Rocznik Orientalistyczny (Annual of Oriental Studies)

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Combing a horse and licking thinking. The conceptual metaphor in the 'Rgveda'

J. Jurewicz

Rocznik Orientalistyczny (Annual of Oriental Studies) > 2006 > 58 > 2 > 132-151

The article shows that the method of cognitive linguistics as it is seen in Lakoff's approach is useful in the investigation of the metaphorical language of the 'Rgveda' (13th c. BC). The authoress analyses a group of conceptual metaphors based on one general experiential domain, which is cleaning under the influence of heat. The analysis shows a semantic coherence of these metaphors, which conceptualise...

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In the World of Tulsidas's 'ram-kathas'

D. Stasik

Rocznik Orientalistyczny (Annual of Oriental Studies) > 2006 > 58 > 2 > 114-131

The article offers the analysis of four works of the famous Hindi poet Tulsidas (1532-1623) that are concerned with 'ram-katha', i.e. the story of the deeds of Ram. The objective of the study is to show the ways adopted by the poet in order to retell the well-known story. The discussion starts with the analysis of the poet's magnum opus, the epic 'Ram-carit-manas' (RCM), considered to be the greatest...

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About the Old Hittite and early Middle Hittite scripts

M. Popko

Rocznik Orientalistyczny (Annual of Oriental Studies) > 2006 > 58 > 2 > 9-13

The Old Hittite and early Middle Hittite scripts are very similar, consequently, documents in those scripts cannot be precisely dated. The date of two texts commonly considered to be Old Hittite compositions is disputable, due to the presence of dU instead of expected older dISKUR (the name of the Storm-God). This younger form reflects Hurrian/north-Syrian cultural influence in the Middle Hittite...

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Egyptian lexicography and etymology: against or with Afro-Asiatic comparison?

G. Takacs

Rocznik Orientalistyczny (Annual of Oriental Studies) > 2006 > 58 > 2 > 14-113

The paper studies certain actual aspects of current research on the comparison of the Egyptian lexical root inventory with its Afro-Asiatic kindred by re-examining the disputed segments of the underlying etymological corpus in detail. At the same time, an attempt is being made at surveying and eliminating some strange (pre)conceptions recently formulated on the subject by J. Osing (2001) on the behalf...

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Sequence of Tenses: the Case of Amharic Intentional Sentences

L. Lykowska

Rocznik Orientalistyczny (Annual of Oriental Studies) > 2006 > 59 > 1 > 142-150

The authoress analyses temporal relations in Amharic intentional sentences in which the subordinate clause is connoted by the verb of the main clause. Her approach leads to a schematic presentation of the sequence of tenses rules which govern temporal relations in Amharic intentional sentences. As the obligatory dependent clause of the intentional sentence is always introduced by a verb belonging...

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Root Reductions and Extensions in Amharic Revisited

Yiman Baye

Rocznik Orientalistyczny (Annual of Oriental Studies) > 2006 > 59 > 1 > 58-78

The author argues that verbal roots in Amharic consist of only three radicals of which only any two could be identical. Such roots serve as input for the derivation of various types of verbal and nominal stems. The process involves reduction and extension of one or two of the three radicals. The reduction affects only laryngeals and glides, and only exceptionally /b/ and /r/. The extension includes...

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British sources on Ethiopia (formerly Abyssinia) in the National Archives, Kew

H. Rubinkowska

Rocznik Orientalistyczny (Annual of Oriental Studies) > 2006 > 59 > 1 > 215-223

The National Archives in Kew holds a vast volume of information related to the history of Ethiopia. The aim of this paper is to show how many sources on the subject are hidden in the Archives, and to indicate the wide array of topics related to Ethiopian history that can be researched using the records kept there. This paper is also intended to serve as a guide for those who would like to search the...

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Participants and Observers of the British Intervention in Abyssinia (1867/68) according to k.u.k. Major Kodolitsch - the Austrian Observer

W. Smidt

Rocznik Orientalistyczny (Annual of Oriental Studies) > 2006 > 59 > 1 > 224-254

In 1868 the era of the unifier of the Christian Ethiopian kingdom, atse Tewodros II, ended following the intervention of the Bristish-Indian army led by General Napier. Even if this intervention is mentioned in every work on the history of modern Ethiopia, the intervention itself is not well studied. Many sources remain to be rediscovered. This prosopographic article is focussing at one forgotten...

