1 Comment | January 16, 2010 at 4:17 am by mahud
The Sumerian King List (SKL) was initially composed during the Third Dynasty of Ur (late 3rd millennium) and extended during the reign of the first dynasty of Isin (Early 2nd millennium). Many scholars maintain that the pre-flood king list is in fact a later addition to the SKL document. According to the SKL (WB […]
1 Comment | March 14, 2009 at 11:05 am by mahud
A widely dispersed African myth tells that long ago Heaven and Earth were connected by a rope or ladder (or some other link) forming a primordial state of paradisical oneness between divinity and humankind. In the Nuer version of this myth human beings dwelt in the sacred presence of Kwoth. As long as they were […]
0 Comments | February 11, 2009 at 7:06 pm by mahud
By this, I am not asserting that secularization is a good thing. Especially in our modern world culture that attempts to negate the sacred aspect of reality. We have been force-fed a world view that subjugates us and keeps us in a state of complacency. Once upon a time it was an erroneous Christian world-view […]
4 Comments | January 4, 2009 at 2:22 pm by mahud
My Pagan-Mythic Path is greatly influenced by the mystery of the lunar cycle, focusing mainly upon the waning and waxing crescents, that I term the ‘lunar double-door.’ It is within the lunar double-door that the opposites of manifest cosmic reality become one (more on that aspect of my mythos later).
My mythos is greatly influenced […]
4 Comments | December 1, 2008 at 12:23 pm by mahud
This post is one of many in the Fifth Mythology Synchroblog: Mythical Monsters and Otherworldly Entities (View the list of other bloggers below)
Seven-Headed Serpent of Mesopotamia
There is an Akkadian Seal impression (mid to late 3rd millennium B.C.), excavated from Tell Asmar (Iraq, near Eshnunna), that depicts two gods slaying a gigantic monster with seven serpentine […]
9 Comments | August 23, 2008 at 4:54 am by mahud
A small selection of articles on various goddesses I’ve posted over the past couple of years, including Medusa/Athene from Greek mythology, Chinnamasta from Hindu Mythology, The Egyptian myth of Isis and the hidden name of Ra (which includes parallels to the myth of Lilith and The Golden Ass by Apuleius), The myth of Inanna’s underworld […]
12 Comments | August 21, 2008 at 3:54 am by mahud
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Journeying to Otherworlds: Access Denied
Our transition from child to adulthood to old age to death is often marked by some kind of rite of passage within various systems of belief. Each transition, in reality, is a gradual one: […]
2 Comments | June 2, 2007 at 7:39 pm by mahud
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 […]
0 Comments | February 11, 2007 at 8:03 pm by mahud
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 […]
0 Comments | January 24, 2007 at 12:54 am by mahud
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 […]
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