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phenomenon, and also contains a complete catalogue of all known Sheela-na-gigs, including hitherto unrecorded or unpublished figures.
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... worship which was later converted to the worship of God. Because they seemed to be so crude in conception and coarse in execution the understandable supposition was, when Sheelas were first discovered, that their origin must be ancient ...
... worship which was later converted to the worship of God. Because they seemed to be so crude in conception and coarse in execution the understandable supposition was, when Sheelas were first discovered, that their origin must be ancient ...
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... worship when it so blatantly impresses the 'grossest idea of immorality and licentiousness...being in its way in direct opposition to the sentiment of...people professing the Christian faith'. As it seemed incongruous that the figure ...
... worship when it so blatantly impresses the 'grossest idea of immorality and licentiousness...being in its way in direct opposition to the sentiment of...people professing the Christian faith'. As it seemed incongruous that the figure ...
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... worship or intended for celestial observations, but in any case dating back to pre-Christian times. O'Brien was awarded £20 for his contribution to the debate by the RIA, paid, one commentator suspects, as an attempt to keep him quiet ...
... worship or intended for celestial observations, but in any case dating back to pre-Christian times. O'Brien was awarded £20 for his contribution to the debate by the RIA, paid, one commentator suspects, as an attempt to keep him quiet ...
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... worship. He appears to be the first scholar who actually referred to the hitherto unmentionable 'female organ' and who provided several illustrations of Sheelas. According to him, the worship of both the male and female reproductive ...
... worship. He appears to be the first scholar who actually referred to the hitherto unmentionable 'female organ' and who provided several illustrations of Sheelas. According to him, the worship of both the male and female reproductive ...
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... himself a follower of the Eastern pagan-fertility-worship idea. Witness his careful wording when referring to those 'indecent' representations known as Sheela-na-gigs: The subject...points unmistakably to a pagan cultus, a reverence.
... himself a follower of the Eastern pagan-fertility-worship idea. Witness his careful wording when referring to those 'indecent' representations known as Sheela-na-gigs: The subject...points unmistakably to a pagan cultus, a reverence.
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