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The stars as gods (1)

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05 Scientific knowledge and scholarly lore
04 Religious and philosophical literature and poetry
01 Religious and ideological doctrines and imagery
05 Scientific knowledge and scholarly lore



 		Keywords
gods
identifications
stars
Period
4th century BCE
Greek Classical Age 		Channel
Akkadian poetry
Greek philosophers and scholars

Text
Enūma Anu Enlil, AfO 17, 89:
(The great gods) designed the stars as their likenesses.

Enūma Eliš 5.1-2:
(Marduk) fashioned stations for the great gods, he set up the constellation-stars as their images.

Plato, Epinomis 983e-984a, 984a-b:
(The stars are) likeness of the gods, images fashioned by the gods themselves.

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Enūma Anu Enlil, AfO 17, 89
Enūma Eliš 5.1-2
Plato, Epinomis 983e-984a
Plato, Epinomis 984a-b

Bibliography

Kingsley 1995, 203Kingsley, Peter. “Meetings with Magi. Iranian Themes among the Greeks, from Xanthus of Lydia to Plato's Academy.” Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 5 (1995) 173-209.

Amar Annus


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