Thank you Khem Caigan - I was away in BR Hills where I visited a
wonderful tribal sacred grove build around a 2000 year old champak tree
beside a fantastic brook - recharged now - thanks again for the
wonderful references let me see if I can get these books..
avy
Khem Caigan wrote:
> 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
> <[log in to unmask]>
>
> " And for marvelous Actes and Feates, Naturally,
> Mathematically, and Mechanically wrought and
> contrived, ought any honest Student and Modest
> Christian Philosopher, be counted and called
> a Conjurer? " ~ John Dee
>
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