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Mesopotamian Incantations 2500-1500 BC by marcolxisveo3 is a document available to read on EtoBox.
This dissertation by Graham Cunningham analyzes approximately 450 Mesopotamian incantations from 2500 to 1500 BC, focusing on their development, functions, verbal techniques for divine intervention, accompanying rituals, and the nature of suffering caused by harmful divine intervention. The study categorizes the incantations into four periods: pre-Sargonic, Sargonic, neo-Sumerian, and Old Babylonian, and challenges the conventional classification of these texts as purely magical rather than religious. The w
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