Cultic Calendar and Psychology of Time: Elements of Common Semantics in Explanatory and Astrological Texts of Ancient Mesopotamia
This article compares two groups of texts: Neo-Assyrian menologies (monthly predictions) and zodiacal horoscopes of the Late Babylonian period. Semantic relationships of both with myths and rituals of the Sumerian and Babylonian cultic calendar are established. The data of cuneiform texts are compar...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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IACM, c/o Department of South Asian Studies, Harvard University
2019
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Comparative mythology
Year: 2019, Volume: 5, Pages: 13-32 |
Further subjects: | B
horoscopes
B chronopsychology B Uruk B menologies B Huzirina |
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