Intellectual Connotations of the Contents of Winged Bull In the Assyrian Era

Section: Research Paper
Published
Jun 24, 2025
Pages
551-570

Abstract

The clay plates which contained the epic of gelgmesh are considered as the oldest archeological documents in which the heavenly creature Was mentioned. when the goddess Ishtar demanded from her father the god Aano to creat a heavenly bull Then the heavenly bull took his final shape in theAssyr ian Era as a guard for the gates of Assyria. The appearance or the shape of the Alated -Bull is An expression which revels the climix development of the heavenly bull on both levels the ideolgical structure and drawing structure which express the legendary composition for the Alated Bull is religious heiritage of ancie-nt Iraq which is based on five principles , the first proposes an existance of an abstract world apposed to the material world called ''the high world ''where the goddess reide. the second pr- nciple is the counter and variable good-s which proposes bthat the world is ruled by the god of good called Maso who resides in the high world , and the second god is the god of evil called ''sheedo''who resides in the '' down world ''. the third principle proposes that the god of good is an angle while the god of evil is a demmon. the fourth principle proposes that the god of evil has an aggressive attitude toward man and uses its evil powers in order to hurt himm.

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Ilah Hasan Shukri, A., & عبدالإله. (2025). Intellectual Connotations of the Contents of Winged Bull In the Assyrian Era. Adab Al-Rafidayn, 44(69), 551–570. https://doi.org/10.33899/radab.2014.166923