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too must die. Having learned the truth of his own destiny, Gilgamesh returns to the land of the living to live out the full life of a mortal. It was necessary to recapitulate the story's essence here in order that we may have it in our minds as we tum to Homer's Odyssey. 8Ibid., page 93, Tablet
of the legend of Mary the Egyptian. Motivating Contexts The legend of Mary the Egyptian achieved a perfected form in the Sophronian vita, a hagiography emphasizing the power of an icon of the Blessed Virgin; the life of Mary the Egyptian could thus be read and employed as a refutation of
Germany in 1889, the range of benefits have grown from a modest pension to a total support system for medical, housing and living needs. In a preamble to the Older Americans Act of 1965, the Congressional declaration of objectives in cluded thefollowing: 1) An adequate income in retirement in accordance
life, or otherwise reinterpreting them . The only thing no one could do was ignore them. A group claiming to constitute a holy community and comparing itself to the Temple would have to interpret in terms of its life the Temple's chief characteristics, including purity-rules. cult, and priesthood
TUBAJEFF, "Zwei Hymnen an Thoth," Z.A.S. 33, 1895. NUMEN, Suppl. XXVI 1 2 INTRODUCTION significance. Still there is reason to wonder whether Hathor and Thoth are not more characteristic of the living, Egyptian piety. The sun-god Re is praised in many hymns, but it is only in the famous hymn of Pharao
the household lifecycle or "life course" produced by preindustrial rates of mortality and fertility. The in- teraction of mortality and fertility rates determines the proportion of the population who would have living kin of a given sex at a given age, and thus the proportion who could be expected
programme of which dates back to the early period of the rule of Cyrus. The Mardioi, Sagartians and some other nomadic peoples living in the mountains of Persis, and also the sedentary peoples of the Carmanians, Panthialaioi and Derousiaioi, were subjugated by Cyrus at a later date , apparently after the
snatching up an unsullied flake and making his pen express the irony of life. (Davies 1917:236) As satire tends to be topical, directed against specific and often transi- tory social or political evils, one would expect its cartoon expression to be a unique and somewhat spontaneous creation, as suggested
pillars has often been interpreted as an open courtyard, although Stager (1985a:15f.), John Holladay (1986), and Ehud Netzer (1992: 197) have all suggested that this area was covered by an upper floor (see figure 4 above), which provided additional space in second-story living quar- ters.2 It has
the living. '8 Human life, according to these phrases, is more than a mere biological existence: it is always life in society; hence the importance of being able to conduct oneself 'like a prince'. The implication of social superiority only confirms the observation that such statements come from an