On fair Diarbeck's land of spice,Adiabene's plains of rice,
Where down th' Euphrates, swift and strong,
The shield-like kuphars bound along;
Notes: Game on...on the radio...Angels and Cardinals...top of fourth...two down...Renigfo up...no score...from yesterday's post, the Sumerian Shedpherd Kings...another standing room only crowd...ground out...to bottom of fourth...
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Dumuzid,[a] later known by the alternate form Tammuz,[b] is an ancient Mesopotamian god associated with shepherds, who was also the primary consort of the goddess Inanna (later known as Ishtar). In Sumerian mythology, Dumuzid's sister was Geshtinanna, the goddess of vegetation. In the Sumerian King List, Dumuzid is listed as an antediluvian king of the city of Bad-tibira and also an early king of the city of Uruk. In the Sumerian poem Inanna Prefers the Farmer, Dumuzid competes against the farmer Enkimdu for Inanna's hand in marriage. In Inanna's Descent into the Underworld, Dumuzid fails to mourn Inanna's death and, when she returns from the Underworld, she allows the galla demons to drag him down to the Underworld as her replacement. Inanna later regrets this decision and decrees that Dumuzid will spend half the year in the Underworld, but the other half of the year with her, while his sister Geshtinanna stays in the Underworld in his place, thus resulting in the cycle of the seasons.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumuzid
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that last bit is a kind of mash up of the myths of Orpheus and Persephone...brb...
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Hades indeed complied with the request, but first he tricked her, giving her some pomegranate seeds to eat. Persephone was released by Hermes, who had been sent to retrieve her, but because she had tasted food in the underworld, she was obliged to spend a third of each year (the winter months) there, and the remaining part of the year with the gods above.[32] With the later writers Ovid and Hyginus, Persephone's time in the underworld becomes half the year.
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The Greek version of the abduction myth is related to grain – important and rare in the Greek environment – and the return (ascent) of Persephone was celebrated at the autumn sowing. Pluto (Ploutos) represents the wealth of the grain that was stored in underground silos or ceramic jars (pithoi), during summer months. Similar subterranean pithoi were used in ancient times for burials and Pluto is fused with Hades, the King of the realm of the dead. During summer months, the Greek grain-Maiden (Kore) is lying in the grain of the underground silos in the realm of Hades, and she is fused with Persephone, the Queen of the Underworld. At the beginning of the autumn, when the seeds of the old crop are laid on the fields, she ascends and is reunited with her mother Demeter, for at that time the old crop and the new meet each other. For the initiated, this union was the symbol of the eternity of human life that flows from the generations which spring from each other.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persephone
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The most famous story in which Orpheus figures is that of his wife Eurydice (sometimes referred to as Euridice and also known as Argiope). While walking among her people, the Cicones, in tall grass at her wedding, Eurydice was set upon by a satyr. In her efforts to escape the satyr, Eurydice fell into a nest of vipers and suffered a fatal bite on her heel. Her body was discovered by Orpheus who, overcome with grief, played such sad and mournful songs that all the nymphs and gods wept. On their advice, Orpheus travelled to the underworld. His music softened the hearts of Hades and Persephone, who agreed to allow Eurydice to return with him to earth on one condition: he should walk in front of her and not look back until they both had reached the upper world. He set off with Eurydice following, and, in his anxiety, as soon as he reached the upper world, he turned to look at her, forgetting that both needed to be in the upper world, and she vanished for the second time, but now forever.
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The myth theme of not looking back, an essential precaution in Jason's raising of chthonic Brimo Hekate under Medea's guidance,[48] is reflected in the Biblical story of Lot's wife when escaping from Sodom. More directly, the story of Orpheus is similar to the ancient Greek tales of Persephone captured by Hades and similar stories of Adonis captive in the underworld. However, the developed form of the Orpheus myth was entwined with the Orphic mystery cults and, later in Rome, with the development of Mithraism and the cult of Sol Invictus.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orpheus
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hmmph...Tammuz links to Adonis, I think...
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The cult of Dumuzid was later spread to the Levant and to Greece, where he became known under the West Semitic name Adonis.
see wiki take above
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well, yeah, I had just read that!...
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Adonis's name comes from a Canaanite word meaning "lord" and modern scholars consider the story of Aphrodite and Adonis to be derived from the earlier Mesopotamian myth of Inanna (Ishtar) and Dumuzid (Tammuz).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adonis
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hmmph...Angels made out...to bottom of fifth...oh, another bit about 'royal glory', the charisma of rulers, and how it might be symbolized...King Philip II of Macedonia, father of Alexander the Great, in his tomb, the gold box, that I went on about a ways back, it held a wreath, all gold, oak leaves and acorns...wreaths were tribute to Olympic athletes....in our time such became gold medals...and the trophy industry!...archaeologist have found more of these wreaths, one recently a controversy...the Getty museum bought one, knowing full well it was 'hot', a black market item, but, they couldn't resist...runners first and second, one out....caught, it was returned to Greece, or was it Turkey...brb...
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Over the past year, the Getty has returned the funerary wreath and three other items to Greece and agreed to send 40 more ancient objects back to Italy, conceding it was the right thing to do.
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-nov-28-et-getty28-story.html
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oh, Pena on mound dogs a comebacker, a double play bunt, Pena 'spiked' the ball, and it bounced down the left field line...two runs scored...now Pujols collides with Fletcher, and a foul ball falls...error on Fletch...'sloppy inning'...Cardinals 2-0...liner caught...to top of sixth...curious about pithoi...brb....oh, those are the big jars, with handles to be used when lifted by crane...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pithos
on a visit to LAMA years and years ago, I saw artifacts from Mari...Trout K...one of them a shepherd holding a sheep draped across his back, or maybe carrying it...that's a famous Sumerian motif...Calhoun up...Angels make out...to bottom of sixth...
