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EA WAS SATURN
12. APPENDICES (Hamlet's Mill)
We know well enough that the Oannes of Berossos is ____Ea, i.e., Saturn, whose "town" is Eridu/Canopus, the very depth of the sea.
13. The Saturn Problem [SIS Review]
_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).
19. Paradise Found: The Cradle of the Human Race at the North Pole [Books]
_The separating waters are the four seas. The seven inner homocentric globes are respectively ... domains and special abodes of Sin, Shamash, Nabu, Ishtar, Nergal, Marduk, and Ninib, each being a "world-ruler" in his own planetary sphere. The outermost of the spheres, that of Anu and ____Ea, is the heaven of the fixed stars. The axis from center to zenith marks " the Way of Anu "; the axis from center to nadir " the Way of ____Ea." See Journal of the American Oriental Society, vol. xxii, pp. 138-144 ...
20. The Night of the Gods Vol II [Books]
_The Wheel-God 603
_The god who is here called the Sun-god is Somas, the son of father ____Ea and, Mother Damkina. ... Somas of Sippara was a well-known deity B.C. 3800, in the time of King Sargon....
22. The Ankh [Kronos]
_The Sumerian connection with Vela X was discovered by Michanowsky in a reference which appears in a cuneiform list of star names: "The gigantic star of the god ____Ea in the constellation Vela of the god ____Ea."(29) As seen by the ancient peoples of Mesopotamia, Vela X would have appeared low on the horizon with "its luminous reflection on the waters of the Persian Gulf stretched like a shiny ribbon from [watery] horizon to [nearby] shore".(30)
23. The Road to Saturn (Excerpts from an Autobiographical Essay) [Aeon]
... Earth's sky for many months as a prominent light that might even have shone as a smaller second sun by day. Searching in Sumerian documents for a possible reference to this ancient stellar outburst, Michanowsky believed he found it in a cuneiform list of star names. The item that matches the event reads: "The gigantic star of the god ____Ea in the constellation Vela of the god ____Ea." As seen by the ancient peoples of Mesopotamia, Vela X would have appeared low on the horizon with its luminosity reflected "like a shiny ribbon" on the waters of the Persian Gulf. This sudden celestial apparition, according to Michanowsky, ... awed ancient man....
27. Chapter XXXV. The Origin of Egyptian Astronomy (Continued) -- The Thebes School [Books]
_Along with the culture of Eridu went the worship of the god of Eridu, the primal god of Babylonia, ____Ea, Ía, or Oannês, symbolised as a goat-fish, and connected in some way with the sun when in Capricornus.
28. The Earth's Annular System by Isaac Newton Vail (1912) [Books]
_The vessel thou shalt build 600 cubits shall be the measure of its length and 60 cubits the amount of its breadth and of its height. (Launch it) thus on the ocean, and cover it with a roof.' I understood, and I said to ____Ea, my lord: '(The vessel) that thou commandest me to build, thus (when) I shall do it, young and old (shall laugh at me.)'
30. Velikovsky's Sources Volume Three [Books]
_V refers to another of Jastrow's books, this time "The Civilisation of Babylonia end Assyria"(1915). V writes: "Repeated changes in the course of the sun across the firmament led the astronomers of Babylonia to distinguish three paths of the sun: the Anu path, the Enlil path, and the ____Ea path. These three paths created much difficulty for the writers on Babylonian astronomy, and many explanations were offered and as many rejected. The Anu, Enlil and ____Ea paths of the planets across the sky appear to denote the successive ecliptics in various world ages.
31. The Great Father [Books]
_An (or Anu) was the father of the gods and the central light at the universe summit, a god of "terrifying splendour" who governed heaven from his throne in the cosmic sea Apsu. But the Sumero-Babylonian pantheon is filled with competing figures of the primordial creator. Enki (or ____Ea), Ningirsu, Ninurta, Tammuzeach appears as a local formulation of the same great god. (15) Each shares in the character of the singular An, ruling as universal lord, fashioning his home above and radiating light in the midst of the celestial ocean.
37. British Museum: Compass [SIS Internet Digest]
_The cuneiform inscription identifies the owner of the seal as Adda, who is described as dubsar, or scribe'. The figures can be identified as gods by their pointed hats with multiple horns. The figure with streams of water and fish flowing from his shoulders is ____Ea, god of subterranean waters and of wisdom, called Enki by the Sumerians. Behind ____Ea stands Usimu, his two-faced vizier (chief minister). Ishtar , the goddess of fertility (indicated by the cluster of dates) and war (the weapons rising from her shoulders) stands winged for victory.
38. The Listing by Months: An Ancient Study of the Disappearances of Venus [Kronos]
_In the month Sabat Ninsianna on the 15th day disappeared in the west; for 3 days she remained absent from the sky; in the month Sabat on the 18th day Ninsianna appeared in the east: springs will open; Adad will bring rains and ____Ea will bring floods; king to king messages of reconciliation will send. [8b]
39. The Primordial Light? [SIS Review]
_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)
44. The Mystery Of The Pleiades [Kronos]
_Tammuz, another name for Saturn, is called "Lord of the Snares," even though he himself is bound and prays to be saved from such bonds.(34) ____Ea, the Babylonian Saturn, is also a god of binding.(35) Even Ninurta, another Babylonian name for Saturn, was deified as a hunter (habilu) because he hunted with a snare (nahbalu).(36)
45. The Reforming Of The Calendar, Part 2 Mars Ch.8 (Worlds in Collision) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Worlds in Collision]
_Repeated changes in the course of the sun across the firmament led the astronomers of Babylonia to distinguish three paths of the sun: the Anu path, the Enlil path, and the ____Ea path. These three paths created much difficulty for the writers on Babylonian astronomy, and many explanations were offered and as many rejected.15 The Anu, Enlil, and ____Ea paths of the planets across the sky appear to denote the successive ecliptics in various world ages.
46. The Evolution of the Cosmogonic Egg [Aeon]
_Thus ____Ea was known as the Lord of Eridu, (21) a sacred city that was mythologically identified with the constellation Eridanus, Argo, or Vela, (22) which all border on each other, (23) and which was also characterized by a "sacred star" called Mul Nun-ki. (24)
47. The Stream Surrounding the ____Earth [SIS Review]
_The Sumerian pictograph for AB.ZU was that of an excavation deep into the Earth mounted by a shaft. Burrows remarks that all texts permit the view that the apsu is a cistern, tank, reservoir, or pool.
_The Ring and Water Deities
_Important deities, such as Enki, ____Ea, Anu, El, Ishtar, Marduk, Ninurta and Nirig have been found to represent the ring, with Enki, ____Ea and Anu reviewed below. A critical factor in the model is that all eight deities can be dated to the end of the third millennium BC.
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53. The Opening Of The Mouth Ritual - Part I [Journals] [Aeon]
... concerned sky gods since it makes reference to "[ the] king, who dost illumine heaven and earth." And just as it was Horus going before the face of his father Osiris-Saturn, the priests in this rite addressed the statue of the god with the following words: "[ F ]rom this hour shalt thou go before ____Ea, thy father [ who is also a Saturnian deity]...may ____Ea, thy father, be full of joy in face of thee!" [127] Roth was another commentator on the Mesopotamian ritual. As she had it stated: "A special verb meaning to give birth' is used for the creation of ...
57. The Holy Land [Books]
... to occupy this centre. In Mexico, a Nahuatl hymn extols the god Ometeotl as: Mother of the Gods, Father of the Gods, the old God distended in the navel of the earth, engaged in the enclosure of turquoise He who dwells in waters the colour of the bluebird. (98) A Babylonian hymn located the god ____Ea at the "centre of the earth": The path of ____Ea was in Eridu, teeming with fertility. His seat (there) is the centre of the earth; his couch is the bed of the primeval mother. (99) Similarly, the Egyptian Osiris "sits in judgement on the Primeval Mound, which is in ...
58. Ancient Oriental Seals in the Collection of Mr Edward T. Newell [Books]
... Itebshunu, mâr mu-ta-nu-um son of Mutanum, warad d mar-tu servant of Martu 233 dsak-kud-ta-a-a-ar Sakkudtaiar, mâr dEN.ZU-mu-ba-li-it son of Sinmuballit, warad d sak-kud servant of Sakkud 234 ha-ba-an-na Habanna, mârat dšamaš-an-dùl daughter of Shamashandul, amat dnin-é-gal servant of Ninegal 235 LÚ-dASAR-LÚ-DU(G ) Awilmarduk, mâr i-din-dEN-KI son of Idinea, warad dEN-KI servant of ____Ea 236 di-[šum(?)] I[shum(?)] ù d mar-tu and Martu 237 ir-ra-ellat-su Irraellatsu, mâr lugal-ibila son of Lugalibila, warad dnè-ri-gal servant of Nergal 238 dna-bi-um Nabu, dup-sar-sag-ìl the scribe of (E )sagil, ki(?) -ab(?) dmarduk the dwelling(? ...
60. Star Names: Their Lore and Meaning [Books]
... invisible from north of the 30th parallel. This is one of the most noted objects in the heavens, perhaps even so in almost prehistoric times, for Babylonian inscriptions seem to refer to a star, noticeable from occasional faintness in its light, that Jensen thinks was h. And he claims it as one of the temple stars associated with ____Ea, or la, of Eridhu,40 the Lord of the Waves, otherwise known as Oannes,41 the mysterious human fish and greatest god of the kingdom. In China h was Tseen She, Heaven's Altars. The variations in its light are as remarkable in their irregularity as in their degree. The first recorded observation, said ...
