scholarly journals Blogging about the End Times: Dealing with the Fringes of Archaeology

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 67
Author(s):  
Johan Normark
Keyword(s):  
Ancient Maya ◽  
Specific Time ◽  
Time Space ◽  
The World ◽  
End Of The World ◽  
Transformation Of Consciousness ◽  
End Times ◽  
The Way

The 2012-phenomenon is based on the idea that something important was expected to occur on December 21, 2012, a date associated with the ancient Maya Long Count calendar. Even though the date has passed, the overall phenomenon is unlikely to disappear because the dominant themes of the end of the world and/or a transformation of consciousness can be found in other ‘alternative’ histories. These non-academic histories are ultimately apocalyptic in nature. The 2012-phenomenon is also an example of an ‘incorporeal hyperobject’, i.e. an object widely distributed and repeated. It is not anchored in a specific time-space unit but it is manifested in many different corporeal objects. The 2012-phenomenon is different from the academic Mayanist incorporeal hyperobject because each of them uses different distinctions of what exists or not. These different objects cannot communicate directly in different media ecologies since different distinctions have formed each one. Hence, there can never be a sincere understanding of each camp. Only by perturbing another object can information be translated into meaning. The blog is such a medium that can affect incorporeal hyperobjects. This article discusses the way one blog has interacted with the 2012-phenomenon.

scholarly journals Perang Armagedon

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 34-44
Author(s):  
Lanny Laras
Keyword(s):  
The Bible ◽  
The World ◽  
End Of The World ◽  
End Times ◽  
False Prophet ◽  
The Devil ◽  
Generic Sense

The Armageddon will be the site of gathering of armies for a battle during end times, variously interpreted as either or symbolic location. The term is also used a generic sense to refer to end of the world scenario. According to the Bible, Jesus will return to earth and defeat the Antichrist, the False prophet and Satan the Devil in the Battle of Armageddon. Then Satan will be put into the “bottomless pit” or abyss for 1,000 years, knows as the Millennium.

Paul’s Map and Territory: Rethinking the Work of the Apostle in Light of Ancient Cartography

2020 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 90-107
Author(s):  
Eric Smith
Keyword(s):  
Space And Place ◽  
Pivotal Role ◽  
Clear Understanding ◽  
2 Corinthians ◽  
Roman World ◽  
The World ◽  
End Of The World ◽  
Ancient Maps ◽  
The Way

Abstract Paul had a clear understanding of how his calling and his work mapped onto geography. In contexts where he felt that others were encroaching on his territory, as in Galatians and 2 Corinthians, Paul could be very angry and defensive. Likewise, when Paul was writing to people in territories that he did not consider part of his purview, such as in Romans, he was deferential and submissive. In all three cases—in Galatians and 2 Corinthians when Paul was being defensive about his territory, and in Romans when he was being deferential—Paul used a particular word, κλίµα, to designate geography—a word he never used in any other context. This article puts this observation in conversation with ancient mapping, which relied on “process descriptions” of space and place rather than “state descriptions.” That is, ancient cartography privileged the process of movement or travel, and in contrast to most modern mapping, ancient maps didn’t usually make use of any external system of reference. One particular map, the Peutinger Map, helps illustrate this phenomenon. Understanding how ancient maps organized space, we can begin to understand Paul’s notions of territory and the way they determined which places he felt compelled to visit. By knowing something about Paul’s maps and geographies, we can make sense of his language in Romans 15, where territory played a pivotal role in his self-understanding as an apostle and in his trajectory across the Roman world, “from Jerusalem and as far around as Illyricum,” but also onward to Spain and to the end of the world.

scholarly journals THE FEMINIST HUNGARIAN FOLKTALE AS POSTMODERN COMBINATORICS – THE ANALYSIS OF CSENGE VIRÁG ZALKA'S STORY-BOOK TITLED RIBIZLI A VILÁG VÉGÉN [CURRANT AT THE END OF THE WORLD]

