Donald A. Mackenzie

"Unendliche Weisheiten" - Diese Worte beschreiben Donald Alexanders Mackenzies fesselndes Sachbuch ber Babylonien und Assyrien. Der Autor begibt sich auf eine Reise in die faszinierende Geschichte der Region Mesopotamien und enth llt die Mythen und Legenden der alten Kulturen. Er erforscht biblische Berichte, die der Mythologie der Region hneln, und vergleicht sie mit anderen Mythen, wie den indischen und den nordeurop ischen. Mit seinem Engagement und seiner Detailliertheit weckt er gro es Interesse an der Untersuchung der Geschichte und Kultur der antiken Reiche Babylonien und Assyrien. Spannend und voller berraschungen entf hrt er den Leser auf eine abenteuerliche Reise durch die faszinierende Welt der Mythen aus Babylon und Assyrien. Am Ende dieser bemerkenswerten Reise wird der Leser mit einem Eindruck von unendlicher Weisheit und Erkenntnis belohnt - und einem Cliffhanger, der ihn antreibt, mehr ber die alten Mysterien von Babylonien und Assyrien zu erfahren.

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Ancient Babylonia has made stronger appeal to the imagination of Christendom than even Ancient Egypt, because of its association with the captivity of the Hebrews, whose sorrows are enshrined in the familiar psalm: By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down; Yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows.... In sacred literature proud Babylon became the city of the anti-Christ, the symbol of wickedness and cruelty and human vanity. Early Christians who suffered persecution compared their worldly state to that of the oppressed and disconsolate Hebrews, and, like them, they sighed for Jerusalem-the new Jerusalem.

In his Presidential Address to the Royal Anthropological Institute this year the late Dr. Rivers put his finger upon the most urgent need for reform in the study of Man, when he appealed for "the Unity of Anthropology". No true conception of the nature and the early history of the human family can be acquired by investigations, however carefully they may be done, of one class of evidence only. The physical characters of a series of skulls can give no reliable information unless their exact provenance and relative age are known. But the interpretation of the meaning of these characters cannot be made unless we know something of the movements of the people and the distinctive peculiarities of the inhabitants of the foreign lands from which they may have come.

Teutonic Myth and Legend - An Introduction to the Eddas & Sagas, Beowulf, The Nibelungenlied, etc. This is a good collection of Northern myths, interspersed with poems and passages in classic literature that were inspired by (or are adaptations of) these myths. Like most myth collections, each story stands alone and a search for plot cohesion or smooth continuity will end in frustration. But each stand-alone is rich in imagery and a certain dreaminess that, in aggregate with all the other stories, impart a fierce, cold, clear imaginative state that lingers far after you've closed the book.