Transition Note - 10. Social Justice Sanctified, From Inanna and Nanshe to Nemesis
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Mediated between “public” and “private” functions, the group and the individual or his family. Between lawbreakers and law-abiders, including the families permitted to wreak revenge on their own. For crime itself was an economic function, to the extent that punishments were still pecuniary rather than merely punitive according to the law of talion.
Centralized social order was sanctified by being built into the kosmos, its seasonal changes and monthly rituals.
Goddesses no longer took the lead in (re)shaping the natural order and decreeing social policy, but played the conservative role of protecting against the chaos of moral disorder. They became divine patrons of fair weights and measures, hospitality, civility, and distributive justice in general, being called on to avenge violations of sacred laws and fair dealing, or the hubris of arrogant grandiosity.This section (three paragraphs long) needs a transition from the sections above. These three paragraphs don’t seem to be part of the ordered list.
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