animals, rodents, reptiles, scorpions and insects, including a general namburbi for the omen series Šumma izbu. A small part of the corpus of rituals,...
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Mesopotamian prayer (section Namburbi)
Gottesbriefe, Ikribus, Royal, Tamitas and other queries, Hymns, Šigû, and Namburbi. Tribal specialists in ritual were required to perform incantations to...
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"burning" to counter witchcraft, Šurpu, “incineration” to counter curses, Namburbi, to preempt inauspicious omens, Utukkū Lemnūtu (actually bilingual), to...
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and the incantation tummu bītu (“Adjured is the house”).” It occurs in a namburbi performed when preparing to dig a new well and appended to tablet seventeen...
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(Blast of wind) † The Demoness Lamaštu Conjurations against All Evil (Namburbi) Maqlû (Combustion) Šurpu (Cremation) To change bad dreams into good †...
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Kings of Ur 1900 BC: Akkadian Legend of Etana, Summa izbu, Šumma ālu, Namburbi, and Iškar Zaqīqu 1900 BC: Sumerian Code of Lipit-Ishtar and The Legend...
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(Blast of wind) † The Demoness Lamaštu Conjurations against All Evil (Namburbi) Maqlû (Combustion) Šurpu (Cremation) To change bad dreams into good †...
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(Blast of wind) † The Demoness Lamaštu Conjurations against All Evil (Namburbi) Maqlû (Combustion) Šurpu (Cremation) To change bad dreams into good †...
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(Blast of wind) † The Demoness Lamaštu Conjurations against All Evil (Namburbi) Maqlû (Combustion) Šurpu (Cremation) To change bad dreams into good †...
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(Blast of wind) † The Demoness Lamaštu Conjurations against All Evil (Namburbi) Maqlû (Combustion) Šurpu (Cremation) To change bad dreams into good †...
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(Blast of wind) † The Demoness Lamaštu Conjurations against All Evil (Namburbi) Maqlû (Combustion) Šurpu (Cremation) To change bad dreams into good †...
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metallurgists. However, he also represented fire as a cause of destruction. A namburbi, a type of ritual text focused on warding off the negative consequences...
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(Blast of wind) † The Demoness Lamaštu Conjurations against All Evil (Namburbi) Maqlû (Combustion) Šurpu (Cremation) To change bad dreams into good †...
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The incantations prescribed in the ritual tablet included a universal namburbi to avert inauspicious portents, and several ušburrudûs to dissolve sorcery...
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(Blast of wind) † The Demoness Lamaštu Conjurations against All Evil (Namburbi) Maqlû (Combustion) Šurpu (Cremation) To change bad dreams into good †...
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(Blast of wind) † The Demoness Lamaštu Conjurations against All Evil (Namburbi) Maqlû (Combustion) Šurpu (Cremation) To change bad dreams into good †...
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altorientalischen Denkens anhand der babylonisch-assyrischen Löserituale (Namburbi) at Zabern, Mainz 1994, ISBN 3-8053-1618-6. Weinen aus Trauer. Der Tod...
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(Blast of wind) † The Demoness Lamaštu Conjurations against All Evil (Namburbi) Maqlû (Combustion) Šurpu (Cremation) To change bad dreams into good †...
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Other protective functions could be assigned to Gula too, for example a Namburbi incantation invokes her in domestic context against the evil influence...
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Uruk and the catalogue of apotropaic and prophylactic rituals known as Namburbi from Nineveh, it was inscribed on perhaps four tablets. It is one of the...
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(Blast of wind) † The Demoness Lamaštu Conjurations against All Evil (Namburbi) Maqlû (Combustion) Šurpu (Cremation) To change bad dreams into good †...
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the lintel and the two door-posts in Exodus 12:22 parallels Babylonian Namburbi rituals in which blood was smeared on doors and keyholes so that "evil...
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(Blast of wind) † The Demoness Lamaštu Conjurations against All Evil (Namburbi) Maqlû (Combustion) Šurpu (Cremation) To change bad dreams into good †...
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(Blast of wind) † The Demoness Lamaštu Conjurations against All Evil (Namburbi) Maqlû (Combustion) Šurpu (Cremation) To change bad dreams into good †...
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(Blast of wind) † The Demoness Lamaštu Conjurations against All Evil (Namburbi) Maqlû (Combustion) Šurpu (Cremation) To change bad dreams into good †...
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(Blast of wind) † The Demoness Lamaštu Conjurations against All Evil (Namburbi) Maqlû (Combustion) Šurpu (Cremation) To change bad dreams into good †...
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(Blast of wind) † The Demoness Lamaštu Conjurations against All Evil (Namburbi) Maqlû (Combustion) Šurpu (Cremation) To change bad dreams into good †...
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