"His heart is low"
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چکیده
Assyrian and Babylonian medical texts written in cuneiform from the first millennium BCE provide a window onto how symptoms illness were understood. Akkadian language employs various strategies to convey aspects of an experience, including metaphor, which may one way conceptually organising experience filling blanks existing knowledge. One metaphor that appears therapeutic is low heart, often phrased as "his heart low," denote depressed state. This article will explore references this symptom determine if depression appropriate translation and, so, whether can clues have been physically experienced.
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عنوان ژورنال: Avar
سال: 2022
ISSN: ['2752-3527', '2752-3535']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.33182/aijls.v1i1.1748