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The lia

prelude and aftermath, from the garden to city without streets

Abraham Akkerman

pp. 141-154

Résumé

Environmental parables of the Bible are the Garden of Eden and the Tower of Babel. The myth of the Garden is primordial, possibly emerging at the onset of the Agricultural Revolution, its origins perhaps tracing to the Paleolithic Venus figurines, the Earthmother symbols. The Garden's consort had been the Tower, or the Citadel, a variant myth of Axis mundi, which along with the Sky Father, was the complement myth of the Earthmother represented by the Venus figurines. Throughout the history of North-Hemispheric built environments, the masculine Citadel has gradually attained primacy and superiority, whereas the myth of the Garden has progressively, from antiquity and the Middle Ages through the Renaissance and modernity, become subdued in city-form.

Détails de la publication

Publié dans:

Akkerman Abraham (2016) Phenomenology of the Winter-city: myth in the rise and decline of built environments. Dordrecht, Springer.

Pages: 141-154

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-26701-2_11

Citation complète:

Akkerman Abraham, 2016, The lia: prelude and aftermath, from the garden to city without streets. In A. Akkerman Phenomenology of the Winter-city (141-154). Dordrecht, Springer.