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A tale of two cities (1)

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04 Religious and philosophical literature and poetry


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birth
Period
Hittite Empire 		Channel
Hittite culture

Text
Tale of Two Cities (Hittite):
[The Queen] of Kanesh once bore thirty sons in a single year. She said: ‘What a horde is this which I have borne!’ She caulked baskets with grease, put her sons in them, and launched them in the river. The river carried them down to the sea at the land of Zalpuwa. But the gods took them up out of the sea and reared them.

Source (list of abbreviations)
Tale of Two Cities (Hittite)

Bibliography

West 1997, 439West, 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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