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Nin-Ildu
Ninildu ( sux, đđ©đđ đđ, '' dNin-''IGI.NAÄAR.BU; also read Ninduluma) was a Mesopotamian god associated with carpentry. He was chiefly worshiped in the city of Zabalam and in its proximity. He appears in a number of literary texts, such as the '' Epic of Erra''. Name and character The oldest writing of the name is dNin-NAÄAR.BU, attested in the god lists from Abu Salabikh and Fara and in the '' zami'' hymns from the Early Dynastic period, though later on dNin-IGI.NAÄAR.BU was employed. A logographic writing, dNAÄAR, is attested in the god list ''An = Anum''. While the name is commonly rendered as Ninildu in Assyriological literature, the alternate reading Ninduluma has been proposed based on an unpublished incantation from Meturan, which reportedly uses a phonetic spelling. Jeremiah Peterson renders the name as Ninildum due to the presence of an apparent auslaut in a number of sources. It is agreed the deity was male. Ninildu was associated with carpentry. O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carpentry
Carpentry is a skilled trade and a craft in which the primary work performed is the cutting, shaping and installation of building materials during the construction of buildings, ships, timber bridges, concrete formwork, etc. Carpenters traditionally worked with natural wood and did rougher work such as framing, but today many other materials are also used and sometimes the finer trades of cabinetmaking and furniture building are considered carpentry. In the United States, 98.5% of carpenters are male, and it was the fourth most male-dominated occupation in the country in 1999. In 2006 in the United States, there were about 1.5 million carpentry positions. Carpenters are usually the first tradesmen on a job and the last to leave. Carpenters normally framed post-and-beam buildings until the end of the 19th century; now this old-fashioned carpentry is called timber framing. Carpenters learn this trade by being employed through an apprenticeship trainingânormally 4 yearsâan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MĂźs-pĂź
MĂźs-pĂź, inscribed KA-LUážȘ.Ă.DA and meaning âwashing of the mouth,â is an ancient Mesopotamian ritual and incantation series for the cultic induction or vivification of a newly manufactured divine idol. It involved around eleven stages: in the city, countryside and temple, the workshop, a procession to the river, then beside the river bank, a procession to the orchard, in reed huts and tents in the circle of the orchard, to the gate of the temple, the niche of the sanctuary and finally, at the quay of the ''ApsĂ»'', accompanied by invocations to the nine great gods, the nine patron gods of craftsmen, and assorted astrological bodies. The ritual The extant text corpus, corpus of tablets comprising ''mĂźs-pĂź'' consist of two ritual accounts, one late Babylonian and one earlier Assyrian, together with several Sumerian language, Sumerian incantations to be recited at the various stages of the ritual, recovered from a wide distribution of find spots. These date from the eighth to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
