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oapen-20.500.12657-749282023-08-03T17:59:46Z Chapter Shaping Gods: from Göbekli Tepe to Kaneš, Ḫattuša, and Beyond Alfonso, Archi Animism Göbekli Tepe Hittite zoomoprhism meal ritual bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History The spectacular finds at Göbekli Tepe and Nevali Çorı: monolithic pillars representing stylized humans decorated with a large variety of animals, are the representation of an animist cosmos, in which animals and plants being may appear as persons, capable of will. Çatal Höyük represents a stage in which gods started to be shaped: the bull represented the Storm-god (a concept which reached the Classical period), the stag the god of the wild fauna, and female figurines symbolized the Mother-goddess. In Egypt, where gods where usually represented by animals, zoomorphism presents a continuity which ended only with the introduction of Christianity. The archaeological finds from Kaneš and the Hittite texts document an extraordinary continuity: each deity was represented by an animal, portraited in the vessel with which the celebrant (the royal couple or also a priest) reached a kind of communion with the god in drinking of the same wine and eating of the same bread. 2023-08-03T15:07:11Z 2023-08-03T15:07:11Z 2023 chapter ONIX_20230803_9791221501094_124 2612-808X 9791221501094 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/74928 eng Studia Asiana application/pdf Attribution 4.0 International 9791221501094-07.pdf https://books.fupress.com/doi/capitoli/979-12-215-0109-4_7 Firenze University Press Theonyms, Panthea and Syncretisms in Hittite Anatolia and Northern Syria 10.36253/979-12-215-0109-4.07 10.36253/979-12-215-0109-4.07 bf65d21a-78e5-4ba2-983a-dbfa90962870 Theonyms, Panthea and Syncretisms in Hittite Anatolia and Northern Syria bf678992-c87a-4e07-9a19-8ab62874c1cc 9791221501094 14 28 Florence open access
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The spectacular finds at Göbekli Tepe and Nevali Çorı: monolithic pillars representing stylized humans decorated with a large variety of animals, are the representation of an animist cosmos, in which animals and plants being may appear as persons, capable of will. Çatal Höyük represents a stage in which gods started to be shaped: the bull represented the Storm-god (a concept which reached the Classical period), the stag the god of the wild fauna, and female figurines symbolized the Mother-goddess. In Egypt, where gods where usually represented by animals, zoomorphism presents a continuity which ended only with the introduction of Christianity. The archaeological finds from Kaneš and the Hittite texts document an extraordinary continuity: each deity was represented by an animal, portraited in the vessel with which the celebrant (the royal couple or also a priest) reached a kind of communion with the god in drinking of the same wine and eating of the same bread.
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