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The central position of the goddess (1)

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Ištar (Love)
01 Religious and ideological doctrines and imagery
01.04 Concept of god (1)
01.04.03 Plurality of god (polytheism)
01.04.03.05 Great gods
01.04.03.05.07 Ištar (Love)
Tree of life (1)
02 Religious and ideological symbols and iconographic motifs
02.04 Botanical symbols, imagery and iconographic motifs
02.04.02 Trees
02.04.02.01 Tree of life (1)

Keywords
Hekate

Period
11th century CE
Byzantine Empire

Channel
Byzantine philosophers and scholars

Text
Psellus, Commentary on the Chaldean Oracles:
In the definition of the Chaldeans, Hekate occupies an exactly intermediate order and assumes the role of the centre relative to all powers. And to her right they put the source of the souls, and to her left the source of the virtues.

Source (list of abbreviations)
Psellus, Commentary on the Chaldean Oracles

Bibliography

Talon 2001, 276

Talon, Philippe. “Enūma Eliš and the Transmission of Babylonian Cosmology to the West.” In: R. M. Whiting 2001 (ed.). Mythology and Mythologies. Methodological Approaches to Intercultural Influences. Melammu Symposia 2. Helsinki: The Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project 2001, 265-277. [PDF]

Amar Annus

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