CLAS 1120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Fertile Crescent, Asturian Language, Westcar Papyrus
24 Oct 2017
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Recap: fertile crescent: babylon/syria to egypt (in between: israel, canaan): choke point of land between two major powers. Iii: overall, the identity of the jewish people is shaped and pulled based on their present alliances; Geography and cosmology: flood myths and storm gods: understanding that the ocean and storms are very important parts of life in greece, ra: god of sun; storm god of babylon marduk; Xii: building a tabernacle for the deity; He goes to the bottom, gets the plant, and bathes in a spring because he is exhausted. He wakes up and finds the plant gone; a snake eats it serpents seen as living forever because they shed their skin. Baal defeats the sea: here, baal and yahweh are both competing for the same pantheon turf, yam: sea, rehab: sea monster; similar to the mythic sea monster in the odyssey (scylla)
