Sumerian religion From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigationJump to search Sumerian religion Wall plaque showing libations by devotees and a naked priest, to a seated god and a temple. Ur, 2500 BCE.[1][2] Part of a series on Ancient Mesopotamian religion Religions of the ancient Near East Anatolia Ancient Egypt Mesopotamia Babylonia Sumer Persia Semitic Arabia Canaan […]
Sumerian religion
Sumerian religion From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigationJump to search Sumerian religion Wall plaque showing libations by devotees and a naked priest, to a seated god and a temple. Ur, 2500 BCE.[1][2] Part of a series on Ancient Mesopotamian religion Religions of the ancient Near East Anatolia Ancient Egypt Mesopotamia Babylonia Sumer Persia Semitic Arabia Canaan […]
Is a lot of the Torah/Old Testament based on ancient Sumerian mythology?
James Liang , M.S. in Forensic Science from University of New Haven (2020) Updated April 9, 2020 A very important question indeed! Since the discovery of ancient Mesopotamian/Sumerian tablets in the 1850s containing mythological creation stories, many of which share uncanny similarities with the narrative from the early chapters of Genesis, liberal scholars have jumped at the […]
People use a 7‑day week because they have been born into a world where this is customary.
Wherever the Common Era Calendar (a.k.a. the Gregorian Calendar) is used — and it is now used by the governments of all countries — a week of seven days is also used in conjunction with it. But there is no 7‑day cycle in Nature from which this could have been derived, so why a week […]