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Ištar puts on illnesses (1)

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Topics (move over topic to see place in topic list) Descent of Ištar 04 Religious and philosophical literature and poetry 04.01 Myths 04.01.03 Descent of Ištar Wailing of Tammuz 03 Religious festivals, cults, rituals and practices 03.01 Public festivals 03.01.03 Festival of Tammuz (Tammuz/summer solstice) 03.01.03.01 Wailing of Tammuz	Keywords epilepsy illness
Period 9th century CE Abbasid Empire Neo-Assyrian Empire	Channel Islamic philosophers and scholars

Text
Akkadian ritual text:
In the month of Du’uzu when Ištar makes the people of the land wail for Dumuzi, her spouse – a man’s relatives are gathered together there. Ištar takes a start and chooses out men’s concerns; she takes away illness (or) she puts illness on.

al-Jaḥiẓ, Kitāb al-hayawān 6.52:
An epileptic who was ill for six months in the year and well for six was possessed by the daughter of the lord of the jinn; she explained that if his tribe tried to cure him she would kill him.

Sources (list of abbreviations)
Akkadian ritual text
a-Jaḥiẓ, Kitāb al-hayawān 6.52

Bibliography

Farber 1977, 127ff.	Farber, Walter. Beschwörungsrituale an Ištar und Dumuzi - Attī Ištar ša harmaša Dumuzi. Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission 30. Wiesbaden: Steiner 1977.
Stol 1993, 47	Stol, M. Epilepsy in Babylonia. Cuneiform Monographs 2. Groningen: Styx Publications 1993.

Amar Annus

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