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
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“came to the door of Marduk’s temple where he was met by the high priest, who took from him his ring, scepter, toothed sickle, and crown, and laid them before Marduk [Babylon’s city-god in the first millennium BC]. Then the priest came out again, struck the king on the cheek, and pushed him into the presence of the god; there he pulled him by the ears and made him kneel before the god and utter a confession, or rather a protestation of innocence.”
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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