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6 pages of results. 26. Saturn And Genesis [Journals] [Kronos]
... De Jong refers to the passage "And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night" - reasoning that by "the lesser light the .stars are meant, and no moon is mentioned." Now, as it happens, the planet Saturn was designated as Shamash or "sun" by the Assyro-Babylonian astrologers; and as far back as 1910 M. Jastrow (Revue d'Assyriologie, Vol. 70, p. 171) proposed "the idea that Saturn was a steady' or permanent' mock-sun - performing the same function of furnishing light at night that Sama's [Shamash - the Sun] performed ...
27. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... on seals from Assyrian, Babylonian and Minoan sources, the earliest being from 2500 BC and interpreted as representing Ishtar and Sin, still Venus and the Moon. The true origin is likely to have been much earlier and seems to have originated in Anatolia. (Dwardu Cardona has pointed out that a common entry in Babylonian astrological reports was when Shamash stands in the halo of Sin', but for Cardona Shamash is Saturn. Is Sin even the Moon? As depicted the crescent lies on its back, looking more like the Minoan depiction of bull horns.) Mayan creation The Independent [date unknown] Experts in hieroglyphic writing have succeeded in interpreting the Mayan account of the creation ...
28. The Dating of Hammurabi [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... (Iakhdunlim?) from an officer of the desert police named Bannum. [12] In his letter Bannum mentions that all the cities of the Benjaminites were raising fire-signals, for a reason which is not clear. Presumably the fire-signals were one way of mobilizing the troops of Israel or of gathering the people. Iakhdunlim built a temple to Shamash, the sun-god, undertook irrigation projects, and claimed he had strengthened the foundations of Mari. His father Iagitlim had once been the ally of Shamshi-Adad but they eventually quarreled.[13] His successor Iakhdunlim was assassinated by his own servants. Shamshi-Adad then occupied the city of Mari while Zimri-Lim, Iakhdunlim's heir, fled to Aleppo. ...
29. Avaris and El-Arish (Forum) [Journals] [Kronos]
... that congregational communion was to be part of the ritual?(49) Does this not lead to the added conclusion that the Molochian congregation would also have tasted the flesh? VII I did commit one error in my original paper - but it is not one that Danino noticed. I stated there that "Chemosh is etymologically the same as Shamash".(50) As it has been brought to my attention, this is not so. The sound of the letter shiyn (SH as in Shamash) could not etymologically have changed into kaph (K as in Kemosh). In this instance I was trapped by the transliteration of the latter name as "Chemosh", ...
30. Brains Trust - Chronology and Ancient History [Journals] [SIS Review]
... , and any other planets, were shown in a similar way to Saturn and Venus, since Mars was part of the hypothetical configuration. Ev replied that the Mars evidence is compelling but it requires a long time to explain convincingly. Venus is well attested in iconography in N. America and Mesopotamia. Venus evidence is easier to explain. Shamash was identified as Saturn but whether it's Saturn or the sun does not really matter. There is still an anomaly as against today's planetary system because Venus and Mars are in the middle of it. We believe it was Saturn. Dwardu Cardona added that he does not think Mars was portrayed as a single planet. Q7. Asked about ...
31. The Demands of the Saturnian Configuration Theory [Journals] [SIS Review]
... forever-and-a-day'. I shall, therefore, leave the snowballing effect of these demands to a later work and concentrate on a few other examples taken in isolation. One theme concerns the model's predication that Saturn once shone as a virtual sun. It also posits that what past mythologists have identified as a bevy of sun-gods (such as the Assyro-Babylonian Shamash, the Egyptian Ra, the Indic Surya, the Greek Helios) are actually misidentified Saturnian suns. In the case of Shamash, of course, the issue is at once settled by appealing to the ancients who venerated the god. Here, despite the objection of most modern mythologists, the case is really closed since the Assyro-Babylonians themselves ...
