Download or read book istar of babylon written by margaret horton potter and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Istar of Babylon A Phantasy written by Margaret Horton Potter and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-06 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Istar of Babylon: A Phantasy" by Margaret Horton Potter Margaret Horton Potter was an American novelist, specializing in historical fiction. In this book, she whisks readers to the ancient civilization of Babylon. The first section of the book deals with the characters' journey to arrive at this great city, while the rest of the book primarily concerns itself with bringing the ambiance and vibrance she pictures to life.
Download or read book Ishtar and Tammuz written by C. J. Moore and published by Larousse Kingfisher Chambers. This book was released on 1996 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A retelling of the Babylonian myth telling how the death of Ishtar's son Tammuz brings about the changing seasons on earth.
Download or read book Istar of Babylon written by Margaret Horton Potter and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Wonder to Behold written by Anastasia Amrhein and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-12-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the ancient Near East, expert craftspeople were more than technicians: they numbered among those special members of society who could access the divine. While the artisans' names are largely unknown today, their legacy remains in the form of spectacular artworks and monuments. One of the most celebrated works of antiquity--Babylon's Ishtar Gate and its affiliated Processional Way--featured a dazzling array of colorful beasts assembled from molded, baked, and glazed bricks. Such an awe-inspiring structure demanded the highest level of craft; each animal was created from dozens of bricks that interlocked like a jigsaw. Yet this display of technical and artistic skill also served a ritual purpose, since the Gate provided a divinely protected entrance to the sacred inner city of Babylon. 'A Wonder to Behold' explores ancient Near Eastern ideas about the transformative power of materials and craftsmanship as they relate to the Ishtar Gate. This beautifully illustrated catalogue accompanies an exhibition at New York University's Institute for the Study of the Ancient World. Essays by archaeologists, art historians, curators, conservators, and text specialists examine a wide variety of artifacts from major American and European institutions."--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book Babylonian Magic and Sorcery written by Leonard W. King and published by Weiser Books. This book was released on 2000-09-15 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1896, this text contains the cunieform text of 60 clay tablets written between 669-625 BC. These tablets were inscribed with prayers and religious compositions of a devotional and magical character and there is little doubt that they were compiled from Babylonian sources.
Download or read book Istar of Babylon written by Margaret Horton Potter and published by Literary Licensing, LLC. This book was released on 2014-03-30 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Is A New Release Of The Original 1902 Edition.
Download or read book The Excavations at Babylon written by Robert Koldewey and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Eye of Istar written by William Le Queux and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-10 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Eye of Istar" is a captivating romance following Al-Motardjim, a North African dervish loyal to the Sudanese Mahdi, who embarks on a perilous journey into the heart of the central African jungle to satisfy his Hausa lover. Through a series of treacherous encounters, he emerges as a survivor and ultimately reaches, a magnificent hidden city representing the remnants of ancient Babylonian civilization.
Download or read book The Eye of Istar written by William Le Queux and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Genius written by Margaret Horton Potter and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-20 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Genius" is an absorbing work by Margaret Horton Potter, an American novelist specializing in historical fiction. Excerpt "It was not strange, then, that the affair of New Year's night had become the sensation of the season. For on this night Prince Gregoriev had vowed a triumph over the massed society of the Mother City. He intended to accomplish now what his wedding with a daughter of one of the oldest and most honored families had failed to do: what no use of his unscrupulous power could force, what all Moscow society, for once banded unanimously together, had sworn he should never accomplish—enter their ranks, the ranks of the old nobility of the Empire."
Download or read book The Splintered Divine written by Spencer L. Allen and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2015-03-05 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the issue of the singularity versus the multiplicity of ancient Near Eastern deities who are known by a common first name but differentiated by their last names, or geographic epithets. It focuses primarily on the Ištar divine names in Mesopotamia, Baal names in the Levant, and Yahweh names in Israel, and it is structured around four key questions: How did the ancients define what it meant to be a god - or more pragmatically, what kind of treatment did a personality or object need to receive in order to be considered a god by the ancients? Upon what bases and according to which texts do modern scholars determine when a personality or object is a god in an ancient culture? In what ways are deities with both first and last names treated the same and differently from deities with only first names? Under what circumstances are deities with common first names and different last names recognizable as distinct independent deities, and under what circumstances are they merely local manifestations of an overarching deity? The conclusions drawn about the singularity of local manifestations versus the multiplicity of independent deities are specific to each individual first name examined in accordance with the data and texts available for each divine first name.
