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During the third millennium BC the local deity was imagined to be the actual owner of each Sumerian city , and his or her temple possessed and worked most of the irrigated land , with the result that the king was rather like a steward ...
During the third millennium BC the local deity was imagined to be the actual owner of each Sumerian city , and his or her temple possessed and worked most of the irrigated land , with the result that the king was rather like a steward ...
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The temple , placed on a high brick - built platform , served as the house in which the deity was fed and clothed , and received worshippers . In the city Eridu the temple was actually called Apsu , after the freshwater ocean that was ...
The temple , placed on a high brick - built platform , served as the house in which the deity was fed and clothed , and received worshippers . In the city Eridu the temple was actually called Apsu , after the freshwater ocean that was ...
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ESNA ( THE CREATION ) AT ESNA THE TEMPLE was dedicated to the ram - headed god Khnum . He , it was believed , fashioned man on his potter's wheel , but in duplicate because everyone had a ka , or double .
ESNA ( THE CREATION ) AT ESNA THE TEMPLE was dedicated to the ram - headed god Khnum . He , it was believed , fashioned man on his potter's wheel , but in duplicate because everyone had a ka , or double .
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