
EI Weekly Listen—Uruk and the origins of the sacred economy by Daniel T. Potts
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Early Mesopotamian Religion
In messa otamia, supremely polytheistic, even though each city had its chief god or goddess. Early mesopotamian religion was more about the tending of a deity's estates than it was about being tended for by a god's love. Death was final and in no way to be yearned for. There was no concept of resurrection. But while alive, all who worked for a particular god or goddess were emmeshed in a system of support that sustained thousands.
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