Format:
Online-Ressource
ISBN:
9783110210156
Content:
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
Note:
In German
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110205428
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Haas, Volkert, 1936 - 2019 Hethitische Orakel, Vorzeichen und Abwehrstrategien Berlin : de Gruyter, 2008 ISBN 9783110205428
Language:
German
Subjects:
History
,
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
,
Theology
Keywords:
Hethiter
;
Mantik
DOI:
10.1515/9783110210156
URL:
Volltext
(lizenzpflichtig)
Author information:
Haas, Volkert 1936-2019