Sumerian Mythology: A Study of Spiritual and Literary Achievement in the Third Millennium B.C.Pickle Partners Publishing, 5 mar 2020 - 139 páginas The Sumerians were a non-Semitic, non-Indo-European people who flourished in southern Babylonia from the beginning of the fourth to the end of the third millennium B.C. During this long stretch of time the Sumerians, whose racial and linguistic affiliations are still unclassifiable, represented the dominant cultural group of the entire Near East. This cultural dominance manifested itself in three directions: 1. It was the Sumerians who developed and probably invented the cuneiform system of writing which was adopted by nearly all the peoples of the Near East and without which the cultural progress of western Asia would have been largely impossible. 2. The Sumerians developed religious and spiritual concepts together with a remarkably well integrated pantheon which influenced profoundly all the peoples of the Near East, including the Hebrews and the Greeks. Moreover, by way of Judaism, Christianity, and Mohammedanism, not a few of these spiritual and religious concepts have permeated the modern civilized world. 3. The Sumerians produced a vast and highly developed literature, largely poetic in character, consisting of epics and myths, hymns and lamentations, proverbs and “words of wisdom.” These compositions are inscribed in cuneiform script on clay tablets which date largely from approximately 2000 B.C. |
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MILLENNIUM B C 26 | |
SYSTEM OF WRITING 33 | |
THE SCOPE AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SUMERIAN | |
MYTHS OF ORIGINS 50 | |
NOTES 112 | |
MISCELLANEOUS MYTHS 138 | |
REQUEST FROM THE PUBLISHER 148 | |
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Abzu Accadian air-god Ancient Orient Anunnaki approximately 2000 B.C. Ashnan Babylonian Chiera contents copied creation cuneiform Cylinder Seals decipherment deity Dilmun divine decrees dragon Dumuzi Emesh Enki Enkidu Enlil Enmerkar Enten epic tale epics and myths Erech Ereshkigal Eridu excavated farmer father Enlil gate gatekeeper Gilgamesh goddess gods grain heaven and earth hymns Inanna Inanna’s Descent inscribed inscriptions Isimud Istanbul JAOS king Lahar land language lapis lazuli Let not thy Martu Mesopotamia messenger mountain Nammu nether world Ninhursag Ninlil Ninmah Ninshubur Ninurta Nippur collection open the house Oriental Institute passage pickax pieces PLATE poem published pure Inanna queen reconstruction and translation represents the word scribes script Semitic significant story Sumer Sumerian language Sumerian literary compositions Sumerian literary tablets Sumerian literature Sumerian mythology Sumerian word tablets and fragments third millennium B.C. thou transliteration University Museum water-god Enki world she descended