TURTLE TORTOISE, IMAGE AND SYMBOL:THE WEST. 1 THE ANCIENT WORLD

De: JOHN NOONE

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

TURTLE TORTOISE, IMAGE & SYMBOL is published here in two volumes Volume One: THE WEST and Volume Two: THE EAST, and each volume is divided into four books. The WEST series is presented as a chronological sequence and the EAST series as individual studies of specific cultures. Together they constitute an in-depth coverage of the image and symbol of the turtle/tortoise throughout the world from the earliest times. Reference is made to specific artifacts, documents and monuments, works of science, literature and art, which may be viewed or consulted today in museums and public places, libraries and private collections, and the writing is intended for all readers with an interest in turtles, scientific or sentimental, for collectors of antiques, curios and objets d'art, and for everyone with an interest in the diversity of cultural history, in myth and religion, custom and art. THE ANCIENT WORLD is the first of four books in the series TURTLE TORTOISE, IMAGE & SYMBOL: THE WEST. It starts with a general preface to the whole work succeeded by an introductory chapter of Natural History giving a survey of species from fossil remains to the present-day. The chronological sequence begins with a chapter on Prehistory, Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, and is followed by two chapters on Ancient Greece and Rome. The turtle/tortoise, when associated with the Egyptian god Seth, was representative of the powers of darkness, but with the Akkadian deities Ea and Ishtar was of life, as it was with the Greek deities Aphrodite, Hermes and Apollo.