CLASSICS 2902 STUDYS CORRECT QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS SET A+
✔✔T/F, a person needs to sin to get sick? - ✔✔- False
- A person does not need to necessarily sin to get sick
- A person can take upon grudges/sins of people within their communities to be sick
✔✔Marduk - ✔✔- Patron of Babylon
- Bull-calf of the son
- Son of Enki
- Supreme god
- Healer of gods
✔✔Gula - ✔✔- Patron goddess of Isin
- childbirth, healing hands, soothing bandages
- skin ailments, stomach, tissue, muscles, tendons, ligaments, blood vessels
- can also cause disease
✔✔Asalluhi - ✔✔- Paired with Gula in incantations
- Son and assistant of Enki (magical powers)
- Male deity that assists in childbirth (assists midwives)
✔✔Enki/Ea - ✔✔- God of the fresh waters
- Depicted with water flowing from his arms
- Wisdom, magic, arts, crafts
- sides with humans (good ally to have when sick)
✔✔Utu/Shamash - ✔✔- god of sun and justice/truth
- protector of humans in legal/medical matters
✔✔Lamastu - ✔✔- A spirit
, - demonic spirit
- has free will (not restricted by the laws/rules of deities)
- targets pregnant women: "anti-midwife"
✔✔Asaa/Asakku - ✔✔- capricious nature
- causes disease due to his free will
- Mainly attacks the musculoskeletal system and skin (direct confrontation/against the
goddess Gula)
✔✔Medical texts contain... - ✔✔- therapeutic and diagnostic texts
✔✔Therapeutic texts - ✔✔- symptom description, instructions for preparing &
administering a remedy, and prognosis (Identifying a disease before hand)
✔✔"If a man gets a pulsating of the temple and has numbness, you grind dried e'ru-tree
leaves, mix it with wheat flour, sahlû, and hašû-plant and with beer of a tavern keeper
into a paste, you bandage him continually with them until they recover."
Problems? - ✔✔- No ratios/measurements
- What kind of disease
- The type of plants/herb
- SHOWS HOW NOT ALL ELEMENTS ARE TRANSLATED
✔✔Therapeutic recipes - ✔✔- may contain unpleasant ingredients
- belief that the worse the sin, the more unpleasant the ingredient is (treat like w/ like)
- could contain incantations
✔✔Diagnostic texts - ✔✔- omen literature
- "If" all of this symptoms show, "then" this person did this/have this
✔✔"When a man is heavily feverish and he finds no relief, he burps and coughs and his
stomach always turns to vomit, he is sick due to an oath."
What did the person not do? - ✔✔- did not abdicate/follow an oath from a god
✔✔Healers - ✔✔- owe skills to Gula
- different roles
✔✔Asu: physician - ✔✔- Examines physical symptoms to find healing technique
- Healing: communicate ritualistic obedience between human & divine
- Message from god is decoded in order to restore health
✔✔Asibu: exorcist/magician - ✔✔- may use instruments (amulet) and symbolic healing
(incantations)
AND ANSWERS SET A+
✔✔T/F, a person needs to sin to get sick? - ✔✔- False
- A person does not need to necessarily sin to get sick
- A person can take upon grudges/sins of people within their communities to be sick
✔✔Marduk - ✔✔- Patron of Babylon
- Bull-calf of the son
- Son of Enki
- Supreme god
- Healer of gods
✔✔Gula - ✔✔- Patron goddess of Isin
- childbirth, healing hands, soothing bandages
- skin ailments, stomach, tissue, muscles, tendons, ligaments, blood vessels
- can also cause disease
✔✔Asalluhi - ✔✔- Paired with Gula in incantations
- Son and assistant of Enki (magical powers)
- Male deity that assists in childbirth (assists midwives)
✔✔Enki/Ea - ✔✔- God of the fresh waters
- Depicted with water flowing from his arms
- Wisdom, magic, arts, crafts
- sides with humans (good ally to have when sick)
✔✔Utu/Shamash - ✔✔- god of sun and justice/truth
- protector of humans in legal/medical matters
✔✔Lamastu - ✔✔- A spirit
, - demonic spirit
- has free will (not restricted by the laws/rules of deities)
- targets pregnant women: "anti-midwife"
✔✔Asaa/Asakku - ✔✔- capricious nature
- causes disease due to his free will
- Mainly attacks the musculoskeletal system and skin (direct confrontation/against the
goddess Gula)
✔✔Medical texts contain... - ✔✔- therapeutic and diagnostic texts
✔✔Therapeutic texts - ✔✔- symptom description, instructions for preparing &
administering a remedy, and prognosis (Identifying a disease before hand)
✔✔"If a man gets a pulsating of the temple and has numbness, you grind dried e'ru-tree
leaves, mix it with wheat flour, sahlû, and hašû-plant and with beer of a tavern keeper
into a paste, you bandage him continually with them until they recover."
Problems? - ✔✔- No ratios/measurements
- What kind of disease
- The type of plants/herb
- SHOWS HOW NOT ALL ELEMENTS ARE TRANSLATED
✔✔Therapeutic recipes - ✔✔- may contain unpleasant ingredients
- belief that the worse the sin, the more unpleasant the ingredient is (treat like w/ like)
- could contain incantations
✔✔Diagnostic texts - ✔✔- omen literature
- "If" all of this symptoms show, "then" this person did this/have this
✔✔"When a man is heavily feverish and he finds no relief, he burps and coughs and his
stomach always turns to vomit, he is sick due to an oath."
What did the person not do? - ✔✔- did not abdicate/follow an oath from a god
✔✔Healers - ✔✔- owe skills to Gula
- different roles
✔✔Asu: physician - ✔✔- Examines physical symptoms to find healing technique
- Healing: communicate ritualistic obedience between human & divine
- Message from god is decoded in order to restore health
✔✔Asibu: exorcist/magician - ✔✔- may use instruments (amulet) and symbolic healing
(incantations)
