Lubat (Babylonian Astronomy)
Lubat (also Uduimin ; Sumerian LU.BAT; UDU.IMIN; Akkadian bibbu ) referred to the term planet in Babylonian astronomy , which was applied to the five planets known in ancient times: Venus , Jupiter , Mars , Mercury and Saturn . This sumerogram was also used to name the sun and moon .
How the Akkadian word bibbu is derived from the Sumerograms has not yet been clarified with any certainty, as has the translation of the Sumerian word signs. The discussion will be wild sheep and off / free grazing sheep .
It remains to be seen whether the seven planets are related to the seven planetary gods , since Saturn and Venus were written with the usual star ideogram MUL (Akkadian: kakkabu) and Mars with UL. The additional divine assignment with the character Dingir , however, only applied to Jupiter, Mercury, the sun and the moon.
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literature
- Hermann Hunger , David Pingree : Planets In: Dietz-Otto Edzard u. a .: Real Lexicon of Assyriology and Near Eastern Archeology , Vol. 10, Oannes - priestly disguise . de Gruyter, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-11-018535-0 , p. 589.
- Franz Boll: Hebdomas In: Wilhelm Kroll: Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Antiquity Science , 1st row, half-volume. 14 = Vol. 7.2 - Glykyrrhiza to Helikeia - . Druckermüller, Stuttgart 1970 (reprint edition 1912), Sp. 2561
- Franz-Xaver Kugler : Development of the Babylonian planetary science from its beginnings to Christ . Aschendorff, Münster 1907