I know a lot of people who have been waiting for this book for many years. One Eternal Round is the 19th volume in The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, and is his magnum opus, the volume of materials he worked on for a very long time until the end of his life. The book [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Posted in Scholarship
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Also tagged abraham, Achilles shield, alchemy, apocrypha, Aztec, books, BYU, egyptian, Fibonacci, greek, hermeticism, history, hopi, hugh nibley, islam, Jewish, kabbalism, Mayan, mesopotamia, myth, Phi, ritual
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February 6, 2010 – 6:28 pm
It is fascinating to me all the places that I hear or see or read glimpses of temple theology, the “scattered fragments” of ritual tradition. As Nibley found out, and taught extensively, these remnants are found all around us, everywhere. My wife was listening to the radio on the way to the grocery store last [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Posted in Practices
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Also tagged athletics, covenant, death, initiation, marriage, new name, obedience, pop culture, preparation, rites, rituals, sacred, society, tribe
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September 8, 2009 – 2:24 pm
When I originally wrote my paper on “The Genesis of the Round Dance,” I included a short section on the ancient Greek dance forms: The ancient choruses, dances, and songs of the dithyramb of Greece displayed the familiar pattern of a dignified, circular dance around the altar of Dionysus in the theater’s orchestra. In fact, [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Posted in Artifacts, Practices
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Also tagged altar, ancients, apron, art, circle, clothing, coat, dance, garments, greece, greek, hands, marriage, muses, photographs, robe, round dance, song, tree of life
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September 25, 2008 – 10:32 am
The title is a bit of a mouthful, but let me explain. I have been a ballroom dancer since I was about 12 years old, or about 15 years. It has been quite an experience being involved with this subculture of ballroom dance, which has made up a large portion of my life. During the [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Posted in Practices
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Also tagged ancestors, blessing, book of mormon, breath of life, BYU, ceremony, cleansing, embrace, experience, family, genealogy, israelites, maori, prayer, rituals, sacred, symbols, veil, video
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August 3, 2008 – 11:36 am
One of our readers, RBiddulph, recently pointed me to a quote by Harold Bloom, a well-known literary and cultural critic who is currently a Sterling Professor of the Humanities at Yale University, who once said this about Joseph Smith: I can only attribute to his genius or daemons his uncanny recovery of elements in ancient [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Posted in Church History, Scholarship, Tidbits
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Also tagged death, esoteric, harold bloom, hymn, joseph smith, music, prophet, rituals, sacrifice, w. w. phelps
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