Pub Date : 2024-01-11DOI: 10.5325/preternature.13.1.0137
Ronald Hutton
abstract:Traditionally, one of the most magical, numinous, or consecrated kinds of space is a grave, which has the capacity to inspire all the feelings of reverence, affection, discomfort, or fear that humans associate with the dead of their own species. However, the contents of graves, including the bodies of occupants, also represent one of the most valuable sources of information concerning ancient societies. For most of the time since systematic inquiry into the ancient past began, this potential paradox was solved by denying the ancient dead any of the respect recorded to more recent burials. Since the 1990s, a number of challenges have been mounted to this approach, and a complex debate resulted that provides a window into contemporary attitudes toward death, humanity, the sacred, and the spirit of place. This article is designed to review and analyze that debate in a British context.
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Pub Date : 2024-01-11DOI: 10.5325/preternature.13.1.0110
Helen Cornish
abstract:Relations between people and places can be understood through the metaphor of conversation. Contemporary Pagans and Witches who visit the Museum of Witchcraft and Magic in Cornwall often take walks into the surrounding countryside. By tracing three walks (Rocky Valley labyrinths, Saint Nectan's Waterfall, and the memorial to Joan Wytte in Minster Woods), this article showshow assemblages of walking, places, and stories can be configured through expanded temporalities and magical consciousness. Practitioners move between the land, the collection, and the museum, where empirical histories and materiality are entangled with sensory, emotional, and imaginal experiences.
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Pub Date : 2024-01-11DOI: 10.5325/preternature.13.1.0076
Leia Kristen Tilley
abstract:The study of European prehistory has often associated natural objects as menacing presences rooted in fears concerning, at a basic level, continued subsistence and combative conciliatory ritual practice. Nevertheless, in this time, ritual is imprinted upon entire landscapes with natural objects manipulated to construct ritual spaces. This article considers the nature and purpose of natural objects, specifically plant species, within prehistoric ritual practice in Scotland through consideration of the Traprain Law environs, East Lothian. Within prehistoric contexts, the Traprain Law environs are formed partly through the physical manifestations of ideology in a network of ritual sites. In this context, plants as natural objects are a community integral to ritual networks, whether through ritualized clearance, symbolic usage in cremation, votive offering, or deposition prior to site abandonment. There are many ways in which plant remains occupied space within ritual taskscapes in prehistoric Scotland.
摘要:对欧洲史前史的研究往往将自然物视为来势汹汹的存在，从根本上说，这些自然物植根于对持续生存和对抗性调解仪式实践的恐惧之中。然而，在这一时期，仪式被印刻在整个地貌上，自然物被用来构建仪式空间。本文通过对东洛锡安特拉普拉恩洛周边地区的考察，探讨了自然物（特别是植物物种）在苏格兰史前祭祀活动中的性质和作用。在史前背景下，Traprain Law 环境部分是通过仪式场所网络中意识形态的物理表现形式形成的。在这种背景下，植物作为自然物是仪式网络中不可或缺的一个群体，无论是通过仪式化的清理、在火葬中的象征性使用、祭奠，还是在遗址废弃前的沉积。植物遗骸在史前苏格兰的仪式任务景观中占据空间的方式有很多。
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Pub Date : 2024-01-11DOI: 10.5325/preternature.13.1.0007
L. Canevaro
abstract:The Idylls of Theocritus stand between imitation and imagination, between the real world and story. Theocritus's presentation of both urban and rural environments trains our readings on people, landscape, and materiality—and the porosity between them. This article offers a reading of Theocritus's Idyll 21 and the strong connection it presents between fishermen and their environs, through the lens of material ecocriticism. It shows that the world of the Theocritean corpus is complicated and enriched by material agency and the agentic landscape. This article engages with approaches to imagination, especially new-materialist entangled perspectives that resonate with Theocritus's cast of characters, which include nature and the nonhuman.
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Pub Date : 2024-01-11DOI: 10.5325/preternature.13.1.0176
Eleni Bozia
abstract:This article presents Lucian's theocentric works through the lens of fictional narratology and sociopragmatics and argues that he builds imaginary worlds that feature delinquent gods, regretful and spiteful corpses that contemplate life, and lands inhabited by lamp-shaped beings to explore humanity's exploration of life and religious beliefs. More specifically, The Parliament of the Gods, Zeus Catechized, Zeus Rants, On Sacrifices, Dialogues of the Gods, Menippus, Icaromenippus, and the True Story are closely studied to argue that Lucian conceptualizes the quest into life's unknowns by engineering imaginary worlds, estranging the normal, and questioning ground truths about life. Ultimately, he actualizes literary fiction to explain theology and philosophical inquiries and their implications for everyday people.
