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/Home/Languages/Literature/Mythology/Near Eastern Mythology Canaanite/Ugaritic Mythology FAQ, ver. 1.2 Votes:0 Canaanite/Ugaritic Mythology FAQ, ver. 1.2 by Christopher B. Siren cbsiren at alum dot mit dot edu based on John C. Gibson's Canaanite Mythology and S. H. Hooke's Middle Eastern Mythology Last modified: May 25th 1998: Corrected several spelling errors. May 25th 1996: Added an entry on Molech. March 30th 1996: Fixed a couple of Lucian typos, added a biblical link. March 11, 1996: added some links to Shawn Knight's "Egyptian Mythology FAQ" February 12, 1996: Included more extra-Ugaritic information. prior to February 12: added link to Gwen Saylor's commentary on this FAQ. Contents: I. Who do we mean by 'Canaanites'? II. What Deities did they worship? A. Primarily beneficent and non-hostile gods B. Chaos gods, death gods, and cthonic gods. C. Demigods and heroes. III. What about their cosmolo Read More Go to Site Hittite/Hurrian Mythology REF Votes:0 Hittite/Hurrian Mythology REF 1.2 by Christopher B. Siren cbsiren at alum dot mit dot edu last modified Mar. 13th, 1998: added a bunch of information from the first half of Hoffner. Mar. 29th, 1996: corrected some cross-reference links. I. Who were the 'Hittites'? II. What Deities did they worship? A. Hittite and Hurrian deities. B. Akkadian Imports. C. Demons. D. Mortals. III. What was the Hittite cosmology and how did they perceive the structure of the universe? IV. Source material. I. Who were the 'Hittites'? During the second millennium B.C. a group of people known as the Hittites, who spoke an Indo-European language, ruled over the 'Land of Hatti', in central and eastern Anatolia, that peninsula which is modern Turkey. They had displaced the previous occupants, the Hattians (who spoke Read More Go to Site Sumerian Mythology FAQ Votes:0 Sumerian Mythology FAQ (Version 2.0html) by Christopher Siren , 1992, 1994, 2000 cbsiren at alum dot mit dot edu This FAQ used to be posted on the third of every month to alt.mythology. An older text copy of this FAQ is available via anonymous ftp pending *.answers approval at: rtfm.mit.edu at /pub/usenet/news.answers/mythology/sumer-faq last changes: July 27, 2000: complete revision including incorporating Kramer's Sumerian Mythology and Black & Green's God's Demons and Symbols of Ancient Mesopotamia . Added more citations of sources. July 19, 1999: modified first sentance to include hints of civilization prior to and outside of Sumer September 20, 1998: fleshed out the Gilgamesh entry July 3, 1998: added a couple of Lilith links to Renee Rosen's and Alan Humm's sites. August 13, 1997: ad Read More Go to Site Sumerian Myths Votes:0 Sumerian Mythology Visit the links to learn about Sumerian myths related to objects in the sky, the Earth, and aspects of their world. Back to the World Map The Earth: Enlil The Moon: Sin The Sky: An The Sun: Shamash Last modified September 13, 1996 by the Windows Team The source of this material is Windows to the Universe , at http://www.windows.ucar.edu/ at the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR). ©1995-1999, 2000 The Regents of the University of Michigan; ©2000-06 University Corporation for Atmospheric Research. All Rights Reserved. Site policies and disclaimer Read More Go to Site

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