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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主要作者: Kory, Stephan N. (Author)
格式: 电子 文件
语言:English
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Interlibrary Loan:Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany)
出版: [2015]
In: Japanese journal of religious studies
Year: 2015, 卷: 42, 发布: 2, Pages: 339-380
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Yoshida, 家 / Japan / 占卜 / Feuerritual / Knochen / Hirsche / 颅骨 / Schildkröten / Panzer (动物学) / 历史 700-930
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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