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Like a bird on a rafter (1)

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Topics (move over topic to see place in topic list)
Dove
02 Religious and ideological symbols and iconographic motifs
02.05 Animal/theriomorphic symbols and iconographic motifs
02.05.02 Birds
02.05.02.03 Dove
dove = mother goddess
05 Scientific knowledge and scholarly lore
05.10 Esoteric lore and hermeneutics
05.10.04 Esoteric associations
05.10.04.02 dove = mother goddess
Literary motifs and topoi
11 Language, communication, libraries and education
11.01 Imperial languages
11.01.05 Shared linguistic items and features
11.01.05.04 Literary motifs and topoi

Keywords
birds
gods
similes

Period
Greek Archaic Age
Sumerian Ur III Empire

Channel
Greek poets
Sumerian poetry

Text
Lament for Inanna, CT 15 24:
Like a timorous dove I passed the time on a rafter; like a flying bat I slipped into the cracks in the wall.

Homer, Odyssey 20.239-240:
She (= Athena) flew up to the roof-beam of the smoky hall, and sat there in the guise of a swallow to look upon (the battle).

Sources (list of abbreviations) (source links will open in a new browser window)
Lament for Inanna
CT 15 24
Homer, Odyssey 20.239-240

Bibliography

West 1997, 435

West, 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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