61. When the Gods Came Down [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... the trail of Utnapishtim. The mysteries of Dilmun and Aratta decoded. The Sumerian Kings List. Were pre-diluvial cities' dropped out of the Sky? The secret of the gods. Did Utnapishtim journey to ____Earth from a heavenly city'? Ch. 7: Life on the Ark. A review of Flood legends from Mesopotamia. Why did ____Ea announce the Flood by speaking to a wall' and a reed-hut'? The crucial anomaly in the Atra-Hasis Epic'. Might the story be an adaptation? The Flood according to Utnapishtim, and the fiery birth of the Anunnaki. The sacrifice after the Flood. Why did the gods crowd around like flies'? Utnapishtim's ship. ...
62. Chapter23_end
... although imagination did retain some freedom. Thus one might feel tempted to see pure imagination in the feckless laziness of the Old Man's Daughter. And yet, was it imagination, if one discovers in her the prototype of Ishtar, of whom it was said (see above, p. 215) that she "stirs up the apsu before ____Ea"? 321 Lady-archers being a rare species, it is worth consideration that the great Babylonian astronomical text, the so-called "Series mulAPIN" (= Series Plough-Star, the Plough-Star being Triangulum), states: "the Bow-star is the Ishtar of Elam, daughter of Enlil." There has been mention of the constellation of the Bow ...
63. Humbaba [Journals] [Kronos]
... with its whirling motion, evolved from an earlier symbol which depicted the Axis Mundi (26) As I have already indicated elsewhere, the Axis Mundi belonged to Saturn.(27) Humbaba's comparison with Tlaloc is valid. Tlaloc, however, was, among other things, the Aztec god of rain. So was Kronos and so was ____Ea. These last two have long been identified as manifestations of the planet Saturn, an identification that de Santillana and von Dechend themselves uphold.(28) In the case of Humbaba, these writers discarded Saturn for the same reason they discarded Venus and Jupiter. Thus, to them, "Jupiter . . . would never make a ...
68. Chapter XXXI: The History of Sun-worship At Annu and Thebes [Books]
... them yet another blow, he quitted that city and settled at Tell el-Amarna, at the same time, according to the statement of M. Virey, reviving an old Heliopolitan cult. He took for divine protection the solar disk Aten, "which was one of the most ancient forms of one of the most ancient gods of Egypt, ____Ea of Heliopolis." [5 ] Now let us say that the time of Amenhetep IV., according to the received authorities, was about 1450 B.C . The lines of the "Temple of the Sun" at Tell el-Amarna are to be gathered from Lepsius' map, reproduced in the illustration on the next page. ...
69. Deluge Warnings (Moons, Myths and Man) [Books]
... deluge myths. Frequently the warning is given by the hero's real or divine father. So Deukalion was warned by Prometheus; Pairachta, the deluge hero of the Ostyaks, was told by his father Turim; Noj of the Votyaks by Inmar; in the Chaldean report Xisuthros got word from Chronos; Utnapishtim, the Babylonian, was warned by ____Ea; the Telchines, a Greek mythical people, abandoned the island of Rhodes' because they foresaw that it would be inundated, but Apollo, in the significant shape of a wolf, scattered them and Zeus overwhelmed them with a deluge; Tumbainot of the Masai was warned by a god; the good spirit Aba warned his beloved Choctaws ...
70. Book Review [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... of Jupiter - and confirmed by hundreds of astronomical/astrological tables and treatises on clay tablets and papyri from the Hellenistic period. Sitchin merrily ignores all this and assigns unwarranted planetary identities to the gods mentioned in the theogony. For example, Apsu, attested as god of the primeval sweet waters becomes, of all things, the Sun! ____Ea, as it suits Sitchin, is sometimes the planet Neptune and sometimes a spaceman. And the identity of Ishtar as the planet Venus, a central feature of Mesopotamian religion, is nowhere mentioned in the book - instead Sitchin arbitrarily assigns to Venus another deity from Enuma Elish , and reserves Ishtar for a role as a female astronaut. ...
72. RECONSTRUCTING THE SATURN MYTH [Journals] [Aeon]
... Hero On every continent the tradition was kept alive of a great father or cultural hero, a mysterious "ancestor" depicted simultaneously as god and man and so completely identified with the Golden Age that it is impossible to separate the one from the other. For the Egyptians it was Atum, Ra or Osiris. The Babylonians remembered Tammuz, ____Ea or Ninurta as the founder of the Golden Age. For the Mexicans, the great cultural hero was Quetzalcoatl, the savior of the race. (17) The different myths tell how the god built a great temple or city, invented the alphabet, or taught a new language to a pre-literate race. They say it was he ...
75. The Neutrino-Sea -- Hypothesis or Reality [Journals] [Catastrophist Geology]
... interactions (3 ,4 ,6 ). "Observed net energy of nuclear events thus may be due to the exchange of mass and kinetic energy between two classes of particulate matter i.e . interactions as at the interface of a 2-phase system: where (Ma) = total mass of the neutrinos entering into the reaction; (____Ea) = total energy of these neutrinos: (Mb) = total initial mass of the nucleons; and (Eb) = total energy of the nucleons entering into the reaction. Mass and energy would then be exchanged by the two systems, momentum being conserved, with no interconversions of mass and energy." Dudley, 1962
79. Chapter 7-9 (Hamlet's Mill)
... ; "Zur Astrologischen Symbolik des Wade Cup'," in Festschrift Kuehnel (1959), pp. 234-43. Whether we shall find the time to deal in the appropriate form with the tripartite Universe in this essay remains doubtful. This much can be safely stated: it goes back to "The Ways of Anu, Enlil, and ____Ea" in Babylonian astronomy.] 124 From the majestic temple at Borobudur in Java to the graceful stupas which dot the Indian landscape, stretches a schematized reminder of the seven heavens, the seven notches, the seven levels. Says Uno Holmberg: "This pattern of seven levels can hardly be imagined as the invention of Turko-Tatar populations. ...
81. Planetary Identities: I, The Concept of Deity [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... the planetary deities, and they were so connected by the ancients themselves. Thus, to give but a few examples, among the Incas, Saturn was considered the god of famine [10]; almost throughout the entire world, Mars was considered the god of pestilence [11]. The Sumerian Enki, who was the same as ____Ea and even identified with El [12], both deities of the planet Saturn [13], was akin to the Greek Poseidon who was considered the god of earthquakes [14]. In fact, the Babylonians never discarded their belief that earthquakes were actually caused by the planets [15]. Meanwhile, the ancient belief that ...
82. The Crescent II [Books]
... " of barks and ships. (3 ) All of the Saturnian gods of the Sumero-Babylonian pantheon sail in a celestial ship, one of whose names is Magula-anna, "Great boat of Heaven." The "beloved ship" of Ningirsu is "the one that rises up out of the dam of the deep." (4 ) ____Ea rides "the ship of the antelope of the Apsu," (5 ) while Ninurta sails in the ship Magur. The Chinese Huang-ti- the planet Saturn- was the first to sail in a ship. In his journey across the ocean, Hercules rode in a "golden goblet"- the ship of Helios (Saturn) ...
83. Chapter22
... tell in great detail the story of the Deluge. He tells how Enki-____Ea has warned him of Enlil's decision to wipe out mankind, and instructed him to build the Ark, without telling others of the impending danger. "Thus shalt thou say to them: down to the apsu and dwell with ____Ea, my [lord]." He describes with great care the building and caulking of the ship, six decks, one iku (acre) the floor space, as much for each side, so that it was a perfect cube, exactly as ____Ea had ordered him to do. This measure "I-iku" is the name ...
84. In Defense Of The Saturn Thesis [Journals] [Aeon]
... Janus whom the ancients themselves identified as Saturnus. The Latin Saturnus Ba'al. From a stele discovered at Ras Shamra, ancient Ugarit. (Illustration by Marie-Josèphe Devaux.) VI In continuing to see the Saturn thesis as a reflection of the Greek divine succession, Peter James compares it to the Babylonian sequence which has Anu followed by Enki/____Ea/Saturn, in turn followed by Marduk/Jupiter, who was temporarily dethroned by Erra/Mars. [62] But, at best, this indicates that the succession of these planetary deities was adhered to by more than one race; at worst, it indicates that the Greeks borrowed it from the Babylonians. But so what
86. The Enclosed Sun-Cross [Books]
... "the four-faced god who sees all things." (71) The "Central Lord" of Mexican ritual, represented by the cross, is "He who looks in four directions." (72) There can no longer be any doubt that the four-eyed or four-faced god is Saturn, for the sun-planet appears in Babylonian myth as ____Ea (Sumerian Enki)a god of four eyes that "behold all things." (73) The Phoenician El- Saturn- has four eyes, as does the Orphic Kronos (Saturn). The Chinese Yellow Emperor Huang-ti- identified as Saturn- is also four-eyed. (74) The four-eyes, or four faces, become ...
87. The Tower of Babel and the Confusion of Tongues [Journals] [Kronos]
... sovereign of heaven, engendered a monstrous creature, Ullikummi, who grew up miraculously in the form of a stone pillar and, mounted on the shoulder of a subaqueous giant, tried to rock the floor of heaven and topple the gods from their thrones. In this case too, however, the impious effort proved abortive, for the god ____Ea severed the monster from his support by means of a magic cleaver [electrical discharge?], and he crashed forthwith to his doom."(23) Although there is no reference to lightning in the Biblical account, Jewish legend does have it that the Tower of Babel experienced some kind of pyrogenic assault: "As for the ...
88. Stairway to Heaven [Journals] [Aeon]
... from copies dating to Sultantepe of the 7th century BC and from Uruk of the Late Babylonian period. A curious episode in the epic finds Nergal ascending a stairway to heaven, ostensibly to reach the assembly of the gods: "Nergal came up the long stairway of heaven. When he arrived at the gate of Anu, Ellil, and ____Ea, Anu, Ellil, and ____Ea saw him and said, The son of Ishtar has come back to us. '" [13] As a result of his climbing the stairway- or perhaps it was because of his impudence in confronting the gods- the Akkadian war-god is said to have "shrunk" in size or become ...
