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The ending formula of a hymn (1)

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Topics (move over topic to see place in topic list) Poetic and literary devices 04 Religious and philosophical literature and poetry 04.06 Poetic and literary devices Psalms/cultic songs 04 Religious and philosophical literature and poetry 04.05 Religious poetry and hymnology 04.05.05 Psalms/cultic songs	Keywords idioms
Period Greek Archaic Age	Channel Akkadian poetry Greek poets Sumerian texts

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Dingirshadibba Incantation:
May I ever sing your praises, not to be forgotten, to the wide peoples.

Hymn to Šamaš:
May I live, may I be well, may I proclaim your greatness, may I sound your [pra]ises to the wide peoples.

Homeric Hymn 2.494-495 (to Demeter):
Be kind, repay my singing with comfortable income; and I’ll make remembrance both of you and of other song.

Homeric Hymn 3.177-178 (to Apollo):
But as for me, I will not cease from hymning far-shooting Apollo the silver-bowed, whom fair-tressed Leto bore.

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Dingirshadibba Incantation
Homeric Hymn 2.494-495 (to Demeter)
Homeric Hymn 3.177-178 (to Apollo)
Hymn to Šamaš

Bibliography

Foster 1993, 641, 647	Foster, Benjamin. Before the Muses. Ann Arbor: CDL Press 1993.
West 1997, 269	West, Martin L. The East Face of Helicon. West Asiatic Elements in Greek Poetry and Myth. Oxford: Clarendon Press 1997.

Amar Annus

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