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Primordial stage of the universe (2)

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01 Religious and ideological doctrines and imagery




01 Religious and ideological doctrines and imagery



02 Religious and ideological symbols and iconographic motifs




01 Religious and ideological doctrines and imagery



Keywords
Berossus
composite beings
primordial men
Period
3rd century BCE
Hellenistic Empires
Channel
Hellenistic philosophers and scholars


Text
Berossus, Babyloniaca F1:
Bulls were also born (in primordial times) with human heads and four-bodied dogs with fish tails growing from their hind quarters,and dog-headed horses and men and other beings with the heads and bodies of horses and the tails of fish and still other creatures with the forms of all sorts of beasts. In addition to these there were fish and creeping things and snakes and many other creatures, marvellous and having appearances differing from each other, votive images of which are found in the temple of Bel. Over all these ruled a woman by the name of Homoroka; in Chaldean it is Thalatth, but in Greek it is translated as ‘Thalassa’ (= the Sea), or ‘Selene’ according to numerical value.


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Berossus, Babyloniaca F1

Bibliography

Adler and Tuffin 2002, 39Adler, W. and P. Tuffin. The Chronography of George Synkellos. A Byzantine Chronicle of Universal History from the Creation translated with introduction and notes. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.
Burstein 1978, 14Burstein, Stanley M. The Babyloniaca of Berossus. Sources from the Ancient Near East 1.5. Malibu: Undena Publications 1978.

Amar Annus


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