“And Their Days Shall be One Hundred and Twenty Years”
Humanity’s Inaugural Guilt in the Cultural Convergence Zone of the Near East
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https://doi.org/10.5752/P.1678-3425.2024v9n17p39-47Keywords:
Atrahasis, Eastern anthropogonies, Etiology of ills, Demographic conflictsAbstract
This paper examines the theme of the existence of an original lack of humanity in ancient accounts of the Middle Eastern cultural convergence zone, demonstrating how its starting point is found in the demographic problem of overpopulation, which leads to the sending, by the gods, of scourges intended to promote the necessary balance, namely plagues, droughts, famine, floods and wars.
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