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, your interior is a deep interior while your exterior is tall. Great lion ...... on the high plain and roving about on the plain, great hill established by incantations, twilit interior in which moonlight does not shine, ... (The Sumerian name of this city is unknown) , your interior is plenitude. At the place where...
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Tall, tapering Egyptian pillars near temples; their carvings told stories? ... Sumerian form of writing on clay? ... Tall Sumerian temple towers?
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New questions | All unanswered questions Questions ... [First Ancient Religions page] ... ; Why did Sumerian gods change in importance over time?
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1. Detail of a reconstructed relief on the Stela of Ur-Nammu, Ur. King instructed by seated gods to build a temple or ziggurat. 304 cm. tall. The Sumerian revival owed much to this king. University Museum, Univ. of Pennsylvania, US.
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So then the women that are tall and fair are soon free to depart, but the uncomely have long ... Later Sumerian texts, however, advised against marrying a fully-fledged temple prostitute since she would be too independent, 'besides being accustomed to sccepting other men, she would make sn unsympathetic and intractable wife'.
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www.ishtartemple.org/sacredIshtar.htm
www.ishtartemple.org/sacredIshtar.htm
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Go close to the Eanna Temple, the residence of Ishtar, such as no later king or man ever equaled! ... A wakeful man, a singular youth, he was twice as tall (?) (as normal men [The next 33 lines are missing in the Standard Version; lines 57-86 are taken from the Old Babylonian.] Then he raised his eyes and saw a man.
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www.ishtartemple.org/epic.htm
www.ishtartemple.org/epic.htm
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It would be unwise to harbour any exaggerated notion of well-organized states exceeding that size. For many years, scholarly views were conditioned by the concept of the Sumerian temple city, which was used to convey the idea of an organism whose ruler, as representative of his god, theoretically owned all land,
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theophyle.wordpress.com/2009/03/14/postulate-sumerian-culture-1-from-3/
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Etemenanki (Sumerian: "temple of the foundation of heaven and earth") was the name of a ziggurat dedicated to Marduk in the city of Babylon. It was famously rebuilt by the 6th century BC Neo-Babylonian dynasty rulers Nabopolassar ... The narrative in the book of Genesis does not mention how tall the Biblical tower was,
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