Avy doth schreibble:
>
> Does anybody on this list have any examples of how
> "pagan" or "animistic" ideas or notions are "embedded"
> into objects/artefacts and what does this mean in terms
> of making contemporary objects which are primarily
> technological in essence and not "spiritual" or
> "soulish"?
Hi, Avy ~
Coming at it from the angle of Artificers and
their Ensouled Statues / Machines, I recommend :
Simeon Heninger ~ *Touches of Sweet Harmony:
Pythagorean Cosmology and Renaissance Poetics*,
1974.
George Hersey ~ *Pythagorean Palaces: Magic and
Architecture in the Italian Renaissance*, 1976.
Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka ~ *The Reincarnating Mind,
Or the Ontopoietic Outburst in Creative Virtualities,
Book II: Harmonisations and Attunement in Cognition,
the Fine Arts, Literature Phenomenology of Life and
the Human Creative Condition*, 1997.
Brunilde Ridgway ~ *Prayers in Stone: Greek
Architectural Sculpture Ca. 600-100 B.C.E.*,
1999.
Peter Platt ~ *Wonders, Marvels, and Monsters
in Early Modern Culture*, 2000.
John Bell ~ *Puppets, Masks, and Performing
Objects*, 2001.
Lynn Foulston ~ *At the Feet of the Goddess
The Divine Feminine in Local Hindu Religion*,
2002.
Victoria Nelson ~ *The Secret Life of Puppets*,
2003.
Miranda Jane Aldhouse-Green ~ *An Archaeology
of Images: Iconology and Cosmology in Iron Age
and Roman Europe*, 2004.
Guven Guzeldere and Stefano Franchi ~ *Mechanical
Bodies, Computational Minds: Artificial Intelligence
from Automata to Cyborgs?*, 2005.
Paolo Gozuza ~ *Number to Sound: The Musical Way
to the Scientific Revolution*, 2006.
William Newman and Anthony Grafton ~ *Secrets of
Nature: Astrology and Alchemy in Early Modern
Europe*, 2006.
Cors in Manu Domine,
~ Khem Caigan
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