<p>Enki / Paradise / Kish Enki and Ninhursag and the Creation of Life and Sickness &#8230;. Ninhursag relents and takes Enki&#8217;s Ab (water, or semen) into her body, and gives birth to gods of healing of each part of the body: Abu for the jaw, Nintul for the hip, Ninsutu for the tooth, Ninkasi for [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Nineveh (URUNI.NU.A Ninua‎) was an ancient city of Upper Mesopotamia, located on the outskirts of Mosul in modern-day northern Iraq. It is located on the eastern bank of the Tigris River. Today it is a common name for the half of Mosul which lies on the eastern bank of the Tigris. Nineveh was one of [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Zodiac Archetypes The twelve signs of the Zodiac represent twelve different characters. They can be described as archetypes, models into which human personality traits tend to group.</p>

<p>Paganism goddesses &nbsp; &nbsp;</p>

This pyramidal stele bears a long cuneiform inscription in Akkadian. Erected by Manishtusu (2270-2255 BC), son of Sargon and third king...

Susa is one of the oldest cities in the world. Excavations have uncovered evidence of continual habitation dating back to 4200 BCE. Susa...

A priest in prayer before the symbols for Marduk, chief god of Babylon, and Nabu, god of wisdom and writing. Neo-Babylonian, 7th-6th BCE

This courtyard houses the impressive remains of the palace inaugurated by King Sargon II in Khorsabad (northern Iraq) in 706 BC. The...

Babylonian Mesopotamian Goddess Ishtar Ashtart Sculpture Statue - Louvre Museum, Paris. 2000 B.C. So common in the Mesopotamian area...

Inshushinak was one of the major gods of the Elamites and the protector deity of Susa. The ziggurat at Choqa Zanbil is dedicated to him....

Libation Vase of the God Ningishzida Neo-Sumerian era, around 2120 BC. The inscription reads: “To the god Ningiszida, his god...

<p>The Moon Nanna (Sumerian: ŠEŠ.KI, NANNA) was the Sumerian god of the moon. He became identified with the Semitic Sīn or Suen (Akkadian: Su&#8217;en, Sîn). The two chief seats of Nanna&#8217;s/Sīn&#8217;s worship were Ur in the south of Mesopotamia and Harran in the north. A moon god by the same name was also worshipped in [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Tyr In Germanic mythology, Týr (Old Norse), Tíw (Old English), and Ziu (Old High German) is a god. Stemming from the Proto-Germanic deity *Tīwaz and ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European deity *Dyeus, little information about the god survives beyond Old Norse sources. Due to the etymology of the god&#8217;s name and the shadowy presence of the [&hellip;]</p>

Many Persian relics are kept in museums across the world. Most of these were looted from Iran due to the negligence of past rulers. The...

<p>The sky often has important religious significance. Many religions, both polytheistic and monotheistic, have deities associated with the sky. The daylit sky deities are typically distinct from the night-time sky (or &#8220;heaven of the stars&#8221;) deities. Stith Thompson&#8217;s Motif-Index of Folk-Literature reflects this by separating the category of &#8220;Sky-god&#8221; from that of &#8220;Star-god&#8221;. Daytime-gods and [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Index of known Goddesses Glossary for Her Cycle of Transformations &amp; related documents Origins of the ancient constellations: The Mesopotamian traditions The Celestial Pole in the Apocalypse Damgalnuna, Damkina, Davcina, Ninhursaga: Mistress of the Earth Sumerian Goddesses &#8211; Goddess-Guide.com</p>

<p>Akitu or Akitum (&#8220;the barley-cutting&#8221;, &#8220;barley-sowing&#8221;, &#8220;head of the year&#8221;) was a spring festival in ancient Mesopotamia. The name is from the Sumerian for &#8220;barley&#8221;, originally marking two festivals celebrating the beginning of each of the two half-years of the Sumerian calendar, marking the sowing of barley in autumn and the cutting of barley in [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Astral Worship BY J. H. Hill, M. D. &nbsp; “Now, what I want is—facts.”—Boz.</p>

<p>When the medieval Icelanders were copying out Greek myths, they explained the god Saturn/Kronos to their readers as “Njord”. In Norse mythology, Njörðr is a god among the Vanir. Njörðr, father of the deities Freyr and Freyja by his unnamed sister, was in an ill-fated marriage with the goddess Skaði, lives in Nóatún and is associated [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Noravank Monastery (literally &#8220;new monastery&#8221;) is a 13th-century Armenian monastery, located 122 km from Yerevan in a narrow gorge known for its tall, sheer, brick-red cliffs, directly across from the monastery made by the Amaghu River, near the town of Yeghegnadzor, Armenia. The monastery is best known for its two-storey Surb Astvatsatsin (Holy Mother of [&hellip;]</p>