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The sea can wash away all evils : modern marine pollution and the ancient Cathartic Ocean
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The sea can wash away all evils : modern marine pollution and the ancient Cathartic Ocean

Kimberley C. Patton

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The Dutch bread-man : ocean as divinity and scapegoat
The crisis of modern marine pollution
The purifying sea in the religious imagination : supernatural aspects of natural elements
"The sea can wash away all evils" : ancient Greece and the Cathartic Sea
"The great woman down there" : Sedna and ritual pollution in Inuit seascapes
"O ocean, I ask you to be merciful" : the Hindu submarine mare-fire
"Here end the works of the sea, the works of love".

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The sea can wash away all evils : modern marine pollution and the ancient Cathartic Ocean by Kimberley C. Patton. ISBN 9780231510851. Published by Columbia University Press in 2007. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.

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