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Babylon - The Ishtar Gate 03
Identifier
022117
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
Wikipedia
Parts of the gate and lions from the Processional Way are in various other museums around the world. Only four museums acquired dragons, while lions went to several museums.
The Istanbul Archaeology Museum has lions, dragons, and bulls.
Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen, Denmark, has one lion, one dragon and one bull.
The Detroit Institute of Arts houses a dragon.
The Röhsska Museum in Gothenburg, Sweden, has one dragon and one lion;
the Louvre, the State Museum of Egyptian Art in Munich, the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Oriental Institute in Chicago, the Rhode Island School of Design Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and the Yale University Art Gallery in New Haven, Connecticut, each have lions.
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The source of the experience
Mesopotamian systemConcepts, symbols and science items
Science Items
Sacred geographySacred geography - bridges
Sacred geography - cities
Sacred geography - crossroads
Sacred geography - cursus
Sacred geography - enclosures and camps
Sacred geography - ley lines
Sacred geography - palace
Sacred geography - rivers and streams
Sacred geography - water sites