RE: “Inuma ilu awilu,” When gods [were] men.
June 11, 2012 at 8:00 am
(This post was last modified: June 11, 2012 at 8:15 am by The Grand Nudger.)
I didn't realize that city-data had become a scholarly review. The beliefs of the author aren't under scrutiny from me. The conclusions that you alluded to at the very beginning of your post are. This narrative is offered as a justification for those, but as you yourself have so succinctly put, the only thing that might be determined from this particular text, the only thing that might be decided, is what the author himself believed.
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