89. Reflections Of The Persian Wars [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... claim this as a scribal misspelling of against. (45) But, even in the Chicago Assyrian Dictionary, ana is defined as a preposition meaning "to, for, up to, toward, against, upon." (46) Thus, the interpretation may be questionable. The very next statement in the chronicle reports that "____Ea Gamil, King of the Country of the Sea, [set out] against Elam." (47) Thus, I conjecture the passage should read that "men from the direction of Khatti marched upon the land of Akkad. ____Ea Gamil, their king of the Sea Country, afterwards set out against the land of Elam. ...
90. The Periodic Cyclicism Of Ancient Catastrophes [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... for Mars because of an adding of the prefix "Ba" and a slurring of the "L's". (But) Enlil shall not come near to the offering, Because without reflection he brought on the deluge And consigned my people to destruction! As soon as Enlil arrived And saw the ship, Enlil was wroth;7 For ____Ea alone understands every matter. ' ____Ea opened his mouth and said, speaking to warrior Enlil: O warrior, thou wisest among the gods! O How, O how couldst thou without reflection bring on (this) deluge?8 The case is presented that ancient near Mars flybys in 54-year periods tortured the ____Earth's crust, its oceans ...
92. KA [Books]
... regarded as sources of divine energy from the sky. In this context, it is noteworthy that the Greek pempabolon, the sacrificial fork, had five prongs. See Iliad I:463, Odyssey III:460. [2 ]. In Hittite myth there was a knife with which heaven and earth were separated. It was used by ____Ea to split a diorite stone, thus anticipating the story of the augur Attus Navius at Rome, who split a whetstone with a razor. The name Corycus, on Parnassus and in Cilicia, links Greece and Asia. Delphyne, the serpent killed by Apollo, is a name common to Greek and Hittite. Before leaving the word magister ...
93. Chapter 13-15 (Hamlet's Mill)
... (see chapter XXII) of the maiden who shoots her arrow into the 215 "navel of the waters which was a vast Whirlpool" thus winning fire. Some very fundamental idea must be lurking behind the story, and a pretty old one, since it was said of Ishtar that it is "she who stirs up the apsu before ____Ea." [n6 "Descent of Ishtar to the Nether World," obv. l. 27, ANAT, p. 107; see also W. F. Albright, "The Mouth of the Rivers," AJSL 35 (1919), p. 184.]. A strange pastime for the heavenly queen, but ...
94. Chapter XXXVII. The Egyptian and Babylonian Ecliptic Constellations [Books]
... best known. Jensen shows that the first notions of the Babylonian constellations are to be got by studying the sun-gods, and especially the mythic war between the later sun-god Marduk and the monster Tiamat. I have already referred to Marduk; he is the Spring Sun-God, and it has also been stated that the greatest god of ancient Babylonia, ____Ea of Eridu, was connected with the constellation of Capricornus. Marduk represented the constellation of the Bull. Here I quote Jensen: [1 ]- "It has already been suggested that the Bull is a symbol of the Spring-Sun Marduk; that he was originally complete, that he at one time extended as far as the Fish of ...
95. Catastrophes: the Diluvial Evidence [Journals] [SIS Review]
... waters. Hence they survived the Flood, the only humans to do so [1 ]. The story of Noah is just one of over 500 flood myths from around the world, many of which similarly involve a man and a woman escaping by boat. In the Babylonian epic of Gilgamesh, the hero, Uta-Napishtim, was warned by ____Ea, God of the Waters, about the coming deluge. Others include a Greek myth, where the survivors were Deucalion and his wife, Pyrrha [2 ]. As well as legends of a catastrophic flood, there are other widespread myths where the ____Earth suffered near destruction by fire. An example is one from Greece in which Phaeton ...
96. Letters [Journals] [SIS Review]
... with raised, crescent-shaped wings, also guarded by lions is found on a hydria from the Halstatt Period (Early Iron Age) in Switzerland [2 ]. A cylinder seal from Mesopotamia depicts a goddess, also with raised wings, standing on the twin-peaked mountain of myth from which the god Shamash rises. She is flanked by the god ____Ea and an archer guarding a lion [3 ]. A votive pin from Luristan at the end of the 2nd millennium BC (orthodox) depicts a horned figure with raised arms flanked by two standing figures [4 ] but perhaps most significant is the middle register of the coffin of Artemidorus from the Fayum in Egypt dated from 2nd century ...
97. Chapter XXIII: The Egyptian Year and the Nile [Books]
... the Nile valley on the one hand, and of the region watered by the Euphrates and Tigris, on the other, were gods to swear by; that they were worshipped in order that their benign influences might be secured, and that they had their local shrines and special cults? The god sacred to the Euphrates and Tigris was called ____Ea. The god sacred to the Nile was called Hapi. The name is the same as that of the bull Apis, the worship of which was attributed to Mena [1 ] Certainly Mena, Mini, or Menes, as he is variously called, was fully justified in founding the cult of the river-god, for he first among ...
99. Chapter XXVIII: The Fixed Year and Festival Calendars [Books]
... , as we can do this in the case of the Medînet-Habu calendar. In this the astronomical element of the calendar is quite overgrown by the mythological. -Not only was the daily and yearly course of the sun a most important event for the Egyptian astronomer, but the priest also had in his sacred books many mythological records concerning the god ____Ea, which had to be taken into account in these representations. The mythological ideas dated from the oldest periods of Egyptian history; we shall therefore be obliged, for their explanation, not to remain in the thirteenth or fourteenth century before Christ, but to ascend into previous centuries. I should think about the middle of the forth millennium ...
100. Chapter XXIX: the Mythology of Isis and Osiris [Books]
... the risings of which very great importance was attached, but they did not stand alone. We get another form of Isis (referring, it is possible, to the star a Columbae, before even Sirius was used), so that we have a northern star and a southern star observed at the same time- the two eyes of ____Ea. The other goddesses which have not yet been worked out probably refer to one or other of these stars, or to others which lie more to the south. These are represented rather in the temples above the first cataract than in those below. This fact will be enlarged upon in the sequel. The study of orientation, then
101. The Golden Age and Nova of Super Saturn [Books] [de Grazia books]
... Flood is equally plain (see especially Velikovsky, 1978a, 1979). Velikovsky appears to have been the first to claim that Saturn became a nova, an idea that he found buried in Jewish rabbinical commentaries on the Deluge. That Jupiter was a prime element in the nova and subsequent events is evidenced in many of the same places; ____Ea, the Akkadian Saturn, reproaches Enlil, or Jupiter, for having caused the sky-waters to fall (Mason, p77). Trisiras, a son of Prajapati and a saintly Saturn figure, was a three headed god with heads resembling the Sun, the Moon and the fire, which we interpret respectively as Saturn itself, the celestial ...
102. Nebuchadrezzar and Neriglissar [Journals] [SIS Review]
... and established the presence of different chambers through deep pits and tunnels." [18] The interior of Esagila is divided into three sections, each with an open court surrounded by rooms (see plan), none of which have been excavated. Marduk's Holy of Holies, named Ekua, lay in the west wing. The house of ____Ea, Marduk's father, lay in the north wing, and Anu's chamber lay in the south wing, "but unfortunately we are devoid of knowledge concerning numerous particulars of localisation and size in the case of the chapels frequently mentioned in other texts" [19]. Consequently, there seems to be no contradiction at all between Neriglissar's and ...
103. Hamlet's Mill Introduciton
... become involved in astronomical matters, under any condition. In order to keep safely away from this frightening field, my subject of inquiry was meant to be the mythical figure of the craftsman god, the Demiurge in his many aspects (Hephaistos, Tvashtri, Wayland the Smith, Goibniu, Ilmarinen, Ptah, Khnum, Kothar-wa-Hasis, Enki/____Ea, Tane, Viracocha, etc.). Not even a whiff of suspicion came to me during the investigation of Mesopotamian myth- of all cultures! --everything looked so very terrestrial, though slightly peculiar. It was after having spent more than a year over at least viii 10,000 pages of Polynesian myths collected in the 19th century ...
104. "Let There be Light" [Journals] [Kronos]
... another thread which links the Cosmic Egg directly to Saturn and this can be followed through the cosmogony of Mochus. We have already seen how, according to this scheme, it was Chousor who was said to have created the Cosmic Egg. Albright identified Koshar, also known as Kothar and/or Kosar, the same as Chousor, with ____Ea(39) whom, in these pages, we have already presented as an alias for Saturn. Moreover, according to Albright, Chousor's name as "Opener," identifies this Phoenician god with the Egyptian Ptah(40) who also fashioned a celestial egg.(41) For us, this has meaning because von Dechend and ...
105. The Two Sargons and Their Successors (Part II) [Journals] [Aeon]
... "Inanna (= Venus)."(47) This, however, is only true in as much as Ishtar/Inanna blames herself for the catastrophe in having spoken "evil in the assembly of the gods."(48) The flood itself was brought on by Enlil. When it was over, it was Enlil whom ____Ea blamed, asking him: "Thou wisest of gods, thou hero, how couldst thou, unreasoning, bring on the deluge?"(49) Ishtar also accused him, stating: "Let the gods come to the offering; but let not Enlil come...for he, unreasoning, brought on the deluge, ...
107. Deluges [Books] [de Grazia books]
... modern art. A. Durer and Leonardo da Vinci painted their images of it, both making it a kind of typhoon. And indeed, in the ancient Chaldean story of the flood of Xisuthros the node of the Deluge is spoken of as a waterspout that "swelled up to heaven "and struck fear into the gods; the god ____Ea pleaded that any and all disaster be visited upon men, but nothing so terrible as "the waterspout of the Deluge."[3 ] In every ancient legend of great waters descending from the sky, a few survivors live to tell the tale. At any rate, so it seemed to the survivors. But given any tiny ...
