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.)

 

 


[Pg v]

Analysis

Divination in Babylonia and Assyria1
Three chief methods: hepatoscopy, astrology and birth-omens1-6
Spread of Hepatoscopy and Astrology to Hittites, Etruscans, Greeks and Romans and to China3-4
The Transition motif in religious rites and popular customs5-6
Omen collections in Ashurbanapal’s Library6-7
Birth-omen reports9-12
Animal Birth-omens12-28
Double foetus13-16
Principles of interpretation14-15
Multiple births among ewes17-18
Malformation of ears19-22
Excess number of ears20-22
Ewe giving birth to young resembling lion23-26
Ewe giving birth to young resembling other animals27-28
Human Birth-omens28-41
Twins29-30
Monstrosities30
Multiple births31
Malformation of ears...

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