RST 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Plowshares Movement, Ammurapi, Hammurabi
3 Mar 2017
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Other worldly journeys: dis(cid:374)e(cid:455)"s her(cid:272)ules, da(cid:374)te"s i(cid:374)fer(cid:374)o. If you have 7 sons, you are enthroned and you sit with the other deities. Statue of dagon took the statue out and put veil on it and poured blood on the ancestor stone. The way food gets to the dead in mesopotamia is a little more mystical. Genealogy of the hammurapi dynasty prayer: around 1700 bce, sacrificial list of divinized dead ancestors to sacrifice to. It lists a series of names, goes back to early kings: a list of the fallen and departed. We see lists like this in war memorials: here, rather than a list of names you can remember or recognize. This is in the 2nd perso(cid:374), it"s addressed to them. The more specific you are in identifying them, the more you invoke them and feed them. Unlike today where the dead are up i heaven and are not involved with what is going on on earth.
