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Tammuz and Ishtar: A Monograph Upon Babylonian Religion and Theology, Containing Extensive Extracts From the Tammuz Liturgies and All of the Arbela Oracles. E-book. Formato PDF Stephen Langdon Gdon   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

Der Babylom'scbe Golf Tamfiz, Abhandlungen der Philologisch Historischen Klasse der Konig. Sachsischen Gesellschaft, vol. Xxvii.

Sumerian and Babylonian Psalms. E-book. Formato PDF Stephen Langdon   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

The material collected and edited in this book comprehends nearly all the temple liturgy of the official Babylonian and Assyrian religion yet published. By temple liturgy I mean services of public praise and penance. A sharp division must be made between public services and private services, a distinction which was observed by the Babylonians themselves. Religious literature in Babylonia originated from two dis tinct sources; on the one hand the priest of incantation exercised the mystic rites of magic over af?icted persons in huts in the fields; on the other hand the psalmists had charge of the public services of the temples. In the earliest period the Sumerians who created the entire form of Babylonian religious literature, had only these two classes of sacred literature. The temple services were called er — s'ein — ma's or psalms to the ?ute'; the incantations, mystic sacramental formulae and prayers of the private rituals bore the title me.

Babyloniaca: Etudes De Philologie Assyro-Babylonienne. E-book. Formato PDF Stephen Langdon   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

Of the liturgy called bit rimki or a house of washing n We have fortunately one long prayer and fragments of two others. The last one of the section is addressed to Tasmetum the spouse ofnebo. This same prayer was used in another3 liturgy, quite different from the liturgy of the bit rimbi the only difference is that the prayer, when used in the bit rimki liturgy, has an insertion concerning an eclipse of the moon and evil portents which threaten the king and his land. We therefore infer, that the liturgy of the bit rimbi was for the private devotions of the king in time of the evil portents attending the month ly darkness of the moon. This liturgy was made by collecting prayers of private devotion to various gods, and inserting proper lines to men tion the eclipse of the moon and the king as suppliant. The first prayer of the section is addressed to the moon god, the second to Istar as the evenino star the third, which is entirely broken awa v, was nu doubtably addressed to Nebo, and the fourth already discussed to Nebo's consort Tasmet.