Sheela-na-gigs: Unravelling an EnigmaRoutledge, 15 օգս, 2005 թ. - 232 էջ Here Barbara Freitag examines all the literature on the subject since their discovery 160 years ago, highlighting the inconsistencies of the various interpretations in regard to origin, function and name. By considering the Sheela-na-gigs in their medieval social context, she suggests that they were folk deities with particular responsibility for assistance in childbirth. This fascinating survey sheds new light on a controversial phenomenon, and also contains a complete catalogue of all known Sheela-na-gigs, including hitherto unrecorded or unpublished figures.
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... Irish examples,10 she discusses in detail churches and castles where ... early sculpture, there are others which have every appearance of antiquity ... early origin and practice of the relative cult nor the probability of earlier symbols ...
... Irish examples,10 she discusses in detail churches and castles where ... early sculpture, there are others which have every appearance of antiquity ... early origin and practice of the relative cult nor the probability of earlier symbols ...
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... early Christian origin of the Sheela-na-gigs by linking them to the round towers of Ireland. Such a connection had ... Irish churches, which...strengthen most remarkably my ideas 25 relative to the round towers'. During the eighteenth and.
... early Christian origin of the Sheela-na-gigs by linking them to the round towers of Ireland. Such a connection had ... Irish churches, which...strengthen most remarkably my ideas 25 relative to the round towers'. During the eighteenth and.
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... early Irish Christianity had its roots in Africa and the Near East. Coming from the north-eastern regions of Africa, the first Christians in Ireland might have brought with them more or less of Gnosticism, and with it syncretistic ...
... early Irish Christianity had its roots in Africa and the Near East. Coming from the north-eastern regions of Africa, the first Christians in Ireland might have brought with them more or less of Gnosticism, and with it syncretistic ...
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... early Irish ecclesiastics, but only one of these, i.e. the entirely nude figure, he classified as a Sheela. Out of disrespect for the early Irish fashion, he thought they were later mutilated and applied to the degraded but useful ...
... early Irish ecclesiastics, but only one of these, i.e. the entirely nude figure, he classified as a Sheela. Out of disrespect for the early Irish fashion, he thought they were later mutilated and applied to the degraded but useful ...
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