Animals, Gods and Humans - Chapter 6 pps

... 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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... 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. ... about cross-species love relationships appear (Kindstrand 1998: 2 964 ; cf. Salisbury 1994: 84–101). Humans are paired with a dog, a horse, a dolphin and a serpent, but also with...

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... cannibalism and other evils had been changed to civilization, cities and cookery (Scholars at Dinner, 66 0e 66 1c). In this case, the animal sacrifice had initiated culture and human progress, and, above ... 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 fina...

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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 ... of the universe and the spirits of wickedness’” ( 86: 22 6) . The same quotation is used by Athanasius (295–373 CE), the to -and- fro bishop of Alexandria, in his influential book...

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... 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 domestic animals, which was basically ... for food and shelter, and domestication rests on mutual benefits between humans and animals. “Contract animal” covers Graeco-Roman ideas about natural agreements betwee...

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... 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 ( 965 F– 966 B, 975D, 976D–E). However, ... practice of kindness to animals, to incul- cate humanity (philanthropia) and compassion (philoiktirmon) ( 960 A). 9 Autobolus and Soclarus discuss whether animals have r...

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... 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 to turn into animals, it is never possible ... 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...

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... 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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... conception of animals, that the Christian meat-eating restrictions were not related directly to animals but to other people’s meat-eating and sacrificial habits. THE NEW TESTAMENT AND THE LAMB OF GOD 166 sarcophagi ... clean and unclean animals. Pedagogical points are made by the use of duality, for instance by contrasting worms and fish, rams and sheep, goats and sheep, and...

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... martyrs, and the Gospel of Philip characterizes God as “a man-eater” (Scorpiace,7;the Gospel of Philip). This is a standard Christian technique of reversal and re- evaluation. Things and happenings ... beasts [theriomacho] both 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 t...

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