The Religion of Babylonia
Though there is no proof that ancestor-worship in general prevailed at any time in Babylonia, it would seem that the worship of heroes and prominent men was common, at least in early times. The tenth chapter of Genesis tells us of the story of Nimrod, who cannot be any other than the Merodach of the Assyro-Babylonian inscriptions; and other examples, occurring in semi-mythological times, are /En-we-dur-an-ki/, the Greek Edoreschos, and /Gilgames/, the Greek Gilgamos, though Aelian's story of the latter does not fit in with the account as given by the inscriptions. In later times, the divine prefix is found before the names of many a Babylonia…
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- ISBN: 978-3-7481-9973-1
- EAN: 9783748199731
- Produktnummer: 29383031
- Verlag: BoD E-Short
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 104 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 673 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
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