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Hittite Birth Rituals
Gary M. Beckman
出版
O. Harrassowitz
, 1983
主題
Foreign Language Study / Miscellaneous
Foreign Language Study / Ancient Languages
History / Ancient / General
Religion / History
Religion / Ancient
Social Science / Customs & Traditions
ISBN
3447023104
9783447023108
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=r51tAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
Among the rituals kept in the archives of the Hittite capital, more than twenty are concerned with birth and its difficulties. This work transliterates and translates these texts, and provides them with a commentary discussing anthropological as well as philological questions. An introduction sketches the treatment of birth in Hittite texts of various genra, while a summary outlines Hittite "obstetrical" practice as it may be reconstructed from all available cuneiform sources. One chapter is devoted to the character and the role of the human personnel and divinities attendant at birth, and particular attention is given to the vexin problem of the DINGIR.MAH (MEs/HI.A). A glossary of the vocabulary appearing in the Hittite birth rituals is included.
