CLAA05H3 Lecture Notes - Humbaba, Apotropaic Magic, Simile
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Incest theogony of dunnu, epic of creation. Patricide / matricide theogony of dunnu, epic of creation. Succession theogony of dunnu, epic of creation. Importance of being on the good side of gods, e. g. through sacrifice all. Sex and its impairing effects nergal and ereshkigal, gilgamesh. Old age and death, infertility, child mortality atrahasis. Repeating numbers: 600 years, less than 600 had passed (atrahasis); seven and seven (gilgamesh) Sex for six days and seven nights ereskigal and nergal; shahmash and enkidu. Six days and seven nights days of the flood. Women sapping away a man"s strength ereskigal and nergal; shahmash and. Hero has a moment of doubt, e. g. gilgamesh scared to kill humbaba. Underworld description (with or without the river, stairway to heaven) in descent, Black-lipped kuninu vessel simile ereshkigal in descent, namtar in nergal. You can be my husband and i can be your wife ereshkigal to nergal, ishtar to.
