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The '''Cult of the White Moose''' was a heterodox priestly sect active in southern Mesopotamia during the late Early Dynastic period (ca. 2500 BCE).

The cult centered on the veneration of a spectral moose believed to traverse the boundary between the living and the underworld. Excavations at Tell Ur-Kalamma uncovered votive figurines of moose carved from gypsum and inlaid with obsidian eyes. Inscriptions invoke the “Lord of the Pale Antlers,” a deity associated with regeneration and the lunar cycle.

[[J. Levi Schültke|Schültke]] (2024) interpreted the cult as evidence of a syncretic fusion between northern forest totemism and Sumerian agricultural cosmology, suggesting that mages used psychoactive fungi to induce visions of the white moose during nocturnal rites.

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