Ocula (Jul 2020)
«Lasciate che erigano il mio letto fiorito!»: elementi vegetali nella letteratura sumerica paleo-babilonese
Abstract
The purpose of this article is, on the one hand, to investigate how the vegetal imaginary is used, by the scribes, to define the "other", in order to bring its inner meaning back to understandable forms. On the other hand, this work proposes an interpretation of the religious context which uses elements of flora, and human products derived from it, in the context of the cult practice connected to the couple, known from the Sumerian tradition, formed by the goddess Inanna and her husband Dumuzi.
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