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MYTHS OF CRETE & PRE-HELLENIC EUROPE

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« Reply #675 on: February 27, 2010, 12:00:54 pm »

In Babylonia it was believed that the sky was supported

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by the world-surrounding chain of hills. Reference is made in the Gilgamesh epic to the mountain of Mashu or Mashi; that is, "the mountain of the Sunset". Its cave-like entrance is guarded by scorpion-men, or a scorpion-man and a scorpion-woman.
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