Olympus and Ekur (1)

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The holy place, where the divine assembly of gods took place, was in Enlil’s temple Ekur in Nippur which was called “the holy hill” (du₆.kù). Ekur means ‘mountain house’ and as the place for the assembly of the gods, it corresponds to the gods’ mountain in the Greek tradition, Olympus. Like Enlil, the Greek supreme god Zeus dwells on a mountain, Mt. Olympus, and, as with the Mesopotamian god, his abode there, the halls of Olympus, is the assembly of the gods. In the Homeric Hymn to Apollo, Apollo returns from his journey for power to the assembly of gods on Olympus, which can be compared to Ninurta’s return to Nippur in the Sumero-Akkadian myth Angimdimma.

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Angimdimma 76-112
Homeric Hymn 3.1-13 (to Apollo)

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Amar Annus

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