A short video produced by the British Museum and presented by its own Assyriologist Irving Finkel, exploring ancient Mesopotamian belief in personal protective deities, unreliable and prone to absence, and the demons and ghosts believed to press into that absence. The Museum's own synopsis frames it around the complex web of unseen deities, sprites and ghosts that ancient Mesopotamians believed could affect their daily lives, drawing on the Museum's own collection of cuneiform tablets and incantation texts.
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Production
Release Year DirectorBritish Museum (presented by Irving Finkel) 1 Subject Matter
Religious Subject MatterAncient Mesopotamian belief in personal protective deities, spirits and ghosts: the Museum's own synopsis names this belief system outright as the video's subject. 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
Associated With
This source names Mesopotamians directly: "sprites and ghosts that ancient Mesopotamians believed could affect their daily lives, drawing on the Museum's own collection of cuneiform tablets and incantation texts."
Belongs to Tradition
The British Museum's own synopsis for its own production names ancient Mesopotamian belief in personal deities, spirits and ghosts as the video's explicit subject, making this the first screen work the atlas holds for the tradition.
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