The Wisdom of the Serpent: The Myths of Death, Rebirth, and ResurrectionPrinceton University Press, 1990/09/04 - 262 ページ The tribal initiation of the shaman, the archetype of the serpent, exemplifies the death of the self and a rebirth into transcendent life. This book traces the images of spiritual initiation in religious rituals and myths of resurrection, poems and epics, cycles of nature, and art and dreaming. It dramatizes the metamorphosis from a common experience of death's inevitability into a transcendent freedom beyond individual limitations. |
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The Fear of Death | 3 |
Death and Rebirth as Cosmic Pattern The Dance of Shiva | 8 |
Death and the Rebirth as Cycles of Nature The Descent of Inanna | 15 |
Personal Encounter The Wisdom of the Serpent | 32 |
Initiation as a Spiritual Education | 41 |
Initiation as Psychic Liberation The Magic Flight | 60 |
Resurrection and Rebirth in the Process of Individuation | 66 |
MYTHS OF DEATH REBIRTH AND RESURRECTION | 75 |
INITIATION AS PSYCHIC LIBERATION | 184 |
MYTHS OF RESURRECTION | 202 |
FURTHER EXAMPLES OF THE THEME OF DEATH AND DEBIRTH IN POETRY | 233 |
Drowning Is Not So Pitiful | 235 |
Just Lost When I Was Saved | 236 |
Darest Thou Now O Soul | 238 |
NOTES ON THE PLATES | 241 |
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