« Trois pas vers les dieux. Le tripudium entre danse et divination », dans K. Schlapbach, Aspects of Roman Dance Culture, Stuttgart, 2022, 65-84
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Francesca Prescendi, « « Trois pas vers les dieux. Le tripudium entre danse et divination », dans K. Schlapbach, Aspects of Roman Dance Culture, Stuttgart, 2022, 65-84 », HAL SHS (Sciences de l’Homme et de la Société), ID : 10670/1.f471b9...
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: This chapter examines the term tripudium as a form of dance and a form of divination. In the context of religious processions (Arvals, Salians, and others), the tripudium denotes a se- quence of three steps which associates the singing of an hymn to the rhythmical beats of the feet. In divination, it signifies a way of controlling the consentment of the gods by observing whether the chickens eat. These two practices can be linked if one admits the existence of an archaic form of divination based on the observation of how the chickens behaved in general, and in particular of how they hopped towards their fodder. A contact between these two practices could have occurred in the context of the Salien rites, both at the level of the divinatory practices performed by these priests and at the level of the symbolism suggested by their dance and by the myth of their origin.
