Iatromantis

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Ancient Greek Religion
Main doctrines
Polytheism · Mythology · Hubris
Orthopraxy · Reciprocity · Virtue
Practices

Amphidromia · Iatromantis
Pharmakos · Temples
Votive Offerings · Animal sacrifice
Deities
Twelve Olympians:
Ares · Artemis · Aphrodite · Apollo
Athena · Demeter · Hera · Hestia
Hermes · Hephaestus · Poseidon · Zeus
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Primordial deities:
Aether · Chaos · Chronos · Erebus
Gaia · Hemera · Nyx · Tartarus · Oranos
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Lesser gods:
Dionysus · Eros · Hebe · Hecate · Helios
Herakles · Iris · Selene · Pan · Nike
Texts
Argonautica · Iliad · Odyssey
Theogony · Works and Days
See also:
Decline of Hellenistic polytheism
Hellenic Polytheistic Reconstructionism
Supreme Council of Ethnikoi Hellenes
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Iatromantis (from iatreia "healing, care" and manteia "divination, oracle") is a Greek word whose literal meaning is most simply rendered "physician-seer." Perhaps the most famous iatromantis was the Greek presocratic philosopher Parmenides, best known as the founder of western logic. Iatromantis, a form of Greek shamanism, is related to other semimythical figures such as Abaris, Aristeas, Epimenides, and Hermotimus.[1]

According to Dr. Peter Kingsley, iatromantis figures belonged to a wider Greek and Asian shamanic tradition with origins in Central Asia.[2] A main ecstatic, meditative practice of these healer-prophets was incubation (enkoimesis). More than just a medical technique, incubation reportedly allowed a human being to experience a fourth state of consciousness different from sleeping, dreaming, or ordinary waking: a state that Kingsley describes as “consciousness itself” and likens to the turiya or samadhi of the Indian yogic traditions.

References

  1. ^ Luck, Georg (2006). Arcana Mundi: Magic and the Occult in the Greek and Roman Worlds: A Collection of Ancient Texts, The Johns Hopkins University Press. pp.pp. 500. ISBN 0801883466. 
  2. ^ Kingsley, Peter (1999). In the Dark Places of Wisdom, The Golden Sufi Center. pp.pp. 255. ISBN 1-890350-01-X. 
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