Animals, Gods and Humans - Chapter 7 ppsx

... (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 finally humans ... sacrifice and slaughter of animals who naturally suffer pain and torment?” (Hymn to the Mother of the Gods, 174 a– 174 b). Like Plutarch and Porphyry, Julian is awa...

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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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... 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, 975 D, 976 D–E). However, ... insects/spiders and two echinoderms – and also a swamp (Andrews 19 57) . There are a few more species of land animals than water animals – birds that are “earthborn”...

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... 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 that humans can learn ... unrelated, alien and hostile to humans and its creatures as being impure (72 9A–C); and a third possible reason is that Pythagoreans usually tasted flesh only from sacrificed a...

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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” (15.1 67 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 ... 10 17; Plutarch, The Greek 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...

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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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... 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: 37 44, 8:1–8; Luke 9:12– 17; John 6:9–13) and predicts ... 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 animal...

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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...

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... worship (74 .5) and of believing in the transmigration of souls between animals and humans (74 .7; cf. 76 .1). Such accusations were among the stock arguments used to brand religious opponents (see Chapter ... 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 tire...

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