Hidden World: Survival of Pagan Shamanic Themes in European Fairytales

by José Alfredo González Celdrán and Blaise Daniel Staples

It was mainly only the European urban centers that converted to Christianity, and often more for political or commercial interests, than as a matter of faith. The old religions persisted in the villages or pagani, from which the term Paganism arose. The Christians built their sanctuaries upon the pagan sites, expropriating their numinous past, assimilating the symbolism of the former deities, and commonly incorporating the actual architectural remnants...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1594601445
• ISBN13: 9781594601446
• Release Date: May 2007
• Publisher: Carolina Academic Press
• Length: 426 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"