Maneros song

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Maneros song is an Egyptian Linos song of sowing and harvesting which, from a musicological point of view, has similarities with Linos songs in the whole of Asia Minor and Greece. Lamentation Linus: the plaintiff. By Schiller vice wrote Nadowessische lament involves Adonis, Linos- and Maneros Song of the Greeks, Syrians and Egyptians with one.

interpretation

According to Herodotus , the Maneros Song is presented as the oldest and only song for the son of the first king of Egypt. On the other hand, Plutarch declares Maneros to be a toast and translates it as Greek "May it get well!". At the same time, however, he also allows the interpretation that Maneros was a son of the king of Byblos , who was blinded by the evil eye of Isis and died. In memory of his early death, the lamentation of Osiris was sung. Current research assumes that maneros was the beginning ( incipit ) of a lost ancient Egyptian chant. An attempt is made to deduce the fate of a specific person. In the 19th century one looked for interpretations in the direction of the Osiris cult, according to which Maneros was the drowned Osiris , who was seen by the farmers in the pantheistic belief in the grain as the god of vegetation, and the complaint about their own interference in nature, i.e. the harvest , so that the chants should appease the gods. In this way, both fundamentally different interpretations can be brought together. First the toasts after the work in the field and the memory of the deceased Osiris, who was seen in Maneros, an Egyptian king's son.

literature

  • Hartwig Altenmüller : Maneros - toast or lament? In: Archaeological Studies in Contact Zones of the Ancient World . Göttingen Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 1998 ( online )
  • Hans Bonnet : Maneros , in: Lexikon der Ägyptischen Religionsgeschichte , Hamburg 2000 ISBN 3-937872-08-6 p. 440.
  • Oskar Fleischer: A chapter of comparative musicology . In: Anthologies of the International Music Society . Vol. 1, No. 1 (November 1899), pp. 1-53.
  • Theodor Hopfner: Plutarch. About Isisis and Osiris , Vol. 1 Prague 1940
  • Kindlers Lexikon, Vol. 19 Anonyma. ed. v. Walter Jens Munich 1996