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Journal of Early Christian History

ISSN 2222-582X

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Coming to (Terms with) Our Senses: Seeing, Hearing and Smelling the Gods

Journal of Early Christian History September 2, 2017 Pieter F. Craffert

Divinities all over the world are seen, heard and smelled. It is remarkable how common reports of sensory perception of the gods are and how casually they are presented, similar to any other sensory perception. Furthermore, scholarship contains a fairly detailed picture of the first-person reports about seeing, hearing and smelling divinities. Both reports about sensing the gods and scholarly...