Thread: Kassite seal (18th-12th centuries BC) from Syria. National Museum of Damascus. Not 100% sure about provenance, so any confirmation would be welcome. But I am 110% sure about the meaning of the symbols we see depicted on this amazing seal...
In the centre we have a male figure, wearing a long skirt and a horned hat (which identifies him as a god). Which god? Well, the same god depicted on this water basin from Assur: Ea/Enki
Thread: God of fresh water and annual flood Ea/Enki flanked by fish-cloaked Apkallus. Part of the 7th century BC basalt water basin from Assur, Iraq. Pergamon Museum, Germany... pic.twitter.com/anZXkhBq3T
— oldeuropeanculture (@serbiaireland) June 18, 2022
These are Apkallus, the holy carp (men) of Enki...I talked about them and what they represent in this thread
Maybe city building fashion was brought to Mesopotamia by outsiders? Ever heard of Apkallu, the "seven sages (demigods)" who brought civilisation to Sumer?
— oldeuropeanculture (@serbiaireland) June 17, 2022
Their names are very interesting:
On the water basing from Assur the water is pouring out of two jars in the sky, which represent rain clouds. On our seal, the water is instead pouring out of the two beaks of the two headed eagle which is depicted flying above the god...Why?
This is climate in Syria. You can see that in Syria, climatic year is divided into hot, dry and cool, wet half...The end of the dry half and the beginning of the wet half is marked by the arrival of first rains, in Oct/Nov...
Rains arrive exactly when old world vultures start their mating flying routines...
Which from the ground look like "double headed eagle"...Hence water pouring out the the beaks of the double headed eagle...It's an animal calendar marker for the beginning of the vulture mating season and the beginning of the rain season...
Another depiction of this areal eagle dance which brings rain
Eagle dance...
— oldeuropeanculture (@serbiaireland) November 2, 2021
Left: Montenegro 1963AD
Right: Syria, 1800BC
Eagle (vulture) couples dance above the mountains at the beginning of their mating season, which coincides with the beginning of the rain season in Fertile Crescent...https://t.co/FOZhvy3zvB pic.twitter.com/QPCfQrsCxL
This is why the rain (god) was in Mesopotamia originally imagined as huge black eagle, then as an eagle man, then as a man with a pet two headed eagle...I talked about it in many posts, this one about "a mysterious creature" is a good starting point:
The water flowing out of the eagle's beaks is followed by two prancing male Ibex goats. Why? Well, the beginning of the rain season in Mesopotamia also coincides with the beginning of the mating season of the Ibex goats which live in the North-Eastern mountains...
Mountains which are Abzu, the source of the two great rivers. Mountains which are Enki who is (in) Abzu...Majority of the water from Tigris and Euphrates comes from the snowmelt from these mountains...
Hence mountain goats of (rain) water depicted on the shoulders (slopes) of Enki/Ea/Abzu...Actually some people suggest that this god is actually Assur, and not Enki/Ea...Actually, they are both the same deified source of fresh water, under different names
Some say that this is also Assur...Sure ? Assur, the great usurper... "Abzu, place that is a big mountain, princely crown of the heaven and earth. To the lord Nudimmud (Enki), (give) praise!"
Thread: Enki/Ea, the god of sweet water standing between two mountains, with trees and flowers...Enki is identifiable by the fact that he is holding two jars from which a water is pouring out, and which are symbols of the source of Tigris and Euphrates...
— oldeuropeanculture (@serbiaireland) September 18, 2021
Super important image pic.twitter.com/1SQp3k9ViO
So water flows through two great rivers from eagle / goat to fish...Here is why: BTW, Goatfish is "the holy animal of Enki", and apparently no one know why...Now you know...
Goatfish, the sacred animal of Enki, the Sumerian god of fresh water, is a complex animal calendar marker for the wet half of the year in Mesopotamia...Between the mating season of wild goats and the mating season of giant Mesopotamian carps...Article: https://t.co/E16Y5xerUy pic.twitter.com/V8J70zdaU2
— oldeuropeanculture (@serbiaireland) March 2, 2022
And the water out of Enki/Ea/Abzu/Mountains and flows towards "the tree of life" which in Mesopotamia is a palm tree, which grows out of the jar representing a spring, a well, an irrigation channel...
A date palm is also a plant calendar marker for Jul/Aug, when Leo (symbol of autumn) kills Taurus (symbol of summer)...cause this is when date harvest starts in Mesopotamia...
This is also when the annual Tigris and Euphrates flood ends, and the drought season starts...
This is basically a hydrological calendar for Mesopotamia, where significant dates are depicted using animal and plant calendar markers...
For more about ancient animal and plant calendar markers, start here check the rest of the blog posts I still didn't add to this page, and finally check my twitter threads I still didn't convert to blog post...I am 9 months behind now...
PS: An article about the oldest example of a vulture as a calendar marker...Even today Eagle and Scorpio are interchangeable calendar (zodiac) symbols...
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