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The Vow of Mutiya, King of Shekhna
| Title: | The Vow of Mutiya, King of Shekhna |
| Author: | Sasson, Jack M. |
| Abstract: | "Of course, I cannot claim that Mutiya's egregious lapse directly influenced what was told about Keret. I could, however, suggest that these two accounts of misbegotten vows, one embedded in an epic and the other conveyed in a letter, are exploiting two themes that readily combine in popular belief: the first develops from the commonplace that achievers too often neglect benefactors who had once boosted their rise; the second depends on the conventional crediting to wrathful gods any exceptional or precipitous collapse of power. To the pious, therefore, neglected vows give fine opportunity not only to reflect on the fall of the mighty, but also to delve into some of the less mysterious facets of theodicy." |
| Description: | In this chapter Professor Sasson shows how vows made to the gods and goddesses by those who sought advancement were often forgotten once they had attained power. The consequences that resulted might not be seen for a generation or more. |
| LCSH Subject: |
Mari (Extinct city)
Cuneiform tablets -- Syria -- Mari (Extinct city) Middle East -- Antiquities Goddesses, Assyro-Babylonian |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1803/3902 |
| Date: | 1997 |
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