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Stephanites according to Abakirezun's 'gedl'

S. Kur

Rocznik Orientalistyczny (Annual of Oriental Studies) > 2006 > 59 > 1 > 135-141

Abekirezun (ca 1390-ca 1471) was at first a disciple and then the successor of Ist'ifanos, the founder of the monastic movement of Stephanites. His gedl reveals the great flowering of this movement, but at the same time controversies and persecution it sufferd from the local powers, the king and other monasteries. Gedl does not mention the reason of these controversies but we can conclude that they...

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The Quest for 'Civilization': The Pre-World War II Modernizing Policies of Ras Täfäri Mäkonnen (Later Emperor Haylä Sellasé) as Expounded in His 'Autobiography' and in the 'Chronicle of Empress Zäwditu'

R. Pankhurst

Rocznik Orientalistyczny (Annual of Oriental Studies) > 2006 > 59 > 1 > 181-201

The reign of Täfäri-Mäkonnen-Haylä Sellasé was unique in Ethiopian history not only in that it witnessed a considerable escalation in the modernization process initiated by Emperor Menilek, but in that it is described not only in a chronicle - but also by the ruler himself. We know of this period in fact from two primary Ethiopian sources: the chronicle of Empress Zäwditu (which covers the period...

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Ethiopia and Medieval England: Persistence of Patterns in Rural Life

P. B. Henze

Rocznik Orientalistyczny (Annual of Oriental Studies) > 2006 > 59 > 1 > 113-123

The author describes a trek through the Goncha Gorge in the very northeastern corner of Gojjam in 1995. He observed life and customs which reminded him of descriptions of life in medieval England as described by Barbara Hanawalt in a book recreating the essence of life at that time, 'The Ties that Bind'. He describes striking similarities between traditional peasant life in today's Ethiopia and life...

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Rabeh Zubair in Central Sudan According to a Hausa Story

S. Pilaszewicz

Rocznik Orientalistyczny (Annual of Oriental Studies) > 2006 > 59 > 1 > 202-214

This article is an analysis of Rabeh Zubair's career as presented in the second part of a Hausa narrative by certain cajj AEmed which is often considered as the first Hausa drama. The narrative is based on oral tradition, significance of which as a historical source in Africa is now quite generally recognised and accepted. The story of Rabeh is seen from an African perspective, giving his balanced...

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Ethiopian and African Studies

I. Taddia

Rocznik Orientalistyczny (Annual of Oriental Studies) > 2006 > 59 > 1 > 255-264

Ethiopian historiography is a separate field of research within the domain of African history. The article discusses the implications - in both positive and negative sense - of this area of studies in the context of African historiography. Eritrean studies are also included in this perspective given the impossibility to separate the two regions by an historical point of view. The authoress outlines...

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Evidentiality, Absolute Present and Factivity in Neo-Ethiopic Historiography

O. Kapeliuk

Rocznik Orientalistyczny (Annual of Oriental Studies) > 2006 > 59 > 1 > 124-134

Historiographical writings in the modern languages of Ethiopia - Amharic and Tigrinya - contain some special linguistic features not found usually in other genres of texts. These are in particular: the enclitic particle -ya in Tigrinya, and in Amharic, the use of the present perfect for marking the punctual present and of the factitive stem when referring to the Emperor. The particle -ya is used as...

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'Against Twenty-Five and Thirty Devils' - Two Ethiopian Painted Amulets from the British Museum

E. Balicka-Witakowska

Rocznik Orientalistyczny (Annual of Oriental Studies) > 2006 > 59 > 1 > 33-46

The paper discusses two paintings on parchment preserved in the British Museum collection, one representing the cycle of Moses, the second St. Mary, St. George and a pair of suppliants. Both are found to be amulets, although they lack protective prayers, which is an unusual feature. Their effectiveness is based upon a carefully chosen set of apotropaic images.

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An Architectural Survey of the Church of Emakina (where E stands for reverted 'E') Mädhane Aläm (Lasta, Ethiopia)

M. Gervers

Rocznik Orientalistyczny (Annual of Oriental Studies) > 2006 > 59 > 1 > 92-112

The basilica church of E*makina Mädhane Aläm, one of five known churches in Lasta to be built in a cave, is related through its architecture to the church of Ye*mrähannä Kre*stos (where e* stands for reverted 'e') and through its extensive program of mural paintings to the church of Gännätä Maryam. It bears witness to an early stage in the development of the sanctuary type which occupied the full...

