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... mythic tradition and image complex from a basis in archaic zoomorphic symbols to the development of images in landscape settings . Such a transformation parallels that suggested for the Pontic Scythian material : from an archaic triad ...
... mythic tradition and image complex from a basis in archaic zoomorphic symbols to the development of images in landscape settings . Such a transformation parallels that suggested for the Pontic Scythian material : from an archaic triad ...
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... mythic structure centered on a vertical axis . In its developed form , this mythic structure assumed the appearance of a tree , from the branches of which might grow birds . On either side of that tree , paired animals , animals in ...
... mythic structure centered on a vertical axis . In its developed form , this mythic structure assumed the appearance of a tree , from the branches of which might grow birds . On either side of that tree , paired animals , animals in ...
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occurred within a mythic realm reflective of a mountainous landscape . Its solemnity is suggested by the stylized , archaic use of juxtaposition to indicate an association shared by both the actual and the mythical world ( e.g. , the ...
occurred within a mythic realm reflective of a mountainous landscape . Its solemnity is suggested by the stylized , archaic use of juxtaposition to indicate an association shared by both the actual and the mythical world ( e.g. , the ...
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animals antlers appear barrow beak-heads Bei Dao bird black-painted Bodhisattva body bronze Buddha Buddhist burial carved central century B.C. Ch'ien Liu Chavannes China Chinese Confucian crown cultural Dai Zhen dated decorative dragons Eastern Antiquities Emperor feline figure frontal Fu Xi fur-trimmings gold plaques griffon heads Hangchou headdress heavily stylized Hopei horse Hsiung-nu Hua-yen hybrid beast Ibid images imperial Inner Mongolia inscription Issyk Khitan Kuan-yin kurgan landscape Liao dynasty Liaoning literati Manchu Mongolia monk motif mountains mythic Neo-Confucian nomadic officials omens Pagoda Parinirvana pattern Pazaryk Photograph courtesy Plate poetry poets political portents predator Rect reign represented ribbons Round Ø Rudenko sculpture Scythian art Scytho-Siberian seal Sekino Shih Siberian Treasure silk Sitting lion soutache stone Sung symbolic Ta-t'ung Temple tiger Ting-hsien tomb tradition tree ts'ê Type Virginia Museum Wang Wu Shrines Wu Yüeh Wu-t'ai-shan Yin and Yang Zhu Xi