Fudge.
JSTOR is actually a widely(?) used subscription
service for colleges & libraries on this side of
the pond.
Anyway, the article is from American Ethnologist,
Vol. 6, No. 4 (Nov., 1979), pp. 763-771, and is
by Alice Kehoe.
I'll try to be tidier with links in the future.
--- Mandrake of Oxford <[log in to unmask]>
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> Grant
>
> that's not viewable unless you are a student at
> that institution
>
> mogg
>
>
>
>
>
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> Behalf Of grant b, sun
> reporter
> Sent: 05 October 2006 00:41
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> Subject: Re: [ACADEMIC-STUDY-MAGIC] Sacred
> Heart iconography: swastikas,
> fylfots and the Vikings of Constantinople.
>
>
> Oddly, I just found this:
>
http://www.jstor.org/view/00940496/ap020024/02a00100/0
>
> It's an article proposing Sacred Heart
> iconography actually came into Europe from the
> Aztecs via "stimulus diffusion."
>
> Brings up the term "yollotl," referring to
> "heart," but as a source of dynamism, as in the
> human hearts that power the sun (and are
> represented covered in flames) -- but also
> alludes to earlier visions of flaming hearts
> had
> by several nuns in the Saxon convent of Helfta.
>
> Which interests the heck out of me.
>
> Sorry if I'm getting a little niche-y here....
>
> --- "grant b, sun reporter"
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > --- DAVE EVANS <[log in to unmask]>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > i should at least say that JSM 2 has an
> > article
> > > about Pierced Heart
> > > symbolism
> >
> >
> > Cool -- is there a searchable archive I could
> > get
> > to? (Sorry if this is something I should know
> > already, but I don't.)
> >
> > I also found something interesting in
> continued
> > web-hunting -- on this page:
> >
> http://www.socdigest.org/articles/03oct05.html
> >
> > A Syrian Orthodox researcher has photos of
> old
> > crosses with swastikas in the middle that he
> > snapped in a Hong Kong collection. He
> believes
> > these crosses came from Manicheans, although
> > they're labeled as Nestorian (either way,
> from
> > India/Persia region). The representation
> > *reminds* me of representations of the Sacred
> > Heart I remember from my Catholic childhood,
> > although I still don't know if Nestorians or
> > Manicheans would have necessarily thought of
> > the
> > swastika as *flaming*.
> >
> > (Although I've also found references to
> > swastikas
> > not only representing the Heart of Buddha,
> but
> > also being placed like stigmata, on his
> hands,
> > feet and torso, which may be coincidental,
> but
> > makes my eyebrow rise.)
> >
> > Oh, and I don't want to shut down any other
> > possibilities for European pagan precursors
> to
> > the Big Heart That Bleeds and Burns -- it's
> > just
> > that the first batch of associations I
> stumbled
> > on seemed to come out of Near/Middle Eastern
> > swastika representations.
> >
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> >
>
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