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Guillaumont, François. "Le De divinatione de Cicéron et les théories antiques de la divination." Paris 4, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000PA040246.
Full textNyström, Maria. "Divination : en jämförande studie av divination i europeiska religioner." Thesis, University of Gävle, Ämnesavdelningen för kultur- och religionsvetenskap, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-4771.
Full textDenna uppsats är en studie i divination som användes i fornnordisk, samisk, irländsk-keltisk, grekisk och romersk religion. Syftet med uppsatsen har varit att undersöka om det finns något som kan sägas vara typiskt inom den fornnordiska divinationsformen. De teman jag koncentrerat mig på för att besvara dessa frågor är status, roll, genus, metod och plats. De metoder jag använt mig av är deskriptiv och komparativ litteraturstudie. Dessutom tillämpas hermeneutisk metod. Resultatet visar att det som kan sägas vara typiskt för den fornnordiska divinationen är att völvorna hade högre status än sejdmännen, manliga völvor. Något annat som är typiskt och som kan ha ett samband med völvans högre status är den stav hon bär som därför kan tolkas som en maktsymbol.
Det finns paralleller till den fornnordiska divinationen i alla de religioner som tas upp i denna uppsats, dock verkar de flesta likheterna finnas i den keltiska och den samiska religionen gällande utförandet av divinationen och divinatörernas roller.
Nice, Alex. "Divination and Roman historiography." Thesis, University of Exeter, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.302565.
Full textLabadie, Mathieu. "Xénophon et la divination." Thèse, Caen, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/11653.
Full textThis thesis aims to provide a complete overview of the beliefs of Xenophon about divination. Using a rigorous analysis of all the works of this ancient author who has long been depreciated, it seems clear that the problem of the consultation of the gods, far from being addressed incidentally and spontaneously like a traditional legacy that critical thinking has not reached, is on the contrary an essential element in the formation of a deep thinking on piety, and more generally of the relationships between men and gods. On the other hand, due to Xenophon’s zeal to have reported stories or thoughts about divination, this analysis provides an opportunity to a better understanding of the intricacies of this ritual lying at the core of Greek religion and that can not be reduced to a form of superstition.
Hamilton, Mark Wade. "Divination in ancient Israel." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1992. http://www.tren.com.
Full textAgblevon, Wogbewoli. "La divination vodu : methodes et fondements." Paris 7, 1990. http://www.theses.fr/1990PA070013.
Full textThe vodu, as system of belief, has its own base of reference. As a matter of fact, the term vodu, composed of "vo" (influence or power) and of "odu" (occult in yoruba metaphysical language), means occult influence or occult power, something human intelligence just doesn't clearly apprehend. Beyond the spectacular vision the stranger seems to have of this worship, hides a structured conception of the world with laws and rules. From the supreme god to the secondary gods, from the holy texts of fa to the divination, this thesis brings out the structure of the vodu thought as philosophical context in wich the vodu believer moves
Bye, Joy. "Divination: Exemplifying and Configuring Archetypes in Ceramics." University of Sydney, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/6023.
Full textAbstract/Summary Dissertation Divination: Exemplifying and Configuring Archetypes in Ceramics is a study of my research practice. The cards of the tarot can be used as a conceptual framework and source of inspiration for making ceramic sculptures. The cards can be used to understand the creative process as an expression of archetypes. My dissertation discusses these archetypes from the tarot cards, both in their historical operation, their manifestation in my art practice, as well as, examining approaches taken to these archetypes by other artists such as Salvador Dali and Niki de Saint Phalle. The theoretical basis for the dissertation is informed by the writings of Carl G. Jung who has proposed concepts dealing with creativity, coincidence, a collective unconscious and archetypes. These ideas form a model for the understanding of my studio work. As background, the dissertation examines examples of artworks that could be seen to be drawn from a collective unconscious. Studio Work The studio work consists of a series of ceramic sculptures formulating the archetypes that I have derived from the tarot cards. The three dimensional clay, with found inclusions, examines the idea of specific archetypes. These archetypes are titled in the works including: The Fool, Strength, The Magician, Tarot Sun, The Empress II, The Lovers, Empress l, The Chariot I and II The Angel Temperance, The Tarot Devil and The World. The ceramic objects have been created in clay using handbuilding techniques. The clay was such that it could include found ceramic pieces and be refired. The pieces have been re-fired many times to achieve a variety of glaze effects. The works range in size from 30-60 cms approximately and include freestanding sculptures and complementing flat wall works.
