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Sumerian Mythology: A Study of Spiritual and Literary Achievement in the Third Millennium B.C
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Sumerian Mythology: A Study of Spiritual and Literary Achievement in the Third Millennium B.C

by Samuel Noah Kramer. 132 pgs.

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Contributors:

   Samuel Noah Kramer

Publisher:

   University of Pennsylvania Press

Place of Publication:

  Philadelphia  

Publication Year:

  1972
Subjects:   Mythology, Sumerian
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books on: (Mythology Sumerian)  - 1065 results

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Sumerian Mythology: A Study of Spiritual and Literary Achievement in the Third Millennium B.C
Book by Samuel Noah Kramer; University of Pennsylvania Press, 1972
Subjects: Mythology, Sumerian
Sumerian Mythology SUMERIAN MYTHOLOGY A Study of Spiritual and Literary Achievement in the...Cataloging-in-Publication Data Kramer, Samuel Noah, 1897- Sumerian mythology: a study of spiritual and literary achievement in the third...
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A Dictionary of World Mythology
Book by Arthur Flagg Cotterell; Oxford University Press, 1986
Subjects: Mythology--Dictionaries
...powerful deity of the Sumerian pantheon. In striking...contrast to Egyptian mythology, the creation of...oracles. An In Sumerian mythology the personification...derived from the Sumerian Inanna, goddess...In Babylonian mythology Ishtar, the wife...
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Who's Who in Non-Classical Mythology
Book by Egerton Sykes; Routledge, 1993
Subjects: Mythology--Dictionaries
...interest. At the very least, mythology provides us with potentially...be equated with Enlil , the Sumerian storm god. He was known as...Agdistis In Phrygian mythology a bisexual monster which lost...Ireland. Ainnle In Celtic mythology the brother of Ardan and...
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Mythology: The Voyage of the Hero
Book by David Adams Leeming; Oxford University Press, 1998
Subjects: Heroes--Mythology, Mythology
...permission of American Philosophical Society, from Sumerian Mythology by S. N. Kramer. Pages 192 -94: From The Bible...Publishing Group, Inc. Pages 209 - 212 : From Mythology by Edith Hamilton by permission of Little, Brown...
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From Olympus to Camelot: The World of European Mythology
Book by David Leeming; Oxford University Press, 2003
Subjects: Mythology, European
...logic that is mytho-logic or mythology. In terms of history, the...Gilgamesh express the ancient Sumerian-Babylonian search for meaning...with a previously voiceless mythology of sacri- fice, fertility...goddess speaking in her Sumerian form as Inanna. One can suppose...
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journal articles on: (Mythology Sumerian)  - 35 results

