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Ningishzidda Jan 5, 2010 at 2:57am
Post by madness on Jan 5, 2010 at 2:57am
Ok, after doing some searching:
Corpus of Ancient Near Eastern Seals in North American Collections, I: The Collection of the Pierpont Morgan Library (1948). By Edith Porada, in collaborat
Hopefully Porada's work will shed some light on the above seal, as she is usually pretty thorough in her examinations of seals. It seems that the library at Sydn
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madness Ningishzidda Jan 7, 2010 at 4:14am
e n e n u r i a n Post by madness on Jan 7, 2010 at 4:14am
I just got back from the library. These are Porada's notes on the cylinder in question, from The Collection of the Pierpont Morgan Library.
No. 386 (plate LV)
Old Babylonian Period : the God with Lion-Scimitar
(description, p. 48)
Hematite Cylinder. 21 x 9
Bull-eared god wrapped in rope coils (?) and holding lion scimitar in either hand; nude female; priest with pail and sprinkler before god with scimitar. In field:
§ 7 no. 34. Bull-eared god Bahar(?) (§ 3.1), messenger of Lugal-irra* and Meslamta-ea. a. Porada, CRRA 26 Pl. XIIb; b. Porada, CANES no. 386.
§ 3.1 reiterates that he is in a "sarcophagus" wrapped in rope, that he is an underworld god with elements associated with Nergal, and that he is the messenger
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The winged snake goddess that he inspects is on an Old Babylonian grain contract seal from Larsa:
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Shambler Though it is from Larsa, the iconography here is of Syrian origin. Buchanan compares it to Syrian seals such as these (Ward, Seal Cylinders, 954, 955):
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And also to a Babylonian kudurru which depicts a similar goddess (King, Boundary-Stones, pl. XXX):
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Guest Post by afterviewer on Jan 14, 2010 at 11:01pm
Any thoughts as to the divining rod that is positioned to the right of the Deity in the pictograph? have been reading about the bio-electric/electromagnetic confi
figures, especially Inanna. AV.
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Ningishzidda Jan 15, 2010 at 10:57pm
Post by afterviewer on Jan 15, 2010 at 10:57pm
Thanks madness, I wonder if it would possess "magical" properties similar to a tuning fork of the same configuration?
Interesting dragons here that flank a tree, now where have we seen this before
A nude rain-goddess is also associated with the bull (and together with the storm-god), which goes back to the Early Dynastic II period. And so on the basis of
But rather than the naturally depicted bull of the storm-god, we are concerned with the bull-man.
Shambler The bull-man (or bison-man) [=gud-alim/kusarikku] is the attendant of the sun-god Šamaš. We see the bull-man on OB terracotta plaques supporting a date-pa
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So, the bull-god Bahar (dGUD) placed in a sarcophagus entwined with snakes, standing next to a lightning bolt and a nude female, associated with Netherworl
Perhaps it is the divine power (or libido) of the storm or the sun that has been regulated to the Netherworld.
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Ningishzidda Jan 23, 2010 at 10:16pm
Post by afterviewer on Jan 23, 2010 at 10:16pm
Thanks for posting the diagram and information, madness. Not likely to have stumbled across this stuff on mu own.
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Some examples of caduceus style images which I don't think we have seen before:
110, 111, 116, 118, 376, 463
2979 appears to be the most elaborate caduceus rendering (apart from the Gudea vase) that I have seen. Sitting on top of the entwined snakes is Inšušinak, the
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Ningishzidda Oct 29, 2010 at 3:13pm
Post by enkur on Oct 29, 2010 at 3:13pm
Here it is.
