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9781907222276: North: The Rise and Fall of the Polar Cosmos
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ISBN 10: 1907222278 ISBN 13: 9781907222276
Editorial: Strange Attractor Press, 2014

Sinopsis

A bold vision of cosmology mapping how the pole star became associated with political power, religious rapture, and social hierarchies.

From H.P. Lovecraft to Philip Pullman, popular culture is rife with the mystique of the North.

Why does it command such fascination? How far into the past do its roots extend?

Ranging from the Stone Age to the Space Age, North's bold vision of cosmology maps how the pole star became associated with political power, religious rapture, and social hierarchies. And when the Copernican Revolution unseated the idea of Earth as the centre of everything, shards of this polar cosmos fell down, seeding strange fantasies, haunting our modern world with remnants of celestial dreams…

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A professional writer who focusses on archaic consciousness, altered states, occult practices and alternative thought since the early 1990s.

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Editorial
Strange Attractor Press
Año de publicación
2014
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1907222278
ISBN 13 
9781907222276
Encuadernación
Tapa blanda
Número de páginas
320
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