(Pantheon Mythology) Goddess Inanna (Ishtar, Aphrodite, Venus, the Goddess of Love and War) was older than God, so the Patriarchy made inverted her and made her the demon named Astaroth to erase and expunge her, making room for the Jewish tribal God Yahweh (Jehovah, Demiurge, Yaldabaoth...)
Inanna [a] is the ancient Mesopotamian Goddess of War, Love, and Sex (the Aphrodite and Venus of olde). She is also associated with divine law, political worldly power, sensuality, and procreation (fertility).
Originally worshipped in Sumer (by the Sumerians), she was also known to the Akkadians, Babylonians, and Assyrians as Ishtar [b]. Her primary title is "The Queen of Heaven."
She was the patron goddess of the Eanna temple at the City of Uruk, her early main religious center. In archaic Uruk, she was worshipped in three forms:
Morning Inanna (Inana-UD/hud),
Evening Inanna (Inanna sig),
Princely Inanna (Inanna NUN).0
The first two reflect the phases of her associated planet Venus [5, 6], the Morning Star. Her most prominent symbols include the lion and the eight-pointed star.
Her husband is the God Dumuzid (later known as Tammuz), and her sukkal (attendant) is the Goddess Ninshubur, later conflated with the male deities Ilabrat and Papsukkal. More
(Pantheon Mythology) The problem with sexy, seductive demons like Sirens and Jezebels, Nephilim and giants, Asuras and fallen Devas, Harpies and Garudas, Mermaids and Nagas, Reptilians and Avians, Djinn (Genies) and Lilitu (Lillith), Archons and Narakas, Succubi and Incubi, vampires and lycanthropes, Banshees and Sidhe, Yokai and Kami, Selkies...
(The Enki Codex) The Sumerians call our local moon a "vessel" -- and described in detail who built it and why
So advanced were the SUMERians of Sumer that Wisdom Quarterly is inclined to think that their land, civilization, and technology may be the basis of Buddhist Mt. Sumeru, a launch site or spaceport to the stars.
(Origins Explained) AI decoded ancient Sumerian texts and stone tablets (Latin being closer to Akkadian than English). Humans were NOT the first on Earth. There were "gods" (intelligent space beings) here before that. What is this Sumerian language writing system? The mythological story of "Adam and Eve" is older than the Christian and Jewish Bibles. Creation myth: the Enūma Elišh
(PM) A long-awaited excavation by Italian archeologists has finally taken place beneath the floors of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, Palestine.
The church is believed to have been built in part upon the site of Jesus’s tomb, which the Gospel of John describes as having been “a garden.”
Their dig uncovered evidence of 2,000-year-old olive trees and grapevines, suggesting the site had indeed once been used for agriculture [if not gardening].
“At the place where Jesus was crucified, there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb, in which no one had ever been laid.”- John 19:41
As a literary device, this description of the burial place of Jesus Christ is effective; it offers a contrast between the site of Jesus’s death at the crucifixion site of Calvary (also called Golgotha, both derived from the Latin for “place of the skull”) and a fertile garden, brimming with life.
It also provides a cyclical shape to the final chapter of the Christ [the Anointed One's] narrative, which begins with his arrest in the Garden of Gethsemane.
So, as storytelling, this single sentence from the Gospel of John (the most recently written of the four canonical gospels, most scholars agree) has a substantial power to its brevity.
But as a historical record of where, exactly, one of the most famous men [or overhyped propaganda figures beginning with a historical figure then blown all out of proportion with myths, comforting fables, and voluminous imperial Roman psyops] who ever lived was laid to rest, one would be forgiven for finding it sorely lacking in detail.
Yet, thanks to a new discovery reported in the Times of Israel, that sentence might be key to confirming where the real [Jewish, Nazarene, or Essene] man at the center of the Christian faith was placed after his famous [imperial Roman torture practice of] crucifixion. More
(History But Fast) Originating from ancient cultures and societies, prostitution [trading sex for consideration, usually monetary] has been documented as a defined thing as far back as 2400 B.C. in ancient Mesopotamia, where sacred edicts legitimatized this practice.
Deeply rooted in tradition, culture, and socio-economic dynamics, it grew with civilization, oftentimes blurring lines between religious acceptance and societal norms.
Commerce, slavery, segregation -- various factors intertwined, shaping its complex history. With changing times, the perception and status of prostitution has also metamorphosed, sparking a spectrum of laws, debates, and attitudes around the world.
