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A History of Crossroads in Early Modern Culture

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Axes: Ecstatic Heights and Nightmare Depths

A History of Crossroads in Early Modern Culture April 26, 2022 Bill Angus

This chapter explores crossroads practice associated with traditions of gods and spirits both above and below, suggesting a tradition of a vertical axis allowing access to the underworld or the heavens, the realms of the divine and the dead. What lies beneath is of course both conceptual and archaeological, while what is above is both conceptual and cosmological. The crossroad goddess Hecate’s...