Sumerian Priests were always in the 1st or highest social class making them very rich and wealthy. Priests had the role of communicating to the gods and bringing them the offerings of sumerian citizens.
from Modern Catholic Dictionary by John A. Hardon, S.J. Doubleday & Co., Inc. Garden City, NY 1980
Priest. An authorized mediator who offers a true sacrifice in acknowledgment of God's supreme dominion over human beings and in expiation for their sins. A priest's mediation is the reverse of that of a prophet, who communicates from God to the people. A priest mediates from the people to God.
Christ, who is God and man, is the first, last, and greatest priest of the New Law. He is the eternal high priest who offered Himself once and for all on the Cross, a victim of infinite value, and he continually renews that sacrifice on the altar through the ministry of the Church.
Within the Church are men who are specifically ordained as priest to consecrate and offer the body and blood of Christ in the Mass. The Apostles were the first ordained priests, when on Holy Thursday night Christ told them to do in his memory what he had just done at the Last Supper. All priests and bishops trace their ordination to the Apostles. Their second essential priestly power, to forgive sins, was conferred by Christ on Easter Sunday, when he told the Apostles, "For those whose sins you forgive, they are forgiven; for those whose sins you retain, they are retained: (John 20-22, 23). All the Christian faithful, however, also share in the priesthood by their baptismal character. They are enabled to offer themselves in sacrifice with Christ through the Eucharistic liturgy. They offer the Mass in the sense that they internally unite themselves with the outward offering made by the ordained priest alone.
It was to keep the gods happy and evil way.
priests claimed that carrying out precise rituals was what they did
How did the priests and King of sumer one another
sometimes
The priests
Artisans, merchants, priests, the ruler.
the priests belong to the upper class (1st class)
the priests belong to the upper class (1st class)
They bribed priests and the priests told everyone the king is a decendant of the gods! tadaa
They bribed priests and the priests told everyone the king is a decendant of the gods! tadaa
Priests
for ceremonies and special accusation
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