Mobility and kinship in the installation rituals of the Emar priestesses

The discovery of a series of Akkadian language tablets in the 1970s has led to an awareness of two religious rituals related to the installation of religious authorities in the city of Emar, in the north of present-day Syria. In the tablets Emar 369 and Emar 370, we find descriptions of the installa...

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Autores principales: López Karababikian, Rocío, Godoy, Dana Abigail
Formato: Artículo revista
Lenguaje:Español
Publicado: Universidad Nacional de Rosario 2024
Materias:
Movilidad
Parentesco
Peregrinación
Estatus
Emar
Mobility
Kinship
Pilgrimage
Status
Acceso en línea:https://claroscuro.unr.edu.ar/index.php/revista/article/view/153
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spelling I15-R225-article-1532025-01-07T04:12:58Z Mobility and kinship in the installation rituals of the Emar priestesses Movilidad y parentesco en los rituales de investidura de las sacerdotisas de Emar López Karababikian, Rocío Godoy, Dana Abigail Movilidad Parentesco Peregrinación Estatus Emar Mobility Kinship Pilgrimage Status Emar The discovery of a series of Akkadian language tablets in the 1970s has led to an awareness of two religious rituals related to the installation of religious authorities in the city of Emar, in the north of present-day Syria. In the tablets Emar 369 and Emar 370, we find descriptions of the installation rituals for the NIN.DINGIR and maš’artu priestesses of the temple of the storm god. The parallels between these rituals are many; in particular, both have a strong emphasis on the mobility of the future priestesses, who throughout the ritual move continuously between their family homes and the temples. Considering that the nature of this mobility has not been as of yet thoroughly explored, the present work aims to analyse the rituals together to understand the role of religious mobility in shaping the social relations of the kingdom, focusing on how it transforms the status of the people involved and how it reaffirms the existing social order while simultaneously altering social relations among subjects (particularly regarding how it affects parental bonds) and with the deities. We also revisit the hypotheses proposed by Daniel E. Fleming and Daniel Arnaud relating to the communal nature of the rite as independent from and preceding the state structure. El hallazgo de una serie de tablillas en acadio en la década de 1970 ha permitido el conocimiento de dos rituales religiosos relacionados con la instalación de autoridades religiosas en la ciudad de Emar, en el norte de la actual Siria. En las tablillas Emar 369 y Emar 370 encontramos descripciones del ritual de instalación de las sacerdotisas NIN.DINGIR y maš’artu del templo del dios de la tormenta. Los paralelos entre estos rituales son muchos; en particular se percibe en ambos una insistencia en la movilidad de las futuras sacerdotisas, que a lo largo del ritual se desplazan continuamente entre sus hogares paternos y los templos. Considerando que la naturaleza de esta movilidad no ha sido explorada a fondo, el presente trabajo se propone analizar los rituales en conjunto para comprender el papel de la movilidad religiosa en la configuración de las relaciones sociales de Emar, centrándose en cómo transforma el estatus de las personas y en cómo opera para reafirmar el orden social existente a la vez que modifica las relaciones sociales de los sujetos entre sí (particularmente viendo cómo actúa sobre los lazos parentales) y con las deidades. Retomamos también las hipótesis propuestas por Daniel E. Fleming y Daniel Arnaud en relación con el carácter comunitario del rito como independiente de y predecesor a la estructura estatal. Universidad Nacional de Rosario 2024-12-30 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion application/pdf https://claroscuro.unr.edu.ar/index.php/revista/article/view/153 10.35305/cl.vi23.153 Claroscuro. Revista del Centro de Estudios sobre Diversidad Cultural; No. 23 (2024): Mobility and settlement in the Ancient Near East Claroscuro. Revista del Centro de Estudios sobre Diversidad Cultural; Núm. 23 (2024): Movilidad y asentamiento en el Cercano Oriente antiguo 2314-0542 spa https://claroscuro.unr.edu.ar/index.php/revista/article/view/153/150 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
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topic Movilidad
Parentesco
Peregrinación
Estatus
Emar
Mobility
Kinship
Pilgrimage
Status
Emar
spellingShingle Movilidad
Parentesco
Peregrinación
Estatus
Emar
Mobility
Kinship
Pilgrimage
Status
Emar
López Karababikian, Rocío
Godoy, Dana Abigail
Mobility and kinship in the installation rituals of the Emar priestesses
topic_facet Movilidad
Parentesco
Peregrinación
Estatus
Emar
Mobility
Kinship
Pilgrimage
Status
Emar
author López Karababikian, Rocío
Godoy, Dana Abigail
author_facet López Karababikian, Rocío
Godoy, Dana Abigail
author_sort López Karababikian, Rocío
title Mobility and kinship in the installation rituals of the Emar priestesses
title_short Mobility and kinship in the installation rituals of the Emar priestesses
title_full Mobility and kinship in the installation rituals of the Emar priestesses
title_fullStr Mobility and kinship in the installation rituals of the Emar priestesses
title_full_unstemmed Mobility and kinship in the installation rituals of the Emar priestesses
title_sort mobility and kinship in the installation rituals of the emar priestesses
description The discovery of a series of Akkadian language tablets in the 1970s has led to an awareness of two religious rituals related to the installation of religious authorities in the city of Emar, in the north of present-day Syria. In the tablets Emar 369 and Emar 370, we find descriptions of the installation rituals for the NIN.DINGIR and maš’artu priestesses of the temple of the storm god. The parallels between these rituals are many; in particular, both have a strong emphasis on the mobility of the future priestesses, who throughout the ritual move continuously between their family homes and the temples. Considering that the nature of this mobility has not been as of yet thoroughly explored, the present work aims to analyse the rituals together to understand the role of religious mobility in shaping the social relations of the kingdom, focusing on how it transforms the status of the people involved and how it reaffirms the existing social order while simultaneously altering social relations among subjects (particularly regarding how it affects parental bonds) and with the deities. We also revisit the hypotheses proposed by Daniel E. Fleming and Daniel Arnaud relating to the communal nature of the rite as independent from and preceding the state structure.
publisher Universidad Nacional de Rosario
publishDate 2024
url https://claroscuro.unr.edu.ar/index.php/revista/article/view/153
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