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Author : Peeter Espak
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783447194211
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)
Download or read book The God Enki in Sumerian Royal Ideology and Mythology written by Peeter Espak and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peeter Espak
Publisher : Harrassowitz
ISBN 13 : 9783447104128
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)
Download or read book The God Enki in Sumerian Royal Ideology and Mythology written by Peeter Espak and published by Harrassowitz. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study analyzes the divine concept of the Sumero-Akkadian deity Enki in its literary and mythological development through different periods of Mesopotamian history. Sumerian myths and theology related to the god Enki are influential throughout the history of the Ancient Near East. Several mythological motives from the Sumerian cultural area later reach the creation stories of the Old Testament and beyond. Through the Biblical narratives the ancient Sumerian mythology of Enki reaches the later Christian world, and therefore this mythology has become a part of the collective memory and culture of the present day world. Seven chapters give a diachronical overview of the relevant source materials (royal inscriptions, hymns, etc.) related to the god Enki and other close divine figures and religious phenomena from the period of about 2500-1700 BC. The last two chapters concentrate on the aspects of comparative mythology and archaic Sumerian religion. The relations of Enki and the Mother Goddess in the Mesopotamian religion and YHWH and Eve in the Old Testament are briefly analyzed. Some aspects about the decline of the cult of the Mother Goddess and several details of the political history of the Ancient Near East reflected in the relevant texts are discussed in the book. It is claimed that there is no direct conflict between the theologies of Nippur and Eridu (Enlil and Enki), at least when analyzing the available source material.
Author : Samuel Noah Kramer
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1725282895
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)
Download or read book Myths of Enki, The Crafty God written by Samuel Noah Kramer and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2020-08-18 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ambitious and well-researched study brings together for the first time translations of the ancient literature concerning the Sumerian god Enki, one of four gods and goddesses who comprised the highest level of the Sumerian pantheon. The very existence of these writings, which date from the Third Millennium B.C., was unknown until about 100 years ago, when their cuneiform script was deciphered. Since then, it has become apparent that Sumerian literature had a profound and enduring influence on both Biblical and classical Greek literature, and so on the literature of the western world as a whole. Kramer, one of the world's leading sumerologists, has prepared these translations from among the scores of works he has published over the last fifty years; John Maier provides a full interpretive framework that places the translations in their broader comparative cultural context. This rare collection will be of interest to students and scholars in a wide range of disciplines from Near Eastern and Biblical Studies to Mythology and Comparative Literature.
Author : Amar Annus
Publisher : State Archives of Assyria
ISBN 13 : 9789514590573
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)
Download or read book The God Ninurta written by Amar Annus and published by State Archives of Assyria. This book was released on 2002 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The current investigation has been divided into three main chapters. In the first two chapters, the primary focus is the relationship between Ninurta and kingship. The first chapter gives a diachronic overview of the cult of Ninurta during all historical periods of ancient Mesopotamia. This chapter shows that the conception of Ninurta's identity with the king was present in Mesopotamian religion already in the third millennium BC. Ninurta was the god of Nippur, the religious centre of Sumerian cities, and his most important attribute was his sonship to Enlil. While the mortal gods were frequently called the sons of Enlil, the status of the king converged with that of Ninurta at his coronation, through the determination of the royal fate, carried out by the divine council of gods in Nippur. The fate of Ninurta parallels the fate of the king after the investiture. Religious syncretism is studied in the second chapter. The configuration of Nippur cults left a legacy for the religious life of Babylonia and Assyria. The Nippur trinity of the father Enlil, the mother Ninlil, and the son Ninurta had direct descendants in the Babylonian and Assyrian pantheon, realized in Babylonia as Marduk, Zarpanitu, and Nabu, and as Assur, Mullissu, and Ninurta in Assyria. While the names changed, the configuration of the cult survived, even when, from the eighth century BC onwards, Ninurta's name was to a large extent replaced by that of Nabu. In the third chapter various manifestations or hypostases of Ninurta are discussed. Besides the monster slayer, Ninurta was envisaged as farmer, star and arrow, healer, and tree. All these manifestations confirm the strong ties between the cult of Ninurta and kingship. By slaying Asakku, Ninurta eliminated evil from the world, and accordingly he was considered the god of healing. The healing, helping, and saving of a believer who was in misery was thus a natural result of Ninurta's victorious battles. The theologoumenon of Ninurta's mission and return was used as the mythological basis for quite a few royal rituals, and this fact explains the extreme longevity of the Sumerian literary compositions Angim and Lugale, from the third until the first millennium BC. Ninurta also protected legitimate ownership of land and granted protection for refugees in a special temple of the land. The "faithful farmer" is an epithet for both Ninurta and the king. Kingship myths similar to the battles of Ninurta are attested in an area far extending the bounds of the ancient Near East. The conflict myth on which the Ninurta mythology was based is probably of prehistoric origin, and various forms of the kingship myths continued to carry the ideas of usurpation, conflict, and dominion until late Antiquity.