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 18-24
Author(s):  
PATRIK BAKA
Keyword(s):  
Fairy Tales ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Literary Creation ◽  
Traditional Form ◽  
The World ◽  
End Of The World ◽  
Story Writer ◽  
The Way

In this paper we analyze the first story-book of the internationally renowned contemporary Hungarian storyteller, Csenge Virág Zalka. In the first section we investigate the differences between folktale and literary tale, storyteller and story writer, further-/retold heritage and own creation as well as how the boundaries between them destabilize if we note down the folktale originally living in the oral traditional form. Furthermore, we will be discussing the female horizon prevalent in the Zalkaian tale-variants as well as the all-time topicality of the stories by putting the contemporary social and psychological analogies and taboo-breaking procedures of the tales in the foreground. In the focus of our investigation the Ribizli a világ végén [Currant at the End of the World] stands as a literary creation, which although we (also) analyze with an approach coming from the relevant literature of folktales and remade fairy tales, we do this all the way through the analysis in light of the postmodern text-organizing strategies.

scholarly journals It's not the End of the World: emic evidence for local diversity in the Maya Long Count

2011 ◽  
Vol 7 (S278) ◽  
pp. 186-191
Author(s):  
Mark Van Stone
Keyword(s):  
Status Quo ◽  
Ancient Maya ◽  
Local Schools ◽  
Local Diversity ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Status ◽  
End Of The World

AbstractExamining Ancient Maya notions about prophecies and their calendar cycles, we find that they predicted no ‘end of the Maya calendar’. Indeed, surviving texts and art indicate that they seem to have expected no change in the status quo whatever, for at least 4000 years into the future. This search also turned up evidence that different local schools of calendar-priests differed significantly from each other; it is entirely possible that priests in one city expected the End of the World, while their peers elsewhere believed the opposite.

The Endorsement of Royal-Episcopal Collaboration in the FredegarChronica

Traditio ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 70 ◽  
pp. 1-28
Author(s):  
Gregory I. Halfond
Keyword(s):  
Seventh Century ◽  
The World ◽  
Divine Judgment ◽  
Holy Places ◽  
To Come ◽  
End Times ◽  
The Way

The terse and politically oriented narrative of the seventh-century chronicle attributed to Fredegar often has been compared unfavorably to one of its principal sources, Gregory of Tours'sDecem Libri Historiarum, a complex and layered composition in which historical and theological programs converge. Although a superficial comparison with Gregory'sHistoriaewould seem to indicate Fredegar's own relative disengagement from ecclesiastical and spiritual concerns, a closer examination of theChronicareveals a programmatic effort to endorse royal-episcopal collaboration so that thepax ecclesiaemight be preserved and earthly governance perfected. Writing, as he believed, in the end times, Fredegar shared Gregory of Tours's eschatological conviction that such collaboration would help to prepare theregnum Francorumfor final judgment. A close examination of those twenty-one cases in which Fredegar refers explicitly to the involvement of bishops in court affairs suggests the chronicler's conviction that the professional, political, and spiritual obligations of Frankish bishops were not mutually exclusive. Furthermore, theChronica's ecclesiastical topography, while limited geographically and personalized according to Fredegar's attachment to specific cults and institutions, provides the setting for the author's collaborative ideal, with holy places providing both a context and an impetus for the integration of royal and clerical agendas. While Fredegar recognized signs of divine judgment everywhere, the chronicler's perspective ultimately was optimistic, envisioning aregnum Francorumcleansed of oppression by the judgment of God, preparing the way for the perfection of the world in the age to come.

scholarly journals The Shi’is and the Qur’an: Between Apocalypse, Civil Wars, and Empire

Religions ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi
Keyword(s):  
Collective Memory ◽  
Civil Wars ◽  
Complex Relationship ◽  
Sacred Text ◽  
The World ◽  
The Creation ◽  
End Of The World ◽  
End Times