Let's journey back in time, unraveling the enigmatic roots of sacred prostitution in Sumer as reported in the oldest written work we have, The Epic of Gilgamesh.
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Would it be the worst thing to bring back sacred prostitution?
Girls Gone Bible (not Wild)
There is a fascinating little book out there in the world somewhere (and lost in the stacks of the Wisdom Quarterly Library), a pamphlet really, called something like An Experience of Enlightenment. Fascinating title but misleading. First of all, no one gets enlightened.
What happens is that the author recounts the true story of an incident that happened to affluent Westerners, friends dabbling in the occult by having a seance to "communicate with the other side." Sounds ominous, but who wouldn't want to connect to the Other Side, the Twilight Zone, the Shadow World? Sounds scary, but it ended well, not with actual enlightenment but with an experience that was eye opening.
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A spirit came through telling them an unbelievable story. They're all Judeo-Christian by tradition so, of course, they don't really care about or believe in religion or spirituality. But then this being, entity, ghost comes through a medium with such a stunning story that it makes them all doubt their secularism. The spirit says that thousands of years ago (~3,000) he used to be a priest in charge of a temple in what is now India, at the sacred confluence of some rivers up north (in the IVC, Gandhara, Scythia region under the Himalayas).
One day a prince is traveling through, and as priest he shows him hospitality. He claps for a temple dancing girl to come out and entertain this guest, this youth, as he is given food and drink. The priest has a crush on this dancing girl, possibly a temple prostitute of some kind or just a veiled sacred Kathak dancer, She immediately falls in love with the youth and he with her. The priest notices and sends her away. But it's too late. They elope. And when the priest, the spirit through the medium, notices, he loses control and kills her. He might have killed the youth, too.
In either case, it's in contradiction to his religion and priestly duties, so when he dies and expects to get into Brahma's heaven for his life of religious devotion to protecting the temple to some god or another, he is unable. Kind Brahma tells him he needs to get their forgiveness. That is, it's not enough that he apologize. That would be easy. It's that they must forgive him. Everyone at the seance table is moved by his testimony and glad he contacted them with this story of past lives, heaven, sin, lust, possessiveness, God, and karma, BUT what's it got to do with them?
Westerners horsing around at an American seance table. That's when he lays down the boom, showing how strange the working-out-of-karma is: Those two people he needs to get the forgiveness from at sitting at the table right now. You're one of them, temple dancing girl being ogled by the priest, and that guy's the former youth.
Would sacred temple prostitution have mitigated this situation? Or is emotional love going to always win out, prompting our craving, longing, and attachment? This poor priest, possessive murderer. This poor frustrated couple, gets reborn to find each other anew, in the holy precincts of a temple to the God, but then this jerk's attachment leads him to a jealous rage that gets people killed and him in 3,000 or more years' worth of trouble, trying to track these two down to get them to understand what happened, accept his apology, and grant their forgiveness so he finally move on and up. Do they grant it?
Readers come a way with a dizzying set of questions about what the Buddha was talking about when he warned about craving, lust, attachment, karma (deeds), thoughts, views, words...and forgiveness (khanti). This is a Western author talking to Westerners. There is no Indian, except what we were before rearising here. Even us, why do we care about spiritual India so much?
Why did Paramahamsa Yogananda claim he found his former students now living in the West, reborn white and prosperous? And they recognized him, were attracted to him, found his Kriya Yoga teaching perfectly in line with the Jesusism and Christianity they were now born into, when even today few people realize the "lost years" of Jesus (Issa) were spent in northern India, at that time culturally Tibet, at Hemis Gompa, where he
studied with Buddhist monks,
met Brahmins,
learned Vedic teachings...
He took all of this back to the West with his Zen-like parables for answers and other oddities, totally unJewish but very much in line with what the Essenes suddenly started to practice in Palestine/Israel out of nowhere, with no predecessor in Jewish texts or customs. The Gnostic texts that talk about the way of the Essenes is very Dharmic and much more Buddhistic, Eastern, and mellow as opposed to anything Abrahamic.
And if we go much further back to the Sumerian roots of Judaism (who took those ancient stories and made them about themselves), to a time before the Jewish priests desecrated "God's House" and turned the temple into a usury-bank for moneychangers, a den of iniquity and hypocrisy, so odious that Saint Issa/Jesus Christ flipped those tables over and chased them out, securing the place for godly things again.
