RELG 201 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Ancient Literature, Hermeneutics, Abzu

• School: McGill University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELG 201
• Professor: Eric Bellavance

Document Summary

It is a valley, which is why people settled there. Mountains were an important aspect of religion because they acted like a barrier. People had to cross these mountains to invade mesopotamia (e. g. zagros mountains). Rivers are also an important part of mythology and religion; there are a lot of flood stories in ancient religions. It is believed that there is something threatening about rivers, they are scared of them because they could potentially be destructive. There is always a religious reason behind everything if their city was invaded, it meant that the. Gods had summoned these people to invade them. The gods were punishing them for something (e. g. the babylonians conquered the israelites because they believed they had sinned before the gods. 0and that was their punishment not because the babylonians were stronger than the israelites). Writing henry rawlinson was the father of assyriology, he was the first to translate old texts.