| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 200 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Einleitung -- Gottheiten, Orakel und Orakelstätten -- Die Orakeltechniken der Hethiter -- Der Staat und die Mantik -- Orakel und Omina in den Festritualen -- Omina in hethitischer Überlieferung -- Abwehrstrategien gegen unheilvolle Vorzeichen sowie die Versöhnung der Götter -- Träume, Traumvisionen und Traumdeutungen -- Das Nachwirken der hethitischen Mantik -- Literaturverzeichnis |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-182) and indexes |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Oracles, Hittite.
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Hittites -- Rites and ceremonies.
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Hittite cults.
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PHILOSOPHY -- Eastern.
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Hittite cults
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Hittites -- Rites and ceremonies
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Oracles, Hittite
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Mantik
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Hethiter
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9783110210156 |
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3110210150 |
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