Download or read book Babylonian Topographical Texts written by A. R. George and published by Peeters Publishers. This book was released on 1992 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Babylonian Topographical Texts collects for the first time all Babylonian and Assyrian texts of the first millennium B.C. that belong to what is designated the topographical genre. Much of the material is not previously published. The book is largely concerned with Babylon. Seventeen texts on this city now allow its topography to be properly understood for the first time. Another seventeen texts concern the cities of Nippur, Assur, Kish and Uruk. Also included are thirty miscellaneous texts, mostly new, which bear upon topographical matters. The text editions and translations are supplemented by a philological and topical commentary. The work is concluded with full indices, and 57 plates of cuneiform copies.
Download or read book Gods Demons and Symbols of Ancient Mesopotamia written by Jeremy Black and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 1992-05-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ancient Mesopotamia was a rich, varied and highly complex culture whose achievements included the invention of writing and the development of sophisticated urban society. This book offers an introductory guide to the beliefs and customs of the ancient Mesopotamians, as revealed in their art and their writings between about 3000 B.C. and the advent of the Christian era. Gods, goddesses, demons, monsters, magic, myths, religious symbolism, ritual, and the spiritual world are all discussed in alphabetical entries ranging from short accounts to extended essays. Names are given in both their Sumerian and Akkadian forms, and all entries are fully cross-referenced. A useful introduction provides historical and geographical background and describes the sources of our knowledge about the religion, mythology and magic of "the cradle of civilisation".
Download or read book Call Me Ishtar written by Rhoda Lerman and published by ABRAMS. This book was released on 2017-05-23 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the award-winning author of God’s Ear: A “wildly funny, achingly spiritual, profoundly Jewish and feminist” satire of religion and gender politics (The New York Times Book Review). Call Me Ishtar is the outrageous manifesto of a goddess determined to right the wrongs of the three-thousand-year-old patriarchy. She is Ishtar: Mother Goddess, Queen of Heaven, Angel of Death, and Whore of Babylon, and, returning to earth in this most recent incarnation, suburban housewife and sexual subversive. Gallivanting through upstate New York, Ishtar breaks into a Hostess factory to taint its products, catapults a rock band to stardom via satanic rituals, and rises from the coffin at her own funeral—all to overthrow the worship of phallic gods and resume her former glory in this “bouncy, tongue-in-cheek mythmash of The White Goddess and The Feminine Mystique” (Kirkus Reviews). “[Lerman’s] is a unique voice—wildly funny, achingly spiritual, profoundly Jewish and feminist at the same time.” —The New York Times Book Review
Download or read book Hebraica written by William Rainey Harper and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sacred Marriages written by Martti Nissinen and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2008-06-23 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The title of this volume, Sacred Marriages, consciously plays with the traditional concept of sacred marriage, but the plural form, “sacred marriages,” gives the reader an idea that something more is at stake here than a monomaniacal idea of manifestations deriving from a single prototype. Following the guidelines of one of the contributors, Ruben Zimmermann, the editors tentatively define “sacred marriage” as a “real or symbolic union of two complementary entities, imagined as gendered, in a religious context.” “Sacred marriages” (plural), then, refers to various expressions of this kind of union in different cultures that seek to overcome, to cite Zimmermann again, “the great dualism of human and cosmic existence.” The subtitle indicates that the contributors are primarily interested in different aspects of the divine-human sexual metaphor—that is, the imagining and reenactment of a gendered relationship between the human and divine worlds. This metaphor, which is essentially about relationship rather than sexual acts, can find textual, ritual, mythical, and social expressions in different times and places. Indeed, the sacred marriage ritual itself should be considered not a manifestation of the “sacralized power of sexuality experienced in sexual intercourse” but one way of objectifying the divine-human sexual metaphor.
