Dynasty of Dunnum
myth series
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Mesopotamian
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Levantine
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Arabian
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Mesopotamia | |
Primordial beings
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The great gods
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Demigods & heroes | |
Spirits & monsters
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Tales from Babylon
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7 Gods who Decree
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4 primary: |
3 sky: |
The Dynasty of Dunnum, sometimes called the Theogony of Dunnum or Dunnu or the Harab Myth,
Synopsis
It chronicles the conflict of generations of the gods who represent aspects of fertility, agriculture and the seasonal cycle:[6] heaven, earth, sea, river, plough, wild and domesticated animals, herdsman, pasture, fruit-tree and vine.[4]
It begins, according to a restoration:
In the beginning, [Harab married earth.] Family and lord[ship he founded. Saying: “A]rable land we will carve out (of) the ploughed land of the country. [With the p]loughing of their harbu-ploughs they cause the creation of the sea. [The lands ploughed with the mayaru-pl]ow by themselves gave birth to Sumuqan. His str[onghold,] Dunnu, the eternal city, they created, both of them.[7]
— Translated by William W. Hallo, The world's oldest literature: studies in Sumerian belles-lettres
Then
Influence
The tale spread across to
References
- ^ a b Ewa Wasilewska (2001). Creation stories of the Middle East. Jessica Kingsley Pub. p. 90.
- ^ a b Thorkild Jacobsen (1978). The treasures of darkness: a history of Mesopotamian religion. Yale University Press. pp. 167–168, 231.
- ^ Frank Moore Cross (1997). Canaanite myth and Hebrew epic: essays in the history of the religion of Israel. Harvard University Press. p. 41.
- ^ a b William W. Hallo (2000). "Founding Myths of Cities in the Ancient Near East: Mesopotamia and Israel". In Pedro Azara; Ricardo Mar; Eduard Riu; Eva Subías (eds.). La fundación de la ciudad: mitos y ritos en el mundo antiguo. Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona. pp. 31–32.
- ^ Tablet BM 74329 at the British Museum.
- ^ Patrick D. Miller, Jr. (1994). "Eridu, Dunno and Babel: A Study in Comparative Mythology". In Richard S. Hess; David Toshio Tsumura (eds.). I Studied Inscriptions from Before the Flood: Ancient Near Eastern, Literary, and Linguistic Approaches to Genesis 1-11. Eisenbrauns. p. 152.
- ^ ISBN 9789004173811.
- ^ Michael C. Astour (June 1, 1992). "History of Ebla". In Cyrus Herzl Gordon; Gary Rendsburg; Nathan H. Winter (eds.). Eblaitica: essays on the Ebla archives and Eblaite language, Volume 3. Eisenbrauns. p. 36.
- ^ I. J. Gelb; T. Jacobsen; B. Landsberger; A. Leo Oppenheim, eds. (1959). The Assyrian Dictionary. Vol. 3, D. Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. pp. 184–185.
- S2CID 162417685.