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A Who’s having Sex with Who in World Mythology

October 25, 2007 at 11:25 am by mahud

A series of sexy posts from Primordial Blog.

Sex in Mythology

Mesopotamia
Babylon
Ancient Egypt
Canaan


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Assyrian Panels from the North-West palace of Nimrud

February 11, 2007 at 10:17 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 […]


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Brief History of the Seven-Headed Serpent Beast

September 20, 2007 at 9:21 am by mahud

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 […]


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Enkidu and Shamhat

November 14, 2006 at 10:47 am by mahud

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 […]


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Enuma Elish

November 14, 2006 at 10:57 am by mahud

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 […]


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Inanna’s Descent into the Underworld

November 14, 2006 at 10:59 am by mahud

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 […]


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Old and New Moon Boat

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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Salty Leviathan

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 […]


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Sumerian king list

November 14, 2006 at 11:13 pm by mahud

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 […]


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The Journey of Gilgamesh

November 14, 2006 at 11:00 am by mahud

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 […]


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YouTube: Joseph Campbell And the Cosmic Cycle

July 4, 2007 at 6:33 am by mahud

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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