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Mythology and Mythologies: Methodological Approaches to Intercultural Influences
Journal article by Gary Beckman; The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 123, 2003
Subjects: Mythology and Mythologies: Methodological Approaches to Intercultural Influences (Book)
Mythology and Mythologies: Methodological Approaches to Intercultural Influences. by Gary Beckman Edited by R. M. WHITING...such example, I might mention the essay of Amar Annus ("Ninurta and the Son of Man"), whose alleged parallels between the Sumerian myth Lugal-e and Judeo-Christian apocalyptic strike me as totally fanciful. Other papers are more useful. I particularly...
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The Historian and the Sumerian Gods
Journal article; The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 114, 1994
Subjects: Historians--Addresses, essays, lectures, Jacobsen, Thorkild--Addresses, essays, lectures
...scholarly attention to the understanding and interpretation of Sumerian and its literature. His translations of this difficult literature...and powerful contributions is in the area of religion and mythology. He is one of the few who has succeeded in reconstructing...
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Enki and the Embodied World
Journal article by Keith Dickson; The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 125, 2005
Subjects: Enki and Ninhursag (Fictional work)--Criticism and interpretation, Myth--Criticism and interpretation, Mythology--Criticism and interpretation, Sumerian literature--Criticism and interpretation
...Member: Eros and Irrigation in Sumerian Literature. In DUMU-E2-BUB-BA-A...9. Csapo, E. 2005. Theories of Mythology. London: Blackwell. Dalley, S...Antiquity 37: 111-15. ______. 1972. Sumerian Mythology, rev. ed. Philadelphia: Univ...
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Germanic Mythology and the Fate of Europe
Journal article by Ralph Metzner; Re-vision, Vol. 13, 1990
Subjects: Consciousness
...pre-Christian ancestral roots and mythology, is the notion of the new...1986 , 51). The story of the Sumerian goddess Innana, who is hung...Celtic, and Greco- Roman mythology. The Eddas recount that...However, the millennial mythology of the Germanic peoples is...
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CT 13.33-34 and Ezekiel 32: Lion-Dragon Myths
Journal article by Theodore J. Lewis; The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 116, 1996
Subjects: Canaanites--Folklore, legends, etc., Mythology--Analysis
...by W. G. Lambert, "Ninurta Mythology in the Babylonian Epic of...6; and idem, "Old Testament Mythology in its Ancient Near Eastern...Bergmann, The Collection of Sumerian Temple Hymns, TCS 3 (Locust...Tispak, was translated into mythology (as reflected in the cult...
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Friend and Foe - the Middle Eastern Origins of Beer
Magazine article by Rachel Hajar; World and I, Vol. 16, November 2001
Subjects: Beer--History
...mans religious ceremonies and mythology. Early civilizations considered...beer is found on an ancient Sumerian tablet. It describes beer...regions. A 4,000-year-old Sumerian seal praises the goddess of...prestige. As a line from the Sumerian Song of Songs puts it: "My...
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Is the Bible Bad News for Women?
Magazine article by Cullen Murphy; The Wilson Quarterly, Vol. 22, Summer 1998
Subjects: Bible and feminism--Analysis, Bible. O.T. (Sacred text)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Women and religion--Analysis, Women in the Bible--Analysis
...Knowledge (on a womans initiative). The first act of Adam and Eve after eating the forbidden fruit is one that in Sumerian mythology would have been the gift of the goddess Uttu: they make clothes for themselves. Soon human beings are tilling fields...
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The Lost Tribe: This Is the Second and Concluding Part of Amani Olubanjo Buntu's Wide Ranging Piece on the History of the African Glory and Downfall in Asia, the Merit of Which Is to Question the White European Scholars' View of African Civilisations. You May Agree or Disagree with the Views Expressed. but They Give Food for Thought
Magazine article by Amani Olubanjo Buntu; New African, November 2003
Subjects: African history--Analysis
...Persians were black people with short woolly hair. As with the Sumerians, the cultural forms, the goddesses, art-motifs, weapons and...crafted out of African religion. Both in content (rituals, mythology, dogmas), though distorted from the original, and by the many...
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Science, Religion, and Public School Education
Magazine article by Gerald A. Larue; The Humanist, Vol. 58, May-June 1998
Subjects: Church and state--Analysis, Religion in schools--Analysis, Religion in the public schools--Analysis
...of a deity shaping the first humans out of clay appears in both ancient Egyptian creation mythology (where the god Khnum is the creator) and Sumerian myths (in one story the god Enki is the creator and in another the goddess Ninmah). Man...
5.
Earth Mom
Magazine article by Timothy Near; American Theatre, Vol. 12, September 1995
Subjects: Actresses--Interviews, Dukakis, Olympia--Interviews
...things are very funny. You told me that your study of Greek mythology started with your family, that you read Greek myths as a child...questions. In Voices of the Earth we work with a pre-patriarchal Sumerian myth called Descent of Innana. In this myth there are two...


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encyclopedia articles on: (Mythology Sumerian)  - 2 results

 
 
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Sumer
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...The Sumerians (1929, repr. 1971); S. N. Kramer, The Sumerians: Their History, Culture, and Character (1971), Sumerian Mythology (1973), and In the World of Sumer (1986). ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press...
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Middle Eastern Religions
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...inevitable fate of humanity have come down to us in Sumerian and Babylonian mythology, which was preserved in cuneiform writing on...East (1955; tr. of texts); S. N. Kramer, Sumerian Mythology (rev. ed. 1972); L. R. Farnwell, Greece and...


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