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Pub Date : 2024-01-11DOI: 10.5325/preternature.13.1.0198
Daniel Ogden
abstract:Five analog narratives—from Apuleius's Metamorphoses ("Cupid and Psyche," second century AD), Philostratus's Apollonius (ca. AD 220), Callimachus and Chrysorrhoe (early fourteenth century AD), Konrad's Saga (fourteenth century AD) and The Theodore Tiron Miracle Story (fourteenth century AD)—prove to be underpinned by an ideal story type along the following lines. A dragon lives in a golden, jeweled castle, almost impossible of access. It is surrounded by and infested by lesser serpents. Within it he has a special raised platform, and he is served in it by automatic air-powered trays, tables, and vessels. He conceives a desire for a human girl, steals her and keeps her captive. The castle is penetrated by her lover-to-be, who kills the dragon and saves her, whereupon the marvelous castle melts away. The theme of erotic desire travels with the story type. Further support is provided for the long-held suspicion that the Cupid and Psyche tale builds upon a preexisting traditional dragon narrative.
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Pub Date : 2024-01-11DOI: 10.5325/preternature.13.1.0033
J. Gordon
abstract:This article redefines the dualism of nekuomanteia's real and imagined topographies via a novel analysis of the tertium quid that is "natural deathscapes." This framework is applied to the case study of the nekuomanteion at Tainaron. Comparison between the literary descriptions and the archaeological record reveals numerous anomalies within this landscape's presentation, including an imaginary grove, spring, and impossible localizations. While traditional analyses explain away such matters as the result of poetic license or tradition, this approach cannot account for all identifiable inconsistencies. Thus, the site's identification as a natural deathscape, a place associated with death/the dead and imbued with multifaceted sociocultural meanings, serves as a tertium quid that coalesces the site's real and imagined topographies into a holistic landscape. Within this paradigm of spatial syncretism, particular attention is paid to the interaction of sociocultural functions inherent within the processes of landscape creation and eschatological reflection.
摘要:本文通过对 "自然死亡景观 "这一 "terium quid "的新颖分析，重新定义了 nekuomanteia 的现实和想象地形的二元论。这一框架被应用于泰纳隆 nekuomanteion 的案例研究。文学描述与考古记录的比较揭示了这一景观呈现中的许多异常现象，包括想象中的小树林、泉水和不可能的定位。虽然传统的分析方法将这些问题解释为诗歌许可或传统的结果，但这种方法无法解释所有可识别的不一致之处。因此，该遗址被认定为自然死亡景观，一个与死亡/亡灵相关联的地方，并被赋予了多方面的社会文化意义，作为一种补充，将遗址的真实地形和想象地形凝聚成一个整体景观。在这一空间融合的范例中，我们特别关注了景观创造和末世论反思过程中所固有的社会文化功能之间的相互作用。
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Pub Date : 2024-01-11DOI: 10.5325/preternature.13.1.0055
Francesca Bihet
abstract:The Channel Island of Jersey has an abundance of supernatural folklore, which can help foster a sense of understanding and care toward the island environment. These legends are tied deeply to the landscape in landmarks, rock formations, and placenames. Les Petits Faîtchieaux haunt the dolmens, carry round menhirs, and even relocate churches. Michel Foucault outlined the principle of heterotopias, counter-spaces which are separated, both open and closed, and create a break from everyday time. The supernatural folklore of Jersey helps generate a heterotopia, with the promise of an eerie supernatural threat that is always lurking. An ecoGothic lens can add further dark clarity to heterotopic approaches to the landscape, highlighting the vulnerable island landscape in relation to human activities. This article applies these two lenses to the supernatural folklore of Jersey, viewing the island as a heterotopia, a container for a landscape of folkloric imagination.
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Pub Date : 2024-01-11DOI: 10.5325/preternature.13.1.0155
Anne E. Bailey
abstract:This article explores hagiographic landscapes as depicted in miracle narratives from twelfth-century England. These stories, which focus on miraculous healing sought by pilgrims at saints' shrines, often situate their protagonists in locations that, although based on real places, are reimagined for didactic purposes. The article argues that the journeys undertaken by pilgrims in the stories were meant to be read on a metaphorical level and that these re-imagined landscapes functioned to depict the protagonists' inner journey from sin to salvation.
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