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The Assyrian demiurge (1)

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Earth
02 Religious and ideological symbols and iconographic motifs
02.02 Cosmic symbols and imagery
02.02.06 Earth
Fire
02 Religious and ideological symbols and iconographic motifs
02.02 Cosmic symbols and imagery
02.02.03 Fire
Primal mother: salt-water ocean (Tiamat)
01 Religious and ideological doctrines and imagery
01.01 Cosmogonic and cosmological ideas
01.01.01 Primal undifferentiated unity
01.01.01.02 Primal mother: salt-water ocean (Tiamat)

Keywords
four elements
Mesopotamia
religions

Period
2nd century CE
Hellenistic Empires

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Text
Chaldean Oracles 67:
Moreover, the theology of the Assyrians teaches the same doctrines, which were revealed to them by the gods. For in that theology, the Demiurge is said to have made the entire world “from fire, water, earth, and all-nourishing air.”

Source (list of abbreviations)
Chaldean Oracles 67

Bibliography

Majercik 1989, 76-77

Majercik, Ruth. The Chaldean Oracles. Text, Translation, and Commentary. Studies in Greek and Roman Religion 5. Leiden, New York, Copenhagen, Cologne: E. J. Brill 1989.

Amar Annus

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