Early Mesopotamian Religion

The striking animal imagery preserved on carved stone steli and plastered wall reliefs at sites like gebe litepe and chatal huyuk in turkey, both of which pre date writing by many thousands of years. Just like prehistoric belief systems in turkey mesopotamian religion, i would argue, cannot be reconstructed. It was probably less about doctrine and practice, prayer and philosophy, than it was about sublimation to the overarching power of the deep rooted elemental forces that supported and protected a community. A deity only abandoned a city or land when its people had sinned. The fault lay not in their stars, but in themselves. Later as we know from literary sources dating to