From Deer Bones to Turtle Shells: The State Ritualization of Pyro-Plastromancy during the Nara-Heian Transition
This article reviews received and recovered evidence of divination with bone and fire in early Japan to identify and investigate a shift from deer scapulae to turtle shells that took place during the Nara-Heian transition, particularly within the state cult. It questions why this shift occurred and...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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[2015]
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Japanese journal of religious studies
Year: 2015, Volume: 42, Issue: 2, Pages: 339-380 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Yoshida, Family
/ Japan
/ Fortune-telling
/ Fire ritual
/ Bones
/ Deer
/ Skull
/ Turtles
/ Tanks (Military science) (Zoology)
/ History 700-930
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| IxTheo Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AG Religious life; material religion BM Chinese universism; Confucianism; Taoism BN Shinto KBM Asia TF Early Middle Ages |
| Further subjects: | B
Omens
B Heian period B Diviners B Family names B Religious Studies B Religious rituals B Shintoism B Divinity B Clans |
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