Taynye obschestva. Obryady initsiatsii i posvyascheniya

Описание

Organizing data from cultures the world over, Eliade lays out the basic patterns of group puberty rituals, entrance into secret cults, shamanic instruction, individual visions, and heroic rites of passage. The vast information, assembled so beautifully, transcends usual scholarship. Eliade affirms the greater experience in all initiations--the indissoluable ties between humans and the cosmos of gods, spirits, animals, ancestors, and nature.