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Thercfore, the ''unusual' act is a symolic act of a sexual representation of ‫ﻭ‬
mythological idea, goal or event, which is to reacl supreme mythological goals and hoeps,
i.c. immortality, mankinds long lasting dream, then and now.

In considcring the unusual' act, I am more oncerned with its underlying implications,
as revealcd y apparently aritrary dctails of non-folktale type, than with its meaning at a
more ovious level. The undcrlying implication scems to e associated with the valuation o‫ﺇ‬
the sometime opposing ideas of nature' and ''culture.

In other words, we are trying to prove that the 'unusual' act of sexuality was n٥t
unnatural act, ut a highly acceptale approach to a mythological idea, Human sexual
activity is not necessarily crratic, ut erratic it is whenever it is not rudimentary and purcly
anima١3‫ﺍ‬, and Dilmun's 'unusual' act was not a purcly animal act.

By examining the Sumer-Mcsopotamian myth, we rcach an understanding that they had
'common structure points to cssential concerns that are their main inmpetus. Among the
asic pre-occupations are fertility, human and agricultural, and the complex relations
etween the32‫ﺭ‬Mwth had to have a special meaning for their cvery event or happening,
and in some myths at least had an 'independent interest in primairly eing merely
٠narrative3‫ ﻻ‬T,erefore Sumeiran Mythographers in tclling stories, did not hesitate to invent
motives and patterns on human actions that could not possily have any asis in rational and
speculative thought. Nor did they hesitate to adopt legendayr and folkloirstic motifs that had
nothing to do with cosmological inquiry and infereneee'3٩

What Dilmun 'Myth' creators did was that they used a highly respected myth animal,
the Bull, which was included as a memer of the family in the Indus Valley's myth, where
there was personal relationship etween the ull and other memers of the family, with all
the aspect of its memership?٩. Dilmun used this close personal relationship in consturcting
their own 'Myth' so their new ''Myth' could have a more personal realistic and physical
approach and aspect to it. Approach, not as a pure animal, as the ull was, ut as an
individual memer of a family with all the aspects of its title.

Sumeiran-Mesopotamian myths were the second source for the puprose of the
consrtuction of Dilmun's new 'Myth', and the Sumer's myth ilfnuence on the proecss.
Mainly the myth of the goddess lnanna, goddess of Love, Sex and Immortality. Inanna sa
the goddess of Immortality, had her personal symoilc mytholoigcal inamal, the ull, which
was associated with her as the goddess of immortality. She had another animal, the gaelle to
represent her in her position as the goddess of Earth?٩,

hTere rae wto aspects to our Diimun new myth, a consturcitve myth, ifsrt, the nIdus
Valley religious position of the ull as a personal memer of the family, and, therefore there

31 Eye of Love, Page 27.
32 Mth, Page ٦٦6.
33 Iid, Page 118.
34 The Sumerian, Page 145.
35 Dr Rafi‫ ﻭ‬Moghul.
36 E.S..P., ٧ol. 9, Patr 2, No. 228.

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