Studies in the History of Religions
Studies in the History of Religions
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It had close relations with both Asia Minor and Egypt, the two seats of culture, but developed its own peculiar civilization.
Equally with Greece, the Babylonians placed a god and a goddess in control of the lower world. Their notion of the lower world was much the same as that of the Greeks, but very little like that of the Egyptians. If the Greek doctrine was derived from any outside source, it was from Asia and not from Egypt. Both the Greeks and the Baby- lonians had their stones of the des...cent into the lower world. We have that of Ishtar and Hasisadra on the one side, and those of Herakles, Theseus, and Odysseus on the other. Such stories and such beliefs must have had a common origin.
The two rulers of the Greek underworld. Hades (or Pluto) and Persephone, are the parallels to Nergal and Allat as the rulers of the Babylonian realm of the shades. As Nergal obtained his spouse by violence, such was the rape of Per- sephone by Pluto. The Babylonian story was very old, for we have it apparently figured on two seals of a period as old as the elder Sargon (see Ward, The Seal Cylinders of Western Asia, pp.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
It had close relations with both Asia Minor and Egypt, the two seats of culture, but developed its own peculiar civilization.
Equally with Greece, the Babylonians placed a god and a goddess in control of the lower world. Their notion of the lower world was much the same as that of the Greeks, but very little like that of the Egyptians. If the Greek doctrine was derived from any outside source, it was from Asia and not from Egypt. Both the Greeks and the Baby- lonians had their stones of the des...cent into the lower world. We have that of Ishtar and Hasisadra on the one side, and those of Herakles, Theseus, and Odysseus on the other. Such stories and such beliefs must have had a common origin.
The two rulers of the Greek underworld. Hades (or Pluto) and Persephone, are the parallels to Nergal and Allat as the rulers of the Babylonian realm of the shades. As Nergal obtained his spouse by violence, such was the rape of Per- sephone by Pluto. The Babylonian story was very old, for we have it apparently figured on two seals of a period as old as the elder Sargon (see Ward, The Seal Cylinders of Western Asia, pp.
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