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6 pages of results. 101. The Primordial Light? [Journals] [SIS Review]
... made." (63) The Phoenician god El (= Kronos (64)) was also referred to as a solar deity (65). There is abundant evidence from Mesopotamia to support the equation of Saturn with a sun (66). "We are told, for instance, that the face of the god Ninurta is Shamash the sun-god; that one of Ninurta's ears is the god of wisdom Ea - , and so on through all of Ninurta's members. These curious statements may be taken to mean that Ninurta's face derived its dazzling radiance from, and thus shared in that brilliance which is characteristically the sun-god's, and concentrates itself in him." (67 ...
102. The Cosmic Winter by Victor Clube and Bill Napier [Journals] [SIS Review]
... connection (p . 181) [one of several annoying, erroneous page/index references in Winter', by the way] reduced to a quenching of thirst." [53] This is, of course, daisy-picking. If the Samson story is a celestial myth, then we cannot treat it without reference to the fact that Shamash = Samson is a Semitic solar deity. The gift of water might better then be referred to Aquarius, and there is the notable tale of the lion (Leo) embedded in the legend. We might also pick out the various references to a kid' (Capricorn?), my heifer' (Taurus?), and ...
103. Letters [Journals] [SIS Review]
... not, its details consistently fit with myth in a way that cometary imagery often does not and it therefore merits serious consideration. In the same edition of C&CR Phillip writes about the Ark of the Covenant and it appears to me that all the detail he gives, from its initial inception to its final deposition at a place called Shamash, meaning bright, shining deity', is couched in terms of cosmic imagery, which fits particularly well that of the Polar Configuration. Further, David Salkeld, in his discussion of Shamir, particularly in its more specific association with David and Solomon, made me realise that the biblical details of the story show more than a passing ...
104. Assyria: is the Conventional Profile Believable? [Journals] [SIS Review]
... ......... in Ellipa 714 Ishtar-duri Governor of Arrapha Nergal new temple 713 year 8 Assur-bani Governor of Calah Against Musasir 712 Sharru-emurani Governor of Zamua In the land 711 Urta-alik-pani Governor of Si'me Against Markasa 710 Shamash-bel-usur Governor of Arzuhina the king in Kish 709 Mannuki-Assur-li Governor of Tille Sargon hand of Bel 708 year 13 Shamash upahhir Governor of Kirruri Kumuha captured 707 Sha-Assur-dubbi Governor of Tushan King retired from Babylon 706 Mutakkil-Assur Governor of Guzana "from city of Dur Iakin " 705 S2, Senn Nashir-bel Governor of Amedi Dur Iakin destroyed 704 Nabu-din-epush Governor of Nineveh Gods in their temples 703 Kannunnai Governor of Kakzi Nobles in Karalli 702 Nabu-il Governor of Arbailu No entry 701 ...
105. The Reconstruction of Cosmic History [Journals] [Aeon]
... 23) This An, or Anu, is the most ancient god we know who was associated with the north celestial sphere.(24) He must then be accepted by Jueneman as one of the divine prototypes behind the construction of his model. Since An was also a nocturnal sun,(25) he has to be equated with Shamash, the sun of night, whom the Assyro-Babylonians themselves claimed to have been none other than the planet Saturn.(26) That this is not a spurious equation can be learned from the works of Peter Jensen,(27) Alfred Jeremias,(28) and Stephen Langdon,(29) three of the greatest researchers of ...
106. Ancient Near Eastern Chronology: To Revise or not to Revise? [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... Solomon. It is a theme common in antiquity. As an example the Egyptian pharaoh Merenptah records the appearance of Ptah in a dream preceding his victory over the Libyan coalition. Solomon is granted a wish and he chooses wisdom'. This is interesting as wisdom' is commonly associated elsewhere with deity, i.e ., Enlil, Shamash, Marduk, Ashur etc. and was attached to the king, i.e ., Hammurabi, Esarhaddon etc., viz the ideology of the divinity of the king. Wisdom is an especial feature of the story of the visit by the Queen of Sheba in the Song of Songs. Hyam Maccoby7 likens the queen to a ...
