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At your word the earth shakes (1)

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Topics (move over topic to see place in topic list) Balag 04 Religious and philosophical literature and poetry 04.05 Religious poetry and hymnology 04.05.04 Lamentations/penitential psalms 04.05.04.01 Balag Literary motifs and topoi 11 Language, communication, libraries and education 11.01 Imperial languages 11.01.05 Shared linguistic items and features 11.01.05.04 Literary motifs and topoi	Keywords gods idioms power
Period Greek Archaic Age Sumerian Ur III Empire	Channel Greek poets Sumerian poetry

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Balaĝ to Inanna:
You are the honoured one. When your word is spoken heavenward, the heavens rumble. You are Enlil. When your word is spoken earthward, the earth shakes.

Homer, Iliad 1.528-530:
The son of Kronos spoke, and bowed his dark brow in assent, and the ambrosial locks waved from the king’s immortal head; and he made great Olympus quake.

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Balaĝ to Inanna
Homer, Iliad 1.528-530

Bibliography

Cohen 1988, I 292 19-20	Cohen, Mark E. The Canonical Lamentations of Ancient Mesopotamia. 2 Vols. Potomac: CDL Press 1988.
West 1997, 354	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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