儀礼 「もしある人の四肢が病人のように衰弱し続けたなら」と『イシュタルの冥界下り』

Kikuchi, Saki (2015): 儀礼 「もしある人の四肢が病人のように衰弱し続けたなら」と『イシュタルの冥界下り』. 儀礼における神話的知の活用. In: Bulletin of the Society for Near Eastern Studies in Japan, Bd. 58, Nr. 1: S. 15-29

Abstract

This article analyzes the process and contents of the ritual, text “Hauptritual B” published by W. Farber, in the book Beschwörungsrituale an Ištar und Dumuzi (1977). It examines how this ritual relates to the famous mythological narrative "Ištar's Descent into the Netherworld" by using the following: (1) comparing the ritual process with typical anti-witchcraft rituals (2) comparing the roles of the main divine characters in each texts. This ritual was linked to the mythological narrative through use of identical divine characters. However, the context in which they appeared in the ritual is not identical to their counterparts in the mythological narrative. Therefore, the above mentioned relationship does not give a direct explanation of the ritual acts by linking them to mythological narratives or provide an etiology of the ritual, as stated in former studies. This article argues that this loose correlation represents another type of relationship between a ritual and a mythological narrative.

• Dokumententyp: Zeitschriftenartikel
• Keywords: Ištar's Descent into the Netherworld; Ištar; Dumuzi; gatekeeper of the Netherworld; anti-witchcraft rituals
• Fakultät: Geschichts- und Kunstwissenschaften > Historisches Seminar > Alte Geschichte
• Themengebiete: 900 Geschichte und Geografie > 930 Geschichte des Altertums (bis ca. 499), Archäologie
• ISSN: 1884-1406
• Sprache: Englisch