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=Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea Powerpoint:= =pages 41-49= October 28

10/02  Relilgion was a way for rich people to gan more power; good insight. All notes come from one book; so/so Have some notes from another place Have not outline for now;  To do:  1.  Assign late work study  2. Find additional resources  3. Examine search strategy -- where and how have you looked?  4. Cheat take you right to some books that Albritton knows of. <span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial"> 5. <span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Check in and see me during study hall Thursday. = = = = = = =Mesoptamian Gods Goddesses and Demons in Daily Life=

Mesopotamian Religion Outline Ideas ·  Stages of Religion ·  Religion and Politics ·  Monuments/Art ·  Gods and Goddesses ·  The story Order in Paper: Names Story Stages Monuments/art Politics Ending Para

Sources: Internet Links [|Gods Explore] [|Sumarian Gods and Goddesses] [|Ullikumis] [|Ba'al] [|Hand of God] [|Mesopotamian Religion]

Books to Find: Ancient Mesoptamia (Stephen Bertman) The Names and Functions of the Gods (Black and Green) Myths (Bottero) Places of Public Worship (Harris) Holy Days and Gestivals (Beinkowski and Millard) Divination and Exorcism (Bottero) The Concept of Immortality (Bottero)

Ancient Mesoptamia By Susan Pollock 935076 Chapter 7 Ideology and images of power Monuments Popular Religion: Religions and Secularization > declaring himself a god was an attempt to place his credentials beyond dispute.
 * Ideology can be thought of as a way for people in control to gain more power
 * "Ideology works by maskin, naturalizing, or flaunting a particular view of the world.: pg 173
 * artifacts, writing, monuments
 * Ideology also creates unity
 * Assyria: huge stone sculptures
 * Southern Mesopotamia: huge mud brick buildings
 * desighned to make people remember the person, deity or event
 * ideological statements about social and political relations DOMINANCE
 * to bridge time
 * major communal effort to make a monument
 * 3 principal sorts of monument: temple, ziggurat (on top of which were sometimes palaces) and city walls
 * goes from temple, to ziggurat, to city walls
 * religious ideology is used to legitimate human inequality (pollock 1989)
 * city walls imply the existance of warfare
 * Different types of temples can be found in one city\
 * each city had a ritual calender
 * small temples, big temples, neighborhood temples
 * pictorial representations on Akkadian seals my represent ritual enactment of elements of mythological stories that were favored by members of the lower class.
 * power struggles between leaders of state and the temples
 * politcal leaders try to get power at the expence of temple leaders\ida of temple city as the domain of a individual god or goddess was an invented tradition developed to protect religious leadersand the autonomy of individual city sates when politcal powers werwtrying to gain power in the individual city states
 * the first kind to declare himself a god was Naram-Sin he promoted a politcal form that clashed with the local, temple based leaders whose power was threatened
 * ideologies represent the interests of a a few as if they were the interests of the many, making inequalitiews between classes, genders or other social groups seem acceptable\religious beliefs and practices were drawn upion to portray communal and corvee labor projects as part of the necessary service of people to their gods
 * hides the fact that monumental architecture was really to maintain inequalities among different people
 * unpredicatbilityies (weather etc.) were thought of as part of the capriciousness of the deities.
 * rituals inside major temples were a way of reenforcing communtiy
 * monumental architecture communicated a message of communal endeaver heightened by the participation of the ruler and orders of a god or goddess.

Mesoptamian Religion First Stage of Gods Second Stage of Gods Third Stage of Gods Archeology
 * Gale Information**
 * Millenia before christian religion
 * Mesoptamian Religion in sumarian in origin
 * subtly modified by the akkadians
 * religion controlled all aspects of mesoptamian life
 * social, economic, political, military were controlled
 * also gave symbels for art and poetry
 * In many ways it even influenced peoples and cultures outside Mesopotamia, such as the Elamites to the east, the Hurrians and Hittites to the north, and the Aramaeans and Israelites to the west
 * religious development was not often changed by people moving it was consistant
 * tradition only changed for internal needs of insight and expression
 * non human forces often related to gods
 * a lot of these forces tend to be from different versionsof the "dying god" but the god may be directed in a more agrucultural way if it effected farmers.
 * 4th millennium BC and even earlier
 * visualization of gods (in human form)
 * democratic god cast system
 * deity has special functions/abilities
 * 3rd millennium BC
 * 2nd and 1st millennia BC
 * emphasis on personal religion (sin and forgivness)
 * god cast system went from democratic to monarchial
 * absolute faith in divine intervention
 * very conservitive in religion didnt change much
 * most of the religious evidence is dependent on archeolgical evidence
 * Of greatest significance is the literary evidence, texts written in [|**cuneiform**] (wedge-shaped) script on tablets made of clay or, for monumental purposes, on stone.