Fahd, Toufic. "La Divination arabe : études religieuses, sociologiques et folkloriques sur le milieu natif de l'Islam /." Paris : Sindbad, 1987. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb349881590.
Full textTse, Heung-wing. "A study of the divinatory statements in the bamboo slip edition of the Book of change in the Shanghai Museum Shang bo jian "Zhou yi" duan zhan ci yan jiu /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2010. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B43757807.
Full textCornelius, Geoffrey. "Field of Omens A Study in Inductive Divination." Thesis, University of Kent, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.523522.
Full textDriediger-Murphy, Lindsay G. "Human will and divine will in Roman divination." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2011. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:082d50ff-1838-4459-b66d-22e5d56d5f01.
Full textJeffers, Ann. "Magic and divination in ancient Palestine and Syria /." Leiden : E.J. Brill, 1996. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb372052473.
Full textSmith, Alexander. "lDe’u ‘phrul, the manifestation of knowledge : ethnophilological studies in Tibetan divination with particular emphasis upon a common form of Bon lithomancy." Thesis, Paris, EPHE, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016EPHE4092/document.
Full textThough I intend to survey a variety of divination practices, my thesis focuses upon a particular type of pebble divination performed by Tibetan Bonpos. This form of divination, which is known as "Manifestation of Knowledge" (lde'u 'phrul), possesses a nearly unstudied textual tradition that, according to Bon histories, originates in the eleventh century. In addition to fieldwork conducted in various locations in Himachal Pradesh and Uttaranchal Pradesh, my discussion of lde' u 'phrul is supplemented by the translation of a number of previously unstudied lithomantic manuscripts. Chiefly, I focus upon the sMra seng rdel mo gsal ba'i me long, written by the 18th century ecumenicist and historian Kun grol grags pa. Certain aspects of this work will also be read against two later commentaries on the subject of lithomancy: (1) the Ma sangs 'phrul gyi rdel mo mngon shes rno gsal gyi sgron me, written by Slob dpon mKhas grub Lung rtogs rgya mtsho, the first preceptor of Yung drung gLing Monastery in Central Tibet; and (2) the sMra seng 'phrul gyi rdel mo mngon shes gsal ba'i sgron po, a 19th century witness of an alleged 11th century gter ma discovery attributed to the Bon "treasure revealer" (gter ston) Khro tshang 'brug lha. In using these materials, I adopt a broad view of hermeneutics, which does not restrict criticism to the manuscripts that I study, but also seeks to incorporate the contemporary performance of lDe'u 'phrul and, in particular, the diviner's unique perspective on the performance of divination into my textual critique
Boudet, Jean-Patrice. "Entre science et nigromance : astrologie, divination et magie dans l'Occident médiéval : XIIe-XVe siècle /." Paris : Publications de la Sorbonne, 2006. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb410164998.
Full textGuenzi, Caterina. "Destin et divination : le travail des astrologues de Bénarès." Paris, EHESS, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004EHES0178.
Full textThis thesis describes the work of astrologers in contemporary Banaras and it is based both ethnographic material and hindi and sanskrit astrological literature. In the first chapter, the study aims to point out the ideological constructs that are behind the promoting of astrology in contemporary India and that shape the professional identity of Banaras astrologers. Following chapters present and analyze astrologers at work : the divinatory devices they use (horoscope, chiromancy, reading of almanac, etc. ) ; the advisory sessions and the relationship they all have with clients ; the order to remove the bad influence of planets (rirual practices, precious stones ans tantric amilets). The combining of scientific and religious discourses, the concepts of "truth", "person" and "destiny" are the main theoretical issues of this study
Tse, Heung-wing, and 謝向榮. "A study of the divinatory statements in the bamboo slip edition of the Book of change in the Shanghai Museum =." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2010. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B43757807.
