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Immotrality and the ull, 'lshtar nade a ull's head and placed it on her hcad as a sign of
her powe‫ﺓ‬5'١

Scmitic people's cultural and myth had also a similar myth aspcct to it with other Indus's
and Sumer's myth the ull in Canaanite myth was thc symol of power and position,
therefore their cloved god (A L L .٠٠ also had the title 'Bull. I٤ was worshippcd y
Egyptians and also Jews?'.

Both Indus Valley and Sumcr, had thcir viewpoint concerning sexuality,. Indus view was
that sexuality was a highly qusetionale phcnomenon, an extreme form of cxpeirence that
١١st e taned and domcsticatcd, whilc they show a deeper and more relaxed acceptance of
rcligious croticism, their social life is ringcd with a vcry dense thicket indeed of protective
customs which scvcrcly rcgulatc its expression. '٨٨d to know how long ago se held such an
important part of Indus Culture and myth, i٤ is clear that Indus cultic sexuality is
immemorially ancient.3

It is very intcresting to compare the two most specialised men in Sumeiran studies,
Jacosen and ramcr, and their approach to the purpose of Sumeiran-Mesopotamian
myths, which oth of them look at from different angles.

Jacosen, elieves that the Mesopotamian myth is representative of a sexual and
irirgation aspect of the area, and each act of a myth represents an act or happening in
irirgation, farming, planting or water supply. hTose acts or happenings had een represented
in a sexual aspect or approach, Therefore, a myth's sexual act is only a representation to an
action concenring irirgation.

His conclusions were ٠.. that the puprose of most Mesopotamian Myths is to express
nautral events in human and psychological terms, which enale men to sympathise with
nature and so, in a sense, understand ٤‫ﺯ‬w2‫ﺩﻚ‬

Samuel Noah ramer adopts a rather extreme commonsense approach, he tihnks that
myth is 'merely a symolical or allegoircal way of expressing rational osevrations or
truth. 3

I argee with oth Jacosen's approach of seuxal and iirrgation sapects and also ramer's
approach of the symolic. It acn e either of the wto schools of thoughts or approaches
depending upon the individual event(s of mtyh.

With our study example, of an 'unusual' act, I elieve tihs to e a symoilc act of a
mytholoical idea or goal, according to ramer's approach; and in same time, it is an act of
sexual representation of a mythological elief or event, aoccrding to Jacosen's ideas.

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