The sea can wash away all evils modern marine pollution and the ancient Cathartic Ocean /

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Hovedforfatter: Patton, Kimberley C. (Kimberley Christine), 1958-
Institution som forfatter: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronisk eBog
Sprog:engelsk
Udgivet: New York : Columbia University Press, c2007.
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Indholdsfortegnelse:
  • The Dutch bread-man : ocean as divinity and scapegoat
  • The crisis of modern marine pollution
  • The purifying sea in the religious imagination : supernatural aspects of natural elements
  • "The sea can wash away all evils" : ancient Greece and the Cathartic Sea
  • "The great woman down there" : Sedna and ritual pollution in Inuit seascapes
  • "O ocean, I ask you to be merciful" : the Hindu submarine mare-fire
  • "Here end the works of the sea, the works of love".