107. A Time of Pestilence and a Shaking of the Earth [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... Assurbanipal appears to be the model of the biblical story, as there is no evidence that Nebuchadnezzar retired from public life for several years, or indeed that he suffered from any disease or plague. 7. The Century Bible, John Gray, Ed., 1967, Joshua, Judges, and Ruth. 8. Beth-shemesh, or Babylonian Shamash, often described in texts as a sun god because of the epithet "the shining one." 9. Century Bible, 235; comparisons include the killing of a lion with bare hands, the hero betrayed by a woman and deciding the means of his own death, a descent into darkness (blinded and cast into prison) ...
108. Morning Star II [Journals] [Aeon]
... p. 113. 45. G. Rawlinson, History of Herodotus (London, 1862), Essay X; P. Jensen, Die Kosmologie der Babylonier (Strassburg, 1890), p. 191; A Jeremias, Handbuch der Altorientalischen Geistekultur (Leipzig, 1913), p. 96. 46. D. Cardona, "Shamash and Sin," Chronology & Catastrophism Workshop (1992), No. 2, pp. 16-17. 47. Idem, "Child of Saturn," Part V, KRONOS X:3 (Summer 1985), pp. 65 ff. 48. ibid.. 49. E. A. W. Budge, The ...
109. Letters [Journals] [SIS Review]
... Sitchin (Avon Books, NY, 1995) stating Both Sumerian and Old Babylonian texts speak of celestial upheavals that were observed in the skies and that called for incantations against the celestial demons'. These described an evil seven, born in the vast skies, unknown in heaven, unknown on Earth' who attacked Sin (the Moon) and Shamash (the Sun) upsetting at the same time Ishtar (Venus) and Adad (Mercury). In my computer simulations I showed a stream of matter ejected from Jupiter which I assumed eventually coagulated into one cosmic body during its trajectory because of the retarding effect to the head of the stream of the tenuous matter in space. In ...
110. Pul and Tiglath-Pileser III - A Response to Jonsson [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... . The presence of two distinct accusative markers with a conjunction between them further emphasises the separateness of their objects. There are cases, such as Genesis 4:2 , eth ahiw, eth Hevel' ( 'his brother: Abel'), where there is an explicative function - but not with a waw. 16. The notation shamash atallu means no more than the sun was obscured'. It has been argued, but not yet proven conclusively, that this refers to a solar eclipse. A solar eclipse is the obscuration of the sun by the moon but the sun can be obscured by other means as well, such as atmospheric disturbances, comets etc. Even ...
111. The Foundations of the Assyro-Babylonian Chronology [Journals] [SIS Review]
... eclipse of that year but also of Ptolemy's Canon, by a number of ancient cuneiform documents, as will be shown in my article. Thus there was actually a solar eclipse in the eponymy of Pur-Sagale, at the same time that the Canon says the Sun was eclipsed. b). The Akkadian expression used in the Eponym Canon, shamash atalu, was the common technical term for an observed solar eclipse {see F. X. Kugler's article, "Zur Erklarung der Babylonischen Mondtafeln. I.Mond - und Sonnefinsternisse", Zeitschrift der Assyriologie vol.15 (Berlin 1900), p.181.} Would it not be curious for the scribe to mention another ...
112. The Evolution of the Cosmogonic Egg [Journals] [Aeon]
... (141) Nor is Sirius the only star with which planetary deities became confused. As Donald Mackenzie, who recognized that the Babylonians identified the supreme deity with the Pole Star, noted, Regulus, Arcturus, and Orion have also been named as alter-egos of the Assyrian god Ashur, (142) who, because of his assimilation to Shamash, (143) not to mention his well known emblems of ring and rod, can be seen as a prototype of the Saturnian deity. As we have already seen above, so was Canopus. How all this came about has to do with the Saturnian configuration's final dissolution, a subject that is outside the range of the present ...
113. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... . It seems that the origins of civilization are more likely to have arisen as a result of cooperation than conquest and coercion. The primary temple was to Nergal and was raised high on a ziggurat dominating one end of the city and one region appeared to be an administrative area. It contained a collection of model chariots dedicated to Nergal and Shamash for which there is no obvious explanation. Arabia's lost city New Scientist 26.8 .95, p. 33 Radar pictures from space have revealed the remains of the lost city of Ubar in the Empty Quarter of the Arabian peninsula. From about 2800 BC to 300 AD it was at the centre of the world trade in frankincense ...
