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Οh, A Text Message, part the second.          
           
Hand here's book. Table of          
           
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The East Face Of Helicon      
           
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Wegean and Orient          
           
as more          
           
Culture, lit by light, begins up to spread out where is dansest          
           
into adjacent area whit is less d'ensor some thousand ears of corn          
           
from the          
           
mC to the rst, stely session o arts,          
           
craftsd coorts for          
           
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of th          
           
evoluticosouth-eas robe and that arled          
           
that werence: the cultion,          
           
the          
           
thee, irstan-made anter wed-mad          
           
opper, then on; the proction            
           
of s or ol'ed sals; the wating cla tablets,          
           
axed ooder par ap rund skin; walling tons, the          
           
uc of harp, adole ob-thes are on some more          
           
mptomtems a spring          
           
Mt of thos mul          
           
rview of presework,          
           
Specifically Semitic Anatoli-Greek podry and as          
           
w know them od 750-50 BC Of course we cannfestrict          
           
since the literare of that may          
           
well contain estein lemts tl at 1flect ealie contac Wes          
           
back at least to the Mycenaea But we need not to rack before          
           
the one when there rather, at Indo-Eur can dialec          
           
which due cours: develope teorical rek, became esshed          
           
in Greece. As when hatte w the majority or last          
           
Twenty or thirtys has be hath arri the proo-Gr          
           
speakers gameschoole          
           
wo ways of destructorc          
           
took place at various sites cen          
           
and southern cece at inne          
           
and end of the Earl Hell dic I          
           
wes seem no to e          
           
flattening of under ritie          
           
even if it is ess          
           
thar          
           
supposed, for the arrival          
           
population ent in the part of the third remmo and this          
           
se the mos plable t To the coming o proto-Greek and          
           
who spoke it.          
           
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cante Forstwilight of the rly Helladies sered 1992          
           
2          
           
ord Renfrew, ho identifies the peead of griculture with that of          
           
Indo-Eur thus ames the Gee language to be the prode of indigenous develoment          
           
in Greengout 0 BC (Colin Renfrew, Archaeogy a Language, Lond 1987)          
           
ignoresence oft groupings in Indo-Europeas and chronological rameter          
           
by historical da and it found fes if any adherents.ee trenchanticis J. P.          
           
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Religion          
           
in thanksgiving, in fulfilment of a vow, to lend weight to a prayer, or in expiation of some wrong. It is done for preference at a special holy place, at an altar or shrine The basic types of Gecek offering are perfectly matched by          
           
places or shrine          
           
Tbas types of Greek sacral offering are perly matched by          
           
thos Sc, more especially peoples          
           
Bess food offering winek, o, u, honey,            
           
cakes vegetables, etc. fummaticular cat          
           
theyalled beginnings,kadian Hew          
           
The offerings te on or laida          
           
specable (Akkph, Greek Cawth          
           
there consume in the city with the discrise of          
           
Speciales of and meal were new          
           
is wind techy ofs, and in Phoenicia          
           
s seen bleat Grock term for          
           
the Semitic root mitation the          
           
drops allowed to sin          
           
with in view, 1          
           
et deliverance from          
           
illness danger,          
           
distan (6) offering to the          
           
uning of          
           
Akkas type of stice s          
           
and the ven          
           
od is conneon with          
           
as a chew and co          
           
has been suged that          
           
Cecek kan deriv          
           
Semitic root,          
           
percat with corn The          
           
se burner deveped on          
           
Mesopotaan mode and th          
           
mples are of Phoenician          
           
cie burned it as in the          
           
East codes my frank          
           
kedros, paps took          
           
med Aha are both coily            
           
aryences in smoke the altar,          
           
parta proposed frankin and all          
           
cityces, apt over two          
           
sane that wedd          
           
the bodice of the common          
           
agree further in a series o          
           
feasts and details          
           
p were the preferred to b          
           
per          
           
A typical icon for a hester is that its never bee          
           
perphemselves by bathing a wore clean of          
           
spel clothes          
           
The ceremony began thedon in wh          
           
led the altar accompanied by double music and ging          
           
A sacred circle was marked out the, in Babylon          
           
ris by sprinkling flour, in reek by cam roda basket of t          
           
and vessel of lustral water.          
           
Water was poured over the participants and sprink ever          
           
the whole area          
           
On Offerings to the Gods          
           
1. Aegean and Orient          
           
the Near East. In Babylonia we hear of wrestling in honour of the            
           
god Ninurta and honor of Gilgamesh. The was also racing at          
           
certain festivals. There w wrestling gain, among entertainments sch          
           
as juggling and acrobatic the Ishta ceremonies Mari in Syria.          
           
