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The Assyrian Tree of Life (1)

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03 Religious festivals, cults, rituals and practices
01 Religious and ideological doctrines and imagery
01 Religious and ideological doctrines and imagery
02 Religious and ideological symbols and iconographic motifs



 		Keywords
Assyrians
Hekate
triads
Period
11th century CE
Byzantine Empire 		Channel
Byzantine philosophers and scholars

Text
Psellus, Commentary on the Chaldean Oracles:
After the One, they (= the Assyrians) affirm the paternal abyss, filled with three triads, each of which has first a Father, then, in the middle, a Power, and then, thirdly, an Intellect, which closes the triad on itself … They think Hekate is the source of the angels, the demons, the souls and the natures. And they often make the soul descent into the world, for multiple causes: either by loss of the wings, or by a fatherly will in order to ornate the world.

Source (list of abbreviations)
Psellus, Commentary on the Chaldean Oracles

Bibliography

Talon 2001, 276Talon, Philippe. “Enūma Eliš and the Transmission of Babylonian Cosmology to the West.” In: R. M. Whiting 2001 (ed.). Mythology and Mythologies. Methodological Approaches to Intercultural Influences. Melammu Symposia 2. Helsinki: The Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project 2001, 265-277. [PDF]

Amar Annus


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