Missing Illustration - 2. The Shift From Lunar to Solar Calendars and Counting
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Query: 2. The Shift From Lunar to Solar Calendars and Counting
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By the time the image can be picked up on the verge of historical times in Mesopotamia and related to mythology, the chief “intellectual” of the Sumerian pantheon, Enki (“Lord or en of the earth, ki”), appears cast in the guise of Aquarius the water-bringer. On cylinder seals he is depicted as “the god with two streams.” [Omitted text: [Illustrations like those in Van Buren 1949[1] and more recently Kramer and Maier 1989.[2]]] He typically is shown holding a vase of water, out of which two streams flow. Often fish are swimming upward (upstream).
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“[Illustrations like those in Van Buren 1949 and more recently Kramer and Maier 1989.]”
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- ↑ E. Douglas van Buren, “The Rod and the Ring,” Archiv Orientalni, Vol. 17 (1949), pp. 434–450.E. Douglas van Buren, Symbols of the Gods in Mesopotamian Art, Analecta Orientalia, Vol. 23 (Rome: 1945).
- ↑ Samuel Noah Kramer and John Maier, Myths of Enki, the Crafty God (Oxford: 1989).
