The Visual Perception of Deities from the Palaeolithic to the Present

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The Visual Perception of Deities from the Palaeolithic to the Present is written by Sirpa Aalto and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1527564037 (ISBN 10) and 9781527564039 (ISBN 13).

Considering that figurines, such as the Venus from Willendorf, or the Lion Man of Hohlenstein-Stadel were already created approximately 30,000 years ago, it must be assumed that humans have had a desire to see a visual expression of their sacred beings for an exceedingly prolonged period of time. It is dialectical that visual interpretations of deities always result in a physical/body structure, resembling the shape of humans. This book is a fusion of multiple independent investigations regarding visual interpretations of deities and religions over a period of 30,000 years. A survey about the psychological necessity for humans to create images of gods and goddesses provides the background for the book’s presentation of images of deities, placed in a historical context. An accompanying text supports the illustrations to position them accordingly.