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This edited volume provides a comparative exploration of corresponding concepts of the abyss in various languages and cultures. Fourteen chapters investigate ancient cultures such as Hebrew, Ancient Greek, Sanskrit and Old Norse, but also more contemporary American, African and Asian languages, such as Hawaiian, Umbundu, Chinese and Khasi, as well as European languages, such as German, Estonian, English, French, Polish and Russian. The book combines ethnolinguistics with history of ideas, literature, folklore, religion and translation, based on the conviction that language and our linguistic concepts give evidence of and shape our ideas about the world and about ourselves.
Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: The Abyss as a Concept for Cultural Theory, and German Abgrund: The Ambivalence of the Human
Marko Pajević
Part 1 Ancient Cultures
1 Praising God's Creation in the Abyss: tǝhōm in Biblical and Apocalyptic Literature
Urmas Nõmmik
2 The Origins of the ἄΒυσσος in Greek
Janika Päll
3 The Birth of the Abyss in the Rigveda
Sven Sellmer
4 Before the Creation in Old Norse Mythology—Empty Abyss or Crowded Place
Daniel Sävborg
Part 2 American, African and Asian Cultures
5 Hānau ka Pō: The Abyss in Hawaiian Thought
Michael David Kaulana Ing
6 The Void Against Transparency: Translating the Abyss into Umbundu
Iracema Dulley
7 Abyss, Chaos, and Emptiness. A Journey to the Depths of the Chinese Intellectual Tradition
Lisa Indraccolo
8 The Abyss in the Indigenous Khasi Worldview: The Search for Traditional Models
Margaret Lyngdoh and Laur Järv
Part 3 European Cultures
9 Journey to the North: The Experience of the Abyss in Mythology and Philosophy
Jaanus Sooväli and Hasso Krull
10 An Exploration of the Meaning and Usage of Abyss in English
Violeta Stojicić
11 In Search of Abyssos in Contemporary French Through Lexical Pathways
Arkadiusz Koselak-Marechal
12 The Abyss in Polish
Adam Głaz
13 The Doubling of Bezdna: Notes on the Russian Poetic Concept of Abyss
Roman Leibov