Saqqara, the necropolis of first capital city a unified Egypt, is best known today for Step Pyramid Pharaoh Djoser (2667–2648 B.C.). However, only most visible feature this great burial site, and tombs many thousands individuals are hidden beneath sands, some excavated, others not. These human burials part Saqqara’s funerary history. This paper examines catacombs numerous animals revered by Egy...

This essay examines the use of language in narrating a sacred universe, focusing specifically on text The Universe Story by Thomas Berry and Brian Swimme. It applies narrative hermeneutics Paul Ricoeur, who argued for role influencing life through its creation world, to text. focuses Ricoeur’s five traits phenomenology sacred. step is reminder that religious has been shaped demythologisation, t...

The subject of religion in political conflict is vast, and it is not possible to do justice to it in these few pages. Fortunately, scholars, political analysts and policymakers can refer to two extraordinary new studies, Marc Gopin‟s, Between Eden and Armageddon: The Future of World Religions, Violence and Peacemaking, [1] and R. Scott Appleby‟s The Ambivalence of the Sacred, [2] for comprehens...

Byzantine music is a cover term for the liturgical music used in the Orthodox Church within the Byzantine Empire and the Churches regarded as continuing that tradition. This music is monophonic (with drone notes), exclusively vocal, and almost entirely sacred: very little secular music of this kind has been preserved, although we know that court ceremonial music in Byzantium was similar to the ...