Search for dissertations about: "Divination"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 8 swedish dissertations containing the word Divination.

  2. 1. Looking at the Future : Divination and Astrology in Ancient Egypt

    Author : Andreas Winkler; Lana Troy; Kasia Szpakowska; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Ancient Egypt; Graeco-Roman Egypt; Demotic; Coptic; divination; astrology; dream interpretation; calendar; pun; allegory; sages.; Egyptology; Egyptologi; Egyptology; Egyptologi;

    Abstract : This study discusses divination in ancient Egypt, from the New Kingdom onwards in order to highlight the Egyptian elements in later astrological practices in Graeco-Roman Egypt. The first chapter treats divination and its study in general terms. READ MORE

  4. 2. Patterns of Destiny : Hindu Nāḍī Astrology

    Author : Martin Gansten; Religionshistoria och religionsbeteendevetenskap; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Candrakalanadi; Devakerala; Gurunadi; Dhruvanadi; Amsanadi; karman; karma; predestination; free will; fate; purusakara; daiva; divination; astrology; jyotihsastra; jyotisa; Nadi; Hindu astrology; Non-Christian religions; Världsreligioner ej kristendom ;

    Abstract : Like all divination, Hindu astrology (jyotisa) is concerned with central religious issues such as man’s relation to the world, moral responsibility, and the revelation of a coherent divine order underlying human experience. Comprising a descriptive as well as a prescriptive aspect, jyotisa allows for both prediction and the exercise of free will. READ MORE

  5. 3. The Birth of Religion among the Balanta of Guinea-Bissau

    Author : Inger Callewaert; Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Herbal medicine 3.Modernisation; Divination; Ritual songs; Witchcraft; Ritual; Prophetic movement; Ancestor cult; Anthropology of Religion; Balanta 2.History of Religions; 1.West Africa; Guinea-Bissau; Gender; Theology; Teologi;

    Abstract : This thesis deals with a recent event within the history of religions, the rise and development of a non-Christian prophetic movement named Kiyang-yang within the oral, kinship and ancestor based society of the Balanta in Guinea-Bissau. Kiyang-yang is headed by young women and men under the leadership of a woman prophet. READ MORE

  6. 4. The birds in the Iliad. Identities, interactions and functions

    Author : Karin Johansson; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; ancient ornithology; birds; bird symbolism; divination; double motivation; divine intervention; Homer s Iliad; identity; messenger; metaphorical utterances; oral tradition; parallelism; semiotics; species interactions; transformation; transmitter; Trojan war;

    Abstract : As the topic of this study embraces and entwines what is routinely divided into two separate categories, “nature” and “culture”, the birds in the Iliad challenge modern scientific division and in some ways, our thinking. They are simultaneously birds, signs and symbols. READ MORE

  7. 5. The Sortes Vergilianae : A Philological Study

    Author : Moa Ekbom; Maria Plaza; Diederik W.P. Burgersdijk; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Virgil reception; Historia Augusta; Virgil in the Historia Augusta; bibliomancy; cento; Augustine; Hadrian; Pescennius Niger; Clodius Albinus; Alexander Severus; Claudius Gothicus; Sortes Vergilianae; Sortes Homericae; Sortes Biblicae; Latin; Latin;

    Abstract : This study discusses the sortes Vergilianae, which are commonly defined as a form of ancient divination practiced by randomly finding a verse in a volume of Virgil. The practice of sortes Vergilianae has been described as widespread in antiquity. READ MORE