| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 200 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-182) and indexes. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Oracles, Hittite.
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Oracles, Hittite. |
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Hittites -- Rites and ceremonies.
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Hittites -- Rites and ceremonies. |
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Hittite cults.
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Hittite cults. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Haas, Volkert. Hethitische Orakel, Vorzeichen und Abwehrstrategien. Berlin ; New York : Walter de Gruyter, ©2008 3110205424 9783110205428 (OCoLC)255951927 |
| ISBN |
9783110210156 (electronic book) |
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3110210150 (electronic book) |
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3110205424 |
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9783110205428 |
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