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Aug. 4th, 2025 03:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nundinae In the exciting reading news for later:
Jana Matuszak has published a new and exciting Sumerian myth, which, as far as one can see, involves the (storm) god Ishkur being in imprisoned or for some reason sent to the netherworld. The text is very fragmentary, but it's also very much oldern than the majority of preserved Sumerian literary compositions (from the end of the 3rd or first half of the 2nd millennium, while this one is from the middle of the 3rd millennium). What is also very exciting about it is that there are very few mythological compositions about Ishkur at all: the storm gods seem to be more important in the Semitic pantheons of the 2nd millennium onwards. Or is Ishkur really a proper storm god or does he have more to do with irrigation? I'll have to read up. The paper is Open Access!
A digital edition of the complete diaries of Anne Thornton, a 17th-century woman diarist. I haven't started on it yet, but it looks absolutely fascinating. It is supposed to deal with multiple child losses and births, though, so we will see.
Jana Matuszak has published a new and exciting Sumerian myth, which, as far as one can see, involves the (storm) god Ishkur being in imprisoned or for some reason sent to the netherworld. The text is very fragmentary, but it's also very much oldern than the majority of preserved Sumerian literary compositions (from the end of the 3rd or first half of the 2nd millennium, while this one is from the middle of the 3rd millennium). What is also very exciting about it is that there are very few mythological compositions about Ishkur at all: the storm gods seem to be more important in the Semitic pantheons of the 2nd millennium onwards. Or is Ishkur really a proper storm god or does he have more to do with irrigation? I'll have to read up. The paper is Open Access!
A digital edition of the complete diaries of Anne Thornton, a 17th-century woman diarist. I haven't started on it yet, but it looks absolutely fascinating. It is supposed to deal with multiple child losses and births, though, so we will see.
