The Babylonian World (Routledge Worlds)

132... mercy and pity are yours, Inanna. 134 To cause the... heart to tremble,... illnesses are yours, Inanna. 135 To have a wif ...

As all young love, it ends in tragedy with the death of Dumuzi at the hands of bandits. Inanna and his sister search unceasingly ...

He placed the heavens on my head as a crown. He put the earth at my feet as sandals. He wrapped the holy bagarment around my bod ...

In this period, the character of the goddess shifts from Inanna, the Sumerian troublesome young woman, to Ishtar, the queen of h ...

Other ritual information is fragmentary but provides some interesting insights. The night-until-morn bellowing shrieks mixed wit ...

language, and Ishtar-of-Babylon playing the role of the seductive woman flaunting her sexual attraction. Leick ( 1994 : 246 ) ha ...

Royal hymns and personal prayers directed to Ishtar for assistance are plentiful in the first millennium. In liturgical composit ...

and she causes disease. On the 28 th, the day of the byre, you dedicate to Ishtar a vulva of lapis lazuli with a little gold sta ...

millennium onwards do the two writings alternate in such a way as to prove that the cuneiform sign INANNA should be read Ishtari ...

Westenholz, J. G., 2000 , ‘King by Love of Inanna – an image of female empowerment?’, NIN, Journal of Near Eastern Gender Studie ...

CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR THE BABYLONIAN GOD MARDUK  Takayoshi Oshima T his chapter will be discussing Marduk’s rise to supremacy i ...

Ea, exalted him among the Igigu deities, named the city of Babylon with its august name and made it supreme within the regions o ...

— Takayoshi Oshima — Figure 24. 1 Drawing based on a cylinder seal of Marduk dedicated by the Babylonian king, Marduk-zakir-shum ...

is that Marduk’s statue had been captured by the Elamites, Nebuchadrezzar claims in an ancient text that Marduk had ordered his ...

The plot of the story is as follows: Apsu, ‘the Deep Water’, and Tiamat, ‘the Sea’, are the first gods, and the father and the m ...

They were also responsible for teaching ethical behaviour to their human wards. In earlier periods the ancient Mesopotamians wor ...

What seems bad in one’s own heart is proper to one’s god. Who knows the will of the gods in the heavens? Who understands the pla ...

the other hand, was hardly invoked when one sought absolution of his sins and redemption in prayers of this kind.^34 This fact s ...

Some statues of Marduk were made of this type of wood, but other materials were also used.^42 The Akitu-festivals, particularly ...

7 Sommerfeld 1979 – 1981 : 100. For the reference of the cylinder seals from the Kassite period, see Sommerfeld 1982 : 156 – 157 ...