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4.1 Myths

There are 228 entries associated with this topic.

Abraham traced his lineage to Babylonian giants (1)
Adam's primordial clothing (1)
Adam's robe of glory (1)
Adapa and Enmeduranki (1)
Adonis and Aphrodite (1)
Adonis and Aphrodite (2)
Alexander and al-Khiḍr (1)
Alexander entering Babylon (1)
Alexander in the Land of Darkness (1)
{Alexander Romance} and Bulūqiyā (1)
The ancient Titans (1)
Angelic instruction of Seth (1)
Antediluvian sages and kings (1)
Anzû = death = donkey (1)
Apostles as military figures (1)
Arrows back to archers (1)
Ascent of the soul (1)
At the gate of netherworld (1)
Atrahasis and al-Khiḍr (1)
Atrahasis and Cypria (1)
Atrahasis and his boat (1)
Avestan version of overpopulation (1)
Babylonian theogony according to Damascius (1)
The battle of Tiamat and Marduk (1)
Bellerophon and Chimaira (1)
Belus and the sea (1)
The body was created by rulers (1)
Book of Giants (1)
The Boy and the Deyus (1)
The building of Babylon (1)
Castor on the Assyrian history (1)
Castration of Zeus (1)
Catalogue of Women (1)
Christ's body as a garment (1)
Circe and Ereškigal (1)
A city making noise (1)
Complaint in heaven (1)
Continuity of Babylonian festivals (1)
The corpse of a comrade (1)
The cosmic cave (1)
The cosmic cave (2)
The Cosmic Cave (3)
Cosmic Gates (1)
Counsel of a wise god (1)
Creation of man (2)
Creation of man (3)
Creation story of Mani (1)
Curtius' description of Babylon (4)
Cut down trees and make a boat (1)
Demeter and Persephone (1)
Descent of Ištar (1)
The descent of souls (1)
Discourse on the Alexander (1)
Division of the world among gods (1)
Do not fear death (1)
The eagle and the fox (1)
Earth weighed down (1)
Eaten by his own dogs (1)
Emergence of gods in {Enūma Eliš} (1)
Enkidu and Patroclus (1)
Enoch as scribe of righteousness (1)
{Enūma Eliš} and Hesiod (1)
Ephrem's words against Julian (1)
Ereškigal in Greek texts (1)
The Exegesis on the Soul (1)
The face of Humbaba (1)
The fate of Evil Eye (1)
Fifty leagues in one day (1)
The first plague (1)
The flesh of the gods (1)
The flood account of Berossus (2)
Flood story according to Gnostics (1)
Flowers of gold flare (1)
Folklore connections of Etana (1)
The footprint of Anzu (1)
From Jewish magic to Gnosticism (1)
The garden of stones (1)
Garment of Light (1)
The gate of heaven (1)
Gathering of the assembly (1)
Giants and Titans (1)
Gilgameš and Heracles (1)
Gilgameš and Theseus (1)
Gilgameš in a Greek papyrus? (1)
Gilgamesh in al-Suyuti (1)
Gilgamesh in bar Konai (1)
Gilgamesh in the Book of Giants (1)
Gilgamos rescued by an eagle (1)
The Gnostic Book of Life (1)
Going to the battlefield (1)
Greek festival of Adonis and Aphrodite (1)
He released his enemies (1)
A heaven too high (1)
Heavenly garment and ointment (1)
Hekate and the Moon (1)
Heracles and Hydra (1)
Heracles and the Nemean Lion (1)
Heracles in far west (1)
Heracles the philosopher (1)
Heraclitus and the Moon (1)
The hour of birth (1)
Humbaba in Manichaean mythology (1)
Humbaba in the Book of Giants (1)
I put on seven garments (1)
The idea of Holy Scripture (1)
In the shadow of the wall (1)
Inanna and Šukalletuda (1)
Insolence of the Great Mother's Son (1)
Isis' journey to Byblos (1)
Ištar puts on illnesses (1)
Jesus as the mariner (1)
Jesus trampling the sea (1)
Katabasis to the netherworld (1)
The king Yima saves the world (1)
