The Sun is the ruling planet of Leo and is exalted in Aries Pluto is the ruling planet of Scorpio and is possibly exalted in Leo Uranus is the ruling planet of Aquarius and is exalted in Scorpio Venus is the ruling planet of Taurus and Libra and is exalted in Pisces The Moon is the […]
To be man is not enough to be masculine and to be a woman is not enough to be feminine – the man might be feminine and the woman might be masculine – so if it is not about the gender what can then really be said about masculine or femine? To me it seems […]
Ama Ama-gi er et sumerisk ord som har blitt oversatt til “frihet”, samt til “frigi”, som når man frigir en slave, blir fritatt fra gjeld eller obligasjoner, eller blir restaurert til sin opprinnelige status, inkludert av tilgivelse av gjeld. Det kan også bety en tilbakevending til en tidligere tilstand og frigjøring fra gjeld, slaveri, skattlegning […]
In ancient Roman religion and myth, Mars was the god of war and also an agricultural guardian, a combination characteristic of early Rome. Most of his festivals were held in March, the month named for him (Latin Martius), and in October, which began the season for military campaigning and ended the season for farming. In […]
The war / transformation goddess Inanna – Tammuz Cybele – Attis Ereshkigal – Nergal Kali – Shiva Hel – Tyr Inanna is the goddess of love. She also is one of the Sumerian war deities: “She stirs confusion and chaos against those who are disobedient to her, speeding carnage and inciting the devastating flood, clothed in terrifying […]
The Sumerian texts relate how Dumuzid (Sumerian: Dumuzid (DUMU.ZI(D), “faithful or true son”), the name of a Sumerian god of food and vegetation, fled to his sister Geshtinana, a minor goddess in Sumerian mythology, the so-called “heavenly grape-vine”, who attempted to hide him but who could not in the end stand up to the demons. […]
Armenia, Homeland of the Germans? Aratta is a land that appears in Sumerian myths surrounding Enmerkar and Lugalbanda, two early and possibly mythical kings of Uruk also mentioned on the Sumerian king list. It is described in Sumerian literature as a fabulously wealthy place full of gold, silver, lapis lazuli and other precious materials, as […]
Sky father In comparative mythology, sky father is a term for a recurring concept of a sky god who is addressed as a “father”, often the father of a pantheon. The concept of “sky father” may also be taken to include Sun gods with similar characteristics. The concept is complementary to an “earth mother”. “Sky Father” is a direct translation of the Vedic Dyaus […]
What is perhaps more surprising is the sophistication with which they tracked the planet, judging from inscriptions on a small clay tablet dating to between 350 B.C. and 50 B.C. The tablet, a couple of inches wide and a couple of inches tall, reveals that the Babylonian astronomers employed a sort of precalculus in describing […]
Sacred marriage (bride) – Chaoskampf (dragon) – Conciousness (Our world, the world of the living) – Unconciousness (Netherworld, the world of the dead) – Balder (Tammuz) – Aries / Nanna (Inanna) – Pisces / Eva (Hebat) – Ninhursag / Ninti – Thor (Ninurta) – Jupiter / Sif (Bau) Aquarius – Tyr (Nergal – Enmesarra) – Dyeus […]
Lilith Lilith Etymology Lilith is a Middle Eastern goddess of abundance, fertility, and fecundity,the giver of agriculture to humans. The first woman created and the first wife of Adam, she refused to be subordinate to Adam in any way. Lilith is associated with the owl, a figure of darkness and deep wisdom, for she is […]
Who is the Virgin Mary? Mary – name Mary is the name of several New Testament characters, most importantly Mary the virgin mother of Jesus, and Mary Magdalene. Due to the Virgin Mary this name has been very popular in the Christian world, though at certain times in some cultures it has been considered too […]
An (Mars – March – Aries – Mars – the king – Tyr/Freyr/Balder – Jesus) – Ki/Inanna Anu (in Akkadian; Sumerian: An, from An “sky, heaven”) is the earliest attested Sky Father deity. In Sumerian religion, he was also “King of the Gods”, “Lord of the Constellations, Spirits and Demons”, and “Supreme Ruler of the […]
Taurus marked the point of vernal (spring) equinox in the Chalcolithic and the Early Bronze Age, from about 4000 BC to 1700 BC, after which it moved into the neighboring constellation Aries. The Pleiades were closest to the Sun at vernal equinox around the 23rd century BC. In Babylonian astronomy, the constellation was listed in […]
Astrology, in its broadest sense, is the search for meaning in the sky. The word astrology comes from the early Latin word astrologia, which derives from the Greek astron (“star”) and -logia (“study of” or “account of the stars”). Astrologia later passed into meaning ‘star-divination’ with astronomia used for the scientific term. Early evidence for […]
The cosmogenic myth common in Sumer was that of the hieros gamos, a sacred marriage where divine principles in the form of dualistic opposites came together as male and female to give birth to the cosmos. Hieros gamos or Hierogamy (“holy marriage”) refers to a sexual ritual that plays out a marriage between a god […]
