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1. The Case for Catastrophe in Historical Times [Journals] [Kronos]
... "Hymnal Prayer of Enheduanna" (thus a translation by the notable Sumerologist, Samuel Noah Kramer),(4 ) which is otherwise known as the "Exaltation of Inanna" (e .g ., the translation and detailed discussion by Hallo and van Dijk),(5 ) or by its opening phrase: "Nin-me-sar-ra" ... to portray the goddess in uncompromising terms as a deity of destruction, and of the storm. Hallo and van Dijk give: 9. Like a dragon you have deposited venom on the land 10. When you roar at the earth like Thunder, no vegetation can stand up to you. 11. A flood descending from its mountain, ...
2. Enheduanna and the Goddess Inanna [Journals] [SIS Review]
... From: SIS Chronology & Catastrophism Review (1994) "Proceedings of the 1993 Cambridge Conference" Home | Issue Contents Enheduanna and the Goddess Inanna Bernard Newgrosh Introduction The latter end of the 3rd millennium BC saw the production of some extraordinary literature. The invention of writing had taken place maybe several hundred years earlier but already the Sumerian and ... line 9 on there is a change of mood and Enheduanna begins to portray Inanna as goddess of the storm and of destruction: 9. Like a dragon you have deposited venom on the land 10. When you roar at the earth like Thunder, no vegetation can stand up to you. 11. A flood descending from its mountain, ...
3. Mons Veneris [Journals] [Aeon]
... the twin-peaked mountain. Simply stated, it can be shown that descriptions of the celestial whereabouts and stereotypical behavior of the ancient sun-god (Utu, Shamash), Venus (Inanna, Ishtar), and Mars (Nergal), show the respective celestial bodies in positions which are impossible given the current arrangement of the Solar System. Such anomalies ... (19) A related passage states that the mountain flood (kur-a-ma-ru) lies at her feet. (20) Inanna is elsewhere described as a dragon raining fire or venom across the mountain/land: "Like a dragon you have deposited venom on the land [kur-ra]." (21) (Fig. 3) Ishtar ...
4. Earth-Venus Contacts in the Late 3rd Millennium BC? [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... I have identified one Sumerian text [" Nin-me-sar-ra"] dating from about 2300 BC which deals with the destruction on Earth associated with the activities of the Sumerian Venus, Inanna [2 ]. The text in question is known to have been written by Enheduanna, the daughter of Sargon of Akkad: the knowledge of authorship gives us a ... mountain where homage is withheld from you vegetation is accursed. 44. Its grand entrance you have reduced to ashes. [26] We also find reference to the "venom" issued by Inanna in "Nin-me-sar-ra": 9. Like a dragon you have deposited venom on the land. (or) "In the form of the ...
5. When Venus Was A Comet [Journals] [Kronos]
... Such a comparison reveals that the planet Venus was also described there as a celestial dragon. VENUS IN ANCIENT IRAQ One of the world's oldest religious texts, The Exaltation of Inanna,* describes the planet Venus in the following manner: "In the form of the great Serpent you have deposited poison across the land."(25) ... also shares an explicit association with the Uraeus, an early Egyptian form of the serpent-dragon: "The Eye is identified in the Pyramid Texts with the Uraeus viper which spat venom and fire against its enemies and was fastened at the forehead of the king as the sign of kingship in both heaven and earth. " (55) As the ...
6. Aphrodite Urania [Journals] [Aeon]
... component. Such an opinion ignores the plain fact that this epithet finds precise parallels in the cults of other Venus-goddesses throughout the ancient world. Thus, a Sumerian hymn invokes Inanna as follows: "To the great Queen of Heaven, Inanna, I want to address my greeting. To her who fills the sky with her pure blaze, ... flood-storm...Like a lion you roared in heaven and earth, you smote the flesh of the people...Like an awesome lion you annihilated with your venom the hostile and the disobedient." [61] Again and again, the planet-goddess is compared to a lion raging in heaven: "Inanna, great brightness, ...
... identification of the goddess is already present at the dawn of history. On this issue, Heimpel has written: "It is, of course, a well-known fact that Inanna was identified with the planet Venus. Astronomical and astrological texts provide clear identifications . . . When and how the link between the planet was made cannot now be ascertained ... a great dragon raining fire from the sky! In the Exaltation to Inanna, for example, the goddess is invoked as follows: "Like a dragon you have deposited venom on the land. When you roar at the earth like Thunder, no vegetation can stand up to you. A flood descending from its mountain, Oh foremost one ...
8. The Many Faces Of Venus - The Planet Venus in Ancient Myth and Religion by Ev Cochrane (Book Review). C&C Review 2002:1 [Journals] [SIS Review]
... Morning Star or the daughter of the sun'. Yet at the same time she could be terrible and destructive and sacrifices to her were common. In Mesopotamia the Sumerian Inanna and the Semitic Ishtar were identified with the planet Venus and dominated ancient religion in this area. From this earliest civilised period the goddess was associated with an 8-pointed star ... appendages at the top. She was a great queen, a bride, venerated by sacred marriage rites associated with fertility, yet at the same time a warrior and a venomous dragon. She was radiant, even at noon, shook heaven and earth and rained fire. Epithets translated as Morning and Evening Star have been variously used to tie ...