32. A Reply to Mr. Cohen [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... , New Zealand References 1. Velikovsky, Ramses II and His Time, App. 4: Two Suppiluliumas, 217-21. 2. J B. Pritchard, ANET, 203-205. 3. "The treaties of Subliliumas with Azaru of Damascus, with a patricide prince of Mitanni, and with the widow of Tirhaka make plausible his identity with Shamash Shum Ukin. This would signify also that Nabopolassar was a son of Shamash Shum Ukin." 4. Velikovsky, Ages in Chaos, The End of Ugarit, 219-21. 5. Velikovsky, "The Correct Placement of Haremhab in Egyptian History." Kronos, IV:3 , 3, 20-2l. ...
33. On testing The Polar configuration [Journals] [Aeon]
... "the god who changes darkness into light," the god "whose splendor is heroic." (4 ) That such statements would be made of the now-distant Saturn seems unthinkable. Rather, this is the very language one would expect in descriptions of the "sun" in ancient hymns. (5 ) The Babylonian sun god is Shamash, and Babylonian astronomical texts say in unequivocal terms: "The planet Saturn is Shamash." (6 ) Thus the Greek historian Diodorus reports that Babylonian astronomers knew the planet Saturn as the star of the "sun" (Helios). (7 ) Though early Egyptian sources do not offer a formal astronomy to directly connect their ...
34. Did the Sumerians and the Akkadians Ever Exist? [Journals] [Aeon]
... Their social structure with the muskenum subjects is only found again 1500 years later under Darius I. The major body of written material of the Martu period- which, however, cannot be localized correctly from the stratigraphic point of view- surprisingly does not come from Babylon but from Sippar, where Hammurabi put up his stela in the temple of Shamash. Again in Sippar, in the early second millennium, coins- "silver circles" and "Shamash heads" are mentioned. The small warrior statue from 18th-century Mari, with headgear that goes over into a chin protector that also covers the ears, causes surprise even now because this type of headgear is typical only for the Medes ...
35. The Demands of the Saturnian Configuration Theory [Journals] [Aeon]
... the passage of time. Moreover, most of our ancient forebears, living in those primitive times, would hardly have even noticed the planet Saturn if it then appeared, like now, as nothing but a pin point of light in the night sky, let alone having noticed its slow advance across the sky. 5. THE SATURNIAN SUN Shamash- the god and his emblem- whom the Assyro-Babylonians themselves identified As the planet Saturn. (Stone tablet of Nabu-apal-iadina, from Abu Habbah, 9th century B.C . now in the British Museum.) Needless to say, it is not possible to take you on an extensive tour of the Saturnian model and scenario by leading ...
36. The Opening Of The Mouth Ritual - Part I [Journals] [Aeon]
... together." [130] Another series of libations, offerings, and incense was performed, and an axe was touched to the mouth of the statue to "open it." Another washing of the statue's mouth along with the necessary formula recitation ended this part of the rite. Finally, at dawn, the lustration gods Ea, Shamash, and Marduk (all Saturnian gods [131] ), were given special seats and offered food and drink while a formula was recited before Shamash. Following an incense-and-lamb offering to seven divinities, "the priest for the fifth time washed and opened the statue's mouth." According to a text now in the British Museum, " ...
... lugal-bi son of his king, 124. nin-kal-la Ninkalla dam ni-in(?) -ti-il wife of Nintil 126. dnanna-mu-rib Nannamurib, arad servant of, dutuì-sag the sun god, the priest king 127. an-ni-zu Annizu, mâr lugal-ezen son of Lugalezen 131. ig-mu-lum, Igmulum, mâr i-ti-ti son of Ititi 133[3 ] dšamas da-a Shamash, Aia 136 a-da-làl Adalal, lú tukul the armor-bearer, arad dnanna servant of Nanna 140 d nin-mar-ki-sag Ninmarkisag, dumu la-la son of Lala, NU-GIŠ-ŠAR the gardener 142 lugal-gú-gal Lugalgugal, dumu lugal-ki-ag son of Lugalkiag 143 ur-dgibil-ga-meš Urgilgamesh, dumu du-ru-a-bi son of Duruabi 160 šu-ir-ra Shuirra, arad sag-ga servant of Sagsa 173 dšamas da-a Shamash, Aia ...
