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montures.
[Note 20: Si, comme je le suppose, cette massue coud��e ��tait aussi une arme de jet, sorte de boumerang, elle repr��sente tr��s exactement l'��clair et la foudre.]
[Note 21: A moins que m��me la figure ne soit nue.]
[Note 22: Cette r��serve est motiv��e par l'empatement du menton et du cou, d'o�� il r��sulte une certaine ind��cision sur le sexe de la figure.]
[Note 23: Le m��me sujet, rudement ��bauch�� �� la pointe, se trouve d��j�� sur un cylindre du Louvre, de travail plus archa?que. L'acolyte y prend la forme d'un g��nie �� quatre ailes.]
De pareilles images appartiennent ��videmment au cycle des divinit��s qui personnifiaient les troubles de l'atmosph��re, comme Bin, ou mieux Ramman, le dieu des temp��tes, avec sa compagne, la d��esse Sala, et les autres ��tres mythologiques qui forment leur cort��ge[24]. Les monstres qui les portent figurent les ouragans, les souffles orageux, qui se confondent, dans les incantations chald��ennes, avec toute une classe de d��mons malfaisants.
[Note 24: F. Lenormant, Les dieux de Babylone, p. 18; Sayce, Religion of the ancient Babylonians, p. 202 suiv.; Maspero, Hist. anc. des peuples d'Orient, p 661-663. Pour la d��esse Sala, voir surtout les cylindres qui portent la l��gende ?Ramman et Sala?. De Clercq, Catalogue n��24; cf. 204.]
Par cet exemple, compar�� �� ceux que nous avons emprunt��s aux repr��sentations solaires, on peut juger avec quelle puissance tragique et quelle fantaisie grandiose l'imagination des artistes chald��ens avait su dramatiser la marche des ph��nom��nes c��lestes et l'��ternel combat des forces de la nature.
L��on HEUZEY
FIN des MYTHES CHALD��ENS
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