Voorbeelden van oracular

• The existence of multiple oracular sources of legitimacy meant that a claim of divine right could always be challenged.

• A case is made that the masks originally served as the faces of oracular mortuary bundles.

• To say culturally that they are created by divine fiat, means socially that they are created through the politics of temple control and oracular readings.

• Other oracular deities took a little more time to administer punishment.

• This pattern establishes a symbol of open, multilayered space and a solemnity suitable to the poem's oracular delivery.

• Headrick could have made it possible for one individual, or a small group of individuals, to easily control admittance to the oracular mor tuarybundle ancestors.

• Such a constellation of traits suggests that the statue personified oracular powers, the propitiation of which required covenants with humans in the form of prayers and offerings.

• Innovation is a twofold threat to academic mediocrities : it endangers their oracular authority, and it evokes the deeper fear that their whole, laboriously constructed edifice might collapse.