
The Nature of Tears, Part 3
Stuff To Blow Your Mind
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Is There a Supernatural Parent in the Book of Jeremiah?
Jeremiah draws on the parent child bond when he is weeping. Several laments from ancient mesopotamia depict deities weeping over their cities. Bosworth also shares a couple of other examples featuring female deities weeping for their s but bu mesitamian gods also wept for each other. In the epic of gilgamesh, we see examples of this. And in other epichs, two gods weep over a great flood and then makes humans do their work.
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