As Christianity acquired additional adherents and electric power, pagan rituals had been systematically stamped out Despite the fact that core meanings, iconography, and symbolism could be appropriated by The brand new faith and reworked to assistance the perception in Jesus Christ because the messiah.
“But what actually issues will not be what you believe however the faith and conviction with which you suspect…”
نقد لاذع وجهه هامسون عبر الرواية لعدة كتاب ذكرهم بالاسم أو الأسلوب الأدبي الوعظي والمتكلف، امتدح ثراء الحكايات الشرقية بالخيال اللامحدود كما في قصص ألف ليلة وليلة، ويرجع ذلك لمعايشتهم اليومية للخيال المشبع بدفء الشمس وامتداد الصحاري، قارنها بحكايات أهل الشمال المرتبطة بحدود الشتاء وأكواخهم الخشبية.
تنبيه : الأستاذ ممدوح كتب في مقدمة الرواية أن هامسون أستخدم مطرقة الأعماق في الكتابة، لذا الرواية تحتاج لعضلات قرائية مرنة تستمتع بجماليات الأدب، أصحاب الوقت الثمين لديكم حرية انفاقه فيما يروقكم من طيبات الكتب الأخرى :)
Hamsun is a difficult one to grapple with. When I browse him about a decade back I really liked his function but now, writing this in 2019, I'm considerably less prepared to miss the misogyny in his operate and his troubled background late in everyday life. He died possessing been denounced by his homeland and is also lesser known presently as a consequence of his sympathetic association to your Nazi party for the duration of WWII.
[74] Vases along with other works of reduction sculpture, within the 4th, 5th and 6th hundreds of years BC, depict Triptolemus Keeping an ear of corn, sitting on the winged throne or chariot, surrounded by Persephone and Demeter with pine torches. The monumental Protoattic amphora from the middle on the 7th century BC, While using the depiction of Medusa's beheading by Perseus and the blinding of Polyphemos by Odysseus and his companions on its neck, is retained in the Archaeological Museum of Eleusis which is found In the archaeological web-site of Eleusis.
For Among the many numerous superb and without a doubt divine institutions which your Athens has brought forth and contributed to human lifetime, none, for my part, is much better than People mysteries. For by their implies we are actually introduced outside of our barbarous and savage mode of daily life and educated and refined to your state of civilization; and as the rites are named "initiations," so in very truth of the matter we have discovered from them the beginnings of existence, and also have acquired the ability not only to Dwell happily, but will also to die with an improved hope. Cicero, Legislation II, xiv, 36
Dionysus's Affiliation with bulls is found in a number of epithets. In The Bacchae, Pentheus, who opposed his worship from the god's origin metropolis of Thebes, noticed horns upon Dionysus's head as he began to go mad.[7]
Nevertheless not a wonderful ebook, Hamsun has once more designed a unique character, a novel ambiance, and anything resembling Musil's "gentleman devoid of qualities" in the person of Nagel. Mysteries, in some ways, supercedes "Hunger" in scope and depth of creating, but is a lot more disorganized rather than as constant in tone. Both equally Starvation and Mysteries simmered and seethed with nervousness, desperation, fatigued illumination, and intriguing strangeness, but wherever Starvation flowed basically like 4 movements of a symphony, Mysteries weaves by Ley-Linien und Kraftorte way of high and very low points of inventive good results.
Referring to von Däniken's guidance of The traditional astronauts hypothesis, Feder points out how his proof is utilized and offered in a very misleading way to be able to persuade the reader that extraterrestrial lifetime was linked to the event of historic civilizations.[18]
" الصوت آلة خطيرة ، لا أعني جرس الصوت الذي قد يكون عالياً أو منخفضاً ، شبحياً أو حاداً ، أنا لا أتحدث عن الصوت ولكن عن العالم الداخلي الذي تنبع منه الأسرار الدفينة"...
Dimitris Lyacos in the second ebook of the Poena Damni trilogy With all the Men and women with the Bridge, a up to date, avant-garde Perform concentrating on the return of the dead as well as the revenant legend combines factors in the Eleusinian mysteries together with early Christian tradition in an effort to convey a look at of collective salvation.
"In intoxication, Actual physical or spiritual, the initiate recovers an intensity of emotion which prudence had wrecked; he finds the globe whole of pleasure and beauty, and his imagination is quickly :liberated through the prison of every day preoccupations.
Već duže vreme se nisam srela sa muškim književnim likom koji u ovolikoj meri odiše jadom i patetikom...iako Hamsunu upravo takvi nisu uopšte strani. (Setimo se sirotog pukovnika Tomasa, žrtve neuzvraćene ljubavi, zatim Edevarta - on takođe u nekoliko navrata gubi glavu zbog gospođe koja baš i ne haje preterano za njega...