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https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/38222| Title: | Philosophical paradigms of fertility cult interpretations : philosophical perspectives on seasonal goddesses |
| Other Titles: | Archaeology and fertility cult in the Ancient Mediterranean |
| Authors: | Straaten, Zak van |
| Keywords: | History, Ancient Fertility cults -- Mediterranean Region -- History -- Congresses Mother goddesses -- Cult -- Europe Mother goddesses -- Cult -- Figurines Goddess religion Liminality |
| Issue Date: | 1986 |
| Publisher: | University of Malta Press |
| Citation: | van Straaten, Z. (1986). Philosophical paradigms of fertility cult interpretations: philosophical perspectives on seasonal goddesses. In A. Bonanno (Ed.), Archaeology and Fertility Cult in the Ancient Mediterranean: papers presented at the First International Conference on Archaeology of the Ancient Mediterranean, 2-5 September 1985 (pp. 31-41). Malta: University of Malta Press. |
| Abstract: | Why did fertility cults exist? What function did they have, if any? What are we to make of fertility cult figurines and artefacts? Can the differences of figurine design be explained? Is there a single unifying explanation of the fertility cult data? In this paper I propose answers to all of these questions and give a general explanation of the existence and function of fertility cults. |
| URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar//handle/123456789/38222 |
| ISBN: | 9060322886 |
| Appears in Collections: | Archaeology and fertility cult in the Ancient Mediterranean |
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