Orality, Direct Speech and the Kumarbi Cycle
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Alfonso Archi
Abstract
The so-called Kumarbi Cycle was not a closed system. To it belonged compositions of different periods and places. The Song of Kumarbi, and perhaps that of Ea and the Beast, were composed in Eastern Syria, under the influence of the Babylonian epic. All the other songs are later, and composed in Western Syria; the Song of KAL/LAMMA had its origin probably in Karkamiš. They had not educational purposes, in the sense that they were not used to train younger scribe. It is argued that they were recited in some religious occasions and fulfilled the common need of narrating and listening. The extensive use of direct speech in such songs responded to the requirements of an oral performance, but does not necessarily reflect techniques of oral composition.
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