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Babylonian Religion - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | The Babylonians believed in a pantheon consisting of beings, human in form but superhuman in power and immortal, each of whom, although invisible to the human eye, ruled a particular component of the cosmos, however small, and controlled it in accordance with well-laid plans and duly prescribed laws. |
| | The proper course for Babylonians unhappy with their condition in life was not to argue and complain but to plead and wail, to lament and confess their inevitable sins and failings before their personal god, who acted as their mediator in the assembly of the great gods. |
| | In another Babylonian essay, taking the form of a dialogue between a master and slave, the tone is similarly sceptical and the mood cynical; the relativist view is advanced that all human actions can be justified and are therefore fundamentally without meaning, particularly because death makes life itself insignificant. |
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