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Debate between sheep and grain

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1150:(the goddess of weaving) nor pegged out the loom for Uttu—with no Sheep appearing, there were no numerous lambs, and with no goats, there were no numerous kids, the sheep did not give birth to her twin lambs, and the goat did not give birth to her triplet kids; the Annunaki, the great gods, did not even know the names Grain or Sheep. There was no grain of thirty days; there was no grain of forty days; there was no grain of fifty days; there was no small grain, grain from the mountains or grain from the holy habitations. There was no cloth to wear; Uttu had not been born—no royal turban was worn; lord 1118:). Ewa Wasilewska mentions, "this text is not very clear, allowing for the interpretation that humankind was already present before Lahar and Ashnan were created and it was them, not the AnunnakĂ», who were not able to provide for themselves and for the deities until they were given divine 'breath' (Lyczkowska and Szarzynska 1981). However, it seems that Kramer's translation is more appropriate concerning the Sumerian realm in which each and every creation must have had its clearly described purpose". Karen Rhea Nemet-Nejat noted the use of 1164: 42: 943:", number eight, entitled "A New Creation Myth". The tablet is 5 by 2.6 by 1.25 inches (12.7 by 6.6 by 3.2 cm) at its thickest point. Barton describes the text as an "elaborate statement of the non-existence of many things once upon a time" and considered it a "statement that mankind was brought into existence through the physical union of a god and a goddess." 1186:
They brought wealth to the assembly. They brought sustenance to the Land. They fulfilled the ordinances of the gods. They filled the store-rooms of the Land with stock. The barns of the Land were heavy with them. When they entered the homes of the poor who crouch in the dust they brought wealth. Both
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The story opens with a location "the hill of heaven and earth" which is discussed by Chiera as "not a poetical name for the earth, but the dwelling place of the gods, situated at the point where the heavens rest upon the earth. It is there that mankind had their first habitat, and there the
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had not gone out into the barren lands. The people of those days did not know about eating bread. They did not know about wearing clothes; they went about with naked limbs in the Land. Like sheep they ate grass with their mouths and drank water from the
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From sunrise till sunset, may the name of Grain be praised. People should submit to the yoke of Grain. Whoever has silver, whoever has jewels, whoever has cattle, whoever has sheep shall take a seat at the gate of whoever has grain, and pass his time
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of them, wherever they directed their steps, added to the riches of the household with their weight. Where they stood, they were satisfying; where they settled, they were seemly. They gladdened the heart of An and the heart of Enlil.
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in 1924 increasing the text to seventy lines in "Sumerian religious texts". Chiera compiled his translation using further tablets translated by Hugo Radau published in "Miscellaneous Sumerian Texts" in 1909.
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Alster, Bendt, and Vanstiphout, Herman L.J., "Lahar and Ashnan. Presentation and Analysis of a Sumerian Disputation", Acta Sumerologica 9 (1987), 1-43: commentary, composite text, translation
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When, upon the hill of heaven and earth, An created the Annunaki, since he neither spawned nor created Grain with them, and since in the Land he neither fashioned the yarn of
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Hermann Vollrat Hilprecht, The Babylonian Expedition of the University of Pennsylvania: Researches and treatises, Volume 31, Number 15, University of Pennsylvania
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and included translations of museum tablet numbers 7344, 7916, 15161 and 29.15.973. He also included translations from tablets in the Nippur collection of the
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Vanstiphout, Herman L.J., "The Mesopotamian Debate Poems. A General Presentation. Part II. The Subject", Acta Sumerologica 14 (1992), 339-367: commentary
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Black, J.A., Cunningham, G., Fluckiger-Hawker, E, Robson, E., and ZĂłlyomi, G., The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature, Oxford 1998- .
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also translated further parts of the text and discusses the myth saying, "One of the most remarkable tablets in the Museum is number 14005, a
