The Akītu Festival : : Religious Continuity and Royal Legitimation in Mesopotamia / / Julye Bidmead.
The akītu festival is one of the oldest recorded religious festivals in the world, celebrated for several millennia throughout ancient Mesopotamia. Yet, the akītu was more than just a religious ceremony; it acted as a political device to ensure the supremacy of the king, the national god, and his ca...
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Bidmead, Julye , author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Akītu Festival : Religious Continuity and Royal Legitimation in Mesopotamia / Julye Bidmead. Piscataway, NJ : Gorgias Press, [2014] ©2014 1 online resource (232 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Gorgias Near Eastern Studies Frontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS -- INTRODUCTION AND HISTORICAL BACKGROUND -- ANALYSIS OF PREVIOUS SCHOLARSHIP ON THE AKĪTU -- PHENOMONOLOGY OF THE AKĪTU FESTIVAL -- RITUALISTIC ELEMENTS OF THE AKĪTU -- POLITICAL, HISTORICAL, AND IDEOLOGICAL ANALYSIS -- CONCLUSION -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star The akītu festival is one of the oldest recorded religious festivals in the world, celebrated for several millennia throughout ancient Mesopotamia. Yet, the akītu was more than just a religious ceremony; it acted as a political device to ensure the supremacy of the king, the national god, and his capital city. Using tools of social anthropology and ritual analysis, this book presents a detailed reconstruction of the festival events and its attendant rituals to demonstrate how the festival became a propagandistic tool wielded by the monarchy and ruling classes. The akītu festival demonstrates the effectiveness of religion as a political tool. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 31. Jan 2022) Akitu. Kings and rulers Religious aspects Assyro-Babylonian religion. RELIGION / Antiquities & Archaeology. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Backlist eBook-Package 2001-2015 9783110663037 print 9781463202651 https://doi.org/10.31826/9781463236007 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781463236007 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781463236007/original |
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Frontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS -- INTRODUCTION AND HISTORICAL BACKGROUND -- ANALYSIS OF PREVIOUS SCHOLARSHIP ON THE AKĪTU -- PHENOMONOLOGY OF THE AKĪTU FESTIVAL -- RITUALISTIC ELEMENTS OF THE AKĪTU -- POLITICAL, HISTORICAL, AND IDEOLOGICAL ANALYSIS -- CONCLUSION -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX |
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