The Babylonian World (Routledge Worlds)

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CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO THE ROLE AND FUNCTION OF GODDESSES IN MESOPOTAMIA  Brigitte Groneberg W hen looking at some Mesopotamian g ...

We could say that the Sumerian cities of Nippur and Ur were the role models for the emergent Old Babylonian culture (Van De Mier ...

guaranteed justice and they regulated human life from the cradle to the grave and beyond. The gods determined the sˇimtu‘fate’ o ...

world is an idealised representation of life on earth we may recognise, in the goddesses at least, aspects of the life of some o ...

She is also known by the name Nanaya, which probably means ‘little Inanna’, when her aspect as loving goddess is being stressed ...

die (Weiershäuser 2004 : unpubl. diss.). This phenomenon is not only of interest in the political history of the region, it also ...

MEDICINE AND THE INTERPRETATION OF DREAMS There are several names of goddesses who are connected with the care and healing of th ...

this personal deity could disappear and thus leave the populace to their fate (Lambert 1960 : 33 : 45 – 46 ; 38 : 4 – 5 ). The i ...

Nisaba’s duties were probably, at first, the maintenance of the grain crops. Already from the earliest texts in the third millen ...

administrative personnel with that of Enlil’s temple, so she was not completely independent from him. Ninlil had major functions ...

possessions stand in direct relation to their importance and role in the social and ideological network of the city. Those godde ...

their myths, that the burden of working is delegated from the gods to mankind (Lambert 1969 ). In this ideal realm of gods we ha ...

Sallaberger, W. 1993. Der kultische Kalender der Ur III – Zeit. Teil 1. Untersuchungen zur Assyriologie und Vorderasiatischen Ar ...

CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE INANNA AND ISHTAR IN THE BABYLONIAN WORLD  Joan Goodnick Westenholz I nanna (in Sumerian) and Ishtar (in ...

which was attained through the divine consecration manifested in the rite of ‘sacred marriage’ that sanctioned the authority of ...

relation to her later epiphanies in order to determine their significance as regards her origin, character and function. The ear ...

The two epithets húd‘morning’ and sig‘evening’ describe the goddess as two manifestations of the planet Venus, one shining in th ...

Third millennium In this period, there were many local forms of Inanna as shown by the god lists and offering lists as well as t ...

114 Without you no destiny at all is determined,.... 115 To run, to escape, to quiet and to pacify are yours, Inanna. 117 To ope ...