The meaning of the word m e is among the most debated of the Sumerian lexicon. Terms such as "power" or "decree" are currently preferred; for a discussion see Averbeck (2000: 418 n. 2). Saturn Jupiter Mars Sun Venus Mercury Moon black rich red brown bright red gold yellow blue silver 4. The outer planets (Saturn, Jupiter, and Mars) are given in their correct order, starting with the most distant from the Earth, and are correctly separated from the inner planets Venus and Mercury. The Moon is in its correct position as the nearest body to the Earth. 5. His brother George experimented with a weekday sequence of planets for Ecbatana but similarly had to conclude that Herodotus had "accidentally reversed the places of black and white, and of scarlet and orange" (1858: 242).
It is proposed that the story of the Hurrian deity ‘Silver’, as portrayed in the Late Bronze Age Song of Silver, is a plausible precursor to the classical myth of Phaethon. Shared motifs include the teasing of the young hero, the revelation by his mother of his father’s divine identity, a temporary assumption of power in heaven, a clash with the god of thunder, a disastrous episode involving the Sun and the Moon, and an etymology meaning ‘radiance’. As the Phaethon myth also seems to contain Semitic elements, it is argued that the source of the classical story was the region of northern Phoenicia to Cilicia, or Cyprus.
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