Sökning: "Nils Billing"
Hittade 5 avhandlingar innehållade orden Nils Billing.
1. Nut - The Goddess of Life in Text and Iconography
Sammanfattning : This study delineates the basic characteristics of the ancient Egyptian goddess Nut as expressed in funerary texts and iconography. The goddess is treated as conceptual in character (Begriffsgottheit), i.e. as an animate expression for the ideas that the ancient Egyptians associated with the sky: space and water. LÄS MER
2. The Performative Structure : Ritualizing the pyramid of Pepy I
Sammanfattning : This study investigates the ancient Egyptian pyramid complex as a ritualized structure. In accordance with an indigenous cultural pattern, the category of an eternal architecture had been created at the beginning of the Old Kingdom (ca. 2700 B.C. LÄS MER
3. Soul and Self in Vedic India
Sammanfattning : The study employs the analytical concept of “soul” as an umbrella term under which, it is argued, a variety of conceptions pertaining to life, personality, consciousness, and afterlife may be usefully grouped to-gether and analyzed. A survey is conducted of the various Vedic con-cepts which fall within this category, their development being traced from the earliest times to the close of the Vedic era. LÄS MER
4. Dihte gievrie – det vi möter i respekt : Berättelser om en sydsamisk trumma
Sammanfattning : In 2010, five people made an unusual find: an old gievrie, a South Sami drum. They found it in the landscape near the village of Røyrvik, in the Norwegian part of Saepmie, close to the national border with Sweden. According to Norwegian law, such a find should be reported, and the item handed over to the authorities. LÄS MER
5. Lutherhjälpen som försvann
Sammanfattning : For several decades Lutherhjälpen was the primary tool of the Church of Sweden for international aid and assistance. The organization grew strong in 1950s and by the 1970s it had agents in all Church of Sweden parishes and working links with both the Lutheran World Federation and the World Council of Churches. LÄS MER