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发帖数: 38403 | 1 Sargon of Akkad
My mother was a high priestess, my father I knew not. The brothers of my
father loved the hills. My city is Azupiranu, which is situated on the banks
of the Euphrates. My high priestess mother conceived me, in secret she bore
me. She set me in a basket of rushes, with bitumen she sealed my lid. She
cast me into the river which rose over me. The river bore me up and carried
me to Akki, the drawer of water. Akki, the drawer of water, took me as his
son and reared me. Akki, the drawer of water, appointed me as his gardener.
While I was a gardener, Ishtar granted me her love, and for four and ...
years I exercised kingship.
The image of Sargon as a castaway set adrift on a river resembles the better
-known birth narrative of Moses. Scholars such as Joseph Campbell and Otto
Rank have compared the 7th century BC Sargon account with the obscure births
of other heroic figures from history and mythology, including Karna,
Oedipus, Paris, Telephus, Semiramis, Perseus, Romulus, Gilgamesh, Cyrus,
Jesus, and others.
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