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Cursed Are You!

Cursed Are You!

Kitz, Anne Marie

Hardcover

Literary CriticismOccultAncient History General

ISBN10: 1575062712
ISBN13: 9781575062716
Publisher: Eisenbrauns
Published: Jan 20 2014
Pages: 536
Weight: 2.51
Height: 1.70 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.20
Language: English

This is a book about curses. It is not about curses as insults or offensive language but curses as petitions to the divine world to render judgment and execute harm on identified, hostile forces.

In the ancient world, curses functioned in a way markedly different from our own, and it is into the world of the ancient Near East that we must go in order to appreciate the scope of their influence. For the ancient Near Easterners, curses had authentic meaning. Curses were part of their life and religion. They were not inherently magic or features of superstitions, nor were they mere curiosities or trifling antidotes. They were real and effective. They were employed proactively and reactively to manage life's many vicissitudes and maintain social harmony. They were principally protective, but they were also the cause of misfortune, illness, depression, and anything else that undermined a comfortable, well-balanced life. Every member of society used them, from slave to king, from young to old, from men and women to the deities themselves. They crossed cultural lines and required little or no explanation, for curses were the source of great evil. In other words, curses were universal.

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