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Research paper thumbnail of The Royal Erfi-feast

Crossing Disciplinary Boundaries , 2022

Research paper thumbnail of The Iron Age Post Rows in Old Uppsala: An Enigmatic Monument

Germanisches Altertum und Europäisches Mittelalter. Gedenkband Heinrich Beck., 2023

Research paper thumbnail of Kontinuitäten und Brüche in der Religionsgeschichte

De Gruyter eBooks, Dec 31, 2001

The animal world is viewed in the Pahlavi books not only as part of the good creation of Ohrmazd,... more The animal world is viewed in the Pahlavi books not only as part of the good creation of Ohrmazd, but as an essential part of a complex of entities comprising humans, animals and plants, with the main non-organic elements of the material world completing the circle of creation. The good animal«: stand in symmetrical relationship to humanity. The creation of the Primal Bovine is parallel to that of the creation of the Primal Man, their suffering in the hands of the Assault launched by the Evil Spirit constitutes another point of similarity and their final fate in eschatology is likewise symmetrical, although, as we shall point out, there are certain divergencies between them, as required by the Zoroastrian system of thought. The views expressed in the Jewish scriptures and in Jewish tradition do not seem at first sight profoundly different-in the Jewish tradition too there is a conception of a grand unity of creation of all the constituents of the material world-but there are in fact telling differences between the two religious traditions. What these comparisons signify is a question we shall try to raise in the present discussion. Rather than summarize the cosmogonica! and eschatological passages of the Bundahisn and the Selections ofZädspram, which may be taken to be familiar, I should like to concentrate on some particular texts. One interesting passage in this respect is in the Pahlavi Riväyat accorri-panyingtheDädestän ïdenïg:' [14:1] It is revealed in a passage: Ohrmazd said to the cattle: 'Give yourselves to the material world, so that people may eat you'. The transcription and translation offered here are based on Alan Williams's edition (1990), with some modifications. For the text see Appendix I.

Research paper thumbnail of Mikael Males, Mytologi i skaldedikt, skaldedikt i prosa: En synkronanalys av mytologiska referenser i medeltida norröna handskrifter

Mikael Males, Mytologi i skaldedikt, skaldedikt i prosa: En synkronanalys av mytologiska referens... more Mikael Males, Mytologi i skaldedikt, skaldedikt i prosa: En synkronanalys av mytologiska referenser i medeltida norrona handskrifter

Research paper thumbnail of Religious and ideological aspects of hall interiors in late iron age

Research paper thumbnail of 10 Rulers, Rings and Rituals—From Svetjud to Iceland and Back Again

Research paper thumbnail of 11 Golden Objects as Media of Power

Research paper thumbnail of Recension : Carlie, Anne. Forntida byggnadskult. Tradition och regionalitet i södra Skandinavien. Riksantikvarieämbetet. Arkeologiska Undersökningar. Skrifter Nr 57. Stockholm: Riksantikvarieämbetets förlag, 2004. 366 sidor

Recension : Carlie, Anne. Forntida byggnadskult. Tradition och regionalitet i sodra Skandinavien.... more Recension : Carlie, Anne. Forntida byggnadskult. Tradition och regionalitet i sodra Skandinavien. Riksantikvarieambetet. Arkeologiska Undersokningar. Skrifter Nr 57. Stockholm: Riksantikvarieambetets forlag, 2004. 366 sidor.

Research paper thumbnail of Odin and Mithras

Nordic Academic Press eBooks, Jan 12, 2006

Research paper thumbnail of Asterix som myt och ideologi : om mytbegreppets tillämpbarhet vid studier av ungdomskulturens ideologiska dimensioner

Asterix som myt och ideologi : om mytbegreppets tillampbarhet vid studier av ungdomskulturens ide... more Asterix som myt och ideologi : om mytbegreppets tillampbarhet vid studier av ungdomskulturens ideologiska dimensioner

Research paper thumbnail of Paulina Partanen: Female Power, (De)Constructing the Space of Immortal Threat in Homer's Odyssey

Paulina Partanen: Female Power, (De)Constructing the Space of Immortal Threat in Homer's Odyssey

Research paper thumbnail of Recension av Francois-Xavier Dillmann, Les magiciens dans l’Islande ancienne : études sur la représentation de la magie islandaise et de ses agents dans les sources littéraires norroises. Acta academiae regiae Gustavi Adolphi. XCII. Uppsala. 2006

Recension av Francois-Xavier Dillmann, Les magiciens dans l’Islande ancienne : etudes sur la repr... more Recension av Francois-Xavier Dillmann, Les magiciens dans l’Islande ancienne : etudes sur la representation de la magie islandaise et de ses agents dans les sources litteraires norroises. Acta academiae regiae Gustavi Adolphi. XCII. Uppsala. 2006.

