Voces magicae ve starší mezopotámské inkantační tradici: Poetika, funkce a Sitz im Leben

Mokrý, Matouš

Voces Magicae in Earlier Mesopotamian Incantation Tradition: Poetics, Function and Sitz im Leben Bc. Matouš Mokrý Abstract The presented master's thesis aims at exploring linguistic opacity in early Mesopotamian magical tradition (from Early Dynastic period up to Old Babylonian times) via studying individual lexical and grammatical unintelligible passages embedded in otherwise understandable Sumerian and Akkadian incantations (these passages are then termed voces magicae). In the framework of cognitive semiotics, the employment of voces magicae at the beginning of the incantation rite can be understood as helping to establish the ritual as separate (communication) event shunned from everyday expectations and conceptions, where conceptions of magical power in words and acts with no intuitive causal and instrumental connection to the purported effect could arise, whereas unintelligible passages in parts of the spells intended to achieve the purported effect can facilitate mental representations of force and dynamics behind the words (needed for mental representations of instrumentality of the incantation rite to arise) via highlighting their formal (aural) characteristics which are foregrounded due to the absence of any linguistic symbolic meaning. Furthermore, the opaque numerous (usually septenary)...

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