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Spanish to English translations [PRO] Social Sciences - Archaeology / Falconry / Hittite sculpture | | Spanish term or phrase: dios tutelar | The text below comes from a narrative describing the origins of falconry.
En la obra de Bittel sobre los hititas10, se presenta un relieve ortostato (piedra vertical empleada en la construcción de una cámara megalítica) que muestra el manejo de las aves de presa para la caza en el s IX a.C. Representa un *dios tutelar* que lleva una vara, un ave de presa y una liebre. Procede de Kültepe, antigua ciudad en Anatolia Central, Turquía.
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| | tutelary god | Explanation: All of this is perhaps most potently expressed with the Hittite expression that the tutelary god ‘goes before’ the king in battle (Bryce 2002, Beal 1995). ...
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Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia; Zarya, Goddess of healing waters Slavic; Zashapuna, Tutelary god of the town of Kastama Hittite; Zashiki Warashi. ...
bulfinch.englishatheist.org/b/pantheon/God-List-Z.htm
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tutelary |
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Explanation: All of this is perhaps most potently expressed with the Hittite expression that the tutelary god ‘goes before’ the king in battle (Bryce 2002, Beal 1995). ...
proteus.brown.edu/riseofstate/4473
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Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia; Zarya, Goddess of healing waters Slavic; Zashapuna, Tutelary god of the town of Kastama Hittite; Zashiki Warashi. ...
bulfinch.englishatheist.org/b/pantheon/God-List-Z.htm
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tutelary
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