ОТ ВМЕСТИЛИЩ БОГОВ К МАГИЧЕСКИМ ПОМОЩНИКАМ: РЕЦЕПЦИЯ ПЕРЕДНЕАЗИАТСКОГО ПРЕДСТАВЛЕНИЯ О КУЛЬТОВЫХ ИЗОБРАЖЕНИЯХ В ПОЗДНЕМ И ГРЕКО-РИМСКОМ ЕГИПТЕ
FROM THE RECEPTACLES OF GODS TO THE MAGICAL AIDES: THE RECEPTION OF THE NEAR EASTERN ATTITUDE TOWARDS CULT IMAGES IN LATE AND GRECO-ROMAN EGYPT
Author(s): Ivan Andreevich LadyninSubject(s): History, Cultural history, Sociology, Ancient World, Sociology of Culture
Published by: Казанский (Приволжский) федеральный университет
Keywords: cult images; magic; Egypt; Near East; Achaemenid Empire; Bentresh Stela; The Romance of Alexander; Satrap Stela; The Potter ’s Oracle; The Conquest of Egypt; al-Maghrib and al-Andalus;
Summary/Abstract: The paper deals with the evolution of the Ancient Egyptian attitudes towards cult effigies as mediators in contacts with gods from the pre-Hellenistic time till the 2nd–1st centuries B.C. One can see that the Near Eastern idea about the possibility to deprive a vanquished people of contacts with its gods by confiscating its cultic utensils as well as by switching the contacts themselves to the victor gradually gained more importance for the Egyptians during that period. Presumably, the reminiscences belonging to the Islamic time seem to perceive the use of cult effigies in the Egyptian struggle with foreign enemies as a purely magical method void of its initial religious specificity.
Journal: Ученые записки Казанского университета. Серия Гуманитарные науки
- Issue Year: 156/2014
- Issue No: 3
- Page Range: 158-168
- Page Count: 11
- Language: Russian