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Here is an exciting, innovative study of ancient European religious practice and practitioners. The Aldhouse-Greens entertaining and informative book represents a search, a voyage of discovery in which evidence is sought that there were individuals living in Europe from the Stone Age to the early post-Roman period who believed they were able to liaise with the spirit-world through the medium of trance and who perceived themselves to be part-human and part-animal.The authors support their argument with diverse and rich evidence, including the 30,000-year-old lion-human ivory figurines found in south-western Germany, which may represent monsters seen by shamans in altered states of consciousness; the newly discovered and spectacular Nebra sky-disc, which depicts the sun, moon and the Pleiades, indicating that Bronze Age shamans were using highly sophisticated objects to explore the heavens; and, the Doctors Grave from southeast England, which suggests that a Late Iron Age chieftain, who may have been a shaman, was sent to the Otherworld equipped with hallucinogens, medical kit and divining tools.

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Book category Knihy po anglicky Humanities Religion & beliefs Aspects of religion (non-Christian)

• Full title: Quest for the Shaman
• Subtitle: Shape-Shifters, Sorcerers and Spirit-healers of Ancient Europe
• Author: Miranda Aldhouse-Green, Stephen Aldhouse-Green
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 240
• EAN: 9780500051344
• ISBN: 0500051348
• ID: 04895779
• Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
• Weight: 958 g
• Dimensions: 245 × 175 × 27 mm
• Date of publishing: 13. June 2005

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