The topic of the 15th International Aegean Conference has been inspired by one of Vienna's most prominent residents: Sigmund Freud. In Aegean prehistory; questions of ritual behaviour and underlying 'metaphysical' beliefs have become a widespread and multifaceted field of research based on a large variety of methodological approaches. At the METAPHYSIS conference a large range of issues of ritual; myth and symbolism in the Aegean Bronze Age were addressed; such as ritual places and ritual landscapes; sacral and sepulchral rituals; social and political ceremonies; ritual acts and performances; the supernatural realm; liminality; irrationality and magic; mythology; hybrid creatures; heroes/heroines; divinities; symbols; emblems and iconography; images of power; and cosmology. Thus; METAPHYSIS was dedicated to the complex relationship between humans and 'the other' - the broad scholarly interface between a popular ritual belief and the cult of deities; i.e. religion in its proper sense.
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