Quipus and Witches' Knots: The Role of the Knot in Primitive and Ancient Culture, with a Translation and Analysis of Oribasius de Laqueis

ISBN-13: 9780700631469 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 168 str.

Cyrus Lawrence Day

Spis treści

• Acknowledgments
• Chapter One: Mnemonic Knots
• 1. Knot-Calendars
• 2. Lee Boo and His "Line"
• 3. Polynesian Knot-Records
• 4. Miscellaneous Knot-Records
• 5. Phylacteries and Fringes
• 6. Abacus, Rosary, and Log Line
• 7. The Peruvian Quipu (Locke's Analysis)
• 8. The Peruvian Quipus (Nordenskiöld's Hypothesis)
• 9. Quipu 14-3866 (An Inca Astronomer's Notebook)
• 11. Statistical and Cultural Quipus
• Chapter Two: Magic Knots
• 1. Homeopathic and Contagious Magic
• 2. Wind and Rain
• 3. Sickness and Disease
• 4. Miscellaneous Cures
• 5. Knot Amulets
• 6. The Hercules Knot
• 7. the Slip Knot
• 8. Miscellaneous Amulets
• 9. Maleficium
• 10. Love Knots
• 11. Religious Knots
• Chapter Three: Practical Knots
• 1. The Age of String
• 2. The Oldest Knots
• 3. A Physician Names Haraklas
• 4. Proprietary Exclusiveness
• 5. The End of an Era
• Notes
• Appendices: Oribasius De Laqueis
• Index