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London.
Routledge & Kegan Paul.
1964.
bibliography, index, 218pp, dustjacket, hardback. Endpapers foxed, some occasional foxing dustjacket, a good copy. "Lord Raglan's thesis is that houses, as we find them among both the savage and the civilised, originated not as shelters but as cosmic buildings in which cosmic rituals, particularly the sacred marriage of earth and sky, were performed, and that house shapes changed from round to square with changing ideas about the shape of the cosmos. The sacredness of the house is shown by the cult of domestic gods and ancestors, the sacredness of the hearthfire and threshold, the banning of birth, death and cookery in the house and the priestly attributes of the house-mistress. It is suggested that all of these beliefs, rites and customs originated in the early civilisations of the Ancient East." From the dustjacket blurb. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 123079)
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