Babyloniaca
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Excerpt from Babyloniaca: Etudes De Philologie Assyro-Babylonienne The major divisions of Babylonian liturgical literature are psalms and prayers said in temples, and incantations said in small huts built in the fields. The Babylonians accepted these literary distinctions and classifications made by the Sumerians, who by the word er-Sem-ma meant a psalm sung to the flute, whether a hymn of praise or a lamentation. The motif which caused the primitive inhabitants of Babylonia to evolve a religious literature was fear of the gods. A note of sadness, a consciousness of human weakness, is the dominant element of the earliest psalms, hence they were sung to the flute, and called "wailing to the flute". The characteristic thing about the erSemma liturgy is, that from the earliest times to the very end of Babylonian literature (80 BC) it was intended for public devotion. No strain revealing the personality of the individual is found therein. The Babylonians were so imbued with the fear of the gods and the consciousness of sin, that they appointed regular days of public lament called "sabbaths", occurring at least on the seventh and fifteenth of each month. For the days of universal penance they evolved long lamentation services; the basis of these elaborate rituals for public penance was the old erSemma psalm, and they are in fact often called erSemma psalms. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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