Although the earliest texts, such as the hymns of the R. gveda, were composed in verse, the liturgical works (brāhman. a) of the middle vedic period were composed in prose. This practice was continued in the literature of the expert traditions; most ancient works falling within the Vedic Supplements are in prose. Probably because instruction in the expert traditions was carried out orally and t...

Abstract This essay examines Qumran texts that not only perform blessing but also reflect on the activity of itself, and thereby offer an opportunity to better understand urge necessity behind growth liturgical cycles generate traditions prayer. The paper looks at three texts, hymns maśkîl , Hymn Creator, 4Q408, in which performance is presented as acknowledgment creator through lens primordial...

The Sangam Tamil people lived in the worship and respect of nature worshipped as Lord. These blend with natural environment. They have preserved a harmonious life. This information can be gleaned from verses, hymns, meat objects found songs sung by poets Ettuthogai Noolgal. Although name bird is given to all flying creatures Texts, it often said belong point laying eggs hatching. Dragonfly, bee...

The aim of this paper is to apply tools cognitive poetics for exploring religious hymns in the mentality contemporary Polish, Ukrainian and English speakers. texts under study are from Triduum which a very special time within Roman Catholic Passiontide. Latin originals as well translations used show how conceptual imagery transforms perceptive process, located between ancient text today’s views...

Sometimes from the thresholdof these doorswe are greetedby another self,another worldwe wish to worship,incarnationthe tithe we offerfor such a crossing:we, seeking divine,the divine leaning toward us,fading coal of memoryigniting into color,presence and invisibilitybecoming one,Christ choosing fishers-of-menon heightened mural wallbehind rostrum.Here, our woesknow no hierarchy,all grief being ...

The mythological tradition expressed in early Greek hexameter poetry offers an ancient and influential witness to one of the most pervasive assumptions shaping Western cultural constructions of gender, the assumption that there is a link between two inescapable aspects of the human condition: the fact of being born from a woman and the fact of having to die. That body of poetry, which includes ...