Verify Citation - 11. Periodicities of Property and Debt
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Query: 11. Periodicities of Property and Debt
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Sumerian and Babylonian rulers fought a combat between order and chaos and emerged victorious. By the late second millennium BC in Asia Minor, the Hittites divided their young men into two halves, calling one group the Men of Hatti and the other the Men of Masa (Puhvel[1] 1988: p. 27). “Men of Hatti have bronze weapons, whereas Men of Masa have weapons of reed. They wage battle. The men of Hatti are victorious; they take a captive and consign him to the deity.” This recalls “ritual battles between the forces of summer and winter (or light and darkness, fertility and sterility), in ancient and modern Europe.” The Hittite Puruli festival featured “a battle royale between a national weather-god and the dragon Illuyanka.”
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- ↑ Jean Puhvel, “Hittite Athletics as Prefigurations of Ancient Greek Games,” in Wendy J. Raschke (ed.), The Archaeology of the Olympics (Madison, Wisconsin: 1988), p. 27.