108. Chapter 16-19 (Hamlet's Mill)
... south and, most important, the "sky" as well as the waters of the south have a share in the "inhabited world" allotted to them [n10 To clear up the exact range of the three worlds, it would be necessary to work out the whole history of the Babylonian "Ways of Anu, Enlil, and ____Ea" (cf. pp. 431f.), and how these "Ways" were adapted, changed, and defined anew by the many heirs of ancient oriental astronomy. And then we would not yet be wise to the precise whereabouts of Air, Saltwater, and other ambiguous items.]. This summary is an almost frivolous ...
109. The Polar Sun [Books]
... 94; Jensen, op. cit., 17ff. I certainly cannot accept, however, Jensen's identification of Anu with the pole of the ecliptic. Sayce, Lectures on the Origin and Growth of Religion, 482. Op. cit., Vol. II, 184, 190. Lenormant, op. cit., 393. ____Ea (Eriki) was the "king of destinies, stability and justice." O'Neill, op. cit., 490. Langdon, Sumerian Liturgical Texts, 137. Lenormant, Chaldean Magic, 172. Sayce, op. cit., 177 note 1. Pritchard, Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament, 387 ...
116. Analysis of the Babylonian Observations [Journals] [Kronos]
... not seem to have been very familiar with the tablets. TRANSLATION Year 1 In the month Sabat, on the 15th day, Ninsianna disappears in the went; for 3 days she remains absent from the sky; in the month Sabat, on the 18th day, Ninsianna appesrs in the east; catstrophes of kings; Adad brings rains, ____Ea brings streams; king to king greeting send 2 In the month Arahsamna, on the 11th day, Ninsianna disappears in the east; for 2 months 8 days she remains absent from the sky; in the month Tebit, in the 19th day, Ninsianna appears in the west; the harvest of the land is successful 3 In the ...
117. The Origin of Mankind [Books]
... he gives his own life that man may have being. This theme of the supreme sacrifice is' unique only Christianity furnishes a distant kind of parallel. This is Berossus's version. Other Babylonian sources tell that the primeval monster Kingu, who with Tiamat and others, had caused the destruction of the world and its life, was killed by ____Ea, who then fashioned mankind out of the soil which was saturated with Kingu's blood. Next in this group of myths is that of the Maoris of New Zealand, which tells that the god Tu (or Tiki, or Tane) took clay he had, found at a riverside, drew some of his own blood, and kneaded ...
120. Thoth Vol IV, No 13: Aug 31, 2000 [Journals] [Thoth]
... developed chronicles and epic literature, while the more passive Universal Monarch fades into the background. The warrior-hero is the prototype of the famous tricksters and buffoons of later myth and folklore, flowering into innumerable tribal variations. Noteworthy instances of this warrior archetype would include the Egyptian Shu, Horus and Sept, Sumerian Enki, Damuzi and Ningirsu, Akkadian ____Ea, Ninurta and Nergal, Hindu Indra, Norse Thor, Greek Ares and Hercules, Latin Mars, Aztec Huitzilopochtli and Tezcatlipoca, North American Coyote and Raven, to name the barest few among thousands. The comparative approach will identify this warrior figure as the planet Mars. In the Saturn model, that means the innermost circle or sphere ...
121. Velikovsky's Sources Volume Four [Books]
... dwellings, and temples worship thee! 15.Where is thy name not (heard) ? where is thy decree not (obeyed) ? 16.Where are thine images not made ? Where are thy temples not founded ? 17.Where art thou not great ? Where art thou not exalted ? 18.Anu, Bel, and ____Ea have raised thee on high, among the gods have they made great thy dominion, 19.They have exalted thee among all the Spirits of heaven, they have made thy rank pre-eminent. 20.At the thought of thy name the heaven and the earth: quake, 21.The gods tremble, and the Spirits of the ...
122. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... , an earthquake opened up seven gas fissures which burned for several centuries and devastated a large area. Downdated supernova Washington Post 24.12.90 In 1977 Michanowsky published his book The Once and Future Star in which he theorised that the Sumerians had seen a supernova in the Vela constellation and that this was the giant star of the god ____Ea. Astronomers said the supernova had occured too early, between 15.000 to 6000 years ago. Now they calculate that the nova occured between 8000 and 4,500 years ago, a range which overlaps currently accepted datings for the Sumerians. Putting the horse before the cart New Scientist 6.6 .91, p. 24 ...
125. Night of the Gods: Polar Myths. The Pole Star [Books]
... the religion of a whole world. The Subbas of Mesopotamia, whose tenets have frequently to be cited in the course of this Inquiry, now still hold that Avather, their judge of the souls of the dead, has his throne placed under the Polestar.29 There was an Assyrian Dayan Same - Judge of Heaven30 and the great god ____Ea was " king of destinies, stability and justice."31 In Norse mythology, the third root (? ) of the YggDrasill Ash is in heaven where is the very holy fountain of Urdur. There, at the stem of the Universe tree, is the seat of judgement of the 12 gods. ____Each day they, the
127. Sinking and Rising Lands [Books] [de Grazia books]
... was not the staff of Uwoke, my friend," said chief Hotu Matua. "That was the lightning of the god Makemake." The parallels here to the Phaeton and Typhon myths of Greece and the Near East seem to be beyond mythical fantasy. The comet (staff) of the god (cf. Uwoke, Yahweh, ____Ea, Yahou, Hermes), the marine tidal upheaval, the near approach of the huge comet, the sinking of the land into the abyss, the stroke of cosmic lightning that broke off the comet's tail, and the resulting "navel of the world," a sacred place like Delos Island in the Aegean Sea, which was ...
128. Temple, Crown, Vase, Eye, and Circular Serpent [Books]
... , so do the parallel figures of Tiamat and Leviathan become the thrones of Marduk and Yahweh in Babylonian and Hebrew imagery. (184) So also is the temple likened to the circular serpent. Sumerian hymns describe the cosmic temple "in heaven like a dragon gleaming." (185) This dragon-like abode answers to the Babylonian sanctuary of ____Ea, represented by a serpent or fish. (186) Belonging to the same class are the Uraei who form the walls of the heavenly dwelling of Osiris, (187) the serpentine temples or dracontia of Abury, (188) the "Iguana House" of Mayan ritual, (189) and the girdling snake of the Greek ...
129. The Ramesside Star Tables [Journals] [SIS Review]
... is the actual technique used by the observers to specify new hour stars when old ones become unserviceable; there appear to be several possibilities, amongst them one that Table 13 marks the start of a transition period when new hour stars were being specified. It is even conceivable that there could be a connection with the "Anu, Enlil and ____Ea" paths (see W in C II, viii: "The reforming of the calendar") Much worthwhile work could still also be done on the reliability of individual observations recorded in these tables. References ALLEN, C. W., 1973: Astrophysical Quantities, 3rd edition (London: Athlone Press). BORCHARDT, L ...
131. In Search of the Exodus [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... god) who amply provides health, prosperity, fertility, and furnishes god's abode (the Temple in Jerusalem). Solomon's wisdom may be compared with epithets applied to Nabonidus, the wise prince, and to Hammurabi, the wise leader, and Esarhaddon, the wise circumspect prince who understands everything. The gods themselves are Lords of wisdom (____Ea, Ashur, Anu, Adad, Marduk). Tammuz is the wise and beautiful one, etc. Hyam Maccoby (SISReview, IV-4, 98) identifies the Queen of Sheba with divine queen ideology embodied in the Egyptian Hatshepsut (through Velikovsky's chronology). As a historical figure Sheba was probably Arabic, but in the Song of ...
133. The Celestial Ship of North Vol II [Books]
... instructions that nothing material has been added by way of improvement since. When the Sun set, it was his custom to plunge again into the sea and abide all night in the deep, as he was amphibious. He is identified with the God Hea of the Chaldean Civilization. "Professor Sayce of Oxford on some cylinders found reference to ____Ea, ' the God of Wisdom, as identified with the Oannes of Berosus, half man half fish, who not only taught the Babylonian culture but the art of writing." -From the Secret Doctrine. The Fish-man An, of Egypt, or the Oan of the Chaldeans, was probably derived from the previous Piscene cycle of ...
134. The Crescent [Books]
... of the sun's enclosure (the door or gate through which the sun comes forth), it is impossible to overlook the corresponding imagery of two bulls in Mesopotamia, guarding the gates of the palace or temple. These are the "two bulls of the gate of the temple of E-Shakil," the "two bulls of the gate of ____Ea," or the "two bulls of the gate of the goddess Damkina." (51) 90. The Egyptian twin-headed bull, symbol of the "Two Lands." 91. Mesopotamian design conveying the image of the primeval enclosure and revolving horns. As to the primary meanings of the horned god or goddess ancient sources do ...
135. The Cosmic Mountain [Books]
... If one refers the imagery to the cosmic original , one sees that the descending stream was the leg! The Egyptian river of the pillar, the celestial Nile, compares with the heavenly Euphrates invoked in Mesopotamian ritual. For the Babylonians knew "the pure Euphrates" as the "great mountain" Enlil: With water which the lord [____Ea] has guided from the great mountain [Enlil], Water which down the pure Euphrates he has guided, The product of the apsu, for the purpose of lustration. (290) Enlil, the world mountain personified, is thus "the man of the river of the netherworld, the man devouring river," (291 ...
137. The Celestial Ship of North Vol. I [Books]
... , a compound of El,[20] male and H. female. Numerically Jehovah is the diameter of the circle and Elohim the circumferance. Jehovah-Elohim was the Mother of the Seven elementary gods, combined in the one divinity, the one constellation. A seven-fold god is mythological, whether Jehovah or Iao-Sabaoth. Sevekh, the seven-fold, ____Ea with the seven fins, Ra with his seven souls, the Hindu Agni with his seven arms, the Gnostic Chnubis with his seven rays, the Dragon with his seven heads, and El of the seventh Planet, and many others, were the vehicles of many imaginings, and finally became converted into gods in relation to celestial phenomena
12. APPENDICES (Hamlet's Mill)
We know well enough that the Oannes of Berossos is ____Ea, i.e., Saturn, whose "town" is Eridu/Canopus, the very depth of the sea.
