Images and Symbols

Well, I expected more. Didn't learn much. Felt like I was reading a series of footnotes that didn't really hang together. Actually, I'm not even sure why this book was written. And I had such high hopes.

This author is very learned and worth studying for a better understanding of human nature.

Not a plot an academic dissertation upon ancient religious practices. Not really an easy read but more than worth it if interested in the genre.

My son requested this book along with others for his studies. He said He Loved it. He asked for more information on the Author. I think the other books he requested are from the same person. THANX !! [email protected]

This is a well-written book unfortunately no symbols are illustrated in it.

A book to be consulted regarding mythology, religion, etc. A must to have as a resource. IRMA DICKINSON

This book proved to be helpful in extending my understanding of symbols.

This insightful book features a central element of Eliade's work as a whole: a humanistic impulse which envisions the study of symbols as the best possible way to overcome close-mindedness and provincialism, and which holds that a liberation from the traps of historicism is necessary in order to reach the archetypes that somehow inform the multiple 'symbolic incarnations' throughout the ages and peoples. Eliade here considers symbols of centre, time, binding (relying a lot on Dumezil on that topic), waters and shells. The relationship between symbol and history is constantly examined in the book: Eliade suggests that each new meaning ascribed by history to a symbol does not alter the latter's fundamental structure, since the symbol can properly be considered 'transhistorical'. This is as good a work as any to start reading Eliade; many quintessential Eliadian themes are treated here.

神学者がシンボルについて体系的に書いている著書は意外と少ないようだ。わたしはシンボル論について研究をしているが、論文を書くのにひとつの柱をC.G.ユングに求めているが、神学的な詰めを行うための基本文献をどうするかと思案していたところ、秘跡論が専門の（韓国人でバークレイ大学のDr.）の指導教授がEliadeのこの本のハングル版を紹介してくれた。彼にも一冊プレゼントして、わたしは目下邦訳作業中であるがとても分かりやすく体系づけられていると思う。残念ながらまだ邦訳は無いようであるから、わたしの仕事になるかもしれない…と腹をくくって取り組みます。英語で読まれる方にはオーソリティとしてお勧めです。

Most interesting and important for my present studies in the woven pictorial World of the viking age. It links a large group of signs to Eliades well known analysis on the importance of the Tree of Life and the World pole, i.e. to an important part of our knowledge of non-christian, nad indeed often christian as well, religions. Even if it is somewhat old as a book, Eliades breadth and erudition is enormous.