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Books by Stefan Stenudd:
Cosmos of the Ancients, by Stefan Stenudd.
Cosmos of the Ancients
The Greek philosophers' theories about the gods, the myths, and cosmology, by Stefan Stenudd.
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Life Energy Encyclopedia, by Stefan Stenudd.
Life Energy Encyclopedia
by Stefan Stenudd. Qi, prana, spirit, and other life forces around the world explained and compared.
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Tao Te Ching - The Taoism of Lao Tzu Explained, by Stefan Stenudd.
Tao Te Ching
The Taoism of Lao Tzu Explained. The great Chinese classic, translated and extensively commented by Stefan Stenudd.
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Occasionally I Contemplate Murder, by Stefan Stenudd.
Occasionally I Contemplate Murder
Thoughts on life, death, and the meaning of it all, by Stefan Stenudd.
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QI - increase your life energy, by Stefan Stenudd.
Qi
Increase your life energy, by Stefan Stenudd. The life energy qi (also chi or ki), with exercises on how to awaken, increase, and use it.
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Comsos of the Ancients

Cosmos of the Ancients

The Greek Philosophers on Myth and Cosmology



Theagenes


W restling with the same unwillingness to accept that illustrious gang of gods in the works of Homer and Hesiod, Theagenes of Rhegium, also in the 6th century BC (flourished around 525 BC), was the first to find an allegorical way of reading the myths, where they were to be understood as expressions of natural forces. The battles of the gods, as Homer described them, were really wars of the elements and fundamental qualities of the world, as they related to one another in opposites – fire against water, hot against cold, light against heavy. In this menagerie, fire was represented by Apollo, Helios and Hephaestus, water by Poseidon and Scamander, air by Hera, and so forth. Also abstract qualities had divine representation – wisdom with Athene, desire with Aphrodite, reason with Hermes and folly, no less, with Ares. For gods to actually do battle, in the way Homer has it, would be unbecoming to them.
     No writing of his own remains, nor any fragments of his words.

Literature
Freeman, Kathleen, The Pre-Socratic Philosophers, Oxford 1946.
© Stefan Stenudd 2000


How to get the book

If you want to buy the book, you can do so at most international web based bookstores, such as Amazon and the like. Here are links to the book on Amazon US and Amazon UK. Use the latter if you are European - then you get the book cheaper and quicker. Otherwise, you may want to buy it at Amazon US.
At Amazon US:
Cosmos of the Ancients, by Stefan Stenudd - at Amazon US.
At Amazon UK:
Cosmos of the Ancients, by Stefan Stenudd - at Amazon UK.
Now also a Kindle ebook:
Cosmos of the Ancients - Kindle ebook




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Stefan Stenudd
Stefan Stenudd
About me
I'm a Swedish writer and historian of ideas, researching the thought patterns and cosmology in creation myths. I've also written books about ancient Chinese and Japanese traditions, as well as fiction.