13. The Saturn Problem [SIS Review]
_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).
19. Paradise Found: The Cradle of the Human Race at the North Pole [Books]
_The separating waters are the four seas. The seven inner homocentric globes are respectively ... domains and special abodes of Sin, Shamash, Nabu, Ishtar, Nergal, Marduk, and Ninib, each being a "world-ruler" in his own planetary sphere. The outermost of the spheres, that of Anu and ____Ea, is the heaven of the fixed stars. The axis from center to zenith marks " the Way of Anu "; the axis from center to nadir " the Way of ____Ea." See Journal of the American Oriental Society, vol. xxii, pp. 138-144 ...
20. The Night of the Gods Vol II [Books]
_The Wheel-God 603
_The god who is here called the Sun-god is Somas, the son of father ____Ea and, Mother Damkina. ... Somas of Sippara was a well-known deity B.C. 3800, in the time of King Sargon....
22. The Ankh [Kronos]
_The Sumerian connection with Vela X was discovered by Michanowsky in a reference which appears in a cuneiform list of star names: "The gigantic star of the god ____Ea in the constellation Vela of the god ____Ea."(29) As seen by the ancient peoples of Mesopotamia, Vela X would have appeared low on the horizon with "its luminous reflection on the waters of the Persian Gulf stretched like a shiny ribbon from [watery] horizon to [nearby] shore".(30)
23. The Road to Saturn (Excerpts from an Autobiographical Essay) [Aeon]
... Earth's sky for many months as a prominent light that might even have shone as a smaller second sun by day. Searching in Sumerian documents for a possible reference to this ancient stellar outburst, Michanowsky believed he found it in a cuneiform list of star names. The item that matches the event reads: "The gigantic star of the god ____Ea in the constellation Vela of the god ____Ea." As seen by the ancient peoples of Mesopotamia, Vela X would have appeared low on the horizon with its luminosity reflected "like a shiny ribbon" on the waters of the Persian Gulf. This sudden celestial apparition, according to Michanowsky, ... awed ancient man....
27. Chapter XXXV. The Origin of Egyptian Astronomy (Continued) -- The Thebes School [Books]
_Along with the culture of Eridu went the worship of the god of Eridu, the primal god of Babylonia, ____Ea, Ía, or Oannês, symbolised as a goat-fish, and connected in some way with the sun when in Capricornus.
28. The Earth's Annular System by Isaac Newton Vail (1912) [Books]
_The vessel thou shalt build 600 cubits shall be the measure of its length and 60 cubits the amount of its breadth and of its height. (Launch it) thus on the ocean, and cover it with a roof.' I understood, and I said to ____Ea, my lord: '(The vessel) that thou commandest me to build, thus (when) I shall do it, young and old (shall laugh at me.)'
30. Velikovsky's Sources Volume Three [Books]
_V refers to another of Jastrow's books, this time "The Civilisation of Babylonia end Assyria"(1915). V writes: "Repeated changes in the course of the sun across the firmament led the astronomers of Babylonia to distinguish three paths of the sun: the Anu path, the Enlil path, and the ____Ea path. These three paths created much difficulty for the writers on Babylonian astronomy, and many explanations were offered and as many rejected. The Anu, Enlil and ____Ea paths of the planets across the sky appear to denote the successive ecliptics in various world ages.
31. The Great Father [Books]
_An (or Anu) was the father of the gods and the central light at the universe summit, a god of "terrifying splendour" who governed heaven from his throne in the cosmic sea Apsu. But the Sumero-Babylonian pantheon is filled with competing figures of the primordial creator. Enki (or ____Ea), Ningirsu, Ninurta, Tammuzeach appears as a local formulation of the same great god. (15) Each shares in the character of the singular An, ruling as universal lord, fashioning his home above and radiating light in the midst of the celestial ocean.
37. British Museum: Compass [SIS Internet Digest]
_The cuneiform inscription identifies the owner of the seal as Adda, who is described as dubsar, or scribe'. The figures can be identified as gods by their pointed hats with multiple horns. The figure with streams of water and fish flowing from his shoulders is ____Ea, god of subterranean waters and of wisdom, called Enki by the Sumerians. Behind ____Ea stands Usimu, his two-faced vizier (chief minister). Ishtar , the goddess of fertility (indicated by the cluster of dates) and war (the weapons rising from her shoulders) stands winged for victory.
38. The Listing by Months: An Ancient Study of the Disappearances of Venus [Kronos]
_In the month Sabat Ninsianna on the 15th day disappeared in the west; for 3 days she remained absent from the sky; in the month Sabat on the 18th day Ninsianna appeared in the east: springs will open; Adad will bring rains and ____Ea will bring floods; king to king messages of reconciliation will send. [8b]
39. The Primordial Light? [SIS Review]
_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)
44. The Mystery Of The Pleiades [Kronos]
_Tammuz, another name for Saturn, is called "Lord of the Snares," even though he himself is bound and prays to be saved from such bonds.(34) ____Ea, the Babylonian Saturn, is also a god of binding.(35) Even Ninurta, another Babylonian name for Saturn, was deified as a hunter (habilu) because he hunted with a snare (nahbalu).(36)
45. The Reforming Of The Calendar, Part 2 Mars Ch.8 (Worlds in Collision) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Worlds in Collision]
_Repeated changes in the course of the sun across the firmament led the astronomers of Babylonia to distinguish three paths of the sun: the Anu path, the Enlil path, and the ____Ea path. These three paths created much difficulty for the writers on Babylonian astronomy, and many explanations were offered and as many rejected.15 The Anu, Enlil, and ____Ea paths of the planets across the sky appear to denote the successive ecliptics in various world ages.
46. The Evolution of the Cosmogonic Egg [Aeon]
_Thus ____Ea was known as the Lord of Eridu, (21) a sacred city that was mythologically identified with the constellation Eridanus, Argo, or Vela, (22) which all border on each other, (23) and which was also characterized by a "sacred star" called Mul Nun-ki. (24)
47. The Stream Surrounding the ____Earth [SIS Review]
_The Sumerian pictograph for AB.ZU was that of an excavation deep into the Earth mounted by a shaft. Burrows remarks that all texts permit the view that the apsu is a cistern, tank, reservoir, or pool.
_The Ring and Water Deities
_Important deities, such as Enki, ____Ea, Anu, El, Ishtar, Marduk, Ninurta and Nirig have been found to represent the ring, with Enki, ____Ea and Anu reviewed below. A critical factor in the model is that all eight deities can be dated to the end of the third millennium BC.
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53. The Opening Of The Mouth Ritual - Part I [Journals] [Aeon]
... concerned sky gods since it makes reference to "[ the] king, who dost illumine heaven and earth." And just as it was Horus going before the face of his father Osiris-Saturn, the priests in this rite addressed the statue of the god with the following words: "[ F ]rom this hour shalt thou go before ____Ea, thy father [ who is also a Saturnian deity]...may ____Ea, thy father, be full of joy in face of thee!" [127] Roth was another commentator on the Mesopotamian ritual. As she had it stated: "A special verb meaning to give birth' is used for the creation of ...
57. The Holy Land [Books]
... to occupy this centre. In Mexico, a Nahuatl hymn extols the god Ometeotl as: Mother of the Gods, Father of the Gods, the old God distended in the navel of the earth, engaged in the enclosure of turquoise He who dwells in waters the colour of the bluebird. (98) A Babylonian hymn located the god ____Ea at the "centre of the earth": The path of ____Ea was in Eridu, teeming with fertility. His seat (there) is the centre of the earth; his couch is the bed of the primeval mother. (99) Similarly, the Egyptian Osiris "sits in judgement on the Primeval Mound, which is in ...
58. Ancient Oriental Seals in the Collection of Mr Edward T. Newell [Books]
... Itebshunu, mâr mu-ta-nu-um son of Mutanum, warad d mar-tu servant of Martu 233 dsak-kud-ta-a-a-ar Sakkudtaiar, mâr dEN.ZU-mu-ba-li-it son of Sinmuballit, warad d sak-kud servant of Sakkud 234 ha-ba-an-na Habanna, mârat dšamaš-an-dùl daughter of Shamashandul, amat dnin-é-gal servant of Ninegal 235 LÚ-dASAR-LÚ-DU(G ) Awilmarduk, mâr i-din-dEN-KI son of Idinea, warad dEN-KI servant of ____Ea 236 di-[šum(?)] I[shum(?)] ù d mar-tu and Martu 237 ir-ra-ellat-su Irraellatsu, mâr lugal-ibila son of Lugalibila, warad dnè-ri-gal servant of Nergal 238 dna-bi-um Nabu, dup-sar-sag-ìl the scribe of (E )sagil, ki(?) -ab(?) dmarduk the dwelling(? ...
60. Star Names: Their Lore and Meaning [Books]
... invisible from north of the 30th parallel. This is one of the most noted objects in the heavens, perhaps even so in almost prehistoric times, for Babylonian inscriptions seem to refer to a star, noticeable from occasional faintness in its light, that Jensen thinks was h. And he claims it as one of the temple stars associated with ____Ea, or la, of Eridhu,40 the Lord of the Waves, otherwise known as Oannes,41 the mysterious human fish and greatest god of the kingdom. In China h was Tseen She, Heaven's Altars. The variations in its light are as remarkable in their irregularity as in their degree. The first recorded observation, said ...
