Myths of Babylonia and Assyria

Renew：Part 38
Author：Donald A. Mackenzie
Update：08-15-2023
Tags：History
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Chapter 1) that certain ethnologists have acc.u.mulated data which establish a racial kinship between the Neolithic Europeans, the proto-Egyptians, the Sumerians, the southern Persians, and the Aryo-Indians.
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Chapter II) the earliest group of Babylonian deities consisted probably of four pairs of G.o.ds and G.o.ddesses as in Egypt.
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Chapter IV). The Egyptian G.o.ddesses Neheb-kau and Uazit were serpents, and the G.o.ddesses Isis and Nepthys had also serpent forms. The serpent was a symbol of fertility, and as a mother was a protector. Vishnu, the Preserver of the Hindu Trinity, sleeps on the world-serpent"s body. Serpent charms are protective and fertility charms.
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Chapter I), the large-nosed Armenoid section of the Hitt.i.te confederacy appear to have contributed to the racial blend known vaguely as the Semitic. Probably the particular group of Amorites with whom Abraham became a.s.sociated had those p.r.o.nounced Armenoid traits which can still be traced in representatives of the Hebrew people. Of special interest in this connection is Ezekiel"s declaration regarding the ethnics of Jerusalem: "Thy birth and thy nativity", he said, "is of the land of Canaan; thy father was an Amorite, and thy mother an Hitt.i.te."[275]
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Chapter III) G.o.ds were supposed to die annually. The Egyptian priests pointed out to Herodotus the grave of Osiris and also his star. There are "giants" graves" also in those countries in which the G.o.ds were simply ferocious giants. A G.o.d might a.s.sume various forms; he might take the form of an insect, like Indra, and hide in a plant, or become a mouse, or a serpent, like the G.o.ds of Erech in the Gilgamesh epic. The further theory that a G.o.d could exist in various forms at one and the same time suggests that it had its origin among a people who accepted the idea of a personal G.o.d while yet in the stage of Naturalism. In Egypt Osiris, for instance, was the moon, which came as a beautiful child each month and was devoured as the wasting "old moon" by the demon Set; he was the young G.o.d who was slain in his prime each year; he was at once the father, husband, and son of Isis; he was the Patriarch who reigned over men and became the Judge of the Dead; he was the earth spirit, he was the bis.e.xual Nile spirit, he was the spring sun; he was the Apis bull of Memphis, and the ram of Mendes; he was the reigning Pharaoh. In his fusion with Ra, who was threefold--Khepera, Ra, and Tum--he died each day as an old man; he appeared in heaven at night as the constellation Orion, which was his ghost, or was, perhaps, rather the Sumerian Zi, the spiritual essence of life. Osiris, who resembled Tammuz, a G.o.d of many forms also, was addressed as follows in one of the Isis chants:
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