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Furaha, Chai Jonathan. "Language use in a medical setting : reconciling explanatory models of illness in the diagnostic interview among the Giriama of Kenya." Thesis, University of Essex, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.248644.
Full textEngels, David. "Das römische Vorzeichenwesen (753-27 v. Chr.) : Quellen, Terminologie, Kommentar, historische Entwicklung /." Stuttgart : F. Steiner, 2007. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb41087047m.
Full textHolbraad, Svend Martin. "Belief in necessity : Ifá divination and money in contemporary Havana." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2002. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/251825.
Full textSimonetti, Elsa Giovanna. "A Perfect Medium? Oracular Divination in the Thought of Plutarch." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Padova, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/11577/3427136.
Full textLa presente ricerca consiste in una analisi della funzione che la divinazione oracolare ricopre all’interno del pensiero filosofico di Plutarco di Cheronea. Il suo carattere fondamentale di “ente intermediario” tra umano e divino viene posto in luce attraverso un puntuale studio dei Dialoghi delfici, effettuato nei primi tre capitoli. Il quarto capitolo raccoglie e rielabora i risultati ottenuti mediante l’analisi filosofico-concettuale, proponendo una interpretazione originale della dinamica divinatoria in Plutarco alla luce dalla sua concezione psicologica e cosmologica. Il primo capitolo analizza il De Pythiae oraculis, interpretando l’oracolo delfico, nella sua apparenza sensibile e funzione divinatoria, come un simbolo, dotato di un fondamentale ruolo conoscitivo. Lo studio della dinamica dell’entusiasmo chiarisce il carattere antropologico della relazione tra la Pizia e il dio, equiparandola a quelle tra corpo e anima, e strumento e artefice. Il secondo capitolo è incentrato sullo studio del De defectu oraculorum, ed esplora il valore della ricerca empirica (ἱστορία) e della narrazione storica e mitica quali strumenti per acquisire una conoscenza superiore. Si mette in luce la relazione tra dio e cosmo sensibile, esplicitando la centralità della nozione di “responsabilità divina” e della modalità indiretta dell’azione del dio nel cosmo. Altro elemento focale è l’indagine dell’applicazione della teoria della “causalità duplice” alla dinamica divinatoria; il focus è posto su elementi chiave dell’interrelazione tra causalità fisica-secondaria e trascendente-primaria quali: pneûma, krâsis e kairos. Il terzo capitolo consiste in un’indagine del De E apud Delphos finalizzata a far emergere la composita immagine di Apollo e la tensione tra la sua sostanza, unica e trascendente, e i suoi molteplici volti terreni. Considerata la pregnanza di simboli e enigmi all’interno del pensiero filosofico quali depositari di significati reconditi, si esamina la complessa concezione dualistica plutarchea, e i rapporti del Cheronese con la saggezza orientale. L’ultimo capitolo (Divination and the soul) compone gli esiti delle sezioni precedenti in un quadro unitario, analizzando il ruolo dell’anima, individuale e cosmica, all’interno della pratica divinatoria. Si effettua un confronto tra la funzione e la struttura dell’anima individuale all’interno della divinazione oracolare e di quella demonica (De genio Socratis). La tematica oracolare viene infine analizzata in relazione alla lettura plutarchea della cosmogenesi platonica (De animae procreatione in Timaeo). L’esame svolto consente di comprendere come l’oracolo delfico – simbolo della natura zetetica e aporetica della ricerca filosofica plutarchea – sia il luogo per eccellenza in cui i principi cosmici di ragione e necessità si manifestano con maggiore evidenza e si congiungono.
Bawanypeck, Daliah. "Die Rituale der Auguren." Heidelberg Winter, 2005. http://deposit.ddb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=2670409&prov=M&dokv̲ar=1&doke̲xt=htm.
Full textBrailowsky, Yan. "Divination et prophétie dans le théâtre de Shakespeare : herméneutique et poétique." Paris 10, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007PA100106.