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3 rd millennium BC Mari Tell Hariri Syria Tell Hariri
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I cant link the museum that has that...links available end at a buy this image page...image should be under 'shopping'...I saw this at the museum show too:...Cardinals wap a home run...Cardinals 4-0...like the Angels mailing in their effort...
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Goddess of the vase. (18th century BC)
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Shamsh-res-usur, governor of Mari and Suhi, attitude of prayer in front of the gods (Adad and Ishtar). Stele with inscription and relief 8th century BCE from Palace Museum of Babylon (Ennigaldi-Nanna's museum?) Limestone The inscription says that the governor reigned for 13 years and during his reign erected the city of Gabarri-ibni, while also re-establishing the canals and encouraging the planting of date palms in different cities, and working on the development of agriculture in the city of Suhi.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mari,_Syria#/media/File:Shamsh-res-usur,_governor_of_Mari_and_Suhi.jpg
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hard to see, but governor has the cylinder and feather headdress, lookalike to the cylinder and headdress of the Toltec warriors...the warriors cylinder has polygon dots...from my dots and polygon dot collection!...the vase the goddess is holding poured water...statue was a fountain, open in back for water to enter at neck...cant be seen, but scribed fish are swimming up the center of her dress...the night I came back from that show, I had remarkable dreams...and of a late, these last few days study of Sumerian things, more remarkable dreams...oh, crowds cheering...and, for Pujols...Albert did not disappoint...hits a home run...Cardinals 4-1...Fletcher up...captioning one's dreams is so difficult, that I don't even attempt it anymore...the ancient seem to have had no problem going on about dreams...
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While every child's toy and biblical illustration – and the latest film version, due for release later this month and starring Russell Crowe as Noah – shows a big pointy-ended wooden boat, the Babylonian tablet gives what Finkel is convinced is the original version of the story.
The ark is a huge circular coracle, 3,600 square metres in dimension or two-thirds the size of a football pitch, made like a giant rope basket strengthened with wooden ribs, and waterproofed with bitumen inside and out. This was a giant version of a craft which the Babylonians knew very well, Finkel pointed out, in daily use up to the late 20th century to transport people and animals across rivers.... ... ...
However, the tablet studied by Finkel is unique, the only one with precise instructions on how to build the ark – and the crucial detail that it should be circular. He believes the data on its exact dimensions, the two kinds of bitumen, and the precise amount of rope needed, are evidence not that the vessel once existed, but of a storyteller adding convincing details for an audience that knew all about boat-building.
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2014/jan/24/babylonian-tablet-noah-ark-constructed-british-museum
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Whatever the pattern was before, we can now see that the Mesopotamian ark from Old Babylonian times was unquestionably round. We learn this fact from the new Ark Tablet, the remarkable and unexpected contents of which will now hold our attention for many pages to come. For this tablet, with its sixty lines, has more to offer than any other cuneiform tablet I have ever encountered, and it is the duty of any self-respecting Assyriologist to give such a document the full squeeze treatment and ensure that no possible item of information inside it is left unextracted.
We have seen that the tablet begins with a classic ancient speech advocating a boat of recycled reeds. Without pause Enki lays out unambiguously for Atra-hasīs what he is to do, which is to build something altogether different:
Draw out the boat that you will make
On a circular plan;
Let her length and breadth be equal,
Let her floor area be one field, let her sides be one nindan (high).
10. You saw kannu ropes and ašlu ropes/rushes for [a coracle before!]
Let someone (else) twist the fronds and palm-fibre for you!
https://erenow.net/ancient/the-ark-before-noah-decoding-the-story-of-the-flood/7.php
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there are old pics of these on web...really cool...
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https://www.raisinguppharaoh.com/2016/10/29/118-cuneiform-flood-tablet-coracle-ark/
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Trout up...K...Upton with a home run...Cardinals 4-2...
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The English writer, Gertrude Bell, sent photographs of mudhifs to England in 1918, and in 1920, she wrote a description in a letter to her father:[7]
"After dinner Sheik Ibadi al Husain invited us to his mudhif, his guest house. Now a mudhif you can't picture until you have seen it. It is constructed of reeds, reed mats spread over reed bundles, arching over and meeting at the top, so that the whole is a perfectly regular and exquisitely constructed yellow tunnel, 50 yards long. In the middle is a coffee hearth, with great logs of willow burning. On either side of the hearth, against the reed walls of the mudhif, a row of brocaded cushions for us to sit on, the Arabs flanking us and the coffee-maker crouched over his pots. The whole lighted by fire and a couple of small lamps, and the end of the mudhif fading away into a golden gloom. Glorious.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mudhif
here's clip of such a house being made today, very cool...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fczJxAdsYkE
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"Two Arabs in a Quffa," Arthur Trevor Haddon.
Source: Victoria & Albert Museum
http://indigenousboats.blogspot.com/2016/04/the-mesopotamian-quffa-or-kuphar.html
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https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/why-iraqs-marsh-arabs-are-facing-a-new-fight-for-survival-66pkjkn9n
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https://fineartamerica.com/featured/long-hut-of-the-marsh-arabs-ron-bowles.html?product=art-print
more about House Reed tomorrowmorrow...to top of ninth...Pujols up...ground out...Fletcher up...1-2 the count...Fletch in a slump...K...Renigfo up...3-2 count...W...Lucroy up...ground out...Cardinals 4-2...
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