%0 Journal Article
%T The Fortune-Telling of Liver, Bird-Flying in Hittites and Their Tracks on Etruscans
%A Murat Orhun
%J Journal of Gazi Academic View
%D 2009
%I Gazi University
%X The human in ancient times regarded certain supernatural objects or events, which looked superior to them as celestial because he was afraid of the nature. As a result, he made up a number of totems in the nature such as the sun, moon, sky, soil, water, plants and etc.; for this reason all religious movements were built on a politeist and pantheonist mind. On the other hand, the irresistible desire in man to find out what gods thought of him was the main constituent of the fortune-telling. As in all ancient societies, Hittites and Etruscans also developed certain techniques of fortune-telling to know about the theological wish, among which were fortune-telling of liver or bird-flying. In this study, in spite of the highly distant time zones of Hittites and Etruscans, these two similar techniques were depicted. In that way, it is correlated that there could be a cultural link between Hittites, who established a prominent civilization in Anatolia, and Etruscans, assumed to be an Anatolian originated society before establishing another prominent civilization in Europe, who also had a prominent effect on Roman culture.
%K Hittite
%K Etruscan
%K Roman
%K fortune-telling
%K track.
%U http://www.ataum.gazi.edu.tr/pdf/hititler-8217de-karaciger-fali-kus-ucusu-fali-ve-bunlarin-etruskler-8217deki-uzantisi-1265116719.z2K