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If in Šebat thunders (1)

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Topics (move over topic to see place in topic list) Hemerological and menological omens (Iqqur īpuš) 05 Scientific knowledge and scholarly lore 05.02 Omen interpretation 05.02.04 Hemerological and menological omens (Iqqur īpuš)	Keywords omens weather
Period Neo-Assyrian Empire Sasanid Empire	Channel Mandean culture Neo-Assyrian texts

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The Mandean Book of the Zodiac preserves some Mesopotamian omens by means of a direct transmission.

Iqqur īpuš 88.12:
If in Šabātu (Adad) thunders: an invasion of locusts in the land.

Sfar Malwašia 266 (Drower):
If in the month of Šabat there is a rumbling, there will be much cloud, beasts will perish … many locusts will come.

Sources (list of abbreviations)
Iqqur īpuš 88.12
Sfar Malwašia 266 (Drower)

Bibliography

Drower 1949, 266	Drower, E. S. Sfar Malwašia. The Book of the Zodiac. Oriental Translation Fund 35. London: Royal Asiatic Society 1949.
Rochberg 1999, 244	Rochberg, Francesca. “The Babylonian Origins of the Mandaean Book of the Zodiac.” ARAM 11 (1999) 237-247. [Peeters Online Journals (requires subscription)]

Amar Annus

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