"Quando Apsû e Tiāmat mescolavano insieme le loro acque": Acque dolci e acque salate nell'immaginario mitico della Mesopotamia antica
Fresh and salted water, rivers and seas, played a crucial role in ancient Mesopotamian mythology, especially in cosmogonic myths, the most famous of which is Enuma eliš or The Epic of the Creation. The poem tells the origin of the world generated by the primeval acqueous chaos, "when Apsû and T...
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| Format: | Print Article |
| Language: | Italian |
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Ed. A. V. E.
2024
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Rassegna di teologia
Year: 2024, Volume: 65, Issue: 1, Pages: 77-99 |
| IxTheo Classification: | AF Geography of religion BC Ancient Orient; religion NBD Doctrine of Creation TC Pre-Christian history ; Ancient Near East |
| Summary: | Fresh and salted water, rivers and seas, played a crucial role in ancient Mesopotamian mythology, especially in cosmogonic myths, the most famous of which is Enuma eliš or The Epic of the Creation. The poem tells the origin of the world generated by the primeval acqueous chaos, "when Apsû and Tiāmat were mingling their waters together". |
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| ISSN: | 0033-9644 |
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