The sea can wash away all evils : modern marine pollution and the ancient Cathartic Ocean / / Kimberley C. Patton.
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| Year of Publication: | 2007 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | xx, 185 p. |
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Table of Contents:
- The Dutch bread-man : ocean as divinity and scapegoat
- The crisis of modern marine pollution
- The purifying sea in the religious imagination : supernatural aspects of natural elements
- "The sea can wash away all evils" : ancient Greece and the Cathartic Sea
- "The great woman down there" : Sedna and ritual pollution in Inuit seascapes
- "O ocean, I ask you to be merciful" : the Hindu submarine mare-fire
- "Here end the works of the sea, the works of love".