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Babylonian-Assyrian Birth-Omens and Their Cultural Significance

Babylonian-Assyrian Birth-Omens and Their Cultural Significance

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Babylonian-Assyrian
Birth-Omens

And

Their Cultural Significance

 

by
Morris Jastrow, jr.
Ph. D. (Leipzig) Professor of Semitic Languages in the University
of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia)

 

 

Gießen 1914
Verlag von Alfred Töpelmann (vormals J. Ricker)

 

 

Religionsgeschichtliche
Versuche und Vorarbeiten

begründet von
Albrecht Dieterich und Richard Wünsch
herausgegeben von
Richard Wünsch und Ludwig Deubner
in Münster i. W. in Königsberg i. Pr.
XIV. Band. 5. Heft

 

 

To

SIR WILLIAM OSLER

Regius Professor of Medicine
Oxford University

This volume is dedicated
as a mark of esteem and admiration.

“Most fine, most honour’d, most renown’d.”
(King Henry V, 2d Part, Act IV, 5, 164.)

 

 


Analysis

Divination in Babylonia and Assyria 1
Three chief methods: hepatoscopy, astrology and birth-omens 1-6
Spread of Hepatoscopy and Astrology to Hittites, Etruscans, Greeks and Romans and to China 3-4
The Transition motif in religious rites and popular customs 5-6
Omen collections in Ashurbanapal’s Library 6-7
Birth-omen reports 9-12
Animal Birth-omens 12-28
Double foetus 13-16
Principles of interpretation 14-15
Multiple births among ewes 17-18
Malformation of ears 19-22
Excess number of ears 20-22
Ewe giving birth to young resembling lion 23-26
Ewe giving birth to young resembling other animals 27-28
Human Birth-omens 28-41
Twins 29-30
Monstrosities 30
Multiple births 31
Malformation of ears 32-33
Malformation of mouth, nostrils, jaws, arms, lips, hand 33-34
Malformation of anus, genital member, thigh, feet 35-36
Principles of interpretation 36
Misshapen embryos 37
Weaklings, cripples, deaf-mutes, still-births, dwarfs 38-39
Talking infants, with bearded lips and teeth 39
Infants with animal features 32. 33. 35-36. 40-41
Study of Human Physiognomy among Greeks and Romans

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