Deification of kings and the phenomenon of alternative king in ancient Iraq

Abstract

Faith is a feature of the Mesopotamian population, since the ancient Mesopotamian was a believer and obedient to his God in any case, and this encouraged the emergence of some of the phenomena interpreted by historians as an integral part of the civilization and ancient history of this country, and these phenomena are the phenomena of the deification of kings for themselves, The first phenomenon was a personal endeavor for the uniqueness of power, sometimes to correct some mistakes in societies to balance the state, and civil rule is independent of religious rule, and the second was the result of divination and predictions of omen, in the case of any bad harbinger of the king, such as the occurrence of eclipse To the sun or a lunar eclipse Or, as a palm reading or examination of the liver of a sacrificed animal, and appeared without a known body, counting this as a bad omen against the king, which requires replacing someone on his behalf in his duties and wearing clothes and sleep in his sleep for a month or a hundred days or until the end of the danger to the king, and then sacrifice To the King for his master, Lingua, King of the country.