Full textThis thesis aims at studying the role of prophets, prophecies and divination in Shakespeare's plays, through the analysis of eight plays : two Roman plays (Julius Caesar and Coriolanus), two Romances (The Winter's Tale and Cymbeline), three Histories (2 Henry VI, Richard II, Richard III), and Macbeth. By analyzing ancient and contemporary sources (Cicero, Plutarch, Holinshed, Montaigne and Bacon, among others), I first show that the ``survival” of the gods of yore explains the “survival” of antique divinatory practices. The presence-absence of Mars in the Roman plays evidences the influence of the gods on man's destiny, an influence that works by indirection. The analysis of pagan rituals, notably oneiromancy, augurs and oracles, enables one to compare priests and soothsayers whose role as interpreters is defined by those in power. The study of deviant pagan practices in a Christian context (spiritism and necromancy) makes it possible to see what makes Christian prophecies unique, all the while showing the interpretive problems posed by prophecies uttered by equivocating spirits or apparitions. As for the tetralogies, they serve to understand the role of self-proclaimed prophets in an apocalyptic historical setting. The War of the Roses is as much emblematized by onomastic puns in a series of dynastic prophecies as it is by the claims of rival factions. Lastly, prophecies are not only a temporal, but also a spatial conundrum: the marginal location of Elizabethan playhouses is part and parcel of their prophetic nature, and accounts for Shakespeare's constant double-play on “utterance” and the French “outrance”
Laguzet, Laetitia. "La carte dans l'art contemporain depuis le cubisme : jeu et divination." Paris 1, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PA010701.
Full textFefegha, Sunday Alawei. "Divination in the Niger Delta with reference to Epie-Atissa community." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 1988. http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/28448/.
Full textVan, Hasselt Marie-Cécile. "Les livres de sorts en Italie de 1482 à 1551 : Francesco Marcolini et la fin de l'imaginaire astrologique." Paris 3, 1998. http://www.theses.fr/1998PA030092.
Full textThe +libri delle sorti; ("books of lots") determine a sub-category of the manuals related to future foretelling. Though "books of lots" defied many historians, they were never studied in detail. A "book of lots" collects at one hand questions about daily life and at the other hand for each of this interrogations many versified answers. One does not obtain immediately an answer. The course to a foretelling is subdivised in sequences by a number of references (iconographical or textual). In their entirety, these references suggest a system of causality. Failing to have a clear insight into the way how causality operates in (or: is transmitted through) the creation, the autors restrain usually the contents of those references to the field of astrology (people did still had a geocentric conception of the universe). In spite of this, the answers do not adhere without ado the astrological determination. On the contrary, they often contain allusions reminding the user of such books being responsible of his fate. So this books illustrate, even if they do not present a thoroug worked out reflection on the problem of free will, how such a problem has been received by a broad public. We present five "books of lots" (l. Spirito, 1482; s. Fanti, 1527; p. Danza, 1536; f. Marcolini cooperating with l. Dolce, 1540 and g. Parabosco 1551), allconceived as society gaies (the ludicrousness hasn't been at all times a feature proper to this kind of books). We focused on the duality between the imaginary of the references (generally containig indications that one's lot is appointed by the stars) and the answers, containiq claims to take up personal responsibility for one's acts
Honwana, Alcinda Maria Rodolfo Manuel. "Spiritual agency & self-renewal in southern Mozambique." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.360714.
Full textSmith, Adam Daniel. "Writing at Anyang the role of the divination record in the emergence of Chinese literacy /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1667991391&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
Full textSwancutt, Katherine Anne. "Magic works : divination causation and witchcraft in North-east Mongolia and China." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.441512.
Full textKottage, Robert A. "“Between the Dream and Reality”: Divination in the Novels of Cormac McCarthy." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2013. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/2310.
Full textDuponchel, David. "Etude comparée de la divination par l'extispicine à l'époque paléo-babylonienne à Mari et à l'époque Inca." Thesis, Brest, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018BRES0043.
