their immediate appearance, seductive in their far-reaching lines to stories told all over the ancient Near East and around the Mediterranean, but still a screen which one must penetrate to reach the hard core of evidence that bears directly on the forms of religious experience of Mesopotamian man.9 He continues by noting that Classical scholars have learned to bypass the “screen created by mythology” and “utilize what information it may convey,” but strongly suggests those in the field of Mesopotamian
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