61. When the Gods Came Down [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... the trail of Utnapishtim. The mysteries of Dilmun and Aratta decoded. The Sumerian Kings List. Were pre-diluvial cities' dropped out of the Sky? The secret of the gods. Did Utnapishtim journey to ____Earth from a heavenly city'? Ch. 7: Life on the Ark. A review of Flood legends from Mesopotamia. Why did ____Ea announce the Flood by speaking to a wall' and a reed-hut'? The crucial anomaly in the Atra-Hasis Epic'. Might the story be an adaptation? The Flood according to Utnapishtim, and the fiery birth of the Anunnaki. The sacrifice after the Flood. Why did the gods crowd around like flies'? Utnapishtim's ship. ...
62. Chapter23_end
... although imagination did retain some freedom. Thus one might feel tempted to see pure imagination in the feckless laziness of the Old Man's Daughter. And yet, was it imagination, if one discovers in her the prototype of Ishtar, of whom it was said (see above, p. 215) that she "stirs up the apsu before ____Ea"? 321 Lady-archers being a rare species, it is worth consideration that the great Babylonian astronomical text, the so-called "Series mulAPIN" (= Series Plough-Star, the Plough-Star being Triangulum), states: "the Bow-star is the Ishtar of Elam, daughter of Enlil." There has been mention of the constellation of the Bow ...
63. Humbaba [Journals] [Kronos]
... with its whirling motion, evolved from an earlier symbol which depicted the Axis Mundi (26) As I have already indicated elsewhere, the Axis Mundi belonged to Saturn.(27) Humbaba's comparison with Tlaloc is valid. Tlaloc, however, was, among other things, the Aztec god of rain. So was Kronos and so was ____Ea. These last two have long been identified as manifestations of the planet Saturn, an identification that de Santillana and von Dechend themselves uphold.(28) In the case of Humbaba, these writers discarded Saturn for the same reason they discarded Venus and Jupiter. Thus, to them, "Jupiter . . . would never make a ...
68. Chapter XXXI: The History of Sun-worship At Annu and Thebes [Books]
... them yet another blow, he quitted that city and settled at Tell el-Amarna, at the same time, according to the statement of M. Virey, reviving an old Heliopolitan cult. He took for divine protection the solar disk Aten, "which was one of the most ancient forms of one of the most ancient gods of Egypt, ____Ea of Heliopolis." [5 ] Now let us say that the time of Amenhetep IV., according to the received authorities, was about 1450 B.C . The lines of the "Temple of the Sun" at Tell el-Amarna are to be gathered from Lepsius' map, reproduced in the illustration on the next page. ...
69. Deluge Warnings (Moons, Myths and Man) [Books]
... deluge myths. Frequently the warning is given by the hero's real or divine father. So Deukalion was warned by Prometheus; Pairachta, the deluge hero of the Ostyaks, was told by his father Turim; Noj of the Votyaks by Inmar; in the Chaldean report Xisuthros got word from Chronos; Utnapishtim, the Babylonian, was warned by ____Ea; the Telchines, a Greek mythical people, abandoned the island of Rhodes' because they foresaw that it would be inundated, but Apollo, in the significant shape of a wolf, scattered them and Zeus overwhelmed them with a deluge; Tumbainot of the Masai was warned by a god; the good spirit Aba warned his beloved Choctaws ...
70. Book Review [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... of Jupiter - and confirmed by hundreds of astronomical/astrological tables and treatises on clay tablets and papyri from the Hellenistic period. Sitchin merrily ignores all this and assigns unwarranted planetary identities to the gods mentioned in the theogony. For example, Apsu, attested as god of the primeval sweet waters becomes, of all things, the Sun! ____Ea, as it suits Sitchin, is sometimes the planet Neptune and sometimes a spaceman. And the identity of Ishtar as the planet Venus, a central feature of Mesopotamian religion, is nowhere mentioned in the book - instead Sitchin arbitrarily assigns to Venus another deity from Enuma Elish , and reserves Ishtar for a role as a female astronaut. ...
72. RECONSTRUCTING THE SATURN MYTH [Journals] [Aeon]
... Hero On every continent the tradition was kept alive of a great father or cultural hero, a mysterious "ancestor" depicted simultaneously as god and man and so completely identified with the Golden Age that it is impossible to separate the one from the other. For the Egyptians it was Atum, Ra or Osiris. The Babylonians remembered Tammuz, ____Ea or Ninurta as the founder of the Golden Age. For the Mexicans, the great cultural hero was Quetzalcoatl, the savior of the race. (17) The different myths tell how the god built a great temple or city, invented the alphabet, or taught a new language to a pre-literate race. They say it was he ...
75. The Neutrino-Sea -- Hypothesis or Reality [Journals] [Catastrophist Geology]
... interactions (3 ,4 ,6 ). "Observed net energy of nuclear events thus may be due to the exchange of mass and kinetic energy between two classes of particulate matter i.e . interactions as at the interface of a 2-phase system: where (Ma) = total mass of the neutrinos entering into the reaction; (____Ea) = total energy of these neutrinos: (Mb) = total initial mass of the nucleons; and (Eb) = total energy of the nucleons entering into the reaction. Mass and energy would then be exchanged by the two systems, momentum being conserved, with no interconversions of mass and energy." Dudley, 1962
79. Chapter 7-9 (Hamlet's Mill)
... ; "Zur Astrologischen Symbolik des Wade Cup'," in Festschrift Kuehnel (1959), pp. 234-43. Whether we shall find the time to deal in the appropriate form with the tripartite Universe in this essay remains doubtful. This much can be safely stated: it goes back to "The Ways of Anu, Enlil, and ____Ea" in Babylonian astronomy.] 124 From the majestic temple at Borobudur in Java to the graceful stupas which dot the Indian landscape, stretches a schematized reminder of the seven heavens, the seven notches, the seven levels. Says Uno Holmberg: "This pattern of seven levels can hardly be imagined as the invention of Turko-Tatar populations. ...
81. Planetary Identities: I, The Concept of Deity [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... the planetary deities, and they were so connected by the ancients themselves. Thus, to give but a few examples, among the Incas, Saturn was considered the god of famine [10]; almost throughout the entire world, Mars was considered the god of pestilence [11]. The Sumerian Enki, who was the same as ____Ea and even identified with El [12], both deities of the planet Saturn [13], was akin to the Greek Poseidon who was considered the god of earthquakes [14]. In fact, the Babylonians never discarded their belief that earthquakes were actually caused by the planets [15]. Meanwhile, the ancient belief that ...
82. The Crescent II [Books]
... " of barks and ships. (3 ) All of the Saturnian gods of the Sumero-Babylonian pantheon sail in a celestial ship, one of whose names is Magula-anna, "Great boat of Heaven." The "beloved ship" of Ningirsu is "the one that rises up out of the dam of the deep." (4 ) ____Ea rides "the ship of the antelope of the Apsu," (5 ) while Ninurta sails in the ship Magur. The Chinese Huang-ti- the planet Saturn- was the first to sail in a ship. In his journey across the ocean, Hercules rode in a "golden goblet"- the ship of Helios (Saturn) ...
83. Chapter22
... tell in great detail the story of the Deluge. He tells how Enki-____Ea has warned him of Enlil's decision to wipe out mankind, and instructed him to build the Ark, without telling others of the impending danger. "Thus shalt thou say to them: down to the apsu and dwell with ____Ea, my [lord]." He describes with great care the building and caulking of the ship, six decks, one iku (acre) the floor space, as much for each side, so that it was a perfect cube, exactly as ____Ea had ordered him to do. This measure "I-iku" is the name ...
84. In Defense Of The Saturn Thesis [Journals] [Aeon]
... Janus whom the ancients themselves identified as Saturnus. The Latin Saturnus Ba'al. From a stele discovered at Ras Shamra, ancient Ugarit. (Illustration by Marie-Josèphe Devaux.) VI In continuing to see the Saturn thesis as a reflection of the Greek divine succession, Peter James compares it to the Babylonian sequence which has Anu followed by Enki/____Ea/Saturn, in turn followed by Marduk/Jupiter, who was temporarily dethroned by Erra/Mars. [62] But, at best, this indicates that the succession of these planetary deities was adhered to by more than one race; at worst, it indicates that the Greeks borrowed it from the Babylonians. But so what
86. The Enclosed Sun-Cross [Books]
... "the four-faced god who sees all things." (71) The "Central Lord" of Mexican ritual, represented by the cross, is "He who looks in four directions." (72) There can no longer be any doubt that the four-eyed or four-faced god is Saturn, for the sun-planet appears in Babylonian myth as ____Ea (Sumerian Enki)a god of four eyes that "behold all things." (73) The Phoenician El- Saturn- has four eyes, as does the Orphic Kronos (Saturn). The Chinese Yellow Emperor Huang-ti- identified as Saturn- is also four-eyed. (74) The four-eyes, or four faces, become ...
87. The Tower of Babel and the Confusion of Tongues [Journals] [Kronos]
... sovereign of heaven, engendered a monstrous creature, Ullikummi, who grew up miraculously in the form of a stone pillar and, mounted on the shoulder of a subaqueous giant, tried to rock the floor of heaven and topple the gods from their thrones. In this case too, however, the impious effort proved abortive, for the god ____Ea severed the monster from his support by means of a magic cleaver [electrical discharge?], and he crashed forthwith to his doom."(23) Although there is no reference to lightning in the Biblical account, Jewish legend does have it that the Tower of Babel experienced some kind of pyrogenic assault: "As for the ...
88. Stairway to Heaven [Journals] [Aeon]
... from copies dating to Sultantepe of the 7th century BC and from Uruk of the Late Babylonian period. A curious episode in the epic finds Nergal ascending a stairway to heaven, ostensibly to reach the assembly of the gods: "Nergal came up the long stairway of heaven. When he arrived at the gate of Anu, Ellil, and ____Ea, Anu, Ellil, and ____Ea saw him and said, The son of Ishtar has come back to us. '" [13] As a result of his climbing the stairway- or perhaps it was because of his impudence in confronting the gods- the Akkadian war-god is said to have "shrunk" in size or become ...
