Article ID: CBB796194802

Standing and Sitting Gods in Mul.apin (2024)

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In 2018 Hoffmann and Krebernik proposed a new reading of the lines MUL.APIN I i 23 as rubric markers, implying that the “Standing and Sitting Gods of the Ekur” are terms referring to two groups of asterisms in the previous lines. Astronomically, this division refers to the ever-visible circle versus the rising and setting constellations in the path of Enlil. Based upon Horowitz’s suggestion that this is also a celestial representation of the presentation scene from Mesopotamian art (N.A.B.U. no.3, 2023), I re-analysed the astronomical meaning of the constellations in the Path of Enlil in MUL.APIN and found an agricultural calendar in the path of Enlil. This finding puts the indigenous Mesopotamian set of constellations in line with other indigenous astronomies that have been found by anthropological and cultural studies all over the world.

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Authors & Contributors
Steele, John M.
Kurtik, G. E.
Horowitz, Wayne
Kurtik, Gennady E.
Brack-Bernsen, Lis
Britton, John P.
Journals
Journal for the History of Astronomy
Archive for History of Exact Sciences
VIET: Voprosy Istorii Estestvoznaniia i Tekhniki
Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage
Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Centaurus: International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology
Publishers
Aleteiia
American Philosophical Society Press
Gangemi Editore
Concepts
Constellations; zodiac
Astronomy
Cuneiform inscriptions
Astrology
Science and art
Stars; stellar astronomy
People
Hipparchos of Rhodes
Manilius, Marcus
John Goldsmit
Paulus Alexandrinus (fl. 4th century)
Time Periods
Ancient
21st century
Prehistory
Precolumbian period (America)
Places
Mesopotamia
Middle and Near East
Rome (Italy)
Egypt
Greece
Babylon (extinct city)
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