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Enn Kasak, Raul Veede
UNDERSTANDING S IN
ANCIENT MESOPOTAMIA
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UNDERSTANDING S IN
ANCIENT MESOPOTAMIA
Enn Kasak, Raul Veede
On our time flows evenly everywhere but the history as we
know it has different length and depth in every place. Maybe the
deepest layer of history lies in the land between Tigris and Eufrat –
Mesopotamia (Greek Mesopotam
a ‘the land between two rivers’). It
is hard to grasp how much our current culture has inherited from
the people of that land – be it either the wheel, the art of writing,
or the units for measuring time and angles. Science and knowledge
of stars has always – though with varying ess – been important
in European culture. Much from the Babylonian beliefs about con-
stellations and s have reached our days. s had an im-
portant place in Babylonian astral religion, they were observed as
much for calendrical as astrological purposes, and the qualities of
the ary gods were carried on to Greek and Rome.
The following started out as an attempt pose a list of s
together with corresponding gods who lend their names and quali-
ties to the s. Though it was easy to find such a list about
Greece and Rome, texts concerning Mesopotamia included miscel-
laneous facts subdivided into general categories only (. Pannekoek
1961). The reasons of this vagueness later became evident with the