title: Subversive Spiritualities: How Rituals Enact the World (Oxford Ritual Studies)
author: Frederique Apffel-Marglin
description: <br />"<em>Subversive Spiritualities</em> is a tour de force of the kind that can only be produced by a mature scholar with tremendous interdisciplinary range and rich, real-world experience. Unceasingly provocative and wonderfully written, it deserves a wide reading by anyone interested how we might rekindle intimacy and reciprocity with nature."--Bron Taylor, author of <em>Dark Green Religion: Nature Spirituality and the Planetary Future</em>
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  S. I. JOHNSTON
  
  
  CROSSROADS
  
  
  aus: Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 88 (1991) 217–224
  
  
  © Dr. Rudolf Habelt GmbH, Bonn
  
  
  
  
  
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  **Crossroads** 1
  
  
  Greek and Roman authors describe a variety of rituals or superstitions
  connected with crossroads. At the time of the new moon, suppers were taken to
  the images of Hekate found at crossroads. The corpses of those polluted by
  certain crimes were thrown onto the crossroads and stoned or burned.
  ÉOjuyÊmia, polluted household refuse, was left at crossroads.
  
  
  Magic was performed there.
  
  
  Although scholars of ancient religion have noted that these acts occur, none
  have identi-fied the basic characteristic of crossroads from which they
  arise.2 As a result, in some cases, rituals and deities associated with the
  crossroads have been linked with each other falsely and misunderstood. This
  brief review will show that the key to explaining rituals at crossroads, both
  as a group and individually, is remembering that crossroad