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'Filekseyus', the Ethiopic version of the Syriac Dadisho Qatraya's 'Commentary on the Paradise of the Fathers'

W. Witakowski

Rocznik Orientalistyczny (Annual of Oriental Studies) > 2006 > 59 > 1

An Ethiopic text of monastic literature entitled 'Filekseyus' is a translation from Syriac (via Arabic) of the 'Commentary on the Paradise of the Fathers' by Dadisho Qatraya, an East Syrian monk (7th century). It contains stories of the Egyptian monks composed in the form of questions (asked by 'brethren') and answers (given by an 'interpreter' or an 'old man'). The text was adopted by the West Syrians,...

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Jesuite missionaries in Ethiopia: their role as exorcists, healers and miracle-makers (1603-1632)

L. Cohen

Rocznik Orientalistyczny (Annual of Oriental Studies) > 2006 > 59 > 1

The present article focuses on certain activities engaged in by both Jesuit missionaries and Ethiopian holy men, as for example, when missionaries acted as intermediaries between God and men, conjuring evil forces, exorcising demons and performing miracles through the use of holy water, relics or images of saints. In Ethiopian society, healing was not perceived as a secular activity. As we show here,...

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The Trinitarian incipit in the context of Ethiopia's heretical discursive formation in the period from the 15th to 17th century

K. Terminska

Rocznik Orientalistyczny (Annual of Oriental Studies) > 2006 > 59 > 1 > 265-280

The poetic incipit of a sixteenth-century Ethiopian manuscript - the life of a monastery's prior, which is considered heretical, is like any expression steeped in a discursive formation which determines its existence. The following areas should be covered to describe it: the great Trinitarian dispute within Christianity, the tradition of Ethiopian literature, the reformist and theological dispute...

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The manuscript tradition of the Ethiopic 'Qalementos'. A short note

A. Bausi

Rocznik Orientalistyczny (Annual of Oriental Studies) > 2006 > 59 > 1 > 47-57

In the absence of any edition whatsoever, whether critical or not, what is known of the Ethiopic 'Qalementos', 'Clement', the seven-book Revelation of Peter to Clement, still mainly depends upon the contributions by A. Dillmann 1858, S. Grébaut 1911 ff. and A. Bausi 1992. Dillmann was the first to recognize the transpositions of contents that occurred in the only ms. at his disposal, i.e. Tübingen,...

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Rocznik Orientalistyczny (Annual of Oriental Studies)

Combing a horse and licking thinking. The conceptual metaphor in the 'Rgveda'

In the World of Tulsidas's 'ram-kathas'

About the Old Hittite and early Middle Hittite scripts

Egyptian lexicography and etymology: against or with Afro-Asiatic comparison?

Sequence of Tenses: the Case of Amharic Intentional Sentences

Root Reductions and Extensions in Amharic Revisited

British sources on Ethiopia (formerly Abyssinia) in the National Archives, Kew

Participants and Observers of the British Intervention in Abyssinia (1867/68) according to k.u.k. Major Kodolitsch - the Austrian Observer

Stephanites according to Abakirezun's 'gedl'

The Quest for 'Civilization': The Pre-World War II Modernizing Policies of Ras Täfäri Mäkonnen (Later Emperor Haylä Sellasé) as Expounded in His 'Autobiography' and in the 'Chronicle of Empress Zäwditu'

Ethiopia and Medieval England: Persistence of Patterns in Rural Life

Rabeh Zubair in Central Sudan According to a Hausa Story

Ethiopian and African Studies

Evidentiality, Absolute Present and Factivity in Neo-Ethiopic Historiography

'Against Twenty-Five and Thirty Devils' - Two Ethiopian Painted Amulets from the British Museum

An Architectural Survey of the Church of Emakina (where E stands for reverted 'E') Mädhane Aläm (Lasta, Ethiopia)

'Filekseyus', the Ethiopic version of the Syriac Dadisho Qatraya's 'Commentary on the Paradise of the Fathers'

Jesuite missionaries in Ethiopia: their role as exorcists, healers and miracle-makers (1603-1632)

The Trinitarian incipit in the context of Ethiopia's heretical discursive formation in the period from the 15th to 17th century

The manuscript tradition of the Ethiopic 'Qalementos'. A short note

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