Motif
Divine status marked by a star sign
divine_status_marked_by_a_star_sign
A motif of the Dream, Vision, and Altered Perception family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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comparative
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The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 1 of 2) CHAPTER II. THE PERILS OF THE SOUL. / HEINE. / CHAPTER III. KILLING THE GOD. / FOOTNOTES; lines 9536-9682 confidence: medium
“The Babylonian and Assyrian kings seem also to have been regarded as gods”; royal names are preceded by a star, the mark for “god,” but there is “no trace” there of temples and priests for the worship of kings.
The oldest names of Babylonian and Assyrian kings on monuments are said to be preceded by a star, identified as the mark for “god.”
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