Knowledge of the coming Flood (1)
Kumarbi myth and Hesiod (1)
The land of no return (1)
The life-giving water (1)
The list of lovers (1)
The list of lovers (2)
The live stones (1)
The Loves of Ahmad Sultan and Tar Aswar (1)
Macrobius on the soul's descent (1)
Macrobius on the soul's descent (2)
The Mandean legend of Sam (1)
Mani's story of Adam (1)
Marduk after the battle (1)
Marduk's inspection of heaven (1)
Marduk's instructions to the moon (1)
Medicine of Life (1)
Mesopotamian Flood story (1)
Mesopotamian Labbu myth (1)
Mother of the Seven houses (1)
Mourning of the goddess (1)
The myth of Cybele and Attis (1)
The myth of Etana by al-Tabarī (1)
Myth of Ganymedes (1)
The myth of the Seven Sages (1)
Necromancy (1)
Net of the god (1)
Ninsun and Penelope (1)
Ninurta and Heracles (1)
Nippur in Arabic sources (1)
Nobody has crossed the sea (1)
The noise of the young gods (1)
Odyssey and Gilgameš (1)
Olympus and Ekur (1)
On the knees of the gods (1)
Oracle for the Emperor Julian (1)
Organization of the sky (1)
The origin of mortality (1)
The original man (1)
Osiris = Dionysus (1)
Overpopulation in Mahabharata (1)
Overpopulation in Mahabharata (2)
Overpopulation of the earth (1)
Paradise on the top of the Ziggurat (1)
Parmenides' epic poem (1)
The pastoral symbolism (1)
Patroclus, Enkidu and Hector (1)
The Phoenician version of theogony (1)
Planetary gods like a flock (1)
Powers of stone (1)
Primordial state of universe (1)
Progenitor of mankind (1)
Prosperity of peace (1)
The race of giants (1)
Resurrected one in garden (1)
Return of the warrior (1)
Revolt of gods (1)
Ritual of taurobolium (1)
A royal ritual displays the Anzû myth (1)
The salvation history (1)
Salvation in clothing metaphors (1)
The second plague (1)
Self-castration in the temple of Ištar (1)
The seven sages sent down to depths (1)
Seven-rayed god (1)
Simon and Helena (1)
Simurgh in the Kurdish folk-tales (1)
Sleep like a fog (1)
Solomon's daughter in a tower (1)
Soul consists of seven parts (1)
The south and north wind (1)
The stars as gods (1)
Stimulating the sense of obligation (1)
Stirring up the great sea (1)
The Stones cry out (1)
The story of Shamshum al-Jabbar (1)
The Story of the Fisherman and the Sultan (1)
Stripping during the Descent (1)
The Stymphalian Birds (1)
Substance in the names of things (1)
Sufi connection with Gilgameš (1)
The Suteans and sons of Seth (1)
Tale of Bulūqiyā (1)
Tale of Bulūqiyā (2)
Tale of Bulūqiyā (3)
Targum on Yahweh's chariot (1)
The temple of Astarte in Sidon (1)
The ten antediluvian kings (1)
Thallus on Belus (1)
The Theology of Dunnum (1)
Theomachy scene (1)
There is a city called... (1)
Three meanings of Apsu (1)
Tiamat and Tethys (1)
Titanomachia (1)
Touching comrade's chest (1)
Traveling on Sun's path (1)
Tread on the neck (1)
Twofold destruction and renewal of the world (1)
Use of anaphora (1)
The use of messengers (1)
Utnapishtim in the Book of Giants (1)
An Uzbek folk-tale and the story of Etana (1)
Vehicles of soul's ascension (1)
Voyage of seventeen days (1)
What we like (1)
Who is this man? (1)
Why are you so downcast? (1)
You name shall be Stone (1)
Zarathustra and the demons (1)
Zarathustra, slayer of evil (1)
Zeus and Typhon (1)
Zeus and Typhon (2)
Zeus the king (1)
The {Alexander Romance} (1)

4. Religious and philosophical literature and poetry (358)

   

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