Full textThe choice of extispicy, a divinatory technique present in Mesopotamian and Andean societies, for this long-term comparative study, involves a historiographical renewal and an interdisciplinary approach.Divination in general, a total social fact according to Marcel Mauss, allows to observe societes in a transversal manner and to apply comparatism beyond the subject matter. Divination and extispicy concern palace affairs, at a military, religious or economic level, as well as the affairs of a simple individual preparing to travel or wanting to discover the cause of his or her illness.There are very few Andean sources regarding Inca divination. However, the abundant documentation of Mari allows to question Andean historiography and to speculate on how divination and the technique of extispicy worked. Conversely, rare mentions of Andean extispicy in Spanish chronicles and the survival of a contemporary extispicy in Peru open new perspectives for Mari’s studies on divination.The comparison of the bârûm diviner’s prognosis and the Callparicuc raises questions on the meaning of “reading”. Although we notice that the diviner observes marks on the organs, Andean extispicy does not seem to be directly related to writing. However, these two evolve in a complementary manner in Mesopotamia.Binary paradigms that help to establish the diviner’s prognosis in both extispicies show many similarities and reveal common values in these two societies.This study is consistent with a new perspective regarding both historiographies and seeks to pave the way for other works, to create a real dialogue between these two worlds, including what Tzvetan Todorov calls the question of the Other
Fu, Yaqi. "Chinese wind divination in the period of Song Renzong Reign (1022-1063 CE)." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historia, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-294873.
Full textJouette, Jean-Cyril. "Magie bénéfique, magie maléfique et divination dans le monde byzantin : VIIIe-XIIe siècles." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017AIXM0169/document.
Full textThis study aims at showing the role and the importance of different kinds of magical and divinatory arts in the middle Byzantine era, from the first iconoclasm up to 1204. It focuses on two main approaches, based on two different readings of the literary evidence.First, using the evidence of normative and narrative sources, along with archaeological artefacts, this work shows the importance, in response to specific needs, of beneficent and maleficent magic and divinatory arts in the everyday life of the Byzantines. The popularity of phylacteries and magical treatments is examined along with the conflicted nature of the relationship which existed between these practices and Byzantine orthodoxy. The different forms of maleficent magic are then explored and the services that they alone could offer. This section concludes with a discussion of Byzantines’ fascination for a great number of unorthodox divinatory arts which, in spite of their illicit nature, continued to be practiced.Second, this study emphasises the role of magicians and soothsayers in the political and religious propaganda. An attempt is first made to demonstrate how some hagiographers employed these useful opponents of saints as tools in their writings. Then, this work seeks to show how some heresiarchs, perhaps deemed too popular, were demonized, in an attempt to put an end to disruptive religious movements. Finally, particular attention is paid to iconoclasm, showing how heterodox emperors such as Leo III and his son Constantine V, and patriarchs such as John the Grammarian, were subjected to a violent damnatio memoriae by iconophile authors, something which could involve accusations of witchcraft
Gourdain, Christian. "Le tao de la divination : le dieu structural et la théologie de l'unification." Nice, 1989. http://www.theses.fr/1989NICE2002.
Full textMy monotheist vision borrows from hindouism, judaism, islam and christianity the notion of the structural god. The structural break of the sacrifice of Christ illustrate the principle of contradiction in the historical praxis. The criticisms of the judeo-christian structural god and of the universals made by Robert Jaulin in his book "la paix blanche", are confronted with the tao of divination that the religious languages have inspired me. I expose the phantasm of the origins according to hindouisme, judeo christianity and the greco-latin mythology. The logics of the systematic is presented in the technic of representations based on trigrams and tetragrams. I present all kinds of divinatory mechanisms allowing me to elaborate some analogical reasonings. The dialectical marriage between the thesis and the antithesis is made in the zodiacal unification world. This coming of the millenium of the year 2000 will allow us to analyse the biblical divination in relation with the theology of unification and the different technics of divination ; the tarot, geomancy, astrology and the chinese yiching. The setting of a matrix generative of myths allow me to elaborate a representation of a collective mind of humanity in relation with differents psycho-sociologicals codes
Wit, Sébastien. "Les Sentiers qui bifurquent : hasard, combinatoire et divination dans le roman expérimental des années 1960 : (I. Calvino, J. Cortázar, Ph. K. Dick, M. Saporta)." Thesis, Paris 10, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016PA100154.
