Hethitische Orakel, Vorzeichen und Abwehrstrategien : ein Beitrag zur hethitischen Kulturgeschichte / von Volkert Haas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Haas, Volkert.

Language:

German

Subjects (All):

Hittite cults.

Hittites--Rites and ceremonies.

Hittites.

Oracles, Hittite.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (216 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : Walter de Gruyter, c2008.

Language Note:

German

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Vorbemerkung

Zeichenerklärung

Verzeichnis der Abkürzungen

I. Einleitung

II. Gottheiten, Orakel und Orakelstätten

III. Die Orakeltechniken der Hethiter

IV. Der Staat und die Mantik

V. Orakel und Omina in den Festritualen

VI. Omina in hethitischer Überlieferung

VII. Abwehrstrategien gegen unheilvolle Vorzeichen sowie die Versöhnung der Götter

VIII. Träume, Traumvisionen und Traumdeutungen

IX. Das Nachwirken der hethitischen Mantik

Backmatter

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-182) and indexes.

ISBN:

9786611990381

9781281990389

1281990388

9783110210156

3110210150

OCLC:

476276167