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88 i Flora Unveiled The beginning of the Uruk period was marked by a vast increase in the number and size of settlements. Since ...
Sacred Trees and Enclosed Gardens j 89 89 89 The other great religious center of Uruk, the Eanna temple complex, was where the S ...
90 i Flora Unveiled make up the agricultural food chain. At the very bottom, a pair of wavy lines wrap around the base of the va ...
91 91 (a) (b) Figure 5.2 Details from the Warka vase, Early Sumerian Period, third quarter of the fourth millennium bce. A. Lowe ...
92 i Flora Unveiled At the New Year, on the day of the rites, in order for her to determine the fate of all the countries, so th ...
93 93 (a) (b) Figure 5.3 Date palm reproductive structures. A. Male inflorescence still enclosed within its prophyll or spathe. ...
94 i Flora Unveiled female (pistillate) flowers are spherical in shape, with three small green sepals fused to form a cup- like ...
Sacred Trees and Enclosed Gardens j 95 95 95 Exactly when Mesopotamians first learned the technique of artificial pollination of ...
96 i Flora Unveiled #65 If the gardener do not properly manage the orchard, and he diminish the produce, the gardener shall meas ...
Sacred Trees and Enclosed Gardens j 97 97 97 word for the female flowers was uhinnu, and the name for the male flowers was rikbu ...
98 i Flora Unveiled gardener to supply the male flowers at exactly the right stage. This last conclusion contra- dicts Scheil, w ...
Sacred Trees and Enclosed Gardens j 99 99 99 When hung as pendants, the supposed “wheat stalks” resemble the branches (rachillae ...
100 i Flora Unveiled the priestesses, who personify these goddesses. Because they symbolize vegetation, they are regarded as dec ...
Sacred Trees and Enclosed Gardens j 101 101 101 woody prophylls and release their pollen while in an upright orientation. The pe ...
102 i Flora Unveiled (presumably husband and wife) are drinking from goblets, which they hold in their right hands. In her left ...
103 103 (a) (b) Figure 5.8 Sumerian vegetation deities. A. Bas- relief of vegetation goddess, dating to 2500– 2371 bce; from Lag ...
104 i Flora Unveiled the Foothills”), also known as Nintu (“Lady of Birth”). Enki impregnates Ninhursag, and she gives birth to ...
Sacred Trees and Enclosed Gardens j 105 105 105 In the city of Nippur, Ninshebargunu was the goddess of barley, and in the city ...
106 i Flora Unveiled cycles. She is particularly associated with trees, fertility, and crops, as illustrated by three myths: Gil ...
Sacred Trees and Enclosed Gardens j 107 107 107 take her place as a prisoner in the Underworld, thus freeing her to return above ...
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