Author : J. C. Cooper
Release : 1987-03-17
Genre : Design
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Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Traditional Symbols - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Traditional Symbols write by J. C. Cooper. This book was released on 1987-03-17. Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Traditional Symbols available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In nearly 1500 entries, many of them strikingly and often surprisingly illustrated, J. C. Cooper has documented the history and evolution of symbols from prehistory to our own day. With over 200 illustrations and lively, informative and often ironic texts, she discusses and explains an enormous variety of symbols extending from the Arctic to Dahomey, from the Iroquois to Oceana, and coming from systems as diverse as Tao, Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, Islam, Tantra, the cult of Cybele and the Great Goddess, the Pre-Columbian religions of the Western Hemisphere and the Voodoo cults of Brazil and West Africa.