<p>Menneskeheten har blitt stadig mer brutal og krigen har blitt en del av våre liv. Vi lever i en verden med krig, sult, urett og forurensning. Viktige kjennetegn ved samfunnet som vi har i dag er blant annet privatisering, konkurranse, ekspansjon, frie markeder, profitt og stadig større konserner; på mange måten oppskriften til sosialdarwenisme, nyliberalisme [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The Trimūrti typically consist of Brahma (the ”creator”), Vishnu (the “preserver”), and Shiva (the “destroyer”), though individual denominations may vary from that particular line-up. When all three deities of the Trimurti incarnate into a single avatar known as Dattatreya. Maya (“magic” or “illusion”) originally denoted the magic power with which a god can make human beings believe in what turns out to be an illusion. [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Chaoskampf The motif of Chaoskampf (&#8220;struggle against chaos&#8221;) is ubiquitous in myth and legend, depicting a battle of a culture hero deity with a chaos monster, often in the shape of a serpent or dragon. The same term has also been extended to parallel concepts in the Middle East and North Africa, such as the [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Gobekli Tepe’s hilltop site was not defensive or residential and the indications are that it was a sacred area and that the two pillars outside the entrance of some of the circles represented a gateway between secular and religious ground. Three layers could be distinguished up to now at the site. The oldest Layer III [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The concept of freedom (Ama-gi) Manumission, or affranchisement, is the act of an owner freeing his or her slaves. Ama-gi is a Sumerian word written ama-gi or ama-ar-gi. It has been translated as &#8220;freedom&#8221;, as well as &#8220;manumission&#8221;, &#8220;exemption from debts or obligations&#8221;, and &#8220;the restoration of persons and property to their original status&#8221; including [&hellip;]</p>

<p>“Minoans, Mycenaeans, and modern Greeks also had some ancestry related to the ancient people of the Caucasus, Armenia, and Iran,” said co-lead author Dr. Iosif Lazaridis, a postdoctoral researcher at Harvard Medical School. Minoans and Mycenaeans were genetically similar, having at least three-quarters of their ancestry from the first Neolithic farmers of western Anatolia and [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The Cuthaean Legend envisions a powerful enemy that emerges unexpectedly from the distant mountains and establishes hegemony after a sudden burst of military power. This enemy will eventually be destroyed without the intervention of the Mesopotamian king.  The powerful enemy is called Umman-manda (i..e troops of the mandum) among other things. The Sumerian word mada (‘land’) [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The Phrygian cap The Phrygian cap or liberty cap is a soft conical cap with the top pulled forward, associated in antiquity with several peoples in Eastern Europe and Anatolia, including Phrygia, Dacia, and the Balkans. In early modern Europe it came to signify freedom and the pursuit of liberty through a confusion with the [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Ansuz is the conventional name given to the a-rune of the Elder Futhark, ᚨ. The name is based on Proto-Germanic *ansuz, denoting a deity belonging to the principal pantheon in Germanic paganism. The shape of the rune is likely from Neo-Etruscan a, like Latin A ultimately from Phoenician aleph. In the Norwegian rune poem, óss [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The Sintashta Culture and Some Questions of Indo-Europeans Origins S. A. Grigoryev Institute of History and Archaeology Ural brunch of Russian Academy of Sciences Chelyabinsk &#8211; Russia Origins of Indo-Europeans is one of the most significant problems of history, archaeology and linguistics. This problem has already been discussed for 200 years after the kinship of Indo-European [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The two words for &#8220;bull&#8221; seem to coincide between the Proto-Indo-European and Proto-Semitic, as do most of their descendants. For example, from PIE *táwros, we have Celtic *tarwos, Kurdish dewar, Greek tauros, Latin taurus. From PS *thawr-, we have Arabic ṯawr, Hebrew shor/tawrā, Akkadian shuru. The English descendant is steer. Scholars believe this indicates a [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The Phrygian cap or liberty cap is a soft conical cap with the top pulled forward, associated in antiquity with several peoples in Eastern Europe and Anatolia, including Phrygia, Dacia, and the Balkans. In early modern Europe it came to signify freedom and the pursuit of liberty. It is used in the coat of arms [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The Neanderthals  2012 genetic studies seem to suggest that modern humans may have mated with &#8220;at least two groups&#8221; of archaic humans: Neanderthals and Denisovans. It is suggested that Denisovans shared a common origin with Neanderthals, that they ranged from Siberia to Southeast Asia, and that they lived among and interbred with the ancestors of some [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The Tangled Roots of English The ARyans – ARmenians of ARarat The earliest attestations of the exonym Armenia date around the 6th century BC. In his trilingual Behistun Inscription, Darius I the Great of Persia refers to Urashtu (in Babylonian) as Armina (in Old Persian) and Harminuya (in Elamite). Herodotus, in c. 440 BC, said “the [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Armenian is an Indo-European language. It has two mutually intelligible and written forms: Eastern Armenian, today spoken mainly in Armenia, Artsakh, Iran and the former Soviet republics, and Western Armenian, used in the historical Western Armenia and, after the Armenian Genocide, primarily in the Armenian diasporan communities. The unique Armenian alphabet was invented in 405 [&hellip;]</p>

Gilgamesh is the semi-mythic King of Uruk in Mesopotamia best known from The Epic of Gilgamesh (written c. 2150 - 1400 BCE) the great...

Ninurta (identified with Ningirsu, Pabilsag, and the biblical Nimrod) is the Sumerian and Akkadian hero-god of war, hunting, and the...

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

Zakutu (c. 701-c.668 BCE) was the Akkadian name of Naqia, a wife of King Sennacherib of Assyria, who reigned between 705-681 BCE. Though...

<p>Utu, later worshipped by East Semitic peoples as Shamash, was the ancient Mesopotamian god of the sun, justice, morality, and truth, and the twin brother of the goddess Inanna, the Queen of Heaven. Shamash was the solar deity in ancient Semitic religion, corresponding to the Sumerian god Utu. Shamash was also the god of justice [&hellip;]</p>