File Gurney MSS 2.14 - Mythology

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Mythology:

Notes:

• 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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