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Ashnan or Ezina (d še.tir; [1] both possible readings are used interchangeably [2] [3]) was a Mesopotamian goddess considered to be the personification of grain. She could also be called Ezina-Kusu , which lead to the proposal that the goddess Kusu was initially her epithet which only developed into a distinct figure later on.
The main source of information about Lahar is the text Lahar and Ashnan, [2] also known as Ewe and Wheat [9] or Debate between Sheep and Grain. [10] The text does not explicitly state who was considered the creator of Lahar and Ashnan, though due to the fact that their place of origin is the Apsu Wilfred G. Lambert considered Enki (Ea) to be a plausible candidate.
Like sheep they ate grass with their mouths and drank water from the ditches. [12] A Sumerian group of two separate shell inlay fragments forming the body and head of a sheep. c. 27th –24th century BC. From a Mayfair gallery, London, UK. The benefits that grain and sheep bring to the habitation are also described: They brought wealth to the ...
Seven "debate" topics are known from the Sumerian literature, falling in the category of 'disputations'; some examples are: the debate between sheep and grain; the debate between bird and fish; the tree and the reed; and the dispute between silver and copper, etc. [2] These topics came some centuries after writing was established in Sumerian Mesopotamia.
Another Sumerian creation myth, the Debate between sheep and grain opens with a location "the hill of heaven and earth", and describes various agricultural developments in a pastoral setting. This is discussed by Edward Chiera as "not a poetical name for the earth, but the dwelling place of the gods, situated at the point where the heavens rest ...
Lahar was a god associated with sheep. [415] Research shows that he was usually regarded as a male deity, [416] though he was initially interpreted as a goddess in Samuel Noah Kramer's translations. [416] In the poem The Dispute between Cattle and Grain, Lahar and Ashnan are created by the Anunnaki to provide them with food. [354]
Shamsud Din Jabbar was a US-born military veteran who went from success to a squalid Houston trailer park where sheep roamed his yard. He served in the Army for more than a decade and deployed to ...
Seven debate topics are known from the Sumerian literature, falling in the category of disputations; some examples are: The Debate between sheep and grain; The Debate between bird and fish; the Debate between Winter and Summer; and The Debate between silver and copper, etc. [2] These topics came some centuries after writing was established in Sumerian Mesopotamia.