114. KA [Books]
... . With son' for Ben, and the definite article for ha', it is possible that Ben Q-CD vol 12: KA, Ch. 13: KA', and Egyptian Magic 177 Hadad gave himself the title of "Son of the Torch", just as the Persian king's viceroy was the rod of Set. The Akkadian Shamash', the sun goddess, Ugaritic Shapash', is often called The Torch of the Gods'. The Greek tripod cauldron, lebes- lebetos, is, I suggest, el bet, the house of el. Similarly, the dragon that Herakles killed on his journey to fetch the golden apples of the Hesperides had a Semitic ...
115. Sins Of The Father [Journals] [Aeon]
... in c. 539 BCE and that the latter king, while excavating at Sippar, uncovered royal inscriptions stating that Hammurabi lived many hundreds of years before his time. [32] Doubtless Ginenthal believes it is circular reasoning to point out the difficulty this presents for Heinsohn's hypothesis. Ginenthal as Historian Hammurabi- receiving the laws from the seated god Shamash, as portrayed on his famous stela- whom Heinsohn [mis]identifies as the alter-ego of Darius. (Illustration by Marie-Josèphe Devaux.) How does one go about assessing the credibility of someone who, like Ginenthal, would completely rewrite the history of the ancient world? Certainly education and specialized training are usually important in forming such ...
116. Aphrodite The Moon or Venus? (Continued) [Journals] [SIS Review]
... Collision . Thus Velikovsky: "In the nineteenth century it was the vogue to explain the old myths as inspired by the movement of the sun and the moon. However, in former times the planets played a decidedly more important role in the imagination of peoples, to which fact their religions give testimony. True, sun and moon (Shamash and Sin, Helios, Apollo and Selene) were also numbered among the planet gods, but usually they were not the most important ones." (33) The old tradition of interpretation followed by Graves, that myth can be interpreted in terms of lunar and solar gods, has surely been debunked by Velikovsky. Titles of Aphrodite ...
117. News from the Internet [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... is everywhere the all-inclusive dragon, the serpent coiling round the world, the all-encircling ocean, and so on. The planet Saturn as the outermost orbit was an apt symbolic substitute for the archetypal idea of the all-enclosing deity – a symbolic substitute, that is, not necessarily the origin of the archetype. Roger Ashton rightly made the point: Shamash the god was originally no more the Sun than Saturn the planet. Both the Sun and Saturn are displacement metaphors. During the process of corruption of the earliest content of myth, interchangeable metaphors for godly attributes led in time to spurious narratives and misleading divergences of idiom, whi[ch] I shall in due course illustrate.[ ...
118. The Autobiography Of Nebuchadnezzar. Ch. 5. (Ramses II and his Time) [Velikovsky]
... know the dream" (Daniel 2:2-3). Although frightened by dreams, Hattusilis nevertheless conjured up visions. In his younger years the visions of Ishtar appearing to him and to his wife in dreams predicted good fortune for him. The inscription in the sun temple in Sippar, built by Nebuchadnezzar, reads: "Thou, 0 Shamash, in vision and dream answer me right."18 Superstitious rather than religious, he would give praise and offer worship to the most antagonistic deities, and in this he denied them all. He built an "image of gold" and "set it up in the plain of Dura" (Daniel 3:1 ), ...
119. Implications for Chronology if Certain 'Historical' Characters are Mythological [Journals] [SIS Review]
... translates qrn as horned' or shining'. Yet if one understands Moses as a celestial figure the mystery is resolved at a stroke: both horned' and shining' are perfectly apt descriptions of the crescent elsewhere personified as the Babylonian god Sin, whence derives the name Sinai. In the sacred literature from Mesopotamia, moreover, Sin, Shamash, and Venus are all described as si, or'?horned' (although si literally means horn' it is frequently translated as shining', the very semantic situation found in Exodus 34) [19]. From a scientific standpoint, modern biblical scholarship has barely scratched the surface in unravelling the complex character' of Moses ...