Research paper thumbnail of Recension : Andersson, Gunnar, Beronius Jörpeland, Lena, Dunér, Jan, Fritsch, Sara a Skyllberg, Eva. Att föra gudarnas talan – figurinerna från Lunda. Riksantikvarieämbetet. Arkeologiska Undersökningar. Skrifter Nr 55 Stockholm: Riksantikvarieämbetets förlag, 2004. 178 sidor

Research paper thumbnail of Erik den helige och Gamla Uppsala : Om tolkningen av religiösa symboler vid tiden för Sveriges kristnande

Erik den helige och Gamla Uppsala : Om tolkningen av religiosa symboler vid tiden for Sveriges kr... more Erik den helige och Gamla Uppsala : Om tolkningen av religiosa symboler vid tiden for Sveriges kristnande

Research paper thumbnail of Tåten om Olav Geirstadaalven (Óláfs þáttr Geirstaðaálfs) : Spår av förkristen herokult eller reflexer av medeltida helgondyrkan

Research paper thumbnail of Cecilia Ljung: Under runristad häll, tidigkristna gravmonument i 1000-talets Sverige

Research paper thumbnail of Rec. av Declan Taggart: How Thor Lost his Thunder. The Changing Faces of an Old Norse God. Routledge Research in Medieval Studies 14. London a New York: Routledge 2018. ISBN 978-1-138-05819-4. 213 sidor

Research paper thumbnail of The Temple, the Tree, and the Well : A Topos or Cosmic Symbolism at Cultic Sites

Research paper thumbnail of Female cultic leaders and religious (ritual) specialists in Germanic and ancient Scandinavian sources

Re-imagining Periphery, 2020

Research paper thumbnail of Religionshistorikern Folke Ström : föredrag från ett symposium i Uppsala den 8 november 2017

Kungliga Gustav Adolfs Akademien, 2019

Research paper thumbnail of The Royal Erfi-feast

Crossing Disciplinary Boundaries , 2022

Research paper thumbnail of The Iron Age Post Rows in Old Uppsala: An Enigmatic Monument

Germanisches Altertum und Europäisches Mittelalter. Gedenkband Heinrich Beck., 2023

Research paper thumbnail of Kontinuitäten und Brüche in der Religionsgeschichte

De Gruyter eBooks, Dec 31, 2001

The animal world is viewed in the Pahlavi books not only as part of the good creation of Ohrmazd,... more The animal world is viewed in the Pahlavi books not only as part of the good creation of Ohrmazd, but as an essential part of a complex of entities comprising humans, animals and plants, with the main non-organic elements of the material world completing the circle of creation. The good animal«: stand in symmetrical relationship to humanity. The creation of the Primal Bovine is parallel to that of the creation of the Primal Man, their suffering in the hands of the Assault launched by the Evil Spirit constitutes another point of similarity and their final fate in eschatology is likewise symmetrical, although, as we shall point out, there are certain divergencies between them, as required by the Zoroastrian system of thought. The views expressed in the Jewish scriptures and in Jewish tradition do not seem at first sight profoundly different-in the Jewish tradition too there is a conception of a grand unity of creation of all the constituents of the material world-but there are in fact telling differences between the two religious traditions. What these comparisons signify is a question we shall try to raise in the present discussion. Rather than summarize the cosmogonica! and eschatological passages of the Bundahisn and the Selections ofZädspram, which may be taken to be familiar, I should like to concentrate on some particular texts. One interesting passage in this respect is in the Pahlavi Riväyat accorri-panyingtheDädestän ïdenïg:' [14:1] It is revealed in a passage: Ohrmazd said to the cattle: 'Give yourselves to the material world, so that people may eat you'. The transcription and translation offered here are based on Alan Williams's edition (1990), with some modifications. For the text see Appendix I.

