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Two Hittite Posts
Topic Started: Sep 13 2014, 06:21 PM (676 Views)
Sean Manning
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Hi guys,

I now have some things about the Hittites on my blog, as well as a note om my trip to see Ötzi. His people worked copper, so that makes them honourary bronze-agers to me.

There might be a few more bronze age posts in the next year but we will see.
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Sean Manning,Sep 13 2014
06:21 PM
Hi guys,

I now have some things about the Hittites on my blog, as well as a note om my trip to see Ötzi. His people worked copper, so that makes them honourary bronze-agers to me.

There might be a few more bronze age posts in the next year but we will see.

Great posts! Thanks Sean. :)
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Sean Manning
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Hittite instruction literature gives some wonderful glimpses of everyday life, even though like any other regulations you have to ask whether they were followed.

Hittite Instructions for Temple Officials
 
If an ox (or) a sheep is driven up to the god as food, and you appropriate for yourselves either a fattened ox or a fattened sheep and substitute a lean one which you have slaughtered, and (if) you either consume that or put it in your pen, or put it under the yoke, or kill it for yourself, or if you see fit [to give it away] or turn it over to another man, or (if) you accept a price for it and thus [take it away from] the god and withhold it from (his) mouth, (if) you take it for yourselves or give it to another man, saying “Since he is a god, he will not say anything, and will not do anything to us”- just think how the man reacts who sees his morsel snatched away before his eyes!  The will of the gods is strong.  It does not make haste to seize, but when it seizes, it does not let go.  Now be very reverent of the will of the gods.
(Albrecht Goetze tr., in Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament 3rd edition (1969) p. 208)

I think that there were some smooth operators amongst the temple servants at Hattuša.
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Sean Manning,Sep 16 2014
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Hittite instruction literature gives some wonderful glimpses of everyday life, even though like any other regulations you have to ask whether they were followed.

Hittite Instructions for Temple Officials
 
If an ox (or) a sheep is driven up to the god as food, and you appropriate for yourselves either a fattened ox or a fattened sheep and substitute a lean one which you have slaughtered, and (if) you either consume that or put it in your pen, or put it under the yoke, or kill it for yourself, or if you see fit [to give it away] or turn it over to another man, or (if) you accept a price for it and thus [take it away from] the god and withhold it from (his) mouth, (if) you take it for yourselves or give it to another man, saying “Since he is a god, he will not say anything, and will not do anything to us”- just think how the man reacts who sees his morsel snatched away before his eyes!  The will of the gods is strong.  It does not make haste to seize, but when it seizes, it does not let go.  Now be very reverent of the will of the gods.
(Albrecht Goetze tr., in Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament 3rd edition (1969) p. 208)

I think that there were some smooth operators amongst the temple servants at Hattuša.

:D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_zCB4-YZ2w

Funny the mix of extreme believers with cynical skeptics in ancient times; tomb robbers in Egypt desecrated everything in their quest for gold, gods be damned.
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