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            * Antalík Dalibor
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            The Cult of Divine Statues and the Ethical Norms of Communication in the Ancient Semitic C


            Abstrakt
            This paper deals with some problems concerning divine images in ancient Semitic religions.

            introduction, it presents a survey of information from primary sources. The archaeological
            Semitic cult statues is very sparse. We can find their representations only in some stone 
            the presentation scenes of cylinder seal motifs. There are some written materials: sporadi

            royal inscriptions, a small number of cultic texts with a complete description of the puri
            for a new or renewed divine statue (the so called «m?s pî» texts in Mesopotamia), other re

            be found in mythic and ritual texts (for ex. in the Epic of Erra, in the Ugaritic and in t
            texts) or anti-idolatrous polemics in the Old Testament. According to the literary documen
            „idolatry“ (from the Greek eid?lon, image, portrait) of pre Judaic and pre Islamic Semites

            as the worship of an object considered as a legitimate substitute for the divine in the cu
            as a „living“ entity. These vehicula of the divine presence played an essential role in ma
            rituals and regular religious ceremonies in the temple area and sometimes even outside the

            However, the donation of food and drink to the images of gods (i.e. the presentation of sa
            libations), the giving of votive gifts, the anointing with oil and washing the mouth of st
            ritual fashioning and clothing, and finally, their taking to bed on purpose to evoke eithe

            rest or „sacred marriage“ (hieros gamos) represent the core of this ritual complex in the 
            final part of this paper, the question of finding some correlates of these forms of idol’s
            sphere of social ethics is treated. For example, the two first tablets of the Gilgamesh Ep

            fundamental ritualised concomitants of interpersonal communication (the common consummatio
            drink; the exchange of conventional gifts; the anointing with oil and washing of the guest
            of clothes; the offering of „sexual favours“) correspond to the cultic rules of communicat

            sacred through idolatry.

            Klíčová slova

            Ancient Near East; ancient Semitic civilisations; Mesopotamia; Syria; Israel; religion; cu
            statues; idols; ethical norms of communication


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