120. The Great Kingship of the Medes [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... been lost in the final years of Shalmaneser III and had remained independent throughout the reign of Shamshi-Adad V. "As to the numerous hostile kings who had rebelled in the time of my father Shamshi-Adad and had withheld the regular [tributes], [the terror-inspiring glamour] overshadowed them [and] upon the command of Ashur, Sin, Shamash, Adad [and] Ishtar, my trust [inspiring] gods, they seized my feet [in submission]."(42) The above document certainly gives the impression that Adad-Nirari III was a ruler to compare with Shalmaneser III, and that impression is further reinforced by another inscription, which records Adad-Nirari's conquest of Damascus ( ...
121. In the Days of Seti I and Ramses II [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... , a treaty of friendship was negotiated between Alyattes and the Mede king Astyages. The kings of Cilicia and Babylon, we are told, acted as intermediaries.(48) It is probable that the Lydians simultaneously made friends with the Medes' allies, the Egyptians. The records of Assyria apparently recall this momentous event. An eclipse (shamash- atalu) is specifically referred to in the eponym year of an official named Bur-Sagale, who held office sometime in the reign of Ashur-Dan III (supposedly 772 and 755 BC.). Retrocalculation has shown that a total eclipse would have been visible in Assyria in the year 763 BC., so this is the date generally given ...
122. The "Forgotten Empire". Ch. 4. (Ramses II and his Time) [Velikovsky]
... 45). Not only different nations but different gods had to be satisfied. The name of Nebuchadnezzar invites the protection of the god Nebo, the planet Mercury. The planets Jupiter (Marduk). Mars (Nergil), Venus (Ishtar), and Saturn (Bel), and the Moon (Sin) and the Sun (Shamash) had to be appeased, too, because each of them could harm. Moreover, in various provinces the god-planets had other names, such as Enlil, Ninlil, Nana, and so on. The names of the gods of the planetary pantheon also had their equivalents in various languages, and many of these names were incorporated into ...
123. On Comets and Kings [Journals] [Aeon]
... the transfiguration of Quetzalcoatl commemorated events involving that planet. It is through his identification with the planet Saturn, moreover, that we would account for the solar characteristics in Quetzalcoatl's cult; the planet Saturn being, as we have seen elsewhere, widely regarded as an ancient sun-god. (82) Thus the Greek Helios, Latin Sol, Akkadian Shamash and Hindu Surya were all identified with the planet Saturn. That Mesoamerican cosmology recognized different suns as having ruled in the past is well-known, of course. Various accounts name four or five different suns, each alike coming to a catastrophic end: "The earlier world epochs, or Suns', as the Mexicans called them, are ...
124. Untitled [Journals]
... River of Ocean [Review V1989] Cardona, Dwardu: Road to Saturn (Excerpts From An Autobiographical Essay) [Aeon Vol0103] Cardona, Dwardu: Saturn As King [Kronos Vol0403] Cardona, Dwardu: Saturn: in Myth and Religion [Kronos Vol1001] Cardona, Dwardu: Saturn's Flare-ups [Workshop Vol0501] Cardona, Dwardu: Shamash and Sin [Workshop W1992no2] Cardona, Dwardu: Shrine of Baal-zephon [Aeon Vol0406] Cardona, Dwardu: Stones of Ballochroy [Kronos Vol0403] Cardona, Dwardu: Sulfur Connection [Kronos Vol1203] Cardona, Dwardu: Sun of Night [Kronos Vol0301] Cardona, Dwardu: Tektites and China's Dragon [Kronos Vol0102] Cardona, ...
125. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... these beasts. It seems that Chinese dinosaurs were different from those elsewhere and must have been separated from them for most of their history. Ebabbara evidence source: Archeologia 224, (Paris, 1987), pp. 18-27 Carl Olof Jonsson has kindly sent us a summary of this interesting paper which tells of the resumption of excavations at the Shamash temple in Sippar. The new finds are important, with texts that give mathematical, astronomical, and historical information: the latter may well have a bearing on the chronology of Babylonia. For example, some of the bricks of the Ebabbara temple bear the seals of Nebuchadrezzar II and Nabonidus, confirming that these two kings restored the temple ...
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