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Title: | The Fortune-Telling of Liver, Bird-Flying in Hittites and Their Tracks on Etruscans | Other Titles: | Hititler’de karaciğer falı, kuş uçuşu falı ve bunların Etrüskler’deki uzantısı | Authors: | Orhun, Murat | Keywords: | Hittite; Etruscan; Roman; fortune-telling; track | Publisher: | HALE SIVGIN | Abstract: | The human in ancient times regarded certain supernatural objects or events, which looked superior to them as celestial because he was afraid of the nature. As a result, he made up a number of totems in the nature such as the sun, moon, sky, soil, water, plants and etc.; for this reason all religious movements were built on a politeist and pantheonist mind. On the other hand, the irresistible desire in man to find out what gods thought of him was the main constituent of the fortune-telling. As in all ancient societies, Hittites and Etruscans also developed certain techniques of fortune-telling to know about the theological wish, among which were fortune-telling of liver or bird-flying. In this study, in spite of the highly distant time zones of Hittites and Etruscans, these two similar techniques were depicted. In that way, it is correlated that there could be a cultural link between Hittites, who established a prominent civilization in Anatolia, and Etruscans, assumed to be an Anatolian originated society before establishing another prominent civilization in Europe, who also had a prominent effect on Roman culture. | URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/11499/39442 | ISSN: | 1307-9778 |
Appears in Collections: | Fen-Edebiyat Fakültesi Koleksiyonu TR Dizin İndeksli Yayınlar Koleksiyonu / TR Dizin Indexed Publications Collection WoS İndeksli Yayınlar Koleksiyonu / WoS Indexed Publications Collection |
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