NMC380Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Girsu, Lagash, Loanword
9 Jun 2016
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Lagash temple construction ziggurat the tallest structure when you go to habur so many mounds you could count 100s of tells. Mesopotamia consisted of city-states like greece but middle east king all powerful. Two chief gods in sumer enlil (spirit of wind god) and ninlul (lady queen) Go back to 4th millennia when anything is possible utopian egalitarian dealing with prehistory a construct. Anzu bird connected with the figure of the chariot (horse) shining anzu bird star capella second brightest star. God ninurta constellation of the bow canis major. Ninurta the constellation heracles asaku demon (heracules and ninurta) Dilemma nin (female) but gods who are male urta (earth/soil) haritha (plow) loan word from arabic war god and the god of plows. Calendar plowing, cold etc didn"t make sense. Babylonian culture huge body of literary material very carefully crafted poetry lived closed to the land.
