HRS 151 Lecture 11: Board Notes 4 (1)

• School: CSUS
• Department: Humanities and Religious Studies
• Course: HRS 151
• Professor: Judy L Thoma

Document Summary

Board notes #4: the predictability of the nile flooding (the inudation_ represented order in many ways, agriculture. Inspirational as a symbol of divine and social order: abundent natural resources for building and trade, stones, minerals, metals, nile helped deliver to communities, early civilizations were concerned with order, because of stable food supplies, permanent shelter, luxuries. Babylonia: enil winds, storms, and floods, shanmash sun travelers, the wronged, and is sometimes benevolent toward humans. Ishtar/ihanna/astrarte--sex, fertility, warfare: ereshkigal underworld, death, delay, dumuzi/tammuz--flocks/shepherds, ninsun goddess of cattle-herder, mother of gilgamesh, aruru creator mother goddess, annuaki-- council of gods associated with underworld. Igigi-- council of lesser gods: qingu/kingu--warrior consort of tiamat after apsu"s death, the tablet of destinies: cuneiform tablet fates of all etched in stone possessor has supreme power over all. Enuma elish: enuma elish-- when on high , part creation myth, part celebration of high god marduk, refer to week one notes.