RELG 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Enlil, Dingir, Ninurta
22 Feb 2018
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They will write a number besides a god"s name enlil= 50, enki=40, sometimes there are changes, but on every list, Essence , what the gods are made of- enlil, enki also end up keeping the me: pictographic sign for an, hymn(s) in honor of an: Ex: it is you who possess royal insignia, prince of the gods! Your word holds authority in the council of the greatest gods! : some texts were bilingual: sumerian with akkadian translation, sumerian will eventually disappear as a spoken language, but will remain as a religious language. **keep in mind: marduk has been called the enlil of the gods : he became the most important god of the sumerian pantheon, most kings in the 2nd and 3rd millennium are crowned in the ekur, the temple of. Ex: sargon, founding member of akkad dynasty went to nippur to be crowned in the ekur. Hammurabi also went to be crowned in the ekur.
