, who, even when they receive benefits, show them- selves all the worse” (Letter to the Roma...

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... 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 jealousy and wrath, and ... flesh and blood; rather the authorities of the universe and the spirits of wickedness’” (86:22–6). The same quotation is used by Athanasius (2 95 373 CE), the to -and- fro bishop...

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