The Bull of Heaven
The Moon Nanna (Sumerian: ŠEŠ.KI, NANNA) was the Sumerian god of the moon. He became identified with the Semitic Sīn or Suen (Akkadian: Su’en, Sîn). The two chief seats of Nanna’s/Sīn’s worship were Ur...
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Mars and Venus – the king and queen
The sun god / goddess becomes Mars (Aries) and Venus (Libra) – First Point of Aries and first point of Libra: The equinoxes. The patriarch (sky – an / dingir – Dyeus / Dis Pater – Apollo / Pluto –...
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Zodiac Archetypes
Zodiac Archetypes The twelve signs of the Zodiac represent twelve different characters. They can be described as archetypes, models into which human personality traits tend to group.
View ArticleNineveh
Nineveh (URUNI.NU.A Ninua) was an ancient city of Upper Mesopotamia, located on the outskirts of Mosul in modern-day northern Iraq. It is located on the eastern bank of the Tigris River. Today it is a...
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The Eye temple
Urfa man ‘Ain Ghazal Statues A number of monumental lime plaster and reed statues dated to the Pre-pottery Neolithic B period have been discovered in Jordan, at the site of Ayn Ghazal. Dating to...
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Mars in history
The concept of “divinity” in Sumerian is closely associated with the heavens, as is evident from the fact that the cuneiform sign doubles as the ideogram for “sky”, and that its original shape is the...
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The key concept in religion
Maat or Ma’at refers to the ancient Egyptian concepts of truth, balance, order, harmony, law, morality, and justice. Maat was also the goddess who personified these concepts, and regulated the stars,...
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Kish: Kubaba (Cybele) and Zababa (Sabazios)
Enki / Paradise / Kish Enki and Ninhursag and the Creation of Life and Sickness …. Ninhursag relents and takes Enki’s Ab (water, or semen) into her body, and gives birth to gods of healing of each...
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A (Anu, Taurus, Æsir), O (Omega, Odal rune) T (Dinger, Dyeus, Tyr)
Anu or An is the divine personification of the sky, supreme God, and ancestor of all the deities in ancient Mesopotamian religion. Anu was believed to be the supreme source of all authority, for the...
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Pisces (Jesus) and Virgo (Mary)
Theotokos: How the Mother Goddess became Mary A (Anu, Taurus, Æsir), O (Omega, Odal rune) T (Dinger, Dyeus, Tyr) Taurus (Bull of Heaven) / Scorpio (Ishara) Aries (Mars) / Libra (Inanna / Venus)...
View ArticleEast and west
Iabet (Iabtet, Iab, Abet, Abtet, Ab) was the goddess of the Eastern Desert, of fertility and rebirth. She was a personification of the land of the east – iabt – and was known as Khentet-Iabet...
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Chi Rho
A Christogram (Latin Monogramma Christi) is a monogram or combination of letters that forms an abbreviation for the name of Jesus Christ, traditionally used as a religious symbol within the Christian...
View ArticleTime – Precession
The great flood A flood myth or deluge myth is a narrative in which a great flood, usually sent by a deity or deities, destroys civilization, often in an act of divine retribution. Parallels are often...
View ArticleDoctors in ancient Mesopotamia
There were two types of doctors in ancient Mesopotamia: the Asu (a medical doctor who treated illness ‘scientifically’) and the Asipu (a healer who relied upon what modern people would call ‘magic’)....
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The day of judgement – the horn
Heimdall is an interesting and mysterious figure in Norse mythology, and is associated with the Rune Algiz because of his role as protector and guardian. He is the watcher at the gate who guards the...
View ArticleNergal / Tammuz – Mars / Dionysos – Tyr / Balder
Ra – Sun Ra or Re is the ancient Egyptian deity of the sun. He was believed to rule in all parts of the created world: The sky, the Earth, and the underworld. By the Fifth Dynasty in the 25th and 24th...
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The tetramorph
A composition of the Four Living Creatures into one tetramorph. Matthew the man, Mark the lion, Luke the ox, and John the eagle. A 13th century Cluniac ivory carving of Christ in Majesty surrounded by...
View ArticleEgypt: Ra, Osiris and Horus
Ra – Sun Ra or Re is the ancient Egyptian deity of the sun. He was believed to rule in all parts of the created world: The sky, the Earth, and the underworld. By the Fifth Dynasty in the 25th and 24th...
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Sagittarius – Centaurus
Centaurus is a bright constellation in the southern sky. n Greek mythology, Centaurus represents a centaur; a creature that is half human, half horse (another constellation named after a centaur is...
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