Poems of Heaven and Hell from Ancient MesopotamiaN. K. Sandars Penguin Publishing Group, 1971 - 184 pagine For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. |
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Acknowledgements | 9 |
Plan of Babylon | 73 |
Note on The Sumerian Underworld | 113 |
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abyss Adapa Akitu Akkadian ancient Anshar Anunnaki Apsu assembly Athtar Baal Babylon Babylonian Creation Badtibira battle beautiful beginning brother called Canaanite century B.C. chanted cosmic cosmogony created Damkina dark dead death destiny devils door Dragon Dumuzi dust of hell earth Enki Enlil Enuma elish Epic Ereshkigal Eridu Esagila eternal father festival Fifty Names fragments Gate gave Geshtinanna Gilgamesh Gizzida goddess gods Greek heart heaven Hesiod's holy husband Hymn Igigi Inanna Inanna's Journey Ishtar Jacobsen Journey to Hell Kalaturru king Kingu Kishar Kramer Kurgarru Lahmu laments land lapis lazuli lines liturgy Lord meaning Mesopotamia monsters mother mountain mourning Mummu myth Ninshubar Nippur Nudimmud poem priest question the rites rites of hell ritual river semitic shepherd sister sleep songs South Wind stars tablets Tammuz temple Thorkild Jacobsen throne Tiamat title of Marduk translated Ubshukinna underworld universe Uruk weep word