The Mesopotamian primordial ocean(s): Changes and continuities on the creative agency of the primeval aquatic deities (3rd and 2nd millennia BC)

• Isabel Gomes de Almeida ^[1]
  1. [1] Universidade Nova de Lisboa

     Universidade Nova de Lisboa

     Socorro, Portugal

     
• Localización: Tradition and Innovation / Mário Say Ming Kong (aut.), Aleksander Józef Olszewski (aut.), Martin Simonson (aut.), Andreia Garcia (aut.), Jorge Nunes (aut.), José Lopes Morgado (aut.), Santi Centineo (aut.), Andrea Iezzi (aut.), Irina Seits (aut.), Taisia S. Paniotova (aut.), Maxim Romanenko (aut.), Valdomiro Ceolin (aut.), Francisco Oliveira (aut.), Margarida Louro (aut.), Carla Chiarantoni (aut.), António Leite (aut.), Denise Gaudiot (aut.), João Pernão (aut.), Laura Martins (aut.), Andre Santos (aut.), Catarina Rosa e Silva de Albuquerque (aut.), Jéssica Costa (aut.), Ljiljana Čavić (aut.), Leonardo Barros (aut.), Maria Luisa Trindade Bestetti (aut.), Mariana Alves da Silva do Nascimento (aut.), Maria Madalena Aguiar da Cunha Matos (aut.), Maria da Luz Sampaio (aut.), Clara Vale (aut.), João B. Menezes de Sequeira (aut.), Artur Renato Ortega (aut.), Silvana Weihermann (aut.), Eduardo Francisco Durao Antunes (aut.), Pedro Miguel Gomes Januario (aut.), Paulo Jorge Garcia Pereira (aut.), Verner Monteiro (aut.), Maísa Veloso (aut.), Bárbara Silva (aut.), Mário Bruno Cruz (aut.), Clara Germana Gonçalves (aut.), Maria João Moreira Soares (aut.), Joao Miguel Couto Duarte (aut.), Raffaella Maddaluno (aut.), João Silva Jordão (aut.), María da Soledade Gómez Paiva de Sousa (aut.), Miguel Baptista Bastos (aut.), Alex Nogueira Rezende (aut.), José Vitor Correia (aut.), Ana Vasconcelos (aut.), José Cabral Dias (aut.), Eneida Kuchpil (aut.), Kate O’Connor (aut.), Sandra da Mouta Brito (aut.), Madalena Pinto Da Silva (aut.), Helena Paula Abreu de Carvalho (aut.), Marta Labastida (aut.), Maria Eunice da Costa Salavessa (aut.), José Tadeu Marques Aranha (aut.), Viviana Sofia Hipólito Frutuoso (aut.), Amilcar de Gil Pires (aut.), Wenyu Qi (aut.), João Guerreirinho (aut.), Hirbod Norouzianpour (aut.), David Weiss (aut.), Calogero Montalbano (aut.), José Silveira Dias (aut.), Fernando Moreira da Silva (aut.), Ana Moreira da Silva (aut.), Caio Marcelo Miolo de Oliveira (aut.), Rita Almendra (aut.), Ana Rita Lourenço (aut.), Tiago Perez Leitão Maciel (aut.), António Gorgel Pinto (aut.), Alberto Cruz Reaes Pinto (aut.), Gizela Horvath (aut.), Maria João Castro (aut.), António Canau (aut.), Szymon Wróbel (aut.), Isabel Gomes de Almeida (aut.), Guilherme Borges Pires (aut.), Kim Groop (aut.), María do Rosário Pimentel (aut.), Rodolfo Nogueira da Cruz (aut.), Maria Leonor García da Cruz (aut.), Olinda Kleiman (aut.), Ana Paula Avelar (aut.), Fernando Jorge Oliveira Ribeiro (aut.), Mário Carlos Fernandes Avelar (aut.), Angélica Varandas (aut.), Maria de la Salette da Costa Loureiro (aut.), Margarida Rendeiro (aut.), Raúl Montero Gilete (aut.), Eduardo M. Raposo (aut.), Gonçalo Falcão (aut.), Paulo Simões (aut.), Ana Cristina dos Santos Guerreiro (aut.), Maria da Graça dos Santos Antunes Moreira (aut.), Ana Pereira Neto (aut.), Ana Isabel Runa (aut.), Iuliana Borbely (aut.), Ermanno Aparo (aut.), Liliana Soares (aut.), Paula Maria Vieira Reaes Pinto (aut.), 2021, ISBN 9780429297786
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  • The Mesopotamian literary traditions dated to the 3rd and 2nd millennia BC depict a conception regarding the primeval substance, from which all deities and aspects of nature came to exist, as divine ocean(s). The simultaneous cosmogonic and theogonic processes were thus attributed to the agency of the primeval aquatic deities, who alone, in the case of the Sumerian goddess Namma, or in pair, in the case of the Akkadian divine couple Tiāmat and Apsû, set time and cosmic life in motion. Having in mind the cumulative nature of the Mesopotamian religious system, where tradition and innovation were encompassed to accommodate mythical (re)elaborations, this paper will address the differences and continuities that one can identify in the agency of these divine figures.