Imagine a temple economy based not on the disgusting ritual slaughter of sacrificial animals and black magic rites of scapegoats and blood atonements to some insane tribal war god demanding the scent of burnt offerings (roasted flesh) wafting up to Him but instead the disgusting ritual prostitution of holy orgasm and sex with respect and not possessiveness and clinging. We could be as bonobos rather than chimps and vicious apes!
This temple economy based on killing animals is exposed in Christspiracy and is just like the ancient Greeks' obsession with dead offerings to their pantheon in Homer's The Odyssey and which even the good Vedas talk about having Brahmin priests do for Brahma or other more sinister spirits, godlings, demigods/titans, ogres, reptilians/Draconians, and interlopers (superiors, devas, asuras, yakkhas, nagas, brahmas)
Who knows how the great Sumerians set up a system of sex at church, sex at temple, sex in the holy precincts of houses of worship, devotion, and morality-learning, but it would be great to bring it back.
Whether prostitution is ultimately good or bad, no one can question how bad it is in current practice -- full of condemnation, shame, drug abuse, exploitation, pimps, madams, abusive boyfriends, lack of agency and advancement. Sex work could be a positive thing. It's going to be a thing anyway.
Look at the bonobos, chimps, gorillas, monkey, macaques, orangutans, and other primates, they use sex the way humans do. And to say we don't is willful ignorance, foolishly dismissing what anyone can see.
History But Fast, March 9, 2024; Eds., Wisdom Quarterly, orig. 3/27/24
Is there a Buddhist parallel to this popular Western story of a Garden, a first human couple, a Wisdom Tree, and a tricky shapeshifting Serpent? There is. One need only look at the Agganna Sutta, "A Buddhist Genesis," a discourse given by the Buddha "On Beginnings."
But first it may be better to question the Sumerian, Jewish, Christian version -- made silly by its oversimplification over the millennia. The Christian version makes next to no sense, the Jewish interpretations a little more sense, and the much older Sumerian roots from texts like the Epic of Gilgamesh the Enūma Eliš. All of these are creation myths rooted in some kind of history.
Sadly, many readers misunderstand the Buddhist version of "Genesis." The Buddha is in no way explaining how life began. It is preexisting. He is merely explaining how it came to Earth and how karma (deeds) impacts the environment. As people become so, too, the world declines. We are not evolving so much as devolving from a Golden Age (Satya Yuga), and it is all cyclical. It happens again and again.
This is an echo of the older Vedic (Hindu) and Shramanic (Jain) versions, and that is because "Buddhism" does not begin with the historical Buddha. He is constantly referring back to previous buddhas (Great Heroes or Ford-makers as Jainism calls them, avatars and sages in the Old Vedic Religion that became Brahmanism and much later Hinduism).
At their pure inner core, all beings know that they are not separate from one another. In that state of mind, it is as if they live in a Garden of Eden, where they have no need for shame, no need to differentiate friend from foe, good from evil, and no need to imagine a creator god to oversee their behavior.
They have no expectations that their lives should be other than they are.
It's all me. I created everything. - Even us?
But something in our nature likes to delude us into forgetting this oneness [or unity] of all things and into believing that life should be fairer than it is.
We give that demon a name, Mara [Death, the Obstacle to Enlightenment], to help us identify it.
Suppose that, a very long time ago, the first two human beings evolved from earlier beings. We’ll call them Adam and Eve. Their inner core, or Buddha-nature [or natural state of only dreaming and soon to awake], was pure, and they had no fear of other beings, no sense of good and evil, no self that was separate from other beings and from whatever force brought them into being.
Adam and Eve did have a sense, though, that one of the trees in their garden bore intoxicating [entheogenic] fruit that they should stay away from.
That was the Tree of Duality. Looking for an opportunity to trick Adam and Eve into believing they were distinct separate beings, Mara [the Deceiver] took the form of a snake to talk with them.
No beings had ever lied to Adam and Eve, and they had no way of knowing that the snake was not really a being, so they listened as the demon Mara told them how much fun it would be to become intoxicated on the fruit of the Tree of Duality.
Zarathustra, Iran (Persia)
So Adam and Eve ate the fruit and became drunk with duality. They began to see the world as a conflict between good and evil [as taught in the novel Near East religion of Zarathustra called Zoroastrianism].
They decided that only a cruel god would create such an unfriendly place, so they invented the god of the Old Testament and then hid from him.
Because Mara had taken the form of a snake, they feared and despised all snakes. They made distinctions everywhere: friend and foe, human and animal, smart and dumb, handsome and ugly, strong and weak, rich and poor. They began to see old age, sickness, and death as unfair, as burdens, as suffering.