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in 1959; he called it the "second myth significant for the Sumerian concept of the creation of man". He added the translation of a tablet by
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Langdon, Stephen., Sumerian Liturgies and Psalms. Museum of the University of Pennsylvania, 1919. Online Version
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Vanstiphout, Herman L.J., "The Akkadian word for grain and Lahar and Ashnan", NABU (1989) No. 98: commentary
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Barton, George Aaron., Miscellaneous Babylonian Inscriptions, Yale University Press, 1918. Online Version
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Chirea, Edward., Sumerian Religious Texts, Constantinople. Musée impérial ottoman, 1924. Online Version
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Another tablet from the same collection, number 6893 (part of which was destroyed) was translated by
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Sumerian mythology: a study of spiritual and literary achievement in the third millennium B.C.
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Sumerian mythology: a study of spiritual and literary achievement in the third millennium B.C.
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A Sumerian group of two separate shell inlay fragments forming the body and head of a sheep.
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Riches hidden in secret places: ancient Near Eastern studies in memory of Thorkild Jacobsen
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Seven "debate" topics are known from the Sumerian literature, falling in the category of '
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of Lahar and Ashnan, naming them simply "grain" and "sheep" (also known as cattle).
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Jeremy A. Black; Jeremy Black; Graham Cunningham; Eleanor Robson (13 April 2006).
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has noted the parallels and variations between the story and the later one of
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Le poème sumérien du Paradis: du déluge et de la chute de l'homme, 135-146
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Langdon, Stephen., Bablyoniaca, Volume 3, Librarie Orientaliste, 1908.
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Edward Chiera; Constantinople. Musée impérial ottoman (1924).
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in 1918 and first published as "Sumerian religious texts" in "
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in 61 lines on the period of pre-culture and institution of
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The Sumerians: their history, culture and character
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The Sumerian word 941:Miscellaneous Babylonian Inscriptions 890:The Dispute between Silver and Copper 7: 1142:The introduction to the myth reads: 1735:Creation stories of the Middle East 1670:. Psychology Press. pp. 108–. 1122:in the tale as being linked to the 1399:Stephen Langdon (September 2010). 56:Religions of the ancient Near East 14: 1770:Daily life in ancient Mesopotamia 1553:. The University of Chicago Press 1352:Sumerian religious texts, pp. 26- 908:The first sixty-one lines of the 1510:Forgotten Books. pp. 105–. 1241:Self-praise of Shulgi (Shulgi D) 1216:Debate between Winter and Summer 878:Debate between Winter and Summer 842:"Debate between sheep and grain" 1809:The Literature of Ancient Sumer 1704:Forgotten Books. pp. 78–. 1596:The variables of moral capacity 762:Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta 1041:mounds (ruined habitations). 924:from their excavations at the 1: 1633:. Eisenbrauns. pp. 45–. 1168: 1130:, but cannot survive without 1048:creating the cattle-goddess, 1321:George Aaron Barton (1918). 1221:Debate between bird and fish 995:Museum of the Ancient Orient 882:Debate between bird and fish 1698:Samuel Noah Kramer (1961). 1599:. Springer. pp. 110–. 1504:Samuel Noah Kramer (1961). 1467:Samuel Noah Kramer (1959). 1287:Samuel Noah Kramer (1964). 1944: 876:'; some examples are: the 846:"Myth of cattle and grain" 1056:, to feed and clothe the 1052:, and the grain goddess, 935:. This was translated by 45:Chaos Monster and Sun God 1664:Gwendolyn Leick (1991). 1550:Sumerian epics and myths 1439:. Éditions Ernest Leroux 1195:at the end of the myth: 1732:Ewa Wasilewska (2000). 1470:History begins at Sumer 1327:. 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Index

a series
Ancient
Mesopotamian religion

Chaos Monster and Sun God
Religions of the ancient Near East
Anatolia
Ancient Egypt
Mesopotamia
Babylonia
Sumer
Iranian
Semitic
Arabia
Canaan
Tiamat
Abzu
Lahamu
Lahmu
Kishar
Anshar
Mummu
Anu
Enlil
Enki
Ninhursag
Inanna/Ishtar
Nanna/Sin
Utu/Shamash
Adad
Dumuzid
Enkimdu

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