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In my own subjective psychocosmos Abzu is under the lowest level of Kur, directly under E-Gal-Kur-Zagin where there is a sacred temple-well watched over by the o
enkur one may return from the Land of No Return. Abzu is connected to the Upperworld via a vast network (Sashushgal) of subterranian currents which spring out on the su
e n e n wherefrom the sperm springs out...Ereshkigal being the guardian of all Memory, one is stripped down of all one's memories before Her and what remains is thrown do
u r i a n Upperworld in an irrecognizable new configuration of MEs. Yet there are some options - one may stay with one's beloved Queen of All Peoples forever, one may serv
and get oneself lost in the vast ocean of Memory stored there in quest of some mystery - probably that of eventually realizing oneself only as an aggregate of thousand
Gidim who could restore even one's flesh via predatory practices, or one may discover the formula how to preserve one's identity through Abzu, who knows? The sorc
that it was a great grace to have Ninggishzidda as a guide and introducer to the Queen of the Great Below. Maybe as a son-in-law of Enki, He could be of some help i
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Enkur:
This image is excellent, the tree depicting the deity - many nice touches! I like the 6 horned crown for example.
Certainly no worries about intolerance as experienced at that enki/ea forum you mentioned. I've found that the forum has only progressed as long as the posters
*The following is to expand the idea that the Abzu is source of all fresh waters.
As for your post largest post, with the picture of the well at Thrace, the content in some ways is similar to the lecture and class discussion last week from Prof. F
class here in Ontario, Canada. So his discussion was in part on the how the Tigris and Euphrates and were thought to run under the Persian gulf into Dilmun, in
were originally noted by W. F. Albright in an article from the 1920s. Originally Albright, referring to an incantation dealing with the Kishkanu tree, translated th
top of the netherworld. So I made a small discussion of this on the class discussion board, a post I will paste below:
"In the last lecture we heard discussion on the term "mouth of rivers" = "source of rivers" in Mesopotamian thinking. I was intrigued that Albright utilized incan
give a portion of M. Geller's updated translation of the same below (from , Evil Demons: Canonical Utukkū Lemnūtu Incantations. State Archives of Assyria Cu
Therefore the relevant part of text is explaining or better establishing the purity of the item to be used by orally/magically placing its origin in the pure domain o
it were - Enki's mother on her couch (Nammu), Shamash and Tammuz (I'm not sure why on this one), and on line 102 the Doormen of the house or Eridu (Kahe
the Abzu) personally placing it on the head of the patient - the point is, the mouth /source of rivers is down in Enki's realm among his minions, henceforth this te
thought, was in Enki's domain."
*For more on the Kishkanu stuff, the enenuru user can refer to this thread:
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As for the Abzu and fresh waters as transfer points from the below to the above, this is interesting - I am not sure that there explicit correspondence in the texts,
featured - for example, when Enkidu's shade is brought back, Enki tell's Utu to bring him up through a hole. The reasons why Utu comes into play are complex
another is the analogy of the netherworld as a sort of prison, real Mesopotamian prisons were little more than a whole in the ground where one could only sit an
In a hymn to Nungal (Nungal A): t.4.28.1, which concerns the goddess in charge of prisons and treating prisoners, reads:
"Its inmates, like small birds escaped from the claws of an owl, look to its opening as to the rising of the sun"
Seems we are on the way to connect here the thread of Ningishzidda with the thread of Abzu. In the "Balbale to Ningishzidda A" Ningishzidda is addressed as "who g
times in this balbale which even ends with praising Enki. Yes, Ningishzidda is a son-in-law of Enki by Ninazimua and his grand son as a child of Ningirida (his father
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something more meant in this text.
Though I personally don't like Zecharia Sitchin's writings, I cannot deny the insight they could inspire time to time even to me. For example, his interpretation of the n
Adapa where the name is written Gishzidda as "the Tree of Truth" guarding the palace of An. (The "Lord" is added by me.)
Well in my subjective Sumerian psychocosmos Kur, or Kur-gal, the underworld just mirrors the sevenfold zikurat of the upperworld with a gate to each lower level, so
inverted summit. There is a Tree-axis which roots are reaching Abzu through Kur-gal, and which branches are reaching for the stars, thus forming a "duranki". First I
now I start to "see" the roots of this tree as serpents drinking Abzu's water of life and its branches as serpents whose tongues are the stars... It's great. The archetype of
anything. There are things which are felt true during a ritual but not so true when one tries to describe them.
