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Category Archives: Mesopotamia

The Lion Shall Lay Down with the Lamassu

With the appearance of Lamassu on the latest Futurama episode (although I haven’t been able to find a picture of them online as of yet), I thought they might be an interesting concept to look into, although I’m not really sure there’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Babylonian, Buddhism, Cartoons, Etymology, Futurama, Greek Mythology, Hinduism, History, Judaism, Magic, Mesopotamia, Monsters, Mythology, Native American, Persian, Religion, Television | Tagged abenaki, achaemenid empire, angels, anu, apsu, cherubim, demons, donkeys, enki, enuma elish, glooscap, gopathas, griffins, lahamu, lahmu, lamashtu, lamassu, lamia, lilith, mercury, pamola, pazuzu, shedu, sphinx, tiamat, yalis |

As the Hours and the Days and the Weeks and the Months and the Years Go By

With this year soon coming to an end, I was thinking about whether there’s any connection between the number of days in a year and degrees in a circle, and apparently there is. Of course, a modern year doesn’t have … Continue reading →

Posted in African, Astronomy, Babylonian, Christmas, Easter, Egyptian, Greek Mythology, History, Holidays, Islam, Judaism, Mathematics, Mesopotamia, Mythology, New Year's Day, Norse, Religion, Roman, Science | Tagged astrology, baby new year, bible, calendar, dionysus, egyptian calendar, enoch, father time, genesis, geometry, jewish calendar, khonsu, kronos, measurement, moon, nostradamus, planets, sabbath, saturn, saturnalia, sun, thoth, time, yule |

I’m on Top of the World

I saw a link on Twitter to this article on Ancient Origins, a site that presumably isn’t always reliable. What it says here seems to have all been verified elsewhere, however, with nothing about aliens building the pyramids or anything. … Continue reading →

Posted in Astronomy, Authors, Babylonian, Christianity, Conspiracy Theories, Douglas Adams, Greek Mythology, Hellenistic Greece, History, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Humor, Islam, Judaism, Maps, Mesopotamia, Monsters, Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Science | Tagged cartography, delphi, ethnocentrism, europe, flat earth, geography, golgafrinchans, imago mundi, jerusalem, kaaba, london, mecca, milky way galaxy, prime meridian, river euphrates, sin, zeus |

Semiramis Kind of Life

Looking back at this Chick Tract dissection, I thought that Jack Chick’s obsession with Semiramis might be worth a post. So who’s Semiramis? And is she related to Harold Ramis, who played Egon in Ghostbusters? I don’t know about the … Continue reading →

Posted in Babylonian, Catholicism, Christianity, Fundamentalism, History, Jack Chick, Mesopotamia, Middle East, Mythology, Religion, Semitic | Tagged alexander hislop, diodorus siculus, nimrod, ninus, semiramis, shammuramat, shamshi-adad, virgin mary |

Nabu Puts It in Writing

It seems that most pantheons of gods have a member who serves as a scribe, although that’s often but one of the deity’s functions. The Greeks give that position to Hermes, also the messenger god, deity of commerce, and patron … Continue reading →

Posted in Babylonian, Christianity, Greek Mythology, History, Judaism, Mesopotamia, Mythology, Religion | Tagged alexander the great, assyria, babylon, belshazzar, bible, borsippa, cryptozoology, cuneiform, dragons, hermes, ishtar gate, marduk, mercury, mushhushshu, nabonidus, nabu, nebuchadnezzar, robert koldewey, star wars, thoth |