TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kramer, Samuel Noah
TI  - The sacred marriage rite; aspects of faith, myth, and ritual in ancient Sumer
SN  - 253-35035-2
PY  - 1969///
CY  - Bloomington, IN
PB  - Indiana Univ. Press
KW  - Mesopotamia--Religion
KW  - FAST
KW  - Marriage--Sacred
N1  - 1 The Sumerians; history, culture, and literature. 2 The poetry of Sumer; repetition, parallelism, epithet, simile. 3 The sacred marriage; origin and development. 4 The sacred marriage and Solomon's Song of Songs. 5 The sacred marriage; death and resurrection
N2  - 'Through the identification and restoration of a varied assortment of Sumerian literary compositions inscribed on scores of tablets, Kramer is able to present an authoritative account of the ancient Mesopotamian cult involving the shepherd-god Dumuzi and the goddess Inanna, and an analysis of its central tradition, the Sacred Marriage Rite.'
ER  -