Uruk and Aratta Aratta (probably somewhere in modern Iran or Armenia) is a land that appears in Sumerian myths surrounding Enmerkar and Lugalbanda, two early and possibly mythical kings of Unug-Kulaba (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 well as the […]
The Kura–Araxes culture or the early trans-Caucasian culture was a civilization that existed from 3400 BC until about 2000 BC, which has traditionally been regarded as the date of its end; in some locations it may have disappeared as early as 2600 or 2700 BC. The earliest evidence for this culture is found on the Ararat plain; it spread northward in Caucasus by 3000 […]
Cow / Ku The aurochs (pl. aurochs, or rarely aurochsen, aurochses), also urus, ure (Bos primigenius), is an extinct type of large wild cattle that inhabited Europe, Asia and North Africa. It is the ancestor of domestic cattle. The species survived in Europe until the last recorded aurochs died in the Jaktorów Forest, Poland in 1627. During the Neolithic Revolution, which occurred during the early Holocene, there were at least two aurochs domestication events: […]
The king Ensí (spelled pa.te.si in cuneiform script, hence occasionally transliterated “patesi”; possibly derived from en si-k, “lord of the plowland”; borrowed into Akkadian as iššakkum) is a Sumerian language title designating the ruler or prince of a city-state. Originally it may have designated an independent ruler, but in later periods the title presupposed subordinance to a lugal. Leo – Regulus Regulus (α Leo, α Leonis, Alpha Leonis) is the […]
Axis Mundi (or the great mountain) Axis mundi The axis mundi (also cosmic axis, world axis, world pillar, center of the world, world tree), in certain beliefs and philosophies, is the world center, or the connection between Heaven and Earth. As the celestial pole and geographic pole, it expresses a point of connection between sky and earth where the four compass directions meet. At this point […]
Dyauṣ Pitā, literally “Sky Father” is the ancient sky god of Vedic pantheon, consort of Prithvi Mata “Earth Mother” and father of the chief deities of the Rigveda, Agni (Fire), Indra, and Ushas (Dawn). He is mainly considered in comparative philology as a last remnant of the chief god of Proto-Indo-European religion. The name Dyauṣ […]
Ararat er et stedsnavn og roten i navnet er å finne i den førstnevnte stavelsen ar, mens det resterende kun er gramatisk lagt til, noe som får navnet til å bli likestilt med blant annet Aratta, Armani og Armenia – og at ur og hur er det samme slik at urariere (armenere) er å anse […]
“Well, the short answer would be: Stone Age people with Stone Age tools. Nothing more needed, no aliens, no giants. For an answer to the question, who these Stone Age people were, where they came from and lived (Göbekli Tepe is not a settlement), we will have to make the finds speak. … So, to […]
Mars The planet Mars is named after the Roman god of war Mars. The Greeks equated Nergal with their god of war, Ares. The Hellenistic Greeks also called the planet Pyroeis, meaning “fiery”. Its symbol, derived from Roman mythology, is a circle with a small arrow pointing out from behind. It is a stylized representation […]
Religion er bygget på mytologi, som igjen er myntet på vår forståelse av universet vi lever i. Det er ikke religionen som har undertrykket oss og ført oss til krig, men ignoranse, manglende kunnskap og kortsiktige profittinteresser. De fleste blir ikke religiøse av egen overbevisning og tanker rundt kosmos, men fordi de blir født i […]
Lilith appears in Sumerian, Babylonian, Assyrian, Canaanite, Persian, Hebrew, Arabic and Teutonic mythology. She is also known as Adam’s “first wife” who refused to “lie beneath.” In the oldest mythologies she is a Goddess and in later stories she is demonized. As the embodiment of the neglected, outcast and rejected aspects of the Great Goddess […]
The Sumerians spoke a language isolate; a number of linguists believe they could detect a substrate language beneath Sumerian because names of some of Sumer’s major cities are not Sumerian, revealing influences of earlier inhabitants. However, the archaeological record shows clear uninterrupted cultural continuity from the time of the early Ubaid period (5300 – 4700 BC C-14) settlements in southern Mesopotamia. The Sumerian people […]
Anahit (Armenian: Անահիտ) was the goddess of fertility and healing, wisdom and water in Armenian mythology. In early periods she was the goddess of war. She emerged in the 5th century BC as one of Armenia’s most popular deities, along with the chief god Aramazd, the chief and creator god in pre-Christian Armenian mythology. The […]