Full textMarc Saporta's Composition no 1, Julio Cortázar's Hopscotch, Italo Calvino's Castle of Crossed Destinies, and Philip K. Dick's Man in the High Castle. Written between 1962 and 1973, these four novels have as common denominator their use of oracular traditions. In the first three literary works, the novel form is broken by becoming one with tarot cards. In the last novel mentioned, the Chinese oracle – the I Ching – is the source of the writing process. In both political and literary fields, the 1960's consist in a radical questioning of authority. Prior to Barthes' prophecy of the Death of the Author, artists make use of chance and randomness in order to liberate creation from the arbitrary power of the author. This thesis studies the way the four aforementioned writers try to reconsider the dynamics between reader and writer by using the Jungian theories (synchronicity, archetypes, etc.). By deconstructing the linearity of the novel form, the four books are representative of an experimental literature which shows disregard to genre conventions. Between ludic poetic and mysticism, the novels are made hypertextual by oracular randomness. Focusing on the interpreting reader, the novels investigate the modalities of literary interaction ; this way, they are key materials in understanding the transmedia relations between literature and digital literacy
Baumann, Brian Gregory. "Divine knowledge Buddhist mathematics according to Antoine Mostaert's "Manual of Mongolian Astrology and Divination" /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2005. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3200372.
Full textSource: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-12, Section: A, page: 4507. Chair: Gyorgy Kara. Title from dissertation home page (viewed Oct. 11, 2006).
Homola, Stéphanie. "Connaissances du destin : anthropologie des pratiques de divination contemporaines en Chine et à Taïwan." Paris, EHESS, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013EHES0559.
Full textAlthough divinatory practices have been excluded from institutional religions from the beginning of the 20th century and condemned as superstition by the nationalist and communist governments, they have been experiencing a new wave of popularity in Taiwan since the 1990s, and more recently in Mainland China. This research is based on fieldwork conducted with fortune-tellers and their clients in Taipei, Beijing and Kaifeng, on the study of mantic texts and on a comparison with divination practices in India and South Korea. This work first focuses on the legitimization process of divinatory arts and on the way they have been adapted to modern fields of knowledge. It looks into the work and status of fortune-tellers, the circulation of mantic knowledge, as well as changes in the transmission of divinatory arts and attempts to integrate them in the academic field. It shows how today’s fortune-tellers seek to legitimize their art through categories such as science, Confucianism and cultural heritage. Beyond the institutional categorization of divinatory knowledge, this work also explores the cognitive mechanisms involved in divination practices, based on the study of mantic techniques and on clients’consultations. It underlines how divination systems operate and how they help petitioners to make decisions and monitor their fate. This research shows that divination systems do not only work as an information tool that guides the people involved through the social world, but they also provide significant insights into the social organization
Bibert, Céline. "Approche ethnologique d'un système divinatoire : l'astrologie contemporaine en France : croyances, pratiques et représentations." Montpellier 3, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004MON30004.
Full textContemporary astrology, a thousand-year-old divinatory system, is the fruit of a mental state made of borrowings and adjustments. It is a practice of wich the legitimacy is contested, but also an alternative resort sometimes institutionaly integrated into our society. Astrology generates different discourses, customs and behaviours, and through these, it is a social reality which makes sens. The objectives of the present study is an analysis of close anthropology as appreciated from a distant and external point of view. Essentially, this research concentrates on aspects of astrology termed scholarly and its environment. It particularly focuses on the process of conversion to astrology - its nature, practices and effects. From a playful belief to constructed faith - wich proves to be a spiritual commitment and an adhesion to a particular mental system - astrology appears to be, for its followers, both a symbolical grid to interpret events and a mean of action upon them
Vigourt, Annie. "Les présages impériaux d'Auguste à Domitien /." Paris : De Boccard, 2001. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb38867761x.
