Citation Needed - 10. Social Justice Sanctified, From Inanna and Nanshe to Nemesis
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Query: 10. Social Justice Sanctified, From Inanna and Nanshe to Nemesis
Citation Needed
Quoted text:
“Then, after pronouncing the absolution, the priest returned the royal insignia to the king and struck him again on the cheek. If the king shed tears the omen was favorable; if not, the prospects for the New Year were distinctly bad.”
Can you help us find a source for this quotation? It may be, as Hudson says at the end of this paragraph, “simply a translation from Francois Thureau-Dangin’s 1921 Rituels Accadiens, a French translation of a Neo-Babylonian New Year ritual.” (No page number is cited so we couldn’t try to compare with our limited knowledge of French to that source.) Hint: We found similar phrases but not exactly the same narrative in Hooke 1933.
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