EAN: 9783447113212

MOUNTAINS AND TREES RIVERS AND SPRINGS - ANNA P...

The animated picture of myths and magic  prayers and offerings in ancient Mesopotamian Religion
is a reflection of a world where gods and humans were part of a much more complex and
multi-layered system  where every single part was closely connected with each other in a dense
network of symbolic and ritual meanings. Mountains  rivers  trees  and plants were regarded as
cosmic entities  deeply entangled with the sacred landscape  as other-than-human persons  and
sometimes as deities  who engaged in a multitude of ways with the life of ancient Mesopotamians
and partook of their divine and relational cosmos.Anna Perdibon explores the modalities of the
human-environmental relationships by studying how mountains  rivers  and trees were embedded
within the ancient Mesopotamian religious framework. The analysis is based on reading the
ancient myths  rituals  incantations  and other textual evidence dealing with religious life 
together with iconographical sources  through the lens of the current debate about animism and
anthropology of religions  in order to investigate and further explain the connection between
nature  the sacred  and the materiality of an ancient religion. The book suggests different
understandings of divinity  personhood  and nature on the part of ancient Mesopotamians  and
sheds new light onto their emic worldviews regarding nature  the cosmos  and the divine. These
notions are considered in order to draw a picture of the sacred landscape of the ancient
Mesopotamians  while highlighting the actual fluidity and sensuous reality of those ancient
polytheisms.

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