Cláudia Cerqueira do Rosario

Original title: Ao Deus e à Deusa que conheço e que não conheço: oTremendum numa prece sumero-acadiana

Published in Mirabilia 4

Keywords: mysterium tremendum, prayer, religious phenomenom.

This paper analyses the notion of mysterium tremendum posed by the historian and philosopher of religions Rudolf Otto, through a prayer produced in the sumero-akkadian historical context – circa 3500/1800 BCE. This notion becomes a fundamental one for the study and understanding of the religious phenomenon's essence.