Full textWang, Xing. "Fortune and the body : physiognomy in Ming China." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2017. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:b6da1b53-e50d-425e-97b3-4f77eb071580.
Full textLoriol, Romain. "Lire et écrire les signes divins : recherches sur la divination romaine à travers l'historiographie impériale." Thesis, Lyon, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016LYSE3006.
Full textIn Rome, divination is the essential instrument of the dialogue with the gods, and sources are witness to the attention that the Romans paid to divine signs under the Republic and the Empire, in the public as well as in the private practice. Yet, far from being a simple expression of credulity, or, conversely, the hollow shell of a formal ritualism, the belief in divine signs has a rational nature, as shown by the existence in Rome of extremely elaborate divinatory knowledge and procedures. This rationality is discernible in another field, which has not, or only partially, been explored: tales of signs. The narratives of divine signs, plenty of which can be found in imperial historians’ works, appear as factual and plain descriptions whose interest seems limited. The aim of this dissertation is nonetheless to show that tales of signs are a rich form of expression which translates and implements the Romans’ divinatory thought. A divine sign cannot be recognised, interpreted, discussed unless it has been verbalised. Since a sign is always put into words, the stances of a senator confronted with a heralded wonder, of an average individual faced with an omen and of a reader vis-à-vis a sign which he reads or hears about are similar: they recognise and interpret a sign from its verbal translation. Thus, the study of tales of signs sheds light on what is at stake in this verbalisation and its reception: what criteria allowed for a phenomenon to be recognised as a sign in Rome? What could impede its subsequent interpretation? Under what conditions could a divine sign be charged with political, moral meaning or even a comical subtext? Finally, what are the aesthetic potentialities specific to tales of signs? We intend to show, by unfolding these strata of meaning and by exposing the functional structure of a sign, how it could be constructed and construed – in other words, to show why divination is a craft of reading and writing divine signs
Panagiotopoulos, Anastasios. "The Island of Crossed Destinies : human and other-than-human perspectives in Afro-Cuban divination." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/14207.
Full textLuff, Karl T. "A biblical perspective on the magic and divination found in some of the world's religious systems." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1994. http://www.tren.com.
Full textSchick, Irvin Cemil. "The Legitimation of Esoteric Practices of Dubious Orthodoxy : magic and Divination as Textual Practices in Early Modern Ottoman Islam." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Paris, EHESS, 2024. http://www.theses.fr/2024EHES0053.
Full textThe Qurʾān indicates that the Unseen (al-ghayb) is predetermined; that is, it is written from the beginning of time and for all eternity. At the same time, the Qurʾān makes it clear that the Unseen is beyond the reach of ordinary humans. And yet, occult practices of divination and magic aiming to look into and intercede in the Unseen are and have often been practiced throughout the Muslim World. This thesis asks how pious Muslims have reconciled occult practices with the Qurʾānic injunction against human interaction with the Unseen. What stories have pious Muslims historically told themselves in order to legitimate their transgression of such unambiguously stated sanctions? I seek answers to this question by focusing on three case studies: oneiromancy, physiognomy, and talismanry. I am not saying that these widespread practices are illicit; rather, I argue that for the sake of internal consistency, they should have been illicit, and the fact that they are not therefore requires an explanation.Although my main focus is on the early modern Ottoman Empire, much of the written documentation pertaining to the occult sciences during that period are translations and/or adaptations of mediaeval or early modern Arabic texts, which are themselves often heavily indebted to antecedents including Mesopotamian, Egyptian, Greek, and Jewish sources. In an effort to highlight what is “specifically Islamic” about the practices in question, I have tried to compare them with their pre-Islamic precursors and sought to see how they were “Islamicized” and thereby became accepted in the Ottoman Empire. I show that there were three main avenues for the legitimation of occult practices:• Exegetic legitimation. The large majority of the treatises analyzed in the three case studies begin with numerous citations from the Qurʾān and the ḥadīths as well as passages that interpret them in ways that appear to legitimate the practice in question. This is named al-dalāʾil al-naqliyyah, that is, “relayed evidence.”