Snakes, people, and spirits Traditional eastern africa in its broader context /
Hazel, Robert,
Snakes, people, and spirits Traditional eastern africa in its broader context / by Robert Hazel. - Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, (c)2019. - 1 online resource (206 pages)
Includes bibliographies and index.
This two-volume publication offers an in-depth analysis of ophidian symbolism in Eastern Africa, while setting the topic within its regional and historical context: namely, with regards to the rest of Africa, ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, the Greek world, ancient Palestine, Arabia, India, and medieval and pre-Christian Europe. Through the ages, most of those areas have connected with Eastern Africa in a broad sense, where ophidian symbolism was as ""rampant"" and far-reaching, if not more so, as anywhere else on the continent, and perhaps in past civilisations. Much as in the wider context, s.
9781527550452
GBC0H7935 bnb
019611862 Uk
Snakes--Africa, East.
Electronic Books.
QL666 / .S635 2019
Snakes, people, and spirits Traditional eastern africa in its broader context / by Robert Hazel. - Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, (c)2019. - 1 online resource (206 pages)
Includes bibliographies and index.
This two-volume publication offers an in-depth analysis of ophidian symbolism in Eastern Africa, while setting the topic within its regional and historical context: namely, with regards to the rest of Africa, ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, the Greek world, ancient Palestine, Arabia, India, and medieval and pre-Christian Europe. Through the ages, most of those areas have connected with Eastern Africa in a broad sense, where ophidian symbolism was as ""rampant"" and far-reaching, if not more so, as anywhere else on the continent, and perhaps in past civilisations. Much as in the wider context, s.
9781527550452
GBC0H7935 bnb
019611862 Uk
Snakes--Africa, East.
Electronic Books.
QL666 / .S635 2019