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The Donkey King - Emily Selove

The Donkey King

Asinine Symbology in Ancient and Medieval Magic

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Buch | Hardcover
74 Seiten
2023
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-46254-9 (ISBN)
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This Element reveals the double-sided nature of asinine symbology and explains why the donkey has served as the companion of both demons and prophets. In addition to Arabic literature and occult rituals, the Element refers to evidence from the ancient Near East, Egypt, and Greece, as well as to medieval Jewish and Christian texts.
The 13th-century Arabic grimoire, al-Sakkākī's Kitāb al-Shāmil (Book of the Complete), provides numerous methods of contacting jinn. The first such jinn described, Abū Isrā'īl Būzayn ibn Sulaymān, arrives with a donkey. In the course of offering an explanation for his ritual, this Element reveals the double-sided nature of asinine symbology, and explains why this animal has served as the companion of both demons and prophets. Focusing on two nodes of donkey symbology—the phallus and the bray-it reveals a coincidentia oppositorum in a deceptively humble and comic animal form. Thus, the donkey, bearer of a demonic voice, and of a phallus symbolic of base materiality, also represents transcendence of the material and protection from the demonic. In addition to Arabic literature and occult rituals, the Element refers to evidence from the ancient Near East, Egypt, and Greece, as well as to medieval Jewish and Christian texts.

Preface; 1. Introduction: the complete donkey; 2. The ancient donkey and his afterliv; 3. The phallus of the donkey; 4. The voice of the donkey; 5. Conclusion; Bibliography.

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Elements in Magic
Zusatzinfo Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Theater / Ballett
Sachbuch/Ratgeber Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie Esoterik / Spiritualität
Geisteswissenschaften Religion / Theologie Weitere Religionen
ISBN-10 1-009-46254-7 / 1009462547
ISBN-13 978-1-009-46254-9 / 9781009462549
Zustand Neuware
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