89. Reflections Of The Persian Wars [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... claim this as a scribal misspelling of against. (45) But, even in the Chicago Assyrian Dictionary, ana is defined as a preposition meaning "to, for, up to, toward, against, upon." (46) Thus, the interpretation may be questionable. The very next statement in the chronicle reports that "____Ea Gamil, King of the Country of the Sea, [set out] against Elam." (47) Thus, I conjecture the passage should read that "men from the direction of Khatti marched upon the land of Akkad. ____Ea Gamil, their king of the Sea Country, afterwards set out against the land of Elam. ...
90. The Periodic Cyclicism Of Ancient Catastrophes [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... for Mars because of an adding of the prefix "Ba" and a slurring of the "L's". (But) Enlil shall not come near to the offering, Because without reflection he brought on the deluge And consigned my people to destruction! As soon as Enlil arrived And saw the ship, Enlil was wroth;7 For ____Ea alone understands every matter. ' ____Ea opened his mouth and said, speaking to warrior Enlil: O warrior, thou wisest among the gods! O How, O how couldst thou without reflection bring on (this) deluge?8 The case is presented that ancient near Mars flybys in 54-year periods tortured the ____Earth's crust, its oceans ...
92. KA [Books]
... regarded as sources of divine energy from the sky. In this context, it is noteworthy that the Greek pempabolon, the sacrificial fork, had five prongs. See Iliad I:463, Odyssey III:460. [2 ]. In Hittite myth there was a knife with which heaven and earth were separated. It was used by ____Ea to split a diorite stone, thus anticipating the story of the augur Attus Navius at Rome, who split a whetstone with a razor. The name Corycus, on Parnassus and in Cilicia, links Greece and Asia. Delphyne, the serpent killed by Apollo, is a name common to Greek and Hittite. Before leaving the word magister ...
93. Chapter 13-15 (Hamlet's Mill)
... (see chapter XXII) of the maiden who shoots her arrow into the 215 "navel of the waters which was a vast Whirlpool" thus winning fire. Some very fundamental idea must be lurking behind the story, and a pretty old one, since it was said of Ishtar that it is "she who stirs up the apsu before ____Ea." [n6 "Descent of Ishtar to the Nether World," obv. l. 27, ANAT, p. 107; see also W. F. Albright, "The Mouth of the Rivers," AJSL 35 (1919), p. 184.]. A strange pastime for the heavenly queen, but ...
94. Chapter XXXVII. The Egyptian and Babylonian Ecliptic Constellations [Books]
... best known. Jensen shows that the first notions of the Babylonian constellations are to be got by studying the sun-gods, and especially the mythic war between the later sun-god Marduk and the monster Tiamat. I have already referred to Marduk; he is the Spring Sun-God, and it has also been stated that the greatest god of ancient Babylonia, ____Ea of Eridu, was connected with the constellation of Capricornus. Marduk represented the constellation of the Bull. Here I quote Jensen: [1 ]- "It has already been suggested that the Bull is a symbol of the Spring-Sun Marduk; that he was originally complete, that he at one time extended as far as the Fish of ...
95. Catastrophes: the Diluvial Evidence [Journals] [SIS Review]
... waters. Hence they survived the Flood, the only humans to do so [1 ]. The story of Noah is just one of over 500 flood myths from around the world, many of which similarly involve a man and a woman escaping by boat. In the Babylonian epic of Gilgamesh, the hero, Uta-Napishtim, was warned by ____Ea, God of the Waters, about the coming deluge. Others include a Greek myth, where the survivors were Deucalion and his wife, Pyrrha [2 ]. As well as legends of a catastrophic flood, there are other widespread myths where the ____Earth suffered near destruction by fire. An example is one from Greece in which Phaeton ...
96. Letters [Journals] [SIS Review]
... with raised, crescent-shaped wings, also guarded by lions is found on a hydria from the Halstatt Period (Early Iron Age) in Switzerland [2 ]. A cylinder seal from Mesopotamia depicts a goddess, also with raised wings, standing on the twin-peaked mountain of myth from which the god Shamash rises. She is flanked by the god ____Ea and an archer guarding a lion [3 ]. A votive pin from Luristan at the end of the 2nd millennium BC (orthodox) depicts a horned figure with raised arms flanked by two standing figures [4 ] but perhaps most significant is the middle register of the coffin of Artemidorus from the Fayum in Egypt dated from 2nd century ...
97. Chapter XXIII: The Egyptian Year and the Nile [Books]
... the Nile valley on the one hand, and of the region watered by the Euphrates and Tigris, on the other, were gods to swear by; that they were worshipped in order that their benign influences might be secured, and that they had their local shrines and special cults? The god sacred to the Euphrates and Tigris was called ____Ea. The god sacred to the Nile was called Hapi. The name is the same as that of the bull Apis, the worship of which was attributed to Mena [1 ] Certainly Mena, Mini, or Menes, as he is variously called, was fully justified in founding the cult of the river-god, for he first among ...
99. Chapter XXVIII: The Fixed Year and Festival Calendars [Books]
... , as we can do this in the case of the Medînet-Habu calendar. In this the astronomical element of the calendar is quite overgrown by the mythological. -Not only was the daily and yearly course of the sun a most important event for the Egyptian astronomer, but the priest also had in his sacred books many mythological records concerning the god ____Ea, which had to be taken into account in these representations. The mythological ideas dated from the oldest periods of Egyptian history; we shall therefore be obliged, for their explanation, not to remain in the thirteenth or fourteenth century before Christ, but to ascend into previous centuries. I should think about the middle of the forth millennium ...
100. Chapter XXIX: the Mythology of Isis and Osiris [Books]
... the risings of which very great importance was attached, but they did not stand alone. We get another form of Isis (referring, it is possible, to the star a Columbae, before even Sirius was used), so that we have a northern star and a southern star observed at the same time- the two eyes of ____Ea. The other goddesses which have not yet been worked out probably refer to one or other of these stars, or to others which lie more to the south. These are represented rather in the temples above the first cataract than in those below. This fact will be enlarged upon in the sequel. The study of orientation, then
101. The Golden Age and Nova of Super Saturn [Books] [de Grazia books]
... Flood is equally plain (see especially Velikovsky, 1978a, 1979). Velikovsky appears to have been the first to claim that Saturn became a nova, an idea that he found buried in Jewish rabbinical commentaries on the Deluge. That Jupiter was a prime element in the nova and subsequent events is evidenced in many of the same places; ____Ea, the Akkadian Saturn, reproaches Enlil, or Jupiter, for having caused the sky-waters to fall (Mason, p77). Trisiras, a son of Prajapati and a saintly Saturn figure, was a three headed god with heads resembling the Sun, the Moon and the fire, which we interpret respectively as Saturn itself, the celestial ...
102. Nebuchadrezzar and Neriglissar [Journals] [SIS Review]
... and established the presence of different chambers through deep pits and tunnels." [18] The interior of Esagila is divided into three sections, each with an open court surrounded by rooms (see plan), none of which have been excavated. Marduk's Holy of Holies, named Ekua, lay in the west wing. The house of ____Ea, Marduk's father, lay in the north wing, and Anu's chamber lay in the south wing, "but unfortunately we are devoid of knowledge concerning numerous particulars of localisation and size in the case of the chapels frequently mentioned in other texts" [19]. Consequently, there seems to be no contradiction at all between Neriglissar's and ...
103. Hamlet's Mill Introduciton
... become involved in astronomical matters, under any condition. In order to keep safely away from this frightening field, my subject of inquiry was meant to be the mythical figure of the craftsman god, the Demiurge in his many aspects (Hephaistos, Tvashtri, Wayland the Smith, Goibniu, Ilmarinen, Ptah, Khnum, Kothar-wa-Hasis, Enki/____Ea, Tane, Viracocha, etc.). Not even a whiff of suspicion came to me during the investigation of Mesopotamian myth- of all cultures! --everything looked so very terrestrial, though slightly peculiar. It was after having spent more than a year over at least viii 10,000 pages of Polynesian myths collected in the 19th century ...
104. "Let There be Light" [Journals] [Kronos]
... another thread which links the Cosmic Egg directly to Saturn and this can be followed through the cosmogony of Mochus. We have already seen how, according to this scheme, it was Chousor who was said to have created the Cosmic Egg. Albright identified Koshar, also known as Kothar and/or Kosar, the same as Chousor, with ____Ea(39) whom, in these pages, we have already presented as an alias for Saturn. Moreover, according to Albright, Chousor's name as "Opener," identifies this Phoenician god with the Egyptian Ptah(40) who also fashioned a celestial egg.(41) For us, this has meaning because von Dechend and ...
105. The Two Sargons and Their Successors (Part II) [Journals] [Aeon]
... "Inanna (= Venus)."(47) This, however, is only true in as much as Ishtar/Inanna blames herself for the catastrophe in having spoken "evil in the assembly of the gods."(48) The flood itself was brought on by Enlil. When it was over, it was Enlil whom ____Ea blamed, asking him: "Thou wisest of gods, thou hero, how couldst thou, unreasoning, bring on the deluge?"(49) Ishtar also accused him, stating: "Let the gods come to the offering; but let not Enlil come...for he, unreasoning, brought on the deluge, ...
107. Deluges [Books] [de Grazia books]
... modern art. A. Durer and Leonardo da Vinci painted their images of it, both making it a kind of typhoon. And indeed, in the ancient Chaldean story of the flood of Xisuthros the node of the Deluge is spoken of as a waterspout that "swelled up to heaven "and struck fear into the gods; the god ____Ea pleaded that any and all disaster be visited upon men, but nothing so terrible as "the waterspout of the Deluge."[3 ] In every ancient legend of great waters descending from the sky, a few survivors live to tell the tale. At any rate, so it seemed to the survivors. But given any tiny ...
