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People of the Ancient West Asian/Mesopotamian Culture believed that a human being continued her/his postmortem life as a ghost or spirit, and their funerary customs were well developed in relation to this belief. The purpose of this essay is to explore Ancient West Asian literary sources that depict the underworld and afterlife, to examine the thought behind words and expressions of the documents, and to search for the mutual relationship among them.
In order to pursue the research questions, the myths of ‘Descent of Inanna/Ishtar to Underworld,’ ‘Nergal and Ereshkigal,’ and ‘Erra Epic’ will be studied. Narratives such as ‘Death of Ur-Nammu and his Descent to Underworld,’ ‘Vision of Underworld of an Assyrian Prince,’ and ‘Gilgamesh Epic’ will also be inspected for the research. The contents of these works will be interpreted with the categories, the geographic understanding of the underworld, the image of death, the life of the dead, the return of the dead onto this world, other inhabitants of the underworld, and the judgement after death. No particular hermeneutic tool will be applied but the analysis of the text itself.
Some depictions of the underworld draw it as an opposite place to the land of the living, but others portrait it as a quite similar place but a flip side of this world. The two groups of expressions seem to be in conflict and cannot be harmonized, but they also can be interpreted by the name of diversity and development through the ages. The sentences that describe the underworld as a similar place to the land of the living belong to documents composed in relatively later periods, so a certain development can be observed from the Old Babylonian Period when Sumerian was losing its ground as an official language and Akkadian was gaining its authority together with the rise of Amorite Dynasties in Ancient West Asia.
In order to pursue the research questions, the myths of ‘Descent of Inanna/Ishtar to Underworld,’ ‘Nergal and Ereshkigal,’ and ‘Erra Epic’ will be studied. Narratives such as ‘Death of Ur-Nammu and his Descent to Underworld,’ ‘Vision of Underworld of an Assyrian Prince,’ and ‘Gilgamesh Epic’ will also be inspected for the research. The contents of these works will be interpreted with the categories, the geographic understanding of the underworld, the image of death, the life of the dead, the return of the dead onto this world, other inhabitants of the underworld, and the judgement after death. No particular hermeneutic tool will be applied but the analysis of the text itself.
Some depictions of the underworld draw it as an opposite place to the land of the living, but others portrait it as a quite similar place but a flip side of this world. The two groups of expressions seem to be in conflict and cannot be harmonized, but they also can be interpreted by the name of diversity and development through the ages. The sentences that describe the underworld as a similar place to the land of the living belong to documents composed in relatively later periods, so a certain development can be observed from the Old Babylonian Period when Sumerian was losing its ground as an official language and Akkadian was gaining its authority together with the rise of Amorite Dynasties in Ancient West Asia.
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〈Abstract〉
Ⅰ. 들어가는 말
Ⅱ. 사후세계를 다루고 있는 고대 서아시아 문학작품
Ⅲ. 고대 서아시아 문학작품에 나타난 저승세계
Ⅳ. 요약과 나가는 말
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