38. Thoth Vol I, No. 12: April 29, 1997 [Journals] [Thoth]
... "underworld" beneath the earth, a dark region visited by the sun after it has set. But the place of repose is no underworld. It is: "The lofty residence... The lofty place... The place of lofty repose..." What, then, of the famous Assyrian and Babylonian god Shamash, the sun god whom we now recognize as Saturn? A remarkable fact is that Shamash "comes forth"(shines) and "goes in" (declines, diminishes) at one spot, the "firm," "stable" or motionless station of supreme "rest". This place par excellence was symbolized by the ...
39. Forum: In Defence of the Saturn Theory C&C Review 2002:1 [Journals] [SIS Review]
... in the MUL.APIN, an astronomical document dating to around 700 BC, although the periods reported there are far from accurate and insufficient for astronomers to determine the relative distances of the respective planets.) The various mythical traditions surrounding Saturn, on the other hand, are almost certainly much older than the neo-Assyrian period. Saturn's identification with Shamash is attested in omen texts from the 13th century BC, for example [24]. Saturn is also identified with Shamash in various astronomical reports sent to Esarhaddon and Ashurbanipal [25], and the cursory language employed by the Assyrian astronomers makes it apparent that this identification was common knowledge and had long since become proverbial [26] ...
40. Ras Shamra (Ages in Chaos) [Velikovsky]
... the walls of the cities of Edom, and what the name Serirot designates, and whether we are on the road we set ourselves to follow. What does "people of Sapas" mean? A partial answer is at hand: "Sapas is the sun and the Sapasites got their name from it; Sapas of Canaan was analogous to Shamash [sun] of the Assyrians and Babylonians."122 The people who are repeatedly named as opposing Keret before the walls of the Edomite city were Sapas or Shamash men. Cities in Edom were doomed to be looted, according to the poem and the Second Book of Chronicles, which also suggested that this fate was imposed on them ...
41. A Personal Report on, and Irreverent Look at, the World Conference 'Planetary Violence in Human History' Portland, Oregon, January 3-5, 1997 [Journals] [SIS Review]
... Cardona: Mythology vs. Mythologists'. Myths record the history of the Solar System. In Sumerian, the cuneiform for god' and star' is the same. The ancients had a totally different perception of the sky from the present-day Solar System. Mythologists tend to translate any name for a brightly radiant object as Sun'. Thus Shamash tends to be identified as the Sun, though Thompson and Jastrow showed at the beginning of the century that, according to the Assyro-Babylonians themselves, Shamash was the name for Saturn. Equally, Ra is always translated as Sun, though there is an ostrakhon from Ptolemaic times that gives it as Saturn. The characteristics and motions of Ra ...
42. The Garden of Venus [Journals] [Aeon]
... ; and no one disdains to live in wedlock with such a woman." [19] W. F. Albright claimed to find an analogue to Anahita and the spring-fed garden of Persian lore in The Epic of Gilgamesh. [20] There it is related that the Sumerian strongman discovered the garden of Siduri upon following the road of Shamash and passing Mount Mashu (literally the "twin" [peaked] mountain which watches over "sunrise" and "sunset" [21] ). The wondrous garden was said to be located at the ina pi narati, literally "in the mouth of the rivers." It was there that Gilgamesh hoped to find the secret ...
43. A Question of Logic [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... reason behind Holbrook's showing Hazael as contemporary to both kings. Clarification of sorts came the moment I saw Thesis 189. In fact I could not believe what I had read: "The treaties of Subliliumas [sic] with Azaru of Damascus, with a patricide prince of Mitanni, and with the widow of Tirhaka make plausible his identity with Shamash Shum Ukin. This would signify also that Nabopolassar was a son of Shamash Shum Ukin." Taken literally, Suppiluliumas, Hazael, Tushratta, and Mattiwaza (the patricide Mitanni prince) all lived during the times of both Akhnaton and Tirhaka. This promotes an absurd situation that leads to or from other unreasonable suppositions: That the letter ...
44. Thoth Vol I, No. 14: May 21, 1997 [Journals] [Thoth]
... "Thoth: the Egyptian God of Knowledge" to access the back issues.- In this investigation we will see that many threads of evidence lead to the same unified conclusions. In preceding segments we have reviewed these unexplained associations- € Helios as Saturn; Helios as central sun, and Helios as axis of the celestial revolutions. € Assyrian Shamash as Saturn, Shamash as central sun, Shamash at the polar "midst" and "zenith." € Egyptian Atum-Ra as central sun, Atum-Ra as Saturn, Atum-Ra atop the world pole. There is a way to test the integrity of the ancient ideas we have reviewed. Are there any independent astronomical traditions enigmatically connecting the outermost ...