The Hittites had resting an foot-racing as part of tain bi-annua          
           
rites performed at a sacredston At another of their feals there was          
           
both fot- and horse-raci At another, honour of the ar-god, there          
           
were whirling dancers. King David of Israel personal leapt and          
           
whirled before the Lord folowing animal sacrifices on the ccasion of          
           
the tranport of the ark, ad elsewhere we hear of group singing and          
           
dancing.          
           
Divination          
           
Various techniques of divination came to Greece from the Near Eat at different pods In Homer the gods will r the hidden outcome of events is often seen or suspected a tream, the flight of a bird, a roll of thunder, or some other sudden and toward occurrence. does no necessarily take seer to ducidates ch portents. Ordinary people ard often capable recognizing a favourable omen or interpreting the symbolism of dream. Bu if a seer ach as Cachas or Theocl menus is present, he is naturally the one who reads the sign. Calchas is called not only a mantis also an donopolos specialist in bird omens Homer knows designations for to other kids of specialist diviner too, the interpreter of Arms, one ropolos, ad the scrutineer of incense smoke, thyoskoos From before the time the Persian Wars we find seers taking omers from the flames of the actificial altar, from the manner in which the arts of are borne, and from the conformation of its internal ogans, especially the liver Prometheus in pseudo-Acchylus" play, clming to ave ught manande ars of divination.pecifies five sources of mantic knowledge: dream kledones and nodioi symboi, that is, omens from things said or encountered by chance; the fight of birds, the apec of entrails the flames of the burnt sacrifice          
           
19 BWL 120.6.1. S is H. A. Hes (ond Occident Essay          
           
to Cyrus, Nel,  Tigay, I CAD B. is ab lim. The god Nabu, who the Greeks identided with Her, had a title Nabiami, of          
           
race, which we may comith Hermes' tenag            
           
A. Goette Kleine 2nd ed. Mouse andin ANET 358 1 Sasso opot          
           
Exod The Hebelak, danc, may have the rooaning play          
           
(ibid), in which the case may compare the arly Greek use of pain play dance          
           
Theskoos does nook Eke a neolog, and the sky in it should be taken in its late          
           
for inspection (copy) there is artistidence from the last          
           
C Diviniation          
           
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ve a fuser account at the appropriate placin chap 8.) Certain          
           
Uritic texts indicate that the kings there culvated eir ancestors and          
           
d upon them at times, and one text appears to escribe how Ditanu.          
           
the firm of Ugarit, was approached for a remedy for a sick prince,          
           
and how he pronouneed ritual measures to taken. The existence of          
           
necromanyn Canaan is cowed by the everal condemnations of it in          
           
the Old Tement, as well as by the sode in which the ghost of          
           
Samuel is cald up by the witch of Edor. Herein we note that it is a          
           
prophet whose hade is consulted          
           
Purification ritu          
           
Divination might close the presence of an unsuspected evil, or the          
           
reat of an impendingne. Cathartic of apotropaic rituals might then be          
           
ced for. They er generally performed by priests, sometimes          
           
nalists in purificaton. In Greek tradition purifications are very much          
           
De price of one paticul god. Apollo, especially under his name of          
           
Phboth Pure ree and Semitic urificatory practices coincide at several joints. There thing remarkale me fact that both make use of water, the monaural and obvious cleans agents, symbolically sprinkled, or fumigation with censers torch I rather more noteworthy that both emplox pocedures of purification by means of messy substances that are rubbed over the body of the person to cleansed and then wiped off. Ince we hear of mud, an mash, and an cakes being so used, in Mestamia of fur paste or dough bread, and stewed tamarisk. In bothtures it is the wiping off (aspárrev, uppuru) that is emphasized; the contexts equivalent to purify No oubt the idea was that the staff absorbed the pollution and that both were en wiped off together; but is not a non that very people arrives at Even more striking the ideaf cleansing with the blood of a sacrificed animal.          
           
And you shall not slaughter de ram, nor d take of its blood and apply it to the tip of          
           
Aaron's right car nor the tips of his rit cars, nor to their right thumbs          
           
nor their right big toes, nor throw the ood ag the tar all round. And you          
           
wledge-spiriter of the dead. Lev          
           
1 Sam 2 below, pp.          
           
30: CAD apiru D. Laal 1 23-8, IKA The Ladal passage does to refer to with a branch as implied by the      
           
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On Purification          
           
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