The study is dedicated to the complex relationship between the Alides (supporters of ‘Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib and their descendants, later called the Shi’is) and the Qur’an, especially in the early times of Islam. Several points are examined in order to put these relations into perspective. First of all, it is important to remember that the Quranic corpus was elaborated in the atmosphere of the civil wars that marked the birth and the first developments of Islam. These wars seem to have played a major role in the elaboration of the official version of the Quran, which the Alides would have considered a falsified and hardly understandable version of the Revelation. The problem of falsification (taḥrīf) as well as the belief in the existence of a hidden meaning of the Quran led to the Shi’i doctrine on the necessity for interpretation (tafsīr, ta’wīl) in order to make the Sacred Text intelligible. It is also important to question the reasons for the civil wars between the faithful of Muḥammad. According to the Quran and the Hadith, Muḥammad came to announce the end of the world. He therefore also announced the coming of the Messiah, the Saviour of the end times. Now, according to some sources, ‘Alī is this Saviour. The problem is that after the death of Muḥammad, according to Shi’is, the opponents of ‘Alī took power. With the conquests and the birth of the Arab empire, the rewriting of history and the creation of a new collective memory seem to have become necessary in order to marginalise ‘Alī, among other reasons, and consolidate the caliphal power.

Time-Space Patterns: The Natural Laws of Geology

1983 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-40
Author(s):  
Ralph Rogers
Keyword(s):  
Natural Laws ◽  
Functional Relations ◽  
Time Space ◽  
The World ◽  
The Way

Both Hall (1859) and Wilson (1965) discovered patterns that have changed the way that we think about geology and the way that we see the world, by focusing our attention on new interrelationships. The patterns involve time-space relations rather than functional relations between variables, but are used in the same way as the classic natural laws of physics and chemistry. These patterns have been used to make predictions, indicate important parameters to quantify and identify new types of questions to ask.

Millenarianism

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Strachan
Keyword(s):  
Jesus Christ ◽  
The World ◽  
Romantic Era ◽  
End Of The World ◽  
The Way ◽  
The Revolution ◽  
Second Coming

There was a Romantic-era generation of religious thinkers, philosophers, and poets who believed that the chaotic events in France after the Revolution of 1789 were apocalyptic, the period spoken of in the Book of the Apocalypse, that they were portents of the end of the world and the Second Coming of Jesus Christ, who would return and usher in a ‘Millennium’, a thousand-year period of justice, equity and love. This video essay looks at the concept of Millenarianism in the 1790s and early 1800s as it was evident in the work of such key Romantic writers as Blake, Coleridge, Southey and Wordsworth. It tracks the way in which belief in a in a literal Millennium gave way to a more symbolic and psychological Millennium as the 1790s wore on.

Becoming Politicized

2017 ◽  
Vol 225 (4) ◽  
pp. 324-335 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dimitrios Barkas ◽  
Xenia Chryssochoou
Keyword(s):  
Collective Identity ◽  
Political Socialization ◽  
Greek Society ◽  
Economic Vulnerability ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Identity Model ◽  
Beliefs About The Future ◽  
Of Greece ◽  
The Way

Abstract. This research took place just after the end of the protests following the killing of a 16-year-old boy by a policeman in Greece in December 2008. Participants (N = 224) were 16-year-olds in different schools in Attiki. Informed by the Politicized Collective Identity Model ( Simon & Klandermans, 2001 ), a questionnaire measuring grievances, adversarial attributions, emotions, vulnerability, identifications with students and activists, and questions about justice and Greek society in the future, as well as about youngsters’ participation in different actions, was completed. Four profiles of the participants emerged from a cluster analysis using representations of the conflict, emotions, and identifications with activists and students. These profiles differed on beliefs about the future of Greece, participants’ economic vulnerability, and forms of participation. Importantly, the clusters corresponded to students from schools of different socioeconomic areas. The results indicate that the way young people interpret the events and the context, their levels of identification, and the way they represent society are important factors of their political socialization that impacts on their forms of participation. Political socialization seems to be related to youngsters’ position in society which probably constitutes an important anchoring point of their interpretation of the world.

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