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Voces Magicae in Earlier Mesopotamian Incantation Tradition: Poetics, Function and Sitz im Leben
 Mokrý, Matouš ; Antalík, Dalibor (advisor) ; Wagensonner, Klaus (referee)
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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Animal Blood Sacrifice in Left-Hand Path and Satanic Milieu: Case Study of the Author N.A-A.218
 Mokrý, Matouš ; Dyndová, Helena (advisor) ; Pehal, Martin (referee)
Krvavá zvířecí oběť v Left-Hand Path a satanském milieu: Případová studie autora N.A-A.218 Matouš Mokrý English Abstract: The main aim of this paper was to study the meaning and nature of Chaos-gnostic animal sacrifice in the texts of N.A-A.218, to describe its social functions and to put it in its social and discoursive context, and thus to provide further understanding of its occurrence within the Left-Hand Path and satanic milieu whose dominant actors have rejected the act of animal sacrifice. The work deals in more detail mainly with discourses found in the texts of N.A- A.218 which are expressing the conception of sacrificial blood as magically potent substance constituting the seat of animal's life; do ut des principle; traditionality and duty of animal sacrifice and the conception of sacrifice as gradual killing of one's own ego which constitutes the part of a Chaos-gnostic's personality that is tying him to the demiurgic material world and its society. Whereas the discourses of blood as a magically potent substance and do ut des principle harmonize the Chaos-gnostic animal sacrifice with intuitive conceptions arising in connection with animal sacrifice across individual human cultures, the discourse of compulsory tradition shapes animal sacrifice as a tool of building, maintaining and control of...
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