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Mesopotamian mythology refers to the myths, religious texts, and other literature that comes from the region of ancient Mesopotamia which is a historical...
drawn between the flood waters of these myths and the primeval waters which appear in certain creation myths, as the flood waters are described as a measure...
based upon earlier Mesopotamianmyths,[citation needed] in particular that of the creation myth, the Garden of Eden, the flood myth, the Tower of Babel...
of Akkad around 2350 BC, characterized the subsequent 2,000 years of Mesopotamian history, marked by the succession of kingdoms and empires such as the...
Neo-Assyrian hegemony. Numerous Mesopotamianmyths (and one Egyptian myth) are reflected in the primeval history. The myth of Atrahasis, for example, was...
cycle of myths describing conflicts between Kumarbi and his son Teššub and the Song of Release. Hurrian influences on Ugaritic and Mesopotamian religion...
Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta is a legendary Sumerian account, preserved in early post-Sumerian copies, composed in the Neo-Sumerian period (ca. 21st...
companion. The authors of the Hebrew creation narrative borrowed themes from Mesopotamian mythology and ancient near eastern cosmology, but adapted them to their...
The ancient Mesopotamian underworld (known in Sumerian as Kur, Irkalla, Kukku, Arali, or Kigal, and in Akkadian as Erṣetu), was the lowermost part of the...
The Gilgamesh flood myth is a flood myth in the Epic of Gilgamesh. It is one of three Mesopotamian Flood Myths alongside the one including in the Eridu...
and Adonis to be derived from a Levantine version of the earlier Mesopotamianmyth of Inanna (Ishtar) and Dumuzid (Tammuz). In late 19th and early 20th...
one side of the ziggurat or by a spiral ramp from base to summit. The Mesopotamian ziggurats were not places for public worship or ceremonies. They were...
The Mesopotamian Marshes, also known as the Iraqi Marshes, are a wetland area located in Southern Iraq and southwestern Iran as well as partially in northern...
of this text made him propose that this fragment belongs to a Mesopotamian flood myth, perhaps Atrahasis or Tablet IX of Gilgamesh, which has a version...
first permanent structures were built) to the 6th century BC. Among the Mesopotamian architectural accomplishments are the development of urban planning,...
Lugalbanda in the Mountain Cave is a Sumerian mythological account. It is one of the four known stories that belong to the same cycle describing conflicts...
divine beings, the gods. This pattern continued to influence regional Mesopotamianmyths. Thus, in the later Akkadian Enuma Elish, creation was seen as the...
National Center for Science Education. Retrieved 2022-06-07. "The Flood: Mesopotamian Archaeological Evidence | National Center for Science Education". National...
millennium BC, and soon after in various parts of the Near-East. An ancient Mesopotamian poem gives the first known story of the invention of writing: Because...
numbers, many with complex and detailed scenes despite their small size. Mesopotamian art survives in a number of forms: cylinder seals, relatively small figures...
sole owner of Eanna in the myths about Enmerkar and Lugalbanda, other legendary kings of Uruk commonly referenced in Mesopotamian literature. A mythological...
Middle East mythology includes: Mythologies of the Ancient Near East Mesopotamianmyths Egyptian mythology Hittite mythology and religion Abrahamic religions...
dispute as to whether Kasdim in fact means Chaldean or refers to the south Mesopotamian Kaldu.[citation needed] During a period of weakness in the East Semitic-speaking...
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