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Abzu pulsates with impulses counter-proportional to the downward energy of the gravity, they interract continuously with each other. However, I would like to comm
On the other hand, this psychocosmic model of mine isn't as 3D as it seems while trying to describe it. It somehow reconciles the contradiction pointed out by Dina K
(netherworld) vs Kalama (consensus reality) and the vertical model where Kur is below as the underworld. The mountains on the horizons are the edge of the known w
Pratchett's characters in his Discworld series ) The sorcerer's awareness should extend always to the horizons because there is where hir subjective known world en
so if I'm to do something magical/sacred and contact the numinous I go there to the edge of my known mundane world, there where one really feels mortal and in the
mountains - cliffs and abysses, caves where one may get really lost and there are also hidden vertical abyssal caves grown with bushes where one may fall down and r
to death by invoking Ereshkigal I'm ready to contact the numinous... sometimes running in panic to save my ass from the Lord Weather's furious imduguds, though En
well.
Ningishzidda Nov 2, 2010 at 1:06pm
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enkur As regards that mysterious temple-well in Thrace, one of my main magical arguments that this pure place still works today is the very fact that nowadays there is ther
e n e n enjoy a reservoir of fresh water there though they do not worship it. On the second picture a very pale sun ray is showing the exact location of the ancient temple-well
u r i a n when uploading my pics. This was Utu's discreet ray towards Abzu.
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An interesting moment for this thread is that in Simon's Necronomicon's version of Inana's Descent, it is not Neti but Ningishzidda who strippes down Inana stark nak
me somehow familiar when I first read Simon's Necronomicon. I remember a book of translated Babylonian poetry in my language but I'm forgetful.
And yes, you are quite right about the intelligence and eccentricity Neither could Enuma Elish, H.P. Lovecraft, Simon's Necronomicon and Zecharia Sitchin be hel
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Yes, I did read this quotation from that hymn to Nungal about the prison in respect of the owlet aspect of Inana.
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madness Ningishzidda Nov 3, 2010 at 12:35am
e n e n u r i a n Post by madness on Nov 3, 2010 at 12:35am
I looked through the Akkadian version of the descent, and the gatekeeper is not named. Just called a generic "gatekeeper" (LU2.I3.DU8/atû).
Ningišzida does not even appear in the Sumerian or the Akkadian version of the descent. Simon obviously fudged this point.
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Well, your caution is justified in using Sitchen of course, although I also believe sifting almost any material - with due caution - can potentially yield fruit. My p
sufficient linguistic justification for suggesting a different translation of the name. I can't remember, but I somewhat doubt he gives any footnote or reason why h
believe it. It seems like a convenient way to compare the tree in question with the Tree of Good and Evil or some such - with is probably what he does next but I
Anyway, I wrote a small note on Jacobsen's classic treatment of the name (Ningishzida = Lord of the Good Tree) on reply #3 of the following thread.
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As for your model of the psychocosmos it is interesting, its not unlike my ongoing effort to construct an intellectual model or simulation that attempts to approx
layout that the text partially reveal from time to time. This effort reminds me to a small extent of that continually morphing grammatical model / construction th
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gal2 Avatar About the entwining serpents and their significance is found the problem to complex to add to my intellectual model. The significance of Ningishzida being outs
used to think it insignificant as the Adapa text has always been from late copies and so I thought it was a later tale less significant to Sumerian religious ideas - a
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Utu may have passed through the Abzu on his way back up in the morning - I know scholars (i.e Alster) see the stars of the night sky as rising from below passi
You've got notions of the vertical an horizantal axis of Sumerian netherworld this is some pretty intricate scholarship associated with Katz - thats not bad at all i
As for the Necronomicon, you've seen its nature through your own intelligent inquisition and noted its short comings when it comes to accurately presenting wh
Assyriology done in the 1890s for his text translations that would be woven into his fiction - so even if he were trying to be accurate hes using material we no lo
in many place, given the infancy of the linguistic science. Enenuru has noted the work of J. Gonce , whose book is in a similar critical spirit:
enenuru.net/html/cuneiform_magic/maqluexpl.htm
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Ningishzidda Nov 9, 2010 at 12:23pm
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Actually for the Sun and how it rises must track down the article by Heimpel called "The Sun at Night and the Doors of Heaven in Babylonian Texts" (JCS 28
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