Mythology and Paganism
A series of sexy posts from Primordial Blog.
Sex in Mythology
Mesopotamia
Babylon
Ancient Egypt
Canaan
I took these photographs in 2000 at the British Museum. Unfortunately, the photo quality isn’t too good, because I was using a disposable camera without a flash. I’ve tried to enhance then a bit in an image editor. Luckily I took some notes, so I can tell you a bit about them.
This is a panel […]
Leviathan seems to come from Canaanite mythology, through comparisons made with the multi-headed serpent called Lotan (ltn), from the Ugaritic tablets, discovered at Ras Shamra.
Lotan was killed by the god Ba’al (other sources indicate that the goddess Anat, or maybe both of them Killed Lotan). Bernhard Anderson, in Out of the Depths: The Psalms Speak […]
Joseph Campbell compares Adam, who before the creation of woman, lived together with the animals in paradise, with Enkidu, who prior to his encounter with Shamhat the prostitute, lived in harmony with the creatures of the wild:
Coated in hair like the god of the animals, with the gazelles he grazes on grasses, Joining the throng […]
A late Babylonian account of creation (2nd millennium B.C), known as the Enuma Elish, ‘When on high’, tells us that before the universe came into existence, Apsu (the male sweet primordial waters) and Tiamat (the female salt primordial waters) mingled together as one, along with their son Mummu.
Apsu and Tiamat also gave birth to the […]
The goddess Inanna desired to visit the realm of death ruled over by her sister Ereshkigal, the queen of the underworld. In preparation, Inanna clothed herself in regalia and precious jewels, and gave certain instructions to her handmaid Ninshubur, that if she should fail to return, she must present herself before […]
This iconic representation of a cylindrical stamp seal from Bahrain (Dilmun), depicts the image of a bull standing upon a high-prowed boat, feeding upon a plant, with a rotated lunar crescent adjacent with the bull’s head.
Between the repeating image of the boat stands another plant or tree, enclosed within the crook-shaped prows surmounting the […]
I came across an interesting tradition at Dance of the Mind earlier, regarding the Leviathan, found in the Talmudic tractate Baba Batra:
Rab Judah said in the name of Rab: All that the Holy One, blessed be He, created in his world he created male and female. Likewise, Leviathan the slant serpent and Leviathan the tortuous […]
The Sumerian king list, that can be reconstructed though a number of cuneiform tablets (the earliest dating back to the early 3rd Millennium BC), list’s a total of 8 kings before the universal flood. Some tablets bring the number of pre-flood Kings up to ten, including the Sumerian Noah Ziusudra, who Berossus, whose list dates […]
After the untimely death of Enkidu, the hero’s companion and counterpart, Gilgamesh embarks on a journey to find Uta- Napishti, the Sumerian Noah, and his wife, the only human beings to be granted immortality after the Universal Flood.
Dressed in lion skins, Gilgamesh successfully passes the Scorpion Men, and the crone Shiduri, and eventually reaches […]
Joseph Campbell compares the mythological theme of the Cosmic Cycle in the Hindu Puranas, the Icelandic Eddas, and the writings of Berossus, unveiling an enigmatic link between the external rhythm of the universe with the internal rhythm of our own hearts.
The Sumerian King List, Biblical Pre-Flood Patriarchs, and the Ten Avatars of Vishnu
We again […]
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