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In Sumerian mythology and later in the religions of Assyria and Babylonia ... "An" can be translated from the Sumerian as "high one ...

Commerce was considered very important in Sumerian Civilization, so much so ... became associated with many legends. The Sumerian literature known as "the ...

has been dubbed the "Shakespeare of Sumerian literature." merging of the Akkadian Ishtar with the Sumerian Inanna. ...

dated from around 2250 B.C.E., in Sumerian and in Eblaite—a previously ... appears to have included both Semitic and Sumerian influences, and many ancient ...

In Sumerian mythology, Ninhursag (NIN.URSAG) was the earth and mother ... a leash. She is the tutelary deity to several Sumerian rulers. ...

Elamite, Hattic, Hittite, Hurrian, Luwian, Sumerian, Urartian ... The Sumerian script was adapted for the writing of the Akkadian, Elamite ...

practices of the region. The Akkadian language became the lingua franca ... One of them, contemporary with the last Sumerian ruler, Lugal-Zage-Si, was ...

Amorite (Sumerian Mar.tu, Akkadian Amurrūm, Egyptian Amar, Hebrew ... In the earliest Sumerian sources, beginning about 2400 B.C.E., the ...

a form of communication that is free of language-specific elements and thus ... in Mesopotamia and predated the famous Sumerian cuneiforms (the oldest of ...

Enki was a major deity in Sumerian mythology, later known as Ea in ... is "Lord of the Earth." The Sumerian, en was a title equivalent ...

the son of an idol manufacturer in the Sumerian city of Ur, and so could ... #039;s voluminous works, he uses Semitic language etymology and translations ...

quot; applies to all speakers of the Sumerian language. Sumer together with ... water for farming and drinking. The Sumerian language has many terms for ...

at Ugarit were written in four languages: Sumerian, Hurrian, Akkadian, and ... of writing the widely used diplomatic language of Akkadian in cuneiform—as ...

The ancient royal Sumerian tombs of Ur, located near the Euphrates ... * Much of Sumerian and Akkadian poetry makes reference to lapis lazuli ...

name of the sun god, corresponding to Sumerian Utu. In mythology, Shamash ... * Finkel, Irving L., and Markham J. Geller. Sumerian Gods and Their ...

was the name of a major Mesopotamian deity. In early Sumerian inscriptions ... Enlil appears frequently in ancient Sumerian, Akkadian, Hittite, Canaanite ...

many other Arabic words in the English language, cumin was acquired through ... quot; has the same meaning as the English language phrase "carrying coals ...

Dagan is mentioned occasionally in early Sumerian texts but becomes prominent only in later Akkadian inscriptions as a powerful and warlike protector ...

King Atrahasis is listed in the Sumerian king list as one of the monarchs ... written on three tablets in Akkadian, the language of ancient Babylon. ...

excavations at the royal cemetery in the Sumerian city of Ur in the 1920s ... By 2000 B.C.E., Sumerian and Babylonian cultures began delineating ...

It is in principle the representation of language, rather than images of thought ... began to represent syllables of the Sumerian language.[http://www.answers ...

from a pre-Indo-European Mediterranean language, connected with the Illyrian ... Some of the earliest towers were ziggurats, which existed in Sumerian ...

In ancient Sumerian cosmology, heaven (An) and earth (Ki) were originally ... The sacred marriage of the king of a Sumerian city-state and the High ...

. let us go to the world of men," in language reminiscent of the serpent ... Gilgamesh, the son of Lugalbanda, was, according to a Sumerian king ...

===Mesopotamian and Sumerian mythology=== Mesopotamian and Sumerian myths told of numerous gods, such as An ...

=== Sumerian === The Sumerian myth of Ziusudra tells how the god Enki warns Ziusudra ...

could read cuneiform script in Akkadian and Sumerian and claimed that he even understood texts from before the great flood. He was also able to solve ...

by avoiding any sort of evaluative language. Instead, it uses parataxis ... * McDaniel Thomas F. "The Alleged Sumerian Influence upon Lamentations ...

linguistic families, as well as a few language isolates. Individual mother ... While Hindi is the official language of the central government in ...

C.E.) cuneiform was invented for the Sumerian language. Cuneiform literally ... involved knowledge of the extinct Sumerian language, and a complicated ...

it was written in Akkadian, the daily language of Babylon, and could therefore ... civilizations, including the earlier neo-Sumerian example of Ur-Nammu's ...

It has also been suggested just as the Sumerian goddess Inanna is related to her West Semitic counterpart, Ishtar, so in Canaanite tradition ...

air") may be a reference to the Sumerian goddess Ninlil (also "lady ... #039;s first appearance was as a class of Sumerian storm spirits called Lilitu ...

[[Image:amagi.png|right|thumb|400px|Ama-gi written in [[Sumerian language ... The ama-gi, a Sumerian cuneiform word, is the earliest known written ...

*Scholars link Enoch with the ancient Sumerian king Emmeduranki. The specific lifespan of Enoch, 365 years, corresponding to the duration of ...

to confuse the previously uniform language of humanity, thereby preventing ... 1 And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. 2 And ...

bloodsucking Akhkharu is mentioned in Sumerian mythology. Bram Stoker& ... bloodsucking Akhkharu is discussed in Sumerian mythology. These female ...

connotes, dialogue implies the use of language. A dialogue is distinguished ... In the east, the genre dates back to the Sumerian dialogues and disputations ...

such as the Babylonians, retained the Sumerian naming convention but adapted it to their own very different pantheons. The Greeks borrowed much ...

|languages=Egyptian language |fam1=(Proto-writing) |children=Hieratic ... quot; to refer to both the language as a whole and the individual ...