• Hagiographic legitimation. Again, many of the treatises analyzed here contain anecdotes that link the practice in question to one or more important religio-historical individuals—ranging from Greek philosophers to the Prophet’s companions and beyond—thus legitimating them by association. This is named al-dalāʾil al-ʿaqliyyah, that is, “rational evidence.”• Semiotic legitimation. Although I do discuss exegetic and hagiographic legitimation, my principal claim in this thesis is that in the Muslim World, divination and magic are generally conceived as reading and writing practices. As a result, what should in theory have been considered illicit practices have gained legitimacy thanks to the centrality of the concepts of reading and writing in Islam.This last point is based on the fact that the notion of text, and the closely related concepts of writing and reading, permeate Islam through and through. The Prophet is related as having said that the first thing God created was the pen, while the first word of the Revelation is “Read.” For Islam, all of Creation is a text, as is the sequence of events that unfolds in it. The Qurʾān is a text that explicates God’s creation, and the large body of exegetic literature, together with individual believers’ everyday experiences, are texts that in turn explicate the Qurʾān. It is impossible to imagine Islam as a religio-cultural system without text, writing, and reading. I argue that this centrality underlies the legitimation of occult practices, so that, for example, the interpretation of dreams is seen as deciphering text read from the Preserved Tablet, while talismanry is seen as activating the power of writing as a conduit of divine power
Meiklejohn, Hayley. "Voices in water the thesis is submitted to the Auckland University of Technology in partial fulfillment of the degree of Master of Arts in Art and Design in the year 2005 /." Click here to access this resource online, 2005. http://repositoryaut.lconz.ac.nz/theses/1348/.
Full textMain title from cover. Includes bibliographical references. Also held in print (90 leaves : col. ill. ; 21 x 30 cm.) in City Campus Collection (T 778.96 MEI)
Le, Borgne Aude Marie. "Clootie wells and water-kelpies : an ethnological approach to the fresh water traditions of sacred wells and supernatural horses in Scotland." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/10540.
Full textJouvin, Jean-Pierre. "Imagination et alchimie à la Renaissance : l'exemple du tarot de Marseille." Dijon, 1999. http://www.theses.fr/1999DIJOL001.
Full textThe « Tarot de Marseille » is a deck of cards created in the XVth century as a psycho-spiritual play. It is a product of the hermetic and platonician revival at the time of Marsilius Ficinus and Nicholas of Cusa. It owes its inspiration to the recall of doctrines which the preceeding centuries had assimilated : Arabian peripatetism and Judaism. These intermediate times, covering the late medieval period and the Renaissance, witnessed the Avicenna/Averroes dispute, in which the Dominican and Franciscan spiritual orders played a major role. It is in those times that alchemy developed a doctrine of salvation and a solution to the question of poverty, in a joachimite prophetic perspective. This gave birth to a new kind of intellectual : the mystical intellectual. The Tarot offers, on a symbolic scale, rooted in avicennian psychology, a path of conversion for the soul which, by using the vis imaginativa, rids itself of successive layers of “bark”, reaching, little by, salvation and illumination. The times of Marsilius Ficinus, although deprived of ontological grandeur, are, however, rich in “imaginal”productions and manifestations. An offspring of those days, the Tarot deck is an illustration of the imaginal function of the soul. It can, through its symbolic nature, recall what the intellectuals of the XIII/XIV th centuries knew
Thompson, Sally Gaye. "Speaking 'truth' to power : divination as a paradigm for facilitating change among Giriama in the Kenyan hinterland." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.310514.
Full textAddey, Crystal. "Oracles of the Gods : the role of divination and theurgy in the philosophy of Porphyry and Iamblichus." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.509766.
Full textKarlson, William R. Brackney William H. "Syncretism the presence of Roman augury in the consecration of English monarchs /." Waco, Tex. : Baylor University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2104/5107.
Full textDainville, Julie. "Oracles et décision: étude philologique et rhétorique de la preuve oraculaire dans la littérature grecque classique." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2019. https://dipot.ulb.ac.be/dspace/bitstream/2013/286271/5/Contrat.pdf.
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