[Mesopotamian religiosity] was made up above all of a “centrifugal” feeling of fear, respect, and servility with regard to the divine; that the divine was portrayed in the human model (anthropomorphism) and was spread out over a whole society of supernatural beings, gods (polytheism), whose needs people were expected to fulfill and whose orders were to be carried out with all the devotion, submission, but also generosity and ostentation that were thought to be expected by such lofty figures. Furthermore, it was resolutely and exclusively a prehistoric religion without holy scriptures,
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