virtual exhibition "the nameless god"

Summary of the "the nameless god"

Designs reproduced and elaborated from the originals

ccourtesy of giuseppe brunod

page 01 Methaphysics and Myths:

Forms of the world and the imagination of the transcendental

page 02 Methaphysics and Myths:

Mythic ancestors: the animals

page 03 Methaphysics and Myths:

First depictions of Man in Nature

page 04 Space and Rituals

Palaeolithic caves/sites, representations and the call to the sacred and the mystic

page 05 Space and Rituals
Shamanism and the call for new languages
page 06 Space and Rituals
Rituals and archaic forms of trance
page 07 Symbolic construction
Signs, symbols, geometric and abstract - hunter-gatherer and later motives
page 08 Symbolic construction
Sacred animals, the wild fauna and the anthropicised and domesticated fauna
page 09 Symbolic construction
Anthropomorphic idols (male and female)
page 10 Symbolic construction

Origins of imagination: the human experience of images diversity

page 11 Symbolic construction

Languages derived from altered states of conscience

page 12 Symbolic construction
Phosphenes, Art metaphysics and entroptic geometries
page 13 Symbolic construction
Hallucinations, trances, rites and divinities representations
page 14 Symbolic construction
Symbols, scenes and archaeologists attributions
page 15 Symbolic construction
Intellectual world and representation of complex human organisations
page 16 Symbolic construction
Hierarchies of the sacred and the world of shapes as perceived by Man
page 17 Symbolic construction
Territory and symbols: the time of mythical origins
page 18 Symbolic construction
The myth of eternal return
page 19 Symbolic construction
Symbols, signs and relations with the sacred
page 20 Symbolic construction
The call of the gods, the sacred mountain, the omphalus
page 21 Symbolic construction
Sacred structures and objects
page 22 Symbolic construction
Totem and taboo
page 23 Symbolic construction
Axis mundi, symbol of origin and return
page 24 Symbolic construction
Sacred and prophane: dynamics and prohibitions (the golden bough). The guardian of the spirits
page 25 Symbolic construction
Divinities and secular power I
page 26 Symbolic construction
Divinities and secular power II

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