I. Introduction. II. Anatolia: 1 Sources philological (texts) and archaeological (cemeteries); 2 Terminology: man (body, soul, spirit), death, to die; 3 Netherworld: a. man after death (body, inhumation, cremation), souls, spirits; b. the way to the Netherworld, the rite of passage (Totenrituale), the mythological passages, the natural passages; c. mausolea (different names or different institutions), places of inhumation, places of cult; 4 Between dead and alive: inheritance, care about inhumation and sacrifices to the dead, magical contact; 5 Other rituals and festivals for the dead; 6 Gods related to the Netherworld: protohittite (Lelwani and its cercle), taknas UTU, gods from hurrian and mesopotamian inheritage (Ereskigal, Allani, Allatum etc).
III Review of the cult of the dead in Syria (Ebla, Nuzi, Ugarit) and Mesopotamia with some excurtion to the egyptian sources.
Date of completion: Dec 1, 2006 [table “6” not found /]
Categories: PhD ResearchPhD Research completed