Author : Samuel Noah Kramer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)
Download or read book Sumerian Mythology written by Samuel Noah Kramer and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Zecharia Sitchin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1591439469
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Lost Book of Enki written by Zecharia Sitchin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2004-08-16 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The companion volume to The Earth Chronicles series that reveals the identity of mankind’s ancient gods • Explains why these “gods” from Nibiru, the Anunnaki, genetically engineered Homo sapiens, gave Earthlings civilization, and promised to return • 30,000 sold in hardcover Zecharia Sitchin’s bestselling series The Earth Chronicles provided humanity’s side of the story concerning our origins at the hands of the Anunnaki, “those who from heaven to earth came.” In The Lost Book of Enki we now view this saga from the perspective of Lord Enki, an Anunnaki leader revered in antiquity as a god, who tells the story of these extraterrestrials’ arrival on Earth from the planet Nibiru. In his previous works Sitchin compiled the complete story of the Anunnaki’s impact on human civilization from fragments scattered throughout Sumerian, Akkadian, Babylonian, Assyrian, Hittite, Egyptian, Canaanite, and Hebrew sources. Missing from these accounts, however, was the perspective of the Anunnaki themselves. What was life like on their own planet? What motives propelled them to settle on Earth--and what drove them from their new home? Convinced of the existence of a lost book that held the answers to these questions, the author began his search for evidence. Through exhaustive research of primary sources, he has here re-created tales as the memoirs of Enki, the leader of these first “astronauts.” What takes shape is the story of a world of mounting tensions, deep rivalries, and sophisticated scientific knowledge that is only today being confirmed. An epic tale of gods and men unfolds, challenging every assumption we hold about our past and our future.
Author : Sebastian Berg
Publisher : Creek Ridge Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Enki written by Sebastian Berg and published by Creek Ridge Publishing. This book was released on 2023-07-11 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enki is a god that has been overlooked in the past, but he is worthy of your attention. He is a figurehead of a society that has remained undiscovered until 200 years ago. The gods and rituals that define a society are often a perfect template to glimpse into how they lived. This book is all about the ancient Sumerians and how they formed a society that is still recognizable today. Enki is just one of the gods who influenced them and made their society so interesting. Welcome to a journey into the past and an introduction to one of the most influential forces of the ancient world. While the rest of the world dealt with living in the Stone Age, the ancient Sumerians started producing metal objects and building huge cities filled with factories and dwellings. The ziggurat that defended their cities were monuments to their most powerful gods and goddesses, and they reflected their importance in the lives of their citizens.
Author : Irving L. Finkel
Publisher : Styx Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)
Download or read book Sumerian Gods and Their Representations written by Irving L. Finkel and published by Styx Publications. This book was released on 1997 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Samuel Noah Kramer
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1839742941
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)
Download or read book Sumerian Mythology written by Samuel Noah Kramer and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2020-03-05 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Raija Mattila
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3658243880
Total Pages : 487 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)
Download or read book Animals and their Relation to Gods, Humans and Things in the Ancient World written by Raija Mattila and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-03-11 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While Human-Animal Studies is a rapidly growing field in modern history, studies on this topic that focus on the Ancient World are few. The present volume aims at closing this gap. It investigates the relation between humans, animals, gods, and things with a special focus on the structure of these categories. An improved understanding of the ancient categories themselves is a precondition for any investigation into the relation between them. The focus of the volume lies on the Ancient Near East, but it also provides studies on Ancient Greece, Asia Minor, Mesoamerica, the Far East, and Arabia.
