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    Myths 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...
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    Myths and Legends of Babylonia and Assyria is a book written by Lewis Spence, published in 1916. It comprises 15 chapters, covering the most important...
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    ethno-linguistically related state of Assyria in the north of Mesopotamia and Elam to the east in Ancient Iran. Babylonia briefly became the major power in...
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    pre-Sargonic and post-Sargonic eras in Akkad, Assyria, and Babylonia. It is of Semitic derivation and is probably etymologically related to the name of the West...
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    Lewis Spence (category Alumni of the University of Edinburgh)
    Myths and Legends of Babylonia and Assyria Excerpts from The Popul Vuh The Legends and Romances of Spain Hero Tales and Legends of the Rhine Legends and...
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  • myth and legend. Gresham, London. Egyptian Myth and Legend (1913) Myths and Legends of Babylonia and Assyria (1915); online editions: gutenberg.org, sacred-texts...
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  • classification of myth. Stories of everyday humans, although often of leaders of some type, are usually contained in legends, as opposed to myths. Myths are sometimes...
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    Lewis (2010). Myths and Legends of Babylonia and Assyria. Cosimo. p. 281. ISBN 978-1-61640-464-2. Now among people in a primitive state of culture the soul...
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    (1927). Ancient Records of Assyria and Babylonia Volume 2: Historical Records of Assyria From Sargon to the End. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. OCLC 926853184...
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  • Star-worship". Myths and Legends of Babylonia and Assyria. Retrieved 2021-12-04 – via wisdomlib.org. Springett, B. H. (2016). Secret Sects of Syria. United...
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    Chaldea (redirect from Land of Chaldea)
    original seat of Marduk-Baladan. The king of Chaldea was also called the king of Bit Yakin, just as the kings of Babylonia and Assyria were regularly...
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    The timeline of ancient Assyria can be broken down into three main eras: the Old Assyrian period, Middle Assyrian Empire, and Neo-Assyrian Empire. Modern...
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    Assyria and Babylonia later became provinces under the Parthian Empire (Achaemenid Assyria and province of Babylonia), Rome (province of Assyria) and...
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    region into their empire and used the title King of Babylon in addition to the title King of Assyria, Assyrian control of Babylonia was neither stable nor...
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    of the great powers of the ancient Near East, for a time even occupying Babylonia in the south. After the death of Ashur-bel-kala in 1056 BC, Assyria...
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    about myths and legends of other cultures in works such as The Myths and Legends of Babylonia and Assyria (1917) or The Legends and Romances of Spain...
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    between Assyria and Babylonia was similar to the relationship between Greece and Rome in later centuries; much of Assyria's culture, texts and traditions...
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    The king of Assyria (Akkadian: Iššiʾak Aššur, later šar māt Aššur) was the ruler of the ancient Mesopotamian kingdom of Assyria, which was founded in the...
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    published The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria. The book explores the gods, myths, and rituals at the heart of Babylonian and Assyrian culture, highlighting...
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    under Pompey in 63 BC. After receiving the Mesopotamian regions of Babylonia and Assyria in 321 BC, Seleucus I began expanding his dominions to include...
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    Gilgamesh flood myth), as well as creation myths. On examination it became clear that the Assyrian myths were drawn from or similar to the Babylonian...
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    Semiramis (redirect from Shamiram (legend))
    Lydian-Babylonian wife of Onnes and of Ninus, who succeeded the latter on the throne of Assyria, according to Movses Khorenatsi. Legends narrated by Diodorus...
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    evidence of Assyria and Babylonia was lacking, authors and artists during the Renaissance and Enlightenment based their interpretations of ancient Mesopotamia...
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  • written in the Akkadian language (Assyrian and Babylonian dialects) in Mesopotamia (Assyria and Babylonia) during the period spanning the Middle Bronze...
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    Sharganisharri of contemporary documents with the Sargon of the Legend" D. D. Luckenbill, Review of: The Civilization of Babylonia and Assyria by Morris Jastrow...
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    mores. ...Queer manifestations of sexuality, though repressed socially, squeeze their way into the myths, legends and lore of the land. Devdutt Pattanaik...
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    The beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, and Accad, all of them in the land of Shinar. From that land he went into Assyria, and built Nineveh,...
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    Nimrod (category Islam and Judaism)
    Babylonian and Assyrian inscriptions bear the names Bel-Nibru. The word Nibru in the East Semitic Akkadian language of Akkad, Assyria and Babylonia comes from...
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    MacKenzie, Donald (1915). "The Golden Age of Babylonia". Myths of Babylonia and Assyria. p. 247. The identification of Hammurabi with Amraphel is now generally...
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  • Kutha in Babylonia and Tarbiṣu in Assyria. The best attested spelling of the theonym Laṣ in cuneiform is dLa-aṣ, and the single instance of dLa-a-aṣ known...
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