The Conceptual Image of the Planets in Ancient Iran and the Process of Their Demonization: Visual Materials and Models of Inclusion and Exclusion in Iranian History of Knowledge

Autor:	Antonio Clemente Domenico Panaino
Rok vydání:	2020
Předmět:	History Demonization Zoroastrianism media_common.quotation_subject Iconology Heaven Inclusion–exclusion principle Representation (arts) Iconography History of science media_common Epistemology
Zdroj:	NTM Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Wissenschaften, Technik und Medizin. 28:359-389
ISSN:	1420-9144 0036-6978
DOI:	10.1007/s00048-020-00244-w
Popis:	The present contribution offers an overview of the main problems concerning the representation of the planets in the pre-Islamic Iranian world, the origin of their denominations, their astral roles and the reasons behind their demonization in the Zoroastrian and Manichaean frameworks. This is a preliminary attempt to resume the planetary iconography and iconology in western and eastern Iranian sources, involving also external visual data, such as those coming from Dunhuang and the Chinese world. The article offers an intellectual journey into a net of mutual cultural and spiritual relations, focusing on the image of the heaven (and of its celestial beings), thereby proposing a new synthesis and highlighting a number of intercultural contaminations.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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