108. Chapter 16-19 (Hamlet's Mill)
... south and, most important, the "sky" as well as the waters of the south have a share in the "inhabited world" allotted to them [n10 To clear up the exact range of the three worlds, it would be necessary to work out the whole history of the Babylonian "Ways of Anu, Enlil, and ____Ea" (cf. pp. 431f.), and how these "Ways" were adapted, changed, and defined anew by the many heirs of ancient oriental astronomy. And then we would not yet be wise to the precise whereabouts of Air, Saltwater, and other ambiguous items.]. This summary is an almost frivolous ...
109. The Polar Sun [Books]
... 94; Jensen, op. cit., 17ff. I certainly cannot accept, however, Jensen's identification of Anu with the pole of the ecliptic. Sayce, Lectures on the Origin and Growth of Religion, 482. Op. cit., Vol. II, 184, 190. Lenormant, op. cit., 393. ____Ea (Eriki) was the "king of destinies, stability and justice." O'Neill, op. cit., 490. Langdon, Sumerian Liturgical Texts, 137. Lenormant, Chaldean Magic, 172. Sayce, op. cit., 177 note 1. Pritchard, Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament, 387 ...
116. Analysis of the Babylonian Observations [Journals] [Kronos]
... not seem to have been very familiar with the tablets. TRANSLATION Year 1 In the month Sabat, on the 15th day, Ninsianna disappears in the went; for 3 days she remains absent from the sky; in the month Sabat, on the 18th day, Ninsianna appesrs in the east; catstrophes of kings; Adad brings rains, ____Ea brings streams; king to king greeting send 2 In the month Arahsamna, on the 11th day, Ninsianna disappears in the east; for 2 months 8 days she remains absent from the sky; in the month Tebit, in the 19th day, Ninsianna appears in the west; the harvest of the land is successful 3 In the ...
117. The Origin of Mankind [Books]
... he gives his own life that man may have being. This theme of the supreme sacrifice is' unique only Christianity furnishes a distant kind of parallel. This is Berossus's version. Other Babylonian sources tell that the primeval monster Kingu, who with Tiamat and others, had caused the destruction of the world and its life, was killed by ____Ea, who then fashioned mankind out of the soil which was saturated with Kingu's blood. Next in this group of myths is that of the Maoris of New Zealand, which tells that the god Tu (or Tiki, or Tane) took clay he had, found at a riverside, drew some of his own blood, and kneaded ...
120. Thoth Vol IV, No 13: Aug 31, 2000 [Journals] [Thoth]
... developed chronicles and epic literature, while the more passive Universal Monarch fades into the background. The warrior-hero is the prototype of the famous tricksters and buffoons of later myth and folklore, flowering into innumerable tribal variations. Noteworthy instances of this warrior archetype would include the Egyptian Shu, Horus and Sept, Sumerian Enki, Damuzi and Ningirsu, Akkadian ____Ea, Ninurta and Nergal, Hindu Indra, Norse Thor, Greek Ares and Hercules, Latin Mars, Aztec Huitzilopochtli and Tezcatlipoca, North American Coyote and Raven, to name the barest few among thousands. The comparative approach will identify this warrior figure as the planet Mars. In the Saturn model, that means the innermost circle or sphere ...
121. Velikovsky's Sources Volume Four [Books]
... dwellings, and temples worship thee! 15.Where is thy name not (heard) ? where is thy decree not (obeyed) ? 16.Where are thine images not made ? Where are thy temples not founded ? 17.Where art thou not great ? Where art thou not exalted ? 18.Anu, Bel, and ____Ea have raised thee on high, among the gods have they made great thy dominion, 19.They have exalted thee among all the Spirits of heaven, they have made thy rank pre-eminent. 20.At the thought of thy name the heaven and the earth: quake, 21.The gods tremble, and the Spirits of the ...
122. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... , an earthquake opened up seven gas fissures which burned for several centuries and devastated a large area. Downdated supernova Washington Post 24.12.90 In 1977 Michanowsky published his book The Once and Future Star in which he theorised that the Sumerians had seen a supernova in the Vela constellation and that this was the giant star of the god ____Ea. Astronomers said the supernova had occured too early, between 15.000 to 6000 years ago. Now they calculate that the nova occured between 8000 and 4,500 years ago, a range which overlaps currently accepted datings for the Sumerians. Putting the horse before the cart New Scientist 6.6 .91, p. 24 ...
125. Night of the Gods: Polar Myths. The Pole Star [Books]
... the religion of a whole world. The Subbas of Mesopotamia, whose tenets have frequently to be cited in the course of this Inquiry, now still hold that Avather, their judge of the souls of the dead, has his throne placed under the Polestar.29 There was an Assyrian Dayan Same - Judge of Heaven30 and the great god ____Ea was " king of destinies, stability and justice."31 In Norse mythology, the third root (? ) of the YggDrasill Ash is in heaven where is the very holy fountain of Urdur. There, at the stem of the Universe tree, is the seat of judgement of the 12 gods. ____Each day they, the
127. Sinking and Rising Lands [Books] [de Grazia books]
... was not the staff of Uwoke, my friend," said chief Hotu Matua. "That was the lightning of the god Makemake." The parallels here to the Phaeton and Typhon myths of Greece and the Near East seem to be beyond mythical fantasy. The comet (staff) of the god (cf. Uwoke, Yahweh, ____Ea, Yahou, Hermes), the marine tidal upheaval, the near approach of the huge comet, the sinking of the land into the abyss, the stroke of cosmic lightning that broke off the comet's tail, and the resulting "navel of the world," a sacred place like Delos Island in the Aegean Sea, which was ...
128. Temple, Crown, Vase, Eye, and Circular Serpent [Books]
... , so do the parallel figures of Tiamat and Leviathan become the thrones of Marduk and Yahweh in Babylonian and Hebrew imagery. (184) So also is the temple likened to the circular serpent. Sumerian hymns describe the cosmic temple "in heaven like a dragon gleaming." (185) This dragon-like abode answers to the Babylonian sanctuary of ____Ea, represented by a serpent or fish. (186) Belonging to the same class are the Uraei who form the walls of the heavenly dwelling of Osiris, (187) the serpentine temples or dracontia of Abury, (188) the "Iguana House" of Mayan ritual, (189) and the girdling snake of the Greek ...
129. The Ramesside Star Tables [Journals] [SIS Review]
... is the actual technique used by the observers to specify new hour stars when old ones become unserviceable; there appear to be several possibilities, amongst them one that Table 13 marks the start of a transition period when new hour stars were being specified. It is even conceivable that there could be a connection with the "Anu, Enlil and ____Ea" paths (see W in C II, viii: "The reforming of the calendar") Much worthwhile work could still also be done on the reliability of individual observations recorded in these tables. References ALLEN, C. W., 1973: Astrophysical Quantities, 3rd edition (London: Athlone Press). BORCHARDT, L ...
131. In Search of the Exodus [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... god) who amply provides health, prosperity, fertility, and furnishes god's abode (the Temple in Jerusalem). Solomon's wisdom may be compared with epithets applied to Nabonidus, the wise prince, and to Hammurabi, the wise leader, and Esarhaddon, the wise circumspect prince who understands everything. The gods themselves are Lords of wisdom (____Ea, Ashur, Anu, Adad, Marduk). Tammuz is the wise and beautiful one, etc. Hyam Maccoby (SISReview, IV-4, 98) identifies the Queen of Sheba with divine queen ideology embodied in the Egyptian Hatshepsut (through Velikovsky's chronology). As a historical figure Sheba was probably Arabic, but in the Song of ...
133. The Celestial Ship of North Vol II [Books]
... instructions that nothing material has been added by way of improvement since. When the Sun set, it was his custom to plunge again into the sea and abide all night in the deep, as he was amphibious. He is identified with the God Hea of the Chaldean Civilization. "Professor Sayce of Oxford on some cylinders found reference to ____Ea, ' the God of Wisdom, as identified with the Oannes of Berosus, half man half fish, who not only taught the Babylonian culture but the art of writing." -From the Secret Doctrine. The Fish-man An, of Egypt, or the Oan of the Chaldeans, was probably derived from the previous Piscene cycle of ...
134. The Crescent [Books]
... of the sun's enclosure (the door or gate through which the sun comes forth), it is impossible to overlook the corresponding imagery of two bulls in Mesopotamia, guarding the gates of the palace or temple. These are the "two bulls of the gate of the temple of E-Shakil," the "two bulls of the gate of ____Ea," or the "two bulls of the gate of the goddess Damkina." (51) 90. The Egyptian twin-headed bull, symbol of the "Two Lands." 91. Mesopotamian design conveying the image of the primeval enclosure and revolving horns. As to the primary meanings of the horned god or goddess ancient sources do ...
135. The Cosmic Mountain [Books]
... If one refers the imagery to the cosmic original , one sees that the descending stream was the leg! The Egyptian river of the pillar, the celestial Nile, compares with the heavenly Euphrates invoked in Mesopotamian ritual. For the Babylonians knew "the pure Euphrates" as the "great mountain" Enlil: With water which the lord [____Ea] has guided from the great mountain [Enlil], Water which down the pure Euphrates he has guided, The product of the apsu, for the purpose of lustration. (290) Enlil, the world mountain personified, is thus "the man of the river of the netherworld, the man devouring river," (291 ...
137. The Celestial Ship of North Vol. I [Books]
... , a compound of El,[20] male and H. female. Numerically Jehovah is the diameter of the circle and Elohim the circumferance. Jehovah-Elohim was the Mother of the Seven elementary gods, combined in the one divinity, the one constellation. A seven-fold god is mythological, whether Jehovah or Iao-Sabaoth. Sevekh, the seven-fold, ____Ea with the seven fins, Ra with his seven souls, the Hindu Agni with his seven arms, the Gnostic Chnubis with his seven rays, the Dragon with his seven heads, and El of the seventh Planet, and many others, were the vehicles of many imaginings, and finally became converted into gods in relation to celestial phenomena