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Birds in Ugaritic cults (1)

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Topics (move over topic to see place in topic list) Animal offerings 03 Religious festivals, cults, rituals and practices 03.03 Service of god 03.03.04 Feeding god 03.03.04.03 Animal offerings	Keywords birds offerings Ugarit
Period Middle Assyrian Empire	Channel Ugaritic texts

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Both in Ugarit and in Babylonia, birds play a very specific role during sacrifices, and series constituting of calfs, sheep and birds feature in texts from both regions. This unlike Old Testament practice, where birds play a secondary role, which might imply that the Ugaritic practice is not Canaanite, but influenced by Babylonia.

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Xella 1982, 325

Xella, Paolo. “L'influence babylonienne à Ougarit, d'après les textes alphabétiques rituels et divinatoires.” In: Hans-Jörg Nissen and Johannes Renger (eds.). Mesopotamian und seine Nachbarn: Politische und kulturelle Wechselbeziehungen im alten Vorderasien vom 4. bis 1. Jahrtausend v. Chr. Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale 38. Berliner Beiträge zum vorderen Orient 1. Berlin: Reimer 1982, 321-338.

Erik van Dongen

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