Ebook: Quipus and Witches’ Knots. The role of the knot in primitive and ancient cultures. With a Translation and Analysis of “Oribasius De Laqueis”

Quipus and Witches’ Knots
Quipus and Witches’ Knots
Acknowledgments
Contents
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 QUIPU (NORDENSKIÖLD’S HYPOTHESIS)
9. QUIPU 14–3866 (AN INCA ASTRONOMER’S NOTEBOOK)
10. THE INCA ABACUS
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
CHAPTER TWO: MAGIC KNOTS
THE HERCULES KNOT
THE HERCULES KNOT
THE HERCULES KNOT
CONVENTIONALIZED KNOTS
CONVENTIONALIZED KNOTS
SACRAL KNOTS
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 NAMED HERAKLAS
4. PROPRIETARY EXCLUSIVENESS
5. THE END OF AN ERA
Notes
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
Appendices: Oribasius De Laqueis
APPENDIX A
MANUSCRIPTS, EDITIONS, AND ILLUSTRATIONS
APPENDIX B
ORIBASIUS BOOK XLVII CHAPTERS 1–8
CHAPTER I: THE ERTOS BROKHOS
CHAPTER II: THE NAUTIKOS BROKHOS
CHAPTER III: THE CHIESTOS BROKHOS
CHAPTER IV: THE SAND ALIOS OR BOUKOLIKOS BROKHOS
CHAPTER V: THE DRAKON BROKHOS
CHAPTER VI: THE HAPLOUN HAMM A BROKHOS
CHAPTER VII: THE LYKOS BROKHOS
CHAPTER VIII: THE HERAKLEO TIKON HAMMA
CHAPTER X: THE DIPLOUS KARKHESIOS (1)
CHAPTER XI: THE DIPLOUS KARKHESIOS (2)
CHAPTER XII: THE DIPLOUS KARKHESIOS (3)
CHAPTER XIII: THE FOUR-LOOP PLINTHIOS
CHAPTER XIV: THE EPANKYLOTOS BROKHOS
CHAPTER XV: THE OTA BROKHOS
CHAPTER XVI: THE DIANKYLOS BROKHOS
CHAPTER XVII: THE ANKHON BROKHOS
CHAPTER XVIII: THE HYPERBATOS BROKHOS
APPENDIX C
APPENDIX D
APPENDIX E
APPENDIX F
Index