CLA308H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Oropos, Hygieia, Natural Disaster
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Ouranic vs chthonic deities: chthonic = earth/underworld, ouranic = heavenly ex, heavenly: sacrifices need to be visible, so burning for smoke that goes up or facing east to the sun and the alter outside the temple. Chthonic, blood from an animal allowed to drain into the ground. Temenos: holds the altar, the land that belongs to the god. Peribolos: boundary stones, wood fence encircling, etc. Perirrhanterion: holy water that you sprinkle yourself with on entering the hieron. Asylum: some have a safe spot, some are where a slave or criminal can go, hiding from enemies. But you cannot leave and still be safe. Hiereus: priest, watches over prayer and sacrifices. Property of god, no stealing (asylum: punishment: the god will punish, or solved by the hiereus is minor. Polluted people and things cannot enter miasma, being around death or childbirth recently, gender or menstruation, as they are markers of humanity must go through purification ritual to wash this off.
