Poems of Heaven and Hell from Ancient MesopotamiaPenguin Publishing Group, 6 giu 1989 - 192 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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abyss Adapa Akitu Akkadian ancient Anshar Anunnaki Apsu Assembly Athtar Baal Babylon Babylonian Creation battle beautiful beginning brother called Canaanite century B.C. chanted cosmic cosmogony Damkina dark dead death destiny devils door Dragon Dumuzi dust of hell earth Enki Enlil Enuma elish Epic Ereshkigal Eridu Esagila father festival Fifty Names fragments Gate gave Geshtinanna Gizzida goddess gods Greek heart heaven holy husband Hymn Igigi Inanna Inanna's Journey Ishtar Journey to Hell Kalaturru king Kingu Kishar Kramer Kurgarru Lahmu Lahmu and Lahamu laments land lapis lazuli lines liturgy living Lord meaning Mesopotamia monsters mother mountain mourning Mummu myth Nebuchadnezzar Ninshubar Nippur Nudimmud PENGUIN CLASSICS poem priest rites of hell ritual river semitic shepherd sister sleep songs South Wind stars tablet Tammuz temple things Thorkild Jacobsen throne Tiamat title of Marduk translated Ubshukinna underworld universe Uruk weep word