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25 octobre 2017
- doi: 10.4000/books.pulg.1625
- isbn: 9782960071788
- eisbn: 9782821895638
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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Emma Aston, « Mixanthropic deities in time and place », Presses universitaires de Liège, ID : 10.4000/books.pulg.1625
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Introduction This chapter explores the spatial and temporal characterisation of mixanthropic gods, and shows that the dimensions of time and place combine to connect these deities with the distant past. The relegation of mixanthropic monsters to the past and to obsolescence was noted in the Introduction. Monsters remain known through stories, but also through relics: giant bones, the stuffed Triton of Tanagra. They are potent and enduring symbols, but not (with a few peculiar exceptions) part...