45. Thoth Vol I, No. 11: May 3, 1997 [Journals] [Thoth]
... to the cycle of day and night. A sphere turning in the sky is much different than a rising and setting sphere. ] The principles of the central sun appear to hold far beyond Egypt- even in cases where scholars have never doubted the god's solar identity. No cuneiform specialist has questioned the identity of the Babylonian "sun" god Shamash. Yet the texts describe Shamash "suspended from the midst of heaven." "Like the midst of heaven may he shine!" they say. "O Sun-god, in the midst of heaven..." His place in the sky is "the summit house," called also "the fixed house" and the ...
46. Saturn And Voyager [Journals] [Kronos]
... From: Kronos Vol. VI No. 3 (Spring 1981) Home | Issue Contents Saturn And Voyager Earl R. Milton The ancients write of a "sun" of the night sky which hovered over the top-of-the-world. It was taken to be a manifestation of the great god. Some worshipped him as Shamash, others knew him as Atum. The Greeks called him Kronos, the Romans Saturn. Today, his worldly-image is but a dim yellow starry point in the sky- the ringed planet we call Saturn. It orbits the Sun every twenty-nine and one-half years. The most distant of the planets visible to the naked eye, Saturn is about one and one-half billion ...
47. Astral Kingship [Journals] [Aeon]
... . (98) If Re was originally Atum, and most mythologies, as well as mythologists, confirm this, we will have to assume that the original Re was also a sun that shone at night. It is of immeasurable significance to introduce here the fact, so far only intimated, that the planet Saturn was once designated as Shamash or "sun" by the Assyro-Babylonian astrologers and this sun, or Saturn, shone at night. (99) Further, the identification of the planet Saturn with the Mesopotamian god Ninib was indicative of a Near Eastern belief in two suns. Shamash (the Sun) became "the greater, and Ninib [Saturn] the lesser ...
48. Thoth Vol III, No. 17: Dec 15, 1999 [Journals] [Thoth]
... let alone have noticed its slow advance across the night sky. THE SATURNIAN SUN CARDONA: One of the themes I wish to touch upon concerns the model's prediction that Saturn had once shone as a virtual sun. More than that, the model also posits that what past mythologists have identified as a bevy of sun-gods - such as the Assyro-Babylonian Shamash, the Egyptian Ra, the Indic Surya, the Greek Helios - are actually misidentified Saturnian suns. In the case of Shamash, of course, the issue is at once settled by appealing to those very ancients who venerated the god. . . . despite the objection of most modern mythologists, the case is really closed since the ...
49. The Saturn Problem [Journals] [SIS Review]
... '. In the 14th century BC (conventional dating) an attempt was made by the heretical Pharaoh Akhenaten to elevate Aten, the god of the Sun-disk, to the status of supreme deity in Egypt but Akhenaten's religious reforms were completely eradicated during the reign of his successor Tutankhamun and the ascendancy of Amun was restored. Likewise in Babylonia, Shamash the Sun-god was highly respected as lord of justice. However the king of the gods, again, was the Jupiter deity, Marduk. His father, Ea or Enki, was associated with Saturn (see later). In the 6th century BC, the last king of Babylonia, Nabonidus, made an attempt to elevate the Moon-god ...
50. Velikovsky's Sources Volume Three [Books]
... .140) As an example of Ishtar-Venus in a non- warlike setting, the following lines come from a prayer of Ashurnasirpal I. Venus, as an inner planet, is never very far removed from the sun (at least in a uniformitarian's solar system) and this fact seems to have resulted in the epithet "twin sister of Shamash"- Shamash being the sun god. It is in this guise that Ishtar-Venus appears here, with no indication of a hostile nature at all: "Unto the queen of the gods by whose hand the laws of the gods are fulfilled.(5 ) Unto the lady of Nineveh sister of the lofty gods. Unto the daughter ...
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