Ritual Contexts and Mythological Explanations of the Emesal Šuilla-Prayers in Ancient Mesopotamia

• SHIBATA Daisuke

  Assistant Professor, University of Tsukuba

Abstract

The prayers designated as Šuilla comprise those belonging to the arts of the exorcist (āšipu), and those belonging to that of the cult-singer (kalû). In the present article I draw upon the latter prayers which were written in the Emesal-dialect of the Sumerian language and recited in processions, especially those from/to the Akītu-house, to investigate the purpose of their recitations in rituals, and furthermore, to seek the possible mythological explanations of the recitations in Babylonian and Assyrian scholarship.

Journal

• Orient

  Orient 45 (0), 67-85, 2010

  The Society for Near Eastern Studies in Japan

Keywords

• Šuilla-prayers
• cult-singers (kalû)
• Emesal
• <i>Akītu</i>-festivals
• narrative Angin (An-gin₇)

Details

• CRID: 1390282680479618688
• NII Article ID: 130005001691
• DOI: 10.5356/orient.45.67
• ISSN: 18841392
• ISSN: 04733851
• Text Lang: en
• Data Source:
  • JaLC
  • Crossref
  • CiNii Articles
  • KAKEN
• Abstract License Flag: Disallowed