Babylonian and Pre-Babylonian Cosmology

For many years the present writer has believed that current ideas as to the cosmology of the Babylonians and of the Hebrews are destined to give place to new and more intelligent ones. The illustrative diagrams given by Homrnmel in his Babylonischer Ursprung der Aegyptischen Kultur, by Jensen in his Kosmologie, by Maspero in his Dawn of Civilization, by Myer in his, Qabalah, by Whitehouse in his article on Cosmogony in the new Dictionary of the Bible edited by James Hastings, all differ from each other, and in my judgment differ yet more from the historic world-coneept they were constructed to illustrate. 1 am confident that better can already be drawn, diagrams that, with a single modification to be noted hereafter, will show how incredibly vast and balanced and beautiful was the long-lost world-view of the fathers of Semitic culture

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