The earliest written record of dentistry appears to be a Sumerian text from 5000 B.C.E. that describes "tooth worms" as the causal ...

for the name Iraq. One dates to the Sumerian city of Uruk (or Erech); ... The world's first known civilization, the Sumerian culture, flourished ...

both fertility and militarism, as the Sumerian Inanna presents a valid ... In Avestan, an ancient Indo-European language found in the Gathas ...

(whose king, Etana, supposedly founded the first Sumerian dynasty after the Deluge). Sir C. Leonard Woolley’s excavations at Ur south of Uruk in the ...

alongside ancient Egypt and Sumerian Civilization, as a place ... civilization may be preserved in the Sumerian Me-lah-ha, which Asko Parpola ...

Great Flood described in its text. The Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh (c. 2000 ... the nearest town to Mount Ararat. The language spoken by the Celali is Kurmanji. ...

word for copper, and is related to the Sumerian word for copper, (zubar ... ethnic identities based on religion, language, and close ties with their ...

*Sumerian: Ziusudra *Babylonian: Atra-Hasis, Utnapishtim, Xisuthrus *Greek: Deucalion *Toltec: Toptlipetlocali A direct connection to the story ...

Yam or Yamm, from the ancient Semitic word meaning "sea," is the name of the Canaanite god of rivers and the sea. Yam was also the ...

is wholly extant only in the Ethiopic language. There are two other books ... The Greek language text was known to, and quoted by nearly all, Church ...

is the New Testament, written in the Koine Greek language. ... creation narrative and that of the Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh, such ...

Language is a structured system of communication that consists of ... Depending on philosophical perspectives on the definition of language ...

#039;amtum), which was derived from the Sumerian ti ("life") and ... * Yahuda, A. S. The Language of the Pentateuch in its Relation to ...

. They can influence the rhythm of a language, its prosody, its poetic ... tablets written around 2800 B.C.E. in the Sumerian city of Ur. This shift from ...

copies of every publication in the English language. ===Funding=== ... three existing Gutenberg Bibles, and a Sumerian scripted tablet dating back ...

The Phoenician language is counted among the Canaanite languages in ... In terms of archeology, language, and religion, there is little to ...

A fable is a succinct story, in prose or verse, that employs the literary device, anthropomorphism - that is giving animals, plants, inanimate ...

castration for this purpose are from the Sumerian cities of Lagash in the twenty-first century B.C.E. Over the millennia since, eunuchs have ...

to the Akkadian edinu, which derives from the Sumerian E.DIN. The latter words mean "plain" or "steppe." Eden is described ...

of Rim-Sin, King of the Larsa dynasty (Sumerian period) c. 2300 B.C.E., ... is a distinct promise expressed in language which is perfectly unmistakable ...

number of loanwords from the Chinese language—are known as Sinoxenic ... be the oldest surviving writing system. Sumerian cuneiform, which originated ...

The Epic of Gilgamesh in Sumerian literature features its hero Gilgamesh ... oldest word still in use in the English language to describe hand-to-hand combat. ...

In an Ugaritic tablet (Ugaritic was a north-west Semitic language ... in fact no word for 'virgin' in Sumerian or Akkadian." ...

Japanese myth of Izanagi and Izanami, the Akkadian/Sumerian myth of Inanna's Descent to the Underworld, and Mayan myth of Ix Chel and Itzamna. The ...

divine which featured such goddesses as the Sumerian Inanna, the Mesopotamian Ishtar, and the Syro-Palestinian Astarte, among others. The female body ...

In the English language, 7 is the only 2-syllable natural, positive 1-digit ... *The Seven Sages in Sumerian mythology and various other mythologies ...

6000 B.C.E. in southern Mesopotamia, cradle of the Sumerian civilization, who may have passed on the knowledge to the Egyptians around 3000 B.C.E. The ...

on a grand scale) can be observed readily in Sumerian and Babylonian epics, e.g. as in Lugal-banda (Sumerian) or Atrakhasis (Babylonian). Such a ...

Iran, where they adopted the Muslim Tat language, but remained Jewish. The ... The official language of Azerbaijan is Azerbaijani, a member of the ...

The official language is Arabic. Among the immigrant population, English ... with emphasis on English as a second language. There are numerous internationally ...

Telmun) that was linked to the Sumerian Civilization in the third ... Arabic is the official language. The two main dialects are Baharna ...

title=The Sumerian Harp of Ur, c. 3500 B.C.E.|journal=Oxford Journal of Music and Letters|date=1929|volume=X (2):|pages=108–123|url=http://ml ...

Armenia (Armenian language: "Hayastan"), officially the ... The original Armenian language name for the country was Hayq. The ...

sharp nose and square-cut beard calls to mind Sumerian figures, especially stone sculptures from Mari. In images of men and women, muscular and physical ...

known writing systems, preceding the Sumerian and Egyptian hieroglyphics ... European peoples who spoke the Thracian language, were the earliest known ...