Research paper thumbnail of Mikael Males, Mytologi i skaldedikt, skaldedikt i prosa: En synkronanalys av mytologiska referenser i medeltida norröna handskrifter

Mikael Males, Mytologi i skaldedikt, skaldedikt i prosa: En synkronanalys av mytologiska referens... more Mikael Males, Mytologi i skaldedikt, skaldedikt i prosa: En synkronanalys av mytologiska referenser i medeltida norrona handskrifter

Research paper thumbnail of Religious and ideological aspects of hall interiors in late iron age

Research paper thumbnail of 10 Rulers, Rings and Rituals—From Svetjud to Iceland and Back Again

Research paper thumbnail of 11 Golden Objects as Media of Power

Research paper thumbnail of Recension : Carlie, Anne. Forntida byggnadskult. Tradition och regionalitet i södra Skandinavien. Riksantikvarieämbetet. Arkeologiska Undersökningar. Skrifter Nr 57. Stockholm: Riksantikvarieämbetets förlag, 2004. 366 sidor

Recension : Carlie, Anne. Forntida byggnadskult. Tradition och regionalitet i sodra Skandinavien.... more Recension : Carlie, Anne. Forntida byggnadskult. Tradition och regionalitet i sodra Skandinavien. Riksantikvarieambetet. Arkeologiska Undersokningar. Skrifter Nr 57. Stockholm: Riksantikvarieambetets forlag, 2004. 366 sidor.

Research paper thumbnail of Odin and Mithras

Nordic Academic Press eBooks, Jan 12, 2006

Research paper thumbnail of Asterix som myt och ideologi : om mytbegreppets tillämpbarhet vid studier av ungdomskulturens ideologiska dimensioner

Asterix som myt och ideologi : om mytbegreppets tillampbarhet vid studier av ungdomskulturens ide... more Asterix som myt och ideologi : om mytbegreppets tillampbarhet vid studier av ungdomskulturens ideologiska dimensioner

Research paper thumbnail of Paulina Partanen: Female Power, (De)Constructing the Space of Immortal Threat in Homer's Odyssey

Paulina Partanen: Female Power, (De)Constructing the Space of Immortal Threat in Homer's Odyssey

Research paper thumbnail of Recension av Francois-Xavier Dillmann, Les magiciens dans l’Islande ancienne : études sur la représentation de la magie islandaise et de ses agents dans les sources littéraires norroises. Acta academiae regiae Gustavi Adolphi. XCII. Uppsala. 2006

Recension av Francois-Xavier Dillmann, Les magiciens dans l’Islande ancienne : etudes sur la repr... more Recension av Francois-Xavier Dillmann, Les magiciens dans l’Islande ancienne : etudes sur la representation de la magie islandaise et de ses agents dans les sources litteraires norroises. Acta academiae regiae Gustavi Adolphi. XCII. Uppsala. 2006.

Research paper thumbnail of Recension : Andersson, Gunnar, Beronius Jörpeland, Lena, Dunér, Jan, Fritsch, Sara a Skyllberg, Eva. Att föra gudarnas talan – figurinerna från Lunda. Riksantikvarieämbetet. Arkeologiska Undersökningar. Skrifter Nr 55 Stockholm: Riksantikvarieämbetets förlag, 2004. 178 sidor

Research paper thumbnail of Erik den helige och Gamla Uppsala : Om tolkningen av religiösa symboler vid tiden för Sveriges kristnande

Erik den helige och Gamla Uppsala : Om tolkningen av religiosa symboler vid tiden for Sveriges kr... more Erik den helige och Gamla Uppsala : Om tolkningen av religiosa symboler vid tiden for Sveriges kristnande

Research paper thumbnail of Tåten om Olav Geirstadaalven (Óláfs þáttr Geirstaðaálfs) : Spår av förkristen herokult eller reflexer av medeltida helgondyrkan

Research paper thumbnail of Cecilia Ljung: Under runristad häll, tidigkristna gravmonument i 1000-talets Sverige

Research paper thumbnail of Rec. av Declan Taggart: How Thor Lost his Thunder. The Changing Faces of an Old Norse God. Routledge Research in Medieval Studies 14. London a New York: Routledge 2018. ISBN 978-1-138-05819-4. 213 sidor

Research paper thumbnail of The Temple, the Tree, and the Well : A Topos or Cosmic Symbolism at Cultic Sites

Research paper thumbnail of Female cultic leaders and religious (ritual) specialists in Germanic and ancient Scandinavian sources

Re-imagining Periphery, 2020

Research paper thumbnail of Religionshistorikern Folke Ström : föredrag från ett symposium i Uppsala den 8 november 2017

Kungliga Gustav Adolfs Akademien, 2019

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