EVIL EYE OF SUMERIAN DEITIES

• Authors: Kotzé Zaacharias
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The evil eye in ancient Mesopotamia has received surprisingly little attention in recent research. It has been suggested that the belief in the malefic gaze was much less prevalent in ancient Mesopotamia than initially thought by earlier generations of scholars. Unfortunately, though, recent scholarship has focused exclusively on the relatively small corpus of evil eye incantations from ancient Mesopotamia. This study attempts to add to the understanding of this ancient belief system by analysing the conceptual content of linguistic expressions for the evil eye of gods and goddesses in Sumerian literature.

Keywords

EN

EVIL EYE; SUMERIAN DEITIES; COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS; MESOPOTAMIA

• Publisher: Institute of Oriental Studies, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Asian and African Studies
• Year: 2017
• Volume: 26
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 102 – 115

Contributors

author

Kotzé Zaacharias

• Department of Biblical and Ancient Studies, University of South Africa, Preller Street, Pretoria, South Africa