Haimakouria

Haimakouria ( Greek αἱμακουρία ) refers to a blood sacrifice for the dead in the Greek religion . It is part of a larger and larger victim such as a Thysia . The term is seldom passed down. The oldest evidence comes from Pindar from the 5th century BC. Chr.

definition

The Haimakouria is a blood sacrifice for the dead.

Pindar uses the term Haimakouria in his Olympic Ode to Pelops . In the scholias of Pindar it is explained as a Boiotic term for a blood enagism . Gunnel Ekroth interprets the text passage in Pindar in such a way that an actual Thysia is described there with a supplementary theoxenia and a Haimakouria.

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Haimakouria is a seldom passed down term. Apart from Pindar, it is only mentioned in Plutarch and in late antique encyclopedias.

literature

• Gunnel Ekroth: The Sacrificial Rituals of Greek Hero-Cults in the Archaic to the Early Hellenistic Period (= Kernos . Supplement volume 12). Center International d'Étude de la Religion Grecque Antique, Liège 2002, ISBN 2-87456-003-0 , ISBN 2-8218-2900-0 ( openedition.org ).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Gunnel Ekroth: The Sacrificial Rituals of Greek Hero-Cults in the Archaic to the Early Hellenistic Period. Liége 2002, p. 102 (Chapter I, Paragraph 173).
2. ↑ Pindar, Olympic Odes 1.90.
3. ↑ Scholion zu Pindar, Olympic Oden 1,146a – d and 1,150a.
4. ↑ "a term for Boiotian enagismata to the dead and enagismoi of blood". Gunnel Ekroth: The Sacrificial Rituals of Greek Hero-Cults in the Archaic to the Early Hellenistic Period. Liége 2002, p. 118 (Chapter I, Paragraph 199).
5. ^ Gunnel Ekroth: The Sacrificial Rituals of Greek Hero-Cults in the Archaic to the Early Hellenistic Period. Liége 2002, p. 191 f. (Chapter II, paragraph 166).
6. ↑ Plutarch, Aristeides 21.5.
7. ↑ Hesych sv αἱμακουρία ; Etymologicum magnum sv αἱμακουρία .
8. ^ Gunnel Ekroth: The Sacrificial Rituals of Greek Hero-Cults in the Archaic to the Early Hellenistic Period. Liége 2002, p. 171 f. (Chapter II, paragraph 117).