creyente
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Post by creyente on Sept 30, 2016 21:09:40 GMT -5
ive found it interesting enough that aphrodite seems to be related to inana in some aspects, and i was wondering if shara is related to eros, they both seem to have various things in common but i cant find anything on shara at all, i know theres some info in a book called "cultic calendar of ancient near east" or something like that(im on a borrowed pc so i cant get my digital copy from here) but i found almost nothing about shara itself, the story wich i found most related to what im saying is in the song of the hoe wich says he asked enlil for the arrows and quiver, so we have a deity who uses bow and arrows and is related to a love goddess... and that is as much as i can really find... im quite sure im not the onlyone with that idea tho... is there more to this theory than what ive found in few weeks of reading? or is he one of the gods lost to history for lack of sources?
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Post by enkur on Oct 3, 2016 14:02:30 GMT -5
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creyente
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Post by creyente on Oct 3, 2016 21:20:09 GMT -5
thanks, had seen inana's descent and lugalbanda in the mountain cave, but the rest i had not. so it is a god that we know little about, but the hypothesis about him been "eros/cupid" is still a good one to debate about, the whys and why nots it could or couldnt be. ive found in google different people with the same idea, but didnt find a good academic source on it, is there any expert who wrote about this idea?
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nocodeyv
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Post by nocodeyv on Jul 29, 2017 17:18:26 GMT -5
Reading through the material that Enkur has presented, we can arrive at a few conclusions concerning Šara:
Šara is a son of An, by way of Inana, who resides in the House with Beautiful Bowls—the temple e2-bur-sig7-sig7—from which he patronizes the city of Umma. In a personal hymn to the deity, an additional temple for Šara is identified as the Majestic House, or e2-maḫ. A.R. George's "House Most High: the Temples of Mesopotamia," informs us that an alternative title for this temple is Brick, Mountain of the Heart, šeg12-kur-ša3-ga. Physically, Šara is a being of radiance, emitting the brilliance of the stars and coming forth like the sun, just as his mother (Venus) and father (the celestial realm) do. Šara's professions, primarily discussed in "The Temple Hymns" and "The Descent of Inana," are those of the bard, hairdresser, and manicurist in service to his mother. However, he also bears the epithet "Hero of An," which suggests that he was a capable warrior who, no doubt, used his battle prowess in defense of Umma and its inhabitants. Šara's warrior associations are further reinforced by the "Song of the Hoe," during which he asks Enlil to bequeath him the mace, club, arrow and quiver: the traditional weapons of the warrior class. In the "Epic of Anzû," Šara's warrior status is again solidified when he is considered as a candidate for retrieving the Tablet of Destinies from the thieving Imdugud.
To my mind, no traces of Eros can be found in the scant information we have regarding Šara. Where you see Šara's use of the arrow and quiver and his lineage to Inana as evidence that he was a Sumerian Eros, I see instead a war-god emboldened by the love of his mother. Inana is a deity obsessed with physical appearance and martial prowess. Šara happens to be a ravishing deity, one whose beauty is on par with the sun and the stars, and whose skill with the weapons of war make him the Mountain of (Inana's) Heart: an immovable source of pride and joy for his goddess-mother.
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