An illustrated encyclopaedia of traditional symbols

• Main Author: Cooper, J. C. (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: London Thames and Hudson 1999
• Subjects: Sign and symbolism > encyclopedias
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 In nearly 1500 entries, many of them strikingly and often surprisingly illustrated, J.C. Cooper has documented the history and evolution of symbols from prehistory to our own day. Lively, informative and often ironic, she discusses and explains an enormous variety of symbols extending from the Arctic to Dahomey, from the Iroquios to Oceania, and coming from systems as diverse as Tao, Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, Islam, Tantra, the cult of Cybele and the Great Goddess, the Pre-Columbian religions of the Western Hemisphere and the Voodoo cults of Brazil and West Africa.