The treasures of darkness :
Jacobsen, Thorkild, 1904-1993
The treasures of darkness : a history of Mesopotamian religion / Thorkild Jacobsen. - New Haven : Yale University Press, 1976. - 273 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Ancient Mesopotamian religion: the terms -- Fourth millennium metaphors. The gods as providers: dying gods of fertility -- Third millennium metaphors. The gods as rulers: the cosmos a polity -- Third millennium metaphors. The gods as rulers: individual divine figures -- Second millennium metaphors. The gods as parents: rise of personal religion -- Second millennium metaphors. World origins and world order: the creation epic -- Second millennium metaphors. "And death the journey's end": the Gilgamesh epic.
0300018444
Iraq--Religion
299.15
The treasures of darkness : a history of Mesopotamian religion / Thorkild Jacobsen. - New Haven : Yale University Press, 1976. - 273 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Ancient Mesopotamian religion: the terms -- Fourth millennium metaphors. The gods as providers: dying gods of fertility -- Third millennium metaphors. The gods as rulers: the cosmos a polity -- Third millennium metaphors. The gods as rulers: individual divine figures -- Second millennium metaphors. The gods as parents: rise of personal religion -- Second millennium metaphors. World origins and world order: the creation epic -- Second millennium metaphors. "And death the journey's end": the Gilgamesh epic.
0300018444
Iraq--Religion
299.15