9. The Eye Goddess [Journals] [Aeon]
... Fig.2 : Hathor as cow wearing the menat, with the eight-pointed star, around her neck. (From the Papyrus of Ani.) Fig.3 : Inanna holding her eight-pointed star symbol. Properly understood, Hathor should be viewed as the Egyptian counterpart of the Sumerian Inanna, the latter goddess being explicitly identified with Venus in ... hardly be a coincidence that descriptions of Inanna's rampage closely mirror that of Hathor. Witness the following passage from the Exaltation to Inanna: "Like a dragon you have deposited venom on the land, When you roar at the earth like Thunder, no vegetation can stand up to you. A flood descending from its mountain, Oh foremost one ...
10. On Comets and Kings [Journals] [Aeon]
... , By the blazing fire which rains upon the hostile land, I am Ishtar." (39) Ishtar finds a well-known parallel in Sumerian literature, where the warrior-goddess Inanna personified the planet Venus. In one Sumerian hymn the goddess was invoked as the Loud Thundering Storm: "You make the heavens tremble and the earth quake. Great ... mountains." (40) The Exaltation to Inanna associates the planet-goddess with a rain of fire, flooding, and great devastation: "Like a dragon you have deposited venom on the land, When you roar at the earth like Thunder, no vegetation can stand up to you. A flood descending from its mountain. Oh foremost one ...
11. Venus, Mars ... and Saturn [Journals] [SIS Review]
... it is necessary to emphasise that the two models are by no means mutually exclusive, except when it comes to specific claims (e .g . the original identity of Inanna). Thus it is possible that a series of planetary events was followed by episodes of cometary and meteoritic bombardment. However it would be a grave mistake to ignore ... ' [41], nor that descriptions of her rampage recall that of Hathor, as in the following passage from Exaltation to Inanna: Like a dragon you have deposited venom on the land, When you roar at the earth like Thunder, no vegetation can stand up to you. A flood descending from its mountain, Oh foremost one ...
12. Sothis and the Morning Star in the Pyramid Texts [Journals] [Aeon]
... identified Aphrodite with Isis. (34) It is commonly acknowledged, moreover, that Aphrodite's cult was influenced by religious concepts from the ancient Near East, where the Sumerian Inanna and Akkadian Ishtar among others were identified with the planet Venus. (35) It is significant that Isis shared numerous characteristics in common with these Near Eastern Venus-goddesses. ... the planet Venus. (43) The planet-goddess Inanna, for example, appears as a fire-breathing dragon in the Exaltation to Inanna: "Like a dragon you have deposited venom on the land...Raining the fanned fire down upon the nation..." (44) In striking contrast to the planet Venus, Sirius does ...
13. Venus in Ancient Myth and Language: Part Two [Journals] [Aeon]
... that the souls of children and the barking of dogs characterized the nocturnal haunts of witches. A similar situation confronts us within some of the earliest traditions associated with the Sumerian Inanna. In the myth known as Inanna's Descent to the Underworld, for example, the goddess is described as bolting from the underworld and fleeing to safety, a host ... of which display volumes of material pouring from the dragon's mouth. This situation recalls the Mesopotamian description of Inanna, where, as a fire-breathing dragon, she rained down "venom" upon the inhabitants of Sumer. The Exaltation of Inanna describes the goddess as follows: "Like a dragon you have deposited venom on the land." ( ...
14. Thoth Vol II, No. 20: Dec 31, 1998 [Journals] [Thoth]
... heavens? Though we can only give the briefest summary here, there is no escaping the concrete meanings of the words. Sumerian texts celebrate the "terrifying glory" of Inanna (Venus), invoking the goddess as "the Light of the World", "the Amazement of the Lands", "the Radiant Star", " ... for we are reminded that the goddess Inanna, the Sumerian star of terrifying glory, was also transformed into a world threatening dragon. "Like a dragon you have deposited venom on the land... Raining the fanned fire down upon the nation...With a roaring storm you roar; with Thunder you continually thunder". ...
15. Bookshelf [Journals] [SIS Review]
... the title, both of them associated with the great battles of the mythical gods and heroes. He found sufficient topographical clues in the texts, including this one from the Inanna and Ebih story: I will set fire to its surrounding forests, .. . And the mountain itself will I remove afar onto Aratta .. . Consulting the ... embarrassment of texts that we select initially two central themes, the one concerned with oil, the other with gas." The originators of the texts saw the oil as venom or poison emanating from a colossal snake: In the form of the great Serpent you (Inanna) deposited (oil-) poison across the mountainland. Inanna is ...
16. Child of Saturn (Part IV) [Journals] [Kronos]
... hints at Anahita's parentage. We are therefore forced to seek her lineage through Nana, her Babylonian precedent. Nana, of course, was the same as the earlier Sumerian Inanna (Innanna, again the goddess of the planet In turn, both Nana and Inanna were identical to the Assyro-Babylonian Venus, who or which was Ishtar.(31 ... rushing out is compared to that of a fly. The Bundahish continues with: "And noxious creatures were diffused by him [Ahriman] over the earth, biting and venomous "( 16) These noxious creatures, however, were not flies. They are listed as snakes, scorpions, frogs, and lizards.(17) Now ...
17. Venus in Ancient Myth and Language [Journals] [Aeon]
... noticed by the scholarly community as a whole, that the vast majority of the world's great goddesses were identified with the planet Venus. This is the case with the Sumerian Inanna, Babylonian Ishtar, Canaanite Astarte, Egyptian Isis, and Greek Aphrodite, for example. (1 ) Following the lead of Immanuel Velikovsky, who, in Worlds ... f, a practice which is known to have occurred in several European languages, but especially in Old Irish. Examples of this phenomenon are English vane/fane, English venom/fanum, and Old Irish fine (from *venia). With regard to the etymology of Fenrir, De Vries observes that it is not known, although ...
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