Download or read book Myths of Babylonia and Assyria With Historical Narrative Comparative Notes written by Donald A. Mackenzie and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2015-10-28 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume deals with the myths and legends of Babylonia and Assyria, and as these reflect the civilization in which they develop, a historical narrative has been provided, beginning with the early Sumerian Age and concluding with the periods of the Persian and Grecian Empires. Over thirty centuries of human progress are thus passed under review........ This early works is a fascinating look at the subject and is thoroughly recommended for inclusion on the bookshelf of any historian. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900's and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Download or read book Myths of Babylonia and Assyria written by Donald A. Mackenzie and published by anboco. This book was released on 2016-08-23 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Races and Early Civilization of Babylonia The Land of Rivers and the God of the Deep Rival Pantheons and Representative Deities Demons, Fairies, and Ghosts Myths of Tammuz and Ishtar Wars of the City States of Sumer and Akkad Creation Legend: Merodach the Dragon Slayer Deified Heroes: Etana and Gilgamesh Deluge Legend, the Island of the Blessed, and Hades Buildings and Laws and Customs of Babylon The Golden Age of Babylonia Rise of the Hittites, Mitannians, Kassites, Hyksos, and Assyrians Astrology and Astronomy Ashur the National God of Assyria Conflicts for Trade and Supremacy Race Movements that Shattered Empires The Hebrews in Assyrian History The Age of Semiramis Assyria's Age of Splendour The Last Days of Assyria and Babylonia
Download or read book Myths of Babylonia and Assyria With Historical Narrative and Comparative Notes written by Donald Alexander Mackenzie and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Myths of Babalonia and Assyria written by Donald A. MacKenzie and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-09-16 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This volume deals with the myths and legends of Babylonia and Assyria, and as these reflect the civilization in which they developed, a historical narrative has been provided, beginning with the early Sumerian Age and concluding with the periods of the Persian and Grecian Empires."
Download or read book Myths of Babylonia and Assyria written by Donald Alexander Mackenzie and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Myths of Babylonia and Assyria written by Donald Mackenzie and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-01-15 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume deals with the myths and legends of Babylonia and Assyria, and as these reflect the civilization in which they developed, a historical narrative has been provided, beginning with the early Sumerian Age and concluding with the periods of the Persian and Grecian Empires. Over thirty centuries of human progress are thus passed under review. During this vast interval of time the cultural influences emanating from the Tigro-Euphrates valley reached far-distant shores along the intersecting avenues of trade, and in consequence of the periodic and widespread migrations of peoples who had acquired directly or indirectly the leavening elements of Mesopotamian civilization. Even at the present day traces survive in Europe of the early cultural impress of the East; our "Signs of the Zodiac", for instance, as well as the system of measuring time and space by using 60 as a basic numeral for calculation, are inheritances from ancient Babylonia. As in the Nile Valley, however, it is impossible to trace in Mesopotamia the initiatory stages of prehistoric culture based on the agricultural mode of life. What is generally called the "Dawn of History" is really the beginning of a later age of progress; it is necessary to account for the degree of civilization attained at the earliest period of which we have knowledge by postulating a remoter age of culture of much longer duration than that which separates the "Dawn" from the age in which we now live. Although Sumerian (early Babylonian) civilization presents distinctively local features which justify the application of the term "indigenous" in the broad sense, it is found, like that of Egypt, to be possessed of certain elements which suggest exceedingly remote influences and connections at present obscure. Of special interest in this regard is Professor Budge's mature and well-deliberated conclusion that "both the Sumerians and early Egyptians derived their primeval gods from some common but exceedingly ancient source". The prehistoric burial customs of these separate peoples are also remarkably similar and they resemble closely in turn those of the Neolithic Europeans. The cumulative effect of such evidence forces us to regard as not wholly satisfactory and conclusive the hypothesis of cultural influence. A remote racial connection is possible, and is certainly worthy of consideration when so high an authority as Professor Frazer, author of The Golden Bough, is found prepared to admit that the widespread "homogeneity of beliefs" may have been due to "homogeneity of race". It is shown (Chapter 1) that certain ethnologists have accumulated data which establish a racial kinship between the Neolithic Europeans, the proto-Egyptians, the Sumerians, the southern Persians, and the Aryo-Indians. Throughout this volume comparative notes have been compiled in dealing with Mesopotamian beliefs with purpose to assist the reader towards the study of linking myths and legends. Interesting parallels have been gleaned from various religious literatures in Europe, Egypt, India, and elsewhere. It will be found that certain relics of Babylonian intellectual life, which have a distinctive geographical significance, were shared by peoples in other cultural areas where they were similarly overlaid with local colour. Modes of thought were the products of modes of life and were influenced in their development by human experiences. The influence of environment on the growth of culture has long been recognized, but consideration must also be given to the choice of environment by peoples who had adopted distinctive habits of life. Racial units migrated from cultural areas to districts suitable for colonization and carried with them a heritage of immemorial beliefs and customs which were regarded as being quite as indispensable for their welfare as their implements and domesticated animals.
