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Sumerian and Indo-European: a surprising connection
Proto-Euphratean was considered by some Assyriologists (for example Samuel Noah Kramer), to be the substratum language of the people that introduced farming into Southern Iraq in the Early Ubaid period...
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Dyeus Pater (Tyr) and (Thor)
Forholdet mellom Tyr og Tor, to skikkelser som deler mye til felles, er det samme som mellom Shiva og Indra, eller Parjanya, Nergal og Ninurta, Mars og Jupiter osv. De har begge vært himmelguder og...
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Poseidon / Mars (Tuesday – Scorpio) – Neptune / Venus (Friday – Pisces)
Poseidon was one of the Twelve Olympians in ancient Greek religion and myth. He was god of the Sea and other waters; of earthquakes; and of horses. In pre-Olympian Bronze Age Greece, he was venerated...
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The birth of Mars and Nerio / Minerva
Vulcan was the offspring of Jupiter and Juno. His Greek counterpart is Hephaestus, the god of fire and smithery. Through his identification with the Hephaestus, Vulcan came to be considered as the...
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The Ascension of man
The Ascension of Jesus (anglicized from the Vulgate Latin Acts 1:9-11 section title: Ascensio Iesu) is the departure of Christ from Earth into the presence of God. The well-known narrative in Acts 1...
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Explain this …
The peoples of ancient Anatolia worshiped, it was said, a kursa, a sacred skin, that was fashioned into a bag and served as as symbol of the deity. The mysterious stone “bags” or “baskets” associated...
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Den mytologiske bakgrunnen for vår grunnlov og nasjonaldag
Gud er alt og hans lover gjelder for alle – rik eller fattig, svart eller hvit, mann eller kvinne. Ved å forstå naturen rundt oss og naturens gang forstår vi Gud. Vitenskapen er med andre ord læren om...
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The Birth of Our Civilization, the Indo European Languages, Mitra (Mitanni)...
The Sun goddess of Arinna is the chief goddess and wife of the weather god Tarḫunna in Hittite mythology. She protected the Hittite kingdom and was called the “Queen of all lands.” Her cult centre was...
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The Music of Komitas
Soghomon Soghomonian, ordained and commonly known as Komitas, (26 September 1869 – 22 October 1935) was an Armenian priest, musicologist, composer, arranger, singer, and choirmaster, who is considered...
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The Phrygian Cap – the Symbol of Liberty
Illustration shows a gigantic boar wearing a crown with “$” and a shawl labeled “Plutocratic Greed” and holding the U.S. Capitol dome labeled “Special Privilege”, inverted to form a bucket from which...
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Skikken med å krysse fingrene
Skikken med å krysse fingrene i håp om at noe skal gå bra, er vanlig i den kristne delen av verden. De kryssede fingrene skal ligne et kors som hindrer ondskap. Andre måter å avverge ondskap på er å...
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Freyr og Freyja
Frøy er det mannlige motstykke til fruktbarhets- og kjærlighetsgudinnen Frøya, som er hans søster. Navnene betyr herre og frue, hersker og herskerinne, hvilket kan tyde på at gudene opprinnelig var så...
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Etymology of Deus
Cuneiform TI or TÌL has the main meaning of “life” when used ideographically. In Akkadian orthography, the sign has the syllabic values di or ṭi, in Hittite ti, di or te. The written sign developed...
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On the origin of the word God
Gaut is an early Germanic name, from a Proto-Germanic gautaz, which represents a national god in the origin myth of a number of related Germanic peoples of the Migration Period, running about the 5th...
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AN / Nergal – Dyeus / Dis Pater – Pluto / Mars – Tyr
Dingir (𒀭) is a Sumerian word for “god.” Its cuneiform sign is most commonly employed as the determinative for religious names and related concepts, in which case it is not pronounced and is...
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Enlil / Ninlil – Nergal / Ereshkigal – Pluto-Apollo-Mars / Persepone /...
The Sumerian creation myth holds that, originally, there was only Nammu, the primeval sea. Then, Nammu gave birth to An, the sky, and Ki, the earth, who gave birth to Enlil. Enlil separated An from Ki...
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An excursus on the Egyptian word nTr
An excursus on the Egyptian word nTr One theory has been that NTR meant growth, renewing life, rebirth. It brings to mind “Nurturing”. The Egyptians used to use L as the letter/sound for R, so in one...
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The Anunaki, the Igigi and the humans
Anu Tammuz – Balder / Enmessara – Tyr Anu (Akkadian: 𒀭𒀭 DAN, Anu‹m›; Sumerian: 𒀭 AN, from 𒀭 an “sky, heaven”) is the earliest attested sky-father deity. In Sumerian religion, he was also “King of the...
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T for Tyr – S for the Sun – Tyr is a Sun god
Hieroglyphic Egyptian /Ṭ/ may be etymological */Ś/. The Egyptian hieroglyphic NṬR means “god”. Invoked as a plural (“nTrw”), all divine beings were intended, but the singular form is (“nTr”). T used to...
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The Horned God – The Master and the Mistress of (the) Animals and the Underworld
The Beast (Greek: Θηρίον, Thērion) may refer to one of two beasts described in the Book of Revelation. The first beast comes “out of the sea” and is given authority and power by the dragon; the second...
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