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The Calcutta Review January 1951

1951

She became the prototype of all goddesses." " THE ANATOLIAN MOTIIEFt The worship of the Anatolian Mother or the Great Mother of Asia as she was called was known in the form in which it prevailed among thePhrygians after they had occupied the land which was held by the Hittites and from whose bands or from the hands of whose successors"political power passed into the bands of the Phrygians. [...] Her companion a beardless youth carries a staff and double axe.' The image of an armed goddess sculptured on one of the posts of the gates of the Boghaz Keni fortifications has also been found.' The worship of Ishtar was introduced among the people under the name of Saris and it has been suggested that in the disguise of Semiramis she played an important part in the legends of later Armenia. [...] It has been said that the religion of the country conquered by the Phrygians represents a prevalent type of religion which was very widely spread over the countries adjoining the Aegean lands and the south coast of the Black Sea." The. later Anatolian or Phrygian cult of the Mother-goddess was centralised in the country occupied by the Phrygians and her most sacred seat was at Pessimus in Galati [...] There also appears an armed male god apparently a skgod and the weilder of the thunder." THE PAN-BABYLON1AN SCHOOL ON THE POSITION OF ISHTAR Reference has been made to the view of the PaBabylonian School that Ishtar ssvas the original mother-goddess of Western Asia and to the view of Langdon that " the great and ubiquitous cult of the virgin Earth-Goddess in Canaan Phoenicia and Syria see [...] He treats the case of the Indus and Baluchistan figurines as established and proceeds to argue that the female figurines found on the banks of the Ganges are representations of Mother-goddesses on the ground of their resemblance to the Indus and Baluchistan finds.
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Pages
87
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120137
Segment Pages Author Actions
The Worship of the great Mother in the indus Religion
1-17 Nanimadhab Chaudhuri view
Distribution of Powers in the Indian Constitution
18-26 Ram Sharma view
German Book Production 1946-49
27-32 Ernest Alker view
Impact of the Industrial Revolution on India’s Economy
33-38 K.K. Datta view
The Structure of Industry With Special Reference to Bihar
39-51 S.R. Boss view
Autobiography
52-66 Joy Mookerjee view
Round the World
67-72 unknown view
Reviews and Notices of Books
73-76 unknown view
Ourselves
77-79 unknown view
Official Notifications University of Calcutta
80-87 unknown view

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