Among the archaeological finds that have particularly helped to throw light on religion are the important discoveries of inscribed tablets with Sumerian texts in copies of Old Babylonian date (c. 1800–c. 1600 BC) at Nippur and Ur, the Sumerian and Akkadian texts of the 2nd and 1st millennia from Ashur and Sultantepe, and particularly the all-important library of the Assyrian king [|**Ashurbanipal**] (reigned 668–627 BC) from NinevehOf nonliterary remains, the great temples and temple towers (ziggurats) excavated at almost all major sites—e.g., Eridu, Ur, Nippur, Babylon, Ashur, Kalakh (biblical Calah), Nineveh—as well as numerous works of art from various periods, are important sources of information. The [|**Uruk Vase**], with its representation of the rite of the sacred marriage, the Naram-Sin stela (inscribed commemorative pillar), the Ur-Nammu stela, and the stela with the [|**Code of Hammurabi**] (Babylonian king, 18th century BC), which shows at its top the royal lawgiver before the sun god Shamash, the divine guardian of justice, are important works of art that may be singled out. Other important sources are the representations on cylinder seals and on boundary stones (//[|**kudurru**]//s), both of which provide rich materials for religious iconography in certain periods. In working with, and seeking to interpret, these varied sources two difficulties stand out: the incompleteness of the data and the remoteness of the ancients from modern man, not only in time but also in experience and in ways of thought. Thus, for all periods before the 3rd millennium, scholars must rely on scarce, nonliterary data only, and, even though writing appears shortly before that millennium, it is only in its latter half that written data become numerous enough and readily understandable enough to be of significant help. It is generally necessary, therefore, to interpret the scarce data of the older periods in the light of survivals and of what is known from later periods, an undertaking that calls for critical acumen if anachronisms are to be avoided. Also, for the later periods, the evidence flows unevenly, with perhaps the middle of the 2nd millennium BC the least well-documented and hence least-known age.
 * http://search.eb.com/eb/article-68262 ||

<span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">10/02 <span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Relilgion was a way for rich people to gan more power; good insight. <span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">All notes come from one book; so/so <span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Have some notes from another place <span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Have not outline for now; <span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">To do: <span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial"> 1. <span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> Assign late work study <span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial"> 2. <span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Find additional resources <span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial"> 3. <span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Examine search strategy -- where and how have you looked? <span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial"> 4. <span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Cheat take you right to some books that Albritton knows of. <span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial"> 5. <span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Check in and see me during study hall Thursday. <span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">10/03 <span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Wrote very brief outline, but linked to notes which had a lot of details; lot of notews since yesterday. That’s good. Process grade backup to an A- YEA! <span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Things get complicated when I read paragraph that said leaders don’t believe in this stufrf, but actually used it to maintain control; there was power struggles between leaders and the temples; // so does this make you interpret anyting from before differently?// <span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> Ltoes of temple verses kingly power ;; thinks that is confusing and manipulative; and I don’t know; <span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Emily – what you’ve just been saying to me is really interesting: it’s the classic struggle between church and state. That conflict is not original too the U>S but goes all the way back to Mesopotama. Peropse make it a 2 part essay: start with the stories and beliefs -- tell the stories of the god. Thenk second, power struggles in the here and now, how priestsly class manipulated power to its own gain. That kind of stuff. Start of Power Struggle Paragraph/Thoughts

Mesopotamia had struggles similar to any other society with a very active religion. The power struggle between politics and religion was one that affected the Mesopotamian society. In Mesopotamia the whole way of life was centered around religion, making one of the most prominent leaders in their societies the priests and priestesses. The power of religion really cut down on the power of the political leaders in Mesopotamia, and many of these political leaders sought ways to gain more power. To gain more power the kings and queens would go straight to religion to get what they wanted. ·  Declaring King ·  Using religion as an excuse