Download or read book Myths of Babylonia and Assyria written by A. Donald Mackenzie and published by . This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Myths of Babylonia and Assyria written by Donald Alexander MacKenzie and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-28 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Myths and Legends of Babylonia and Assyria is a book by Donald Alexander Mackenzie published in 1915. The book discusses not only the mythology of Babylonia and Assyria, but also the history of the region (Mesopotamia), Biblical accounts similar to the region's mythology, and comparisons to the mythologies of other cultures, such as those of India and northern Europe. Prehistoric Babylonia--The Confederacies of Sumer and Akkad--Sumerian Racial Affinities--Theories of Mongolian and Ural-Altaic Origins--Evidence of Russian Turkestan--Beginnings of Agriculture-- Remarkable Proofs from Prehistoric Egyptian Graves--Sumerians and the Mediterranean Race-- Present-day Types in Western Asia--The Evidence of Crania--Origin of the Akkadians--The Semitic Blend--Races in Ancient Palestine--Southward Drift of Armenoid Peoples--The Rephaims of the Bible-- Akkadians attain Political Supremacy in Northern Babylonia--Influence of Sumerian Culture-- Beginnings of Civilization--Progress in the Neolithic Age--Position of Women in Early Communities-- Their Legal Status in Ancient Babylonia--Influence in Social and Religious Life--The "Woman's Language"--Goddess who inspired Poets.
Download or read book Myths of Babylonia and Assyria eBook NC Digital Library written by Donald Alexander Mackenzie and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Myths of Babylonia and Assyria Annotated written by Donald A. Mackenzie and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-29 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Differentiated book* It has a historical context with research of the time-Donald Alexander Mackenzie (July 24, 1873 - March 2, 1936) was a Scottish journalist and folklorist and a prolific writer on religion, mythology, and anthropology in the early 1900s. Mackenzie was born in Cromarty, the son of AH Mackenzie and Isobel Mackay. He became a journalist in Glasgow and in 1903 moved to Dingwall as the owner and editor of The North Star. His next move, in 1910, was to the People's Journal in Dundee. Since 1916 he has represented the Glasgow newspaper, The Bulletin, in Edinburgh. In addition to writing books, articles, and poems, he often lectured and also broadcast talks on Celtic mythology. He was friends with many authorities specialized in his areas of interest. Her older brother was William Mackay Mackenzie.Secretary of the Royal Commission for Scottish Ancient and Historical Monuments between 1913 and 1935. He died in Edinburgh on March 2, 1936 and was buried at Cromarty. In one of his key works, Myths of Crete and Pre-Hellenic Europe (1917), Mackenzie argued that throughout Europe during the Neolithic, pre-Indo-European societies were matriarchal and woman-centered (gynocentric),
Download or read book Myths of Babylonia and Assyria written by Donald A. Mackenzie and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-03 with total page 811 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before the dawn of the historical period Ancient Babylonia was divided into a number of independent city states similar to those which existed in pre-Dynastic Egypt. Ultimately these were grouped into loose confederacies. The northern cities were embraced in the territory known as Akkad, and the southern in the land of Sumer, or Shumer. This division had a racial as well as a geographical significance. The Akkadians were "late comers" who had achieved political ascendency in the north when the area they occupied was called Uri, or Kiuri, and Sumer was known as Kengi. They were a people of Semitic speech with pronounced Semitic affinities. From the earliest times the sculptors depicted them with abundant locks, long full beards, and the prominent distinctive noses and full lips, which we usually associate with the characteristic Jewish type, and also attired in long, flounced robes, suspended from their left shoulders, and reaching down to their ankles. In contrast, the Sumerians had clean-shaven faces and scalps, and noses of Egyptian and Grecian rather than Semitic type, while they wore short, pleated kilts, and went about with the upper part of their bodies quite bare like the Egyptian noblemen of the Old Kingdom period. They spoke a non-Semitic language, and were the oldest inhabitants of Babylonia of whom we have any knowledge. Sumerian civilization was rooted in the agricultural mode of life, and appears to have been well developed before the Semites became numerous and influential in the land. Cities had been built chiefly of sun-dried and fire-baked bricks; distinctive pottery was manufactured with much skill; the people were governed by humanitarian laws, which formed the nucleus of the Hammurabi code, and had in use a system of cuneiform writing which was still in process of development from earlier pictorial characters.
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Download or read book Myths Legends of Babylonia Assyria written by Lewis Spence and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of Babylonian and Assyrian myths and legends, including various analogues of the biblical flood story and discussions of the history of Babylon and Assyria, and descriptions of various forms of Babylonian worship, Assyrian cults, and archaeological excavation of Babylonian and Assyrian sites.
Download or read book Bulletin written by University of Aberdeen. Library and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
