Mahlstedt Ina. Rätselhafte Religionen der Vorzeit

Stuttgart: Theiss, 2010. — 210 p.Beliefs, cults, myths. From the Stone Age Göbekli Tepe to ancient natural religions in the Peruvian Andes, this volume offers a unique overview of the enigmatic religious ideas of our ancestors. At all times and in all cultures, people have sought explanations for the visible and invisible world in which they live. You have thought about the origin of being and tried to understand death and life. For years, Ina Mahlstedt has researched what our ancestors believed in, visited rock art and places of worship all over the world and compared them with one another, evaluated remains of myths, archaeological facts and the construction of earlier places of worship. In a large temporal and geographical arc, from Anatolia and Egypt to Scandinavia to South America, she presents four forgotten religions in this book. What the religions presented here have in common is that it is not humans that are at the center of their mythical world, but the cyclical Principle of the earth. So they offer insights into completely different religious patterns than we know them today.Vorwort
Die beseelte Welt archaischer Religionen
Ein Heiligtum für Wasser und Erde
Der sterbende und auferstehende Pharao
Wasser und Eis – Kampf der Götter gegen die Riesen
Die andine Kosmovision der Pachamama in Peru