Four prophets: Mani, Zoraster, Buddha, Jesus
They thought child-bearing was punishment. So that was how Mara, for thousands of years to come, deluded human beings into forgetting that they could return to the Garden of Eden.
Every parable is supposed to have a moral. I’d say the moral is: Some believe in an original sin that requires salvation. Other believe in a delusion that requires awakening. — Mel Pine (Urgyen Jigme)
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See more in Season 10, Episode 10, "The Forbidden Zones."
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The Untold Origins of "All" Religions | Pt. 1: Tracing the First Gods of Ancient Humanity
(DLM Men's Lifestyle) Oct. 13, 2024: ABOUT: Daniel Maritz from DLM Men's Lifestyle goes back into the forgotten ancient history of humankind. This new and exciting series takes a deep dive into all regions of the world.
In the first video, Maritz goes back to ancient Mesopotamia (Iraq) to show who Christians are taught were the first humans and who their gods were. For the ancient origins of all religions, join Maritz on this Christian extravaganza for a biblical adventure back in time.
Dan Maritz dives deep into Christian fantasies, interpretations, limited biblical view (as opposed to the larger view of the books kept out of the Bible known as the Apocrypha and Jewish, Sumerian, Akkadian, and Persian sources) ORIGINS of ANCIENT HUMANITY, revealing who the FIRST HUMANS (Adaba or the Adama and Lilith, Eve, and others) were and the GODS they worshipped.
Why does it matter? To UNCOVER the TRUTH behind the origins of EVERY RELIGION (or at least the Abrahamic ones) we know TODAY. What we discover in this video might shock us (but probably not) and challenge everything we thought we knew (linking all the Near and Middle Eastern cultures).
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Independent researcher Fritz Zimmerman (moundbuilder.blogspot.com) has spent 12 years in the field investigating 700 mound and earthwork sites in the Ohio Valley, USA.
He appeared on Coast to Coast on Oct. 7, 2024, to discuss his findings with dullard host G. Noory. Zimmerman shares his research into burial mounds (akin to Buddhist stupas) and archeological sites, which he says are home to Shadow People, cryptids, ancient dwarf races (wee people), giants, UFOs, and more.
Elaborating on the mounds' historical context, Zimmerman reveals that they date back as early as 800 BC, making them some of the oldest in the nation.
According to Zimmerman, some of the mounds and earthworks are associated with ancient giants, the people known as the Amorites who controlled Babylon from 2000 BC to 1600 BC.
"One of their calling cards," he says, "was advanced mathematics...they knew pi and the square roots of numbers" and discovered the Pythagorean theorem of triangles 1,000 years before ancient Greek Pythagoras.
What about the massive prehistoric American city of Cahokia? The Cahokia Mounds is the site of a pre-Columbian Native American city that existed circa 1050–1350 CE [3] directly across the Mississippi River from present-day St. Louis. The state archaeology park lies in southwestern Illinois between East St. Louis and Collinsville [4]. The park covers 2,200 acres (890 ha), or about 3.5 square miles (9 km2), and contains about 80 human made mounds, but the ancient City of Cahokia was much larger. At its apex around 1100 CE, the city covered about 6 square miles (16 km2), included about 120 earthworks in a wide range of sizes, shapes, and functions, and had a population of between 15,000 and 20,000 people. More
Zimmerman suggests that the Amorites were called the Nephilim in the Bible and that they initially came to America to mine copper. He theorizes that these giants eventually intermingled with Native human tribes like the Dakota Sioux, leading to their eventual disappearance.
At the top of Fort Hill in southern Ohio, at a four-foot stone wall "that undulates like a great serpent," Zimmerman once saw a large black mass that was humanoid in shape, which initially seemed about 8 feet tall but then grew in height as it moved toward the trees.
Other witnesses at the site also reported seeing the shadow figure, he reports. One reason such entities would be at the site is that "the mounds were a portal that connected the living with the dead," he notes.
A man who lives near a burial mound told Zimmerman that his car was surrounded by strange cryptids that looked like giant hamsters -- about 30 of them that seemed menacing.
The infamous cryptid creature known as Mothman that multiple witnesses saw in West Virginia in the 1960s may actually be the ancient winged Babylonian demon called Pazuzu, Zimmerman adds. AUDIO: coasttocoastam.com/show/2024-10-07-show
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