author: john r hinnells

A Handbook of Ancient Religions

... banner from the tomb of Lady Dai at Mawangdui (d. c. 165 BCE) seems to portray the lady in three different realms of existence: as an old lady, leaning on a cane, in the middle of the banner; as the deceased in the tomb chamber under ...

Religion, Health and Suffering

... Rāmāyaṇa 2.7.6 ff . , 2.9.28 ff . , etc. 51. See , for example , the hugely popular comic book retellings of the epic story : Anant Pai ( ed . ) Ramayana , Arnar Chitra Katha series ( Bombay : India Book House , 1988 ) , 15-16 , and ...

The Routledge Companion to the Study of Religion

... Classic Readings, 2nd edn, Boulder: Westview Press. Lentricchia, F. and ... Anthropology as Cultural Critique, Chicago, University of Chicago Press ... Free Press. Storey, J. (ed.) (1996) What Is Cultural Studies? New York, Arnold Press ...

Mithraic Studies: Proceedings of the First International Congress of Mithraic Studies

... scorpion as her royal mark.69 Perhaps it was the scorpion's considerable passion which gave rise to its widespread use as ... the house of progeny ' . However the astrological element in Zoroastrianism raises so many historical problems ...

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