TY - JOUR

T1 - Схождение Инанны и похищение Персефоны: очерк о двух литературных источниках о мифах смерти и возрождения

AU - Kozhevnikov, Mikhail

N1 - Кожевников М.Г. Схождение Инанны и похищение Персефоны: очерк о двух литературных источниках о мифах смерти и возрождения // Schole. - 2023. - Т. 17. - № 1. - С. 138-151. Работа выполнена при поддержке РНФ № 22-18-00025.

PY - 2023

Y1 - 2023

N2 - The article deals with two literary works originating from two highly distinct traditions: ancient Sumerian and Greek. Despite their different origins, the two works in question, "The Descent of Inana to the Underworld" and Homeric Hymn "To Demeter", share several key features, which thematically connect them to Greek Mystery cults: topics of death and possibility of salvation, mysteries of the underworld, which can be transcended by means of initiation rites, aetiological connection between the death and rebirth of a fertility deity and agricultural fertility of the land. Based on the assumption that these two sources can be identified as apocalypses and given the widespread correlation between formal literary complexity and philosophical (or theological) depth found in apocalyptic literature (especially in Judeo-Christian tradition), this paper seeks to establish the same correlation in Greco-Sumerian and, more precisely, Eleusinian milieu. However, the final analyses proves the opposite of the initial hypothesized conclusion.

AB - The article deals with two literary works originating from two highly distinct traditions: ancient Sumerian and Greek. Despite their different origins, the two works in question, "The Descent of Inana to the Underworld" and Homeric Hymn "To Demeter", share several key features, which thematically connect them to Greek Mystery cults: topics of death and possibility of salvation, mysteries of the underworld, which can be transcended by means of initiation rites, aetiological connection between the death and rebirth of a fertility deity and agricultural fertility of the land. Based on the assumption that these two sources can be identified as apocalypses and given the widespread correlation between formal literary complexity and philosophical (or theological) depth found in apocalyptic literature (especially in Judeo-Christian tradition), this paper seeks to establish the same correlation in Greco-Sumerian and, more precisely, Eleusinian milieu. However, the final analyses proves the opposite of the initial hypothesized conclusion.

KW - Ancient mystery cults

KW - Sumerian literature

KW - apocalyptic literature

KW - dying-and-rising deity

KW - initiation rites

KW - katabasis

KW - soteriology

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U2 - 10.25205/1995-4328-2023-17-1-138-151

DO - 10.25205/1995-4328-2023-17-1-138-151

M3 - статья

VL - 17

SP - 138

EP - 151

JO - Schole

JF - Schole

SN - 1995-4328

IS - 1

ER -