Abstract (EN)
In the introduction and colophon parts of these rituals, it is appeared to give place to the performers sexuality, his profession, to be where from and the ritual what?s `bout. And finally the tools that is used in, is ordered. The variety and the amount of these tools depens on the sacrifice masters economic and social status. These masters are selected among the king, the king and the queen, the high ranked officials. Also the person who hasn?t got a good economic condition is to be make rituals. But for this reason the tools that wanted from them is appropriate to their economic structure charging rituals, person could also take some part of these tools which is brought by sacrifice master and used in the ritual action.The Hittites text dealing with the magic shows that it has got an important effect in Hittites world. By every kind of illness, the death of the king or the person who related with the royal family, the death as a reason of chewing the oath, killing someone, the spell, the gossip, the sexual relationship between the close relatives, seated to the trone, the purified rites that performs for the king and the queen, quarrelsome among the family members, disagreementsberween the friends; to be sweared the fidelity oath the soldiers, performed rite after a defeat, purifying mouth rite, unfruitfulness of vineyard, locust invasion and the much of like these events, they wanted to benefit from the magical force.Next to the positive influence, it could be prononciated the existence of the wicked spell in the Hittite society. The every class of society, especially by royal family, applies beneficial spell. But wicked spell could be decided as a serious crime which is punished with the capital punishment in the Hittite laws. The role of spell began to be well documented since the Middle Period of Hittite State. As a concept, spell is gone to the Hittites from the south and southeast of the Anatolia, where was speaking Luwian and Hurrian language, especially from Kizzuwatna.Hittites sorcery has etymologically a big importance; because of spell texts have a valuable ethnology quality that affecting and quoting all Anatolian believes. Often, by giving examples from the cuneiform documents, we tried to explain that how important the magic for Hittite. Otherwise, by eliminate nearly all the main texts, we completed our study.Key Words1. Hittite2. Ritual3. Magic4. Religion5. Medicine
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Dr. Sebahat Çepel
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Sebahat Çepel (Master Thesis). Magic ritual of Hittite, 2011, Gazi University.
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