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Physical size of a god (1)

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01 Religious and ideological doctrines and imagery




 		Keywords
gods
idioms
power
Period
Greek Archaic Age
Sumerian Ur III Empire 		Channel
Greek poets
Old Testament
Sumerian poetry

Text
Hymn to Inanna:
(Inanna:) ‘When I raise my hand, it encompasses the heaven … When I lift my foot, it encompasses the earth’.

Bullutsa-rabi Hymn to Gula 134-135:
He (= Ninurta) wears the heavens on his head, like a tiara, He is shod with the earth, as with sandals.

Isaiah 66:1:
(Yahweh:) ‘The heavens are my throne, and the earth my footstool.’

Homer, Iliad 4.443:
She (= Eris) sets her head in heaven while walking on the earth.

Sources (list of abbreviations) (source links will open in a new browser window)
Bullutsa-rabi Hymn to Gula 134-135
Homer, Iliad 4.443
Hymn to Inanna
Isaiah 66:1

Bibliography

West 1997, 359-360West, Martin L. The East Face of Helicon. West Asiatic Elements in Greek Poetry and Myth. Oxford: Clarendon Press 1997.

Amar Annus


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