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The god Marduk and his dragon Mušḫuššu. Ancient Mesopotamian religion encompasses the religious beliefs (concerning the gods, creation and the cosmos, the origin of man, and so forth) and practices of the civilizations of ancient Mesopotamia, particularly Sumer, Akkad, Assyria and Babylonia between circa 6000 BC [1] and 400 AD.
The ancient Mesopotamians regarded the sky as a series of domes (usually three, but sometimes seven) covering the flat earth [16]: 180 and a place where holy stars resided. [17] Each dome was made of a different kind of precious stone. [16]: 203 The lowest dome of heaven was made of jasper and was the home of the stars. [18]
In Christianity, the conviction that God may offer physical immortality with the resurrection of the flesh at the end of time has traditionally been at the center of its beliefs. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] What form an unending human life would take, or whether an immaterial soul exists and possesses immortality, has been a major point of focus of ...
Ghosts spent some time traveling to the netherworld, often having to overcome obstacles along the way. [3] The Anunnaki, the court of the netherworld, welcomed each ghost and received their offerings. The court explained the rules and assigned the ghost his fate or place.
Map showing the extent of Mesopotamia. The Civilization of Mesopotamia ranges from the earliest human occupation in the Paleolithic period up to Late antiquity.This history is pieced together from evidence retrieved from archaeological excavations and, after the introduction of writing in the late 4th millennium BC, an increasing amount of historical sources.
Accounts of afterlife are considered to be aimed at the popular prevailing views of the time so as to provide a referential framework without necessarily establishing a belief in the afterlife. Thus while it is also acknowledged that living the life of a householder is above the metaphysical truth, Sikhism can be considered agnostic to the ...
Ancient Sumerian cylinder seal impression showing the god Dumuzid being tortured in the underworld by galla demons. The ancient Mesopotamian underworld (known in Sumerian as Kur, Irkalla, Kukku, Arali, or Kigal, and in Akkadian as Erṣetu), was the lowermost part of the ancient near eastern cosmos, roughly parallel to the region known as Tartarus from early Greek cosmology.
[251] They represented "eternal time as a prime force in creation," [241] and it is likely they developed as a personified form of a preexisting cosmological belief. [242] A single text identifies them as ancestors of Enlil instead. [251] They appear for the first time in an incantation from the reign of Samsu-iluna (Old Babylonian period). [242]