[HN Gopher] Babylon's Mystery Goddess
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       Babylon's Mystery Goddess
        
       Author : diodorus
       Score  : 20 points
       Date   : 2024-06-21 17:01 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | sgt101 wrote:
       | Wikipedia is good on the artefact :
       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burney_Relief
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       | This includes the reconstruction of the original colours:
       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burney_Relief#/media/File:Quee...
        
       | advael wrote:
       | It's interesting that the relief gives the impression that this
       | deity is either just now taking off or just now landing from
       | flight, given the positions of her feet and wings
        
       | doubloon wrote:
       | This is a long shot, but Hindu Lakshmi is also associated with
       | lions and owls. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakshmi
        
         | RcouF1uZ4gsC wrote:
         | This was 250 - 400 years before the earliest Sanskrit
         | inscription (found in Northern Syria linked to the Mittani).
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         | So this would predate that by quite a bit.
        
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