Cultic Calendar and Psychology of Time: Elements of Common Semantics in Explanatory and Astrological Texts of Ancient Mesopotamia

This article compares two groups of texts: Neo-Assyrian menologies (monthly predictions) and zodiacal horoscopes of the Late Babylonian period. Semantic relationships of both with myths and rituals of the Sumerian and Babylonian cultic calendar are established. The data of cuneiform texts are compar...

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Main Author: Emelianov, Vladimir (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: IACM, c/o Department of South Asian Studies, Harvard University 2019
In: Comparative mythology
Year: 2019, Volume: 5, Pages: 13-32
Further subjects:B horoscopes
B chronopsychology
B Uruk
B menologies
B Huzirina
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