The Bread of God: religious and symbolic aspects of bakery

Lucian Grozea

doi:10.2478/saec-2019-0016

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The Bread of God: religious and symbolic aspects of bakery

SAECULUM

Volume 47 (2019): Issue 1 (July 2019)

By: Lucian Grozea

Open Access

|Aug 2019

Abstract

The present conference discusses the symbolic meaning of bread in the religious mentality of the Ancient Near East. We will find that bread, besides being a food necessary for its existence, also represented a cultural archetype that summed up and assumed in itself either different divinities of Oriental civilizations, or had a ritual-sacrificial character, in order to facilitate man rather immortality.

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