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Gurney MSS 2.14
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Mythology
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- 1950s (or later) (Creation)
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1 folder
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(1911-2001)
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Mythology:
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- Lecture notes on mythology.
- Notes on myths of the Ancient Near East: Sumerians, Akkadians, Hittites:
- Myths of creation - Theogony, Theomachy - Ea and Apsu, The Birth of Marduk, Marduk and Tiamat, Creation of the World, Creation of man, Coronation of Marduk, Hymn to Marduk.
- Tammuz and Ishtar.
- Etana and the Eagle.
- Nergal and Ereshkigal.
- Epic of Irra.
- Myth of Adapa.
- Epic Lays.
- Legend of Sargon.
- Gilgamesh.
- Hittite Myths.
- Ugaritic Myths.
- Conclusion.
- Definitions of "myth".
- Notes on Lambrechts Pierre, "Les fêtes 'phrygiennes' de Cybèle et d'Attis", Bulletin de l'Institut historique belge de Rome 27 (1952), p. 141-170, and on Landsberger, B. "Jahreszeiten Im Sumerisch-Akkadischen", Journal of Near Eastern Studies 8 (3-4) (1949), p. 248-272, p. 273-297.
- Notes on Berghe, L. Venden, "Reflexions critiques sur la nature de Dumuzi-Tammuz", La Nouvelle Clio 6 (1954), p. 298-321.
- Notes on Dumuzi from multiple publications by Kramer.
- Notes on Ritual calendar.
- Index cards with bibliographical references for Burkert, W. and Fontenrose, J.
- List of references for comparative mythology.
Offprint/Photocopy:
- Chapter "Cosmogony" in Schafer, Edward Hetzelon, Pacing the Void: T'ang Approaches to the Stars, Berkeley (1977).
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