Babylonian Cosmology and Alchemy

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Mircea Eliade’s 1937 Babylonian Cosmology and Alchemy, never before translated into English, focuses on the anthropology of Babylonian mystical and religious beliefs. Babylonian cosmology, the Babylonian conception of the universe, is discussed in the context of related traditions in such a way that its most primordial and significant elements arise. And, in his analysis of Babylonian alchemy, Eliade weighs not only the primordial aspects of Babylonian alchemical ideas, but also their profound impact on later European thought.

The role of alchemy is then, in the book’s final discussion, brought out of its localized traditions and placed in a universal light as a means of individuation. Thus Eliade’s focus on Babylonian cosmology and alchemy is both deep in its discussion of the Babylonian world of itself and in its discussion of Babylonian spiritual thought as a means to understand humanity’s greater religious experience. In English by Oliver Liebhaber.

British formatting and spelling used. Author Mircea Eliade Author Info Mircea Eliade was a Romanian historian of religion, fiction writer, philosopher, and professor at the University of Chicago. One of the most influential scholars of religion of the 20th century and interpreter of religious experience, he established paradigms in religious studies that persist to this day.

ISBN-13 979-8343950113 Publisher Independent Publication Date October 21, 2024 (Originally Published 1937) Edition Modern Reprint Binding Paperback Condition New Page Count 151 Pages