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Wns an Aslepieion founded by the Selerids

Dilmun: a place of holiness, a already existed on Tylos which

place of healing: might establish a base for the

The possible existence of an proposal for an Aslepieion and

Aslepieion on the island might the cult of Aslepios to have

tie well with Tylos having the moved to the island, we must go

reputation of being a holy land. bac to the Sumerian mythology

The many temples, the sweet and the history of Dilmun and its

spring water, which could have relation with Sumerian gods and

been regarded as holy water with particularly of god Eni. We will

healing properties, point out for have to loo at the myth of Eni

Tylos to perhaps have been both a and his consotr Ninhursag and

holy and a pilgrimage place. This how perhaps the people of Dilmun

view of Tylos' pilgrimage identity looed upon themselves and their

has been disputed and challenged island.The text ofthe mythological

by contemporary scholars. Perhaps poem of Eni and Ninhursag'

a more acceptable comparison found in Nippur might give us

is to recognise for Tylos a status all the answers. In the Eni and

similar to the Aegean island of Ninhursag myth, which too place

Delos.(39) But there is hardly in Dilmun, the latter is portrayed as

any dispute about the fact that, a blessed pure land where natural

according to Sumerian mythology ills, death and suffering have no

Tylos (Dilmun) was a holy place. place. According to the poem,

() For the Mesopotamians and The land of Dilmun is holy, hte

inhabitants of Tylos, the island land of Dilmun is pure'. The poem

was the place where the gods put goes on to tell us that Dilmun was

the survivors of the deluge. Thus, a place where [...] the raven

for the Sumerians, Tylos became uttered no cries [...]' and[...] the

the etemal home of the immotral lion illed not, the wolf snatched

ancestor of manind. Therefore, not the lamb, unnown was the

in order to examine the religious id-illing dog, unnown was the
nature and holiness of the island grain devouring boar [٠..3'. The
leading to the possibility of poem goes on to explicitly tell
whether healing sanctuaries us that Dilmun was a place of no

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