GERMAN

Hethitische Orakel, Vorzeichen und Abwehrstrategien: Ein Beitrag zur hethitischen Kulturgeschichte

By Haas , Volkert

Book information

Year
2008
ISBN
3110205424, 9783110205428, 3110210150, 9783110210156
LCC
BF1762 .H33 2008
Open Library ID
OL24418433M
Language
german
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (3754366 bytes)
Pages
200\217
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

This book provides the general reader with an account of the diverse and often highly complex oracular techniques which made verbal communication with the gods possible. As negative oracles and omens were mostly an expression of divine anger, skilled experts attempt to divert the anger by ritual magic means and thus to correct the future or transgressions from the past. The topic of ""Hittite mantics"" has hitherto been largely neglected, except in specialist literature, although mantics was of supreme importance for Hittite society and was closely bound up with politics and cult.

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