Extraordinary Underground

Herva, Vesa-Pekka; Komu, Teresa; Paphitis, Tina

doi:10.1017/9781009110044.013

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“…If palaces were microcosmic landscapes in some sense, with higher building masses and the ‘horns of consecration’ alluding to mountains (Hitchcock, 2007; also Marinatos, 2010: 103–113; but the ‘horns of consecration’ have quite possibly been a polysemous and ambiguous symbol), then entering palaces, or some sections of them, had allusions to going underground and venturing into its materially, perceptually and experientially wondrous and otherworldly realms (cf. Herva et al, 2022).…”

Section: Palatial Space and The Underworldmentioning

confidence: 99%

Insides, outsides and the labyrinth: Knossos, palatial space and environmental perception in Minoan Crete

Herva,

Rapakko

2023

Journal of Social Archaeology

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This article employs the labyrinth as an analytical and interpretive tool for thinking about Minoan architectural and especially palatial space with a particular focus on Knossos. Whether or not Minoan ruins inspired later Greek mythical narratives, Knossos can be examined as a kind of a labyrinth towards developing new perspectives on Knossos as an experienced environment and how it was entangled with broader cultural and cosmological ideas. A labyrinth perspective enables bringing together multiple spatial, material and cultural forms for the heuristic purposes of exploring palatial space in relation to how the environment and world were perceived in Minoan Crete. Knossos afforded participants a mystical experience that provided glimpses of, or openings into, different dimensions of a layered reality—the richness of the world extending beyond the readily perceivable surface of reality—in a literally and figuratively labyrinthine experienced palatial environment.

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Section: Palatial Space and The Underworldmentioning

confidence: 99%

Insides, outsides and the labyrinth: Knossos, palatial space and environmental perception in Minoan Crete

Herva,

Rapakko

2023

Journal of Social Archaeology

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Folk Magic and the Haunting of the Second World War in Finnish Lapland

Herva,

Seitsonen,

Banks

et al. 2024

CAJ

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This article engages with certain peculiar finds and features that we have documented at former German WWII military camps in Finnish Lapland, with a particular emphasis on an excavated assemblage that has affinities to traditional ritual (sacrificial) practices. The relevant finds and features date from the post-war period, but they are meaningfully associated with WWII sites. We consider the possible connections of these finds and features to folk magic and the supernatural, especially with regard to boundaries and boundary-making. The material is interpreted in relation to the painful histories and memories of WWII in the high North, and in the broader context of northern ways of life and being and perceptions of temporally layered landscapes. More specifically, we focus on how locals have coped with the difficult and haunting presences of WWII in northern landscapes and mindscapes after the war in a particular natural, cultural and cosmological lived environment which people have long co-inhabited with various non-human and spiritual entities. We aim to contribute to the broader discussion of the folklore of WWII as a dimension in conflict heritage and memory.

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