Animals, Gods and Humans - Chapter 10 pps

... 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 (295–373 CE), the to -and- fro bishop...

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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: 2964; cf. Salisbury 1994: 84 101 ). Humans are paired with a dog, a horse, a dolphin and a serpent, but also with a...

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... 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 mutual interest in the long- term ... 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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... 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 who have no bestial ... animals and humans on a par with each other. He points to the simi- larities in the physical equipment of humans and animals, he compares the killing of sacrificial anim...

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

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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, ... between animals and humans. Plutarch attacked the Stoics and defended Platonic and Pythagorean princi- ples in a work that is framed as a staged debate on behalf of hunt...

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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 ... division between animals and humans than between humans and gods, which is in accordance with a general tendency in people’s thinking concerning animals in these c...

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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 ... human-like head and acted as an oracle, producing messages in verses of high metric quality. Alexander conceived of himself as the son of Asclepius and as the grandson of Apo...

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... 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 wolves and sheep (Matthew 10: 16; ... 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 heavenly...

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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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