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Myths of Babylonia and Assyria

Donald Alexander Mackenzie

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Myths of Babylonia and Assyria

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Donald Alexander Mackenzie was a Scottish journalist and prolific writer on religion, mythology and anthropology in the early 20th century. His works included Indian Myth and Legend, Celtic Folklore and Myths of China and Japan.

As well as writing books, articles and poems, he often gave lectures, and also broadcast talks on Celtic mythology.

This volume deals with the myths and legends of Babylonia and Assyria, and as these reflect the civilization in which they developed, a historical narrative has been provided, beginning with the early Sumerian Age and concluding with the periods of the Persian and Grecian Empires. Over thirty centuries of human progress are thus passed under review.
cultural contact between separate nationalities, and, as a result, a not inconsiderable amount of "religious borrowing". Greece was supposed to have received its great goddesses from the western Semites, who had come under the spell of Babylonian religion. Archaeological evidence, however, tends to disprove this theory. "The most recent researches into Mesopotamian history", writes Dr. Farnell, "establish with certainty the conclusion that there was no direct political contact possible between the powers in the valley of the Euphrates and the western shores of the Aegean in the second millennium B.C. In fact, between the nascent Hellas and the great world of Mesopotamia there were powerful and possibly independent strata of cultures interposing."[137]

The real connection appears to be the racial one. Among the Mediterranean Neolithic tribes of Sumeria, Arabia, and Europe, the goddess cult appears to have been influential. Mother worship was the predominant characteristic of their religious systems, so that the Greek goddesses were probably of pre-Hellenic origin, the Celtic of Iberian, the Egyptian of proto-Egyptian, and the Babylonian of Sumerian. The northern hillmen, on the other hand, who may be identified with the "Aryans" of the philologists, were father worshippers. The Vedic Aryo-Indians worshipped father gods,[138] as did also the Germanic peoples and certain tribes in the "Hittite confederacy". Earth spirits were males, like the Teutonic elves, the Aryo-Indian Ribhus, and the Burkans, "masters", of the present-day Buriats, a Mongolian people. When the father-worshipping peoples invaded the dominions of the mother-worshipping peoples, they introduced their strongly individualized gods, but they d

Sotiris 03/27/2023
Very good book but bored to write a proper review
Todd 12/11/2021
Very informative, more so that I thought it would be.

Only real problems are that it lacked maps and the author threw so many facts at you that it is easy to get lost in them all.
Anthony 12/04/2020
This is an excellent overview of Assyro-Babylonian culture and beliefs, a good starting point for a comparative study of world religions and myths. It is however marred by it's age and ideas prevalent at the beginning of the twentieth century. I personally struggled through the opening chapter in wh
Owen 12/23/2016
Fascinating stuff, but I was hoping for more.
Geoff 12/26/2015
Once you get past the ancient racism, this is a pretty great book.

The study of mythology is sort of inextricably bound up in the ancient histories of people and therefore the racial differences between people. This stuff stretches way, way back, and the people of the olden days were racist as crap
William 08/16/2013
I love both history and mythology. I expected the latter, but was pleasantly surprised by how much of the former I got in reading this. My major concern, of course, is with the accuracy--I'm not a scholar, but I felt like many of these theories and things were likely out of date, especially with the
Winnie 06/22/2013
It says 'Myths of Babylonia and Assyria' but halfway through it becomes a chronicle of the infamous aforementioned kingdoms. It's not a terrible book, but it's not a great if you're looking for a compendium of myths. It is, however, a great intellectual examination of the myths by paralleling them w
Stephen 04/09/2013
This is a good intellectual text. I like the exposition.

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