The Religions of Ancient Egypt And Babylonia the Gifford Lectures On the Ancien
The Religions of Ancient Egypt And Babylonia the Gifford Lectures On the Ancien
A H Archibald Henry Sayce
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It is not surprising, therefore, that as soon as the Semitic element becomes paramount in Babylonia, the king becomes a god. At Babylon he was made the adopted son of Bel-Merodach by taking the hand of the deity, and thereby became himself a Bel, a ruler of " the people of Bel " over whom he was henceforth to exercise undisputed lordship. In earlier days, Sargon of Akkad, the founder of the first Semitic empire in Western Asia, and his son Naram-Sin, were explicitly deified. Naram-Sin is even a...ddressed as " the god of Akkad " ; x and a seal-cylinder found by Gen. Di Cesnola in Cyprus describes its owner as " the servant of the god Naram- Sin. " 2 The title of " god " is assumed by the Semitic successors of Sargon, to whatever city or dynasty they belonged ; even the Sumerian princes in Southern Baby- lonia followed the example of their Semitic suzerains, and 1 Tliureau-Dangin in the Recueil de Travaux relalifs a la Philologie et a V Archeologie tgyptiennes et assyriennes, xix. Pp. 185-187.
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