🎼🎶Oh little town of BethLahmu…🎶

The explanation of Btt-le em as the “House of (the god) Lahmu” is due to Otto
Schroeder, OLZ, 1915, pp. 294 f. This explanation is certainly correct… 

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— Dr. William F. Albright, The Canaanite God Ḥaurôn (Ḥôrôn), The American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures, 1936

It is academic consensus that there is a substrata of polytheism before monotheism in the Levant. Which makes sense, even in the Hebrew Bible the Hebrews are immigrants to the Levant. Beth, meaning ‘house’, can mean ‘temple’ in a town name. This prompts the question, “For what deity?”

The full four-letter Tetragrammaton for Yahweh only begins to appear circa the 9th C BCE (Mesha Stele). And the Hebrew language only begins to form around 1000 BCE (Khirbet Qeiyafa Ostracon), and so the toponym Bethlehem now means “House of Bread” in Hebrew and “House of Meat” in Arabic. Wiki discusses this possible Lahmu substrata for the name of ** you do not have permission to see this link ** too.

** you do not have permission to see this link **ervant protector of “The Living One,” Ea.

 

Link above to Dr. Wiggerman’s  Mesopotamian Protective Spirits, 1992.

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Lahmu means “Hairy One.” He is the man of the wilderness. Girded. May have originated as a river spirit. He is an intercessor for humanity with “The Living One” Ea at rivers. Portrayed with moving water like his Lord,  “The Living One”, Ea who was customarily shown with two rivers flowing out of his body. Compare:

John 7:38

As the scripture has said, ‘Out of the believer’s heart shall flow rivers of living water.’ ”

What scripture?

Lahmu can be plural, there can be several at once. In the original art, his girding (often his only garment in myth, otherwise being hairy is his form of clothing) is red:

Genesis 25:25

The first came out red, all his body like a hairy mantle, so they named him Esau. 

The meaning of the word esau itself is not entirely certain.^{** you do not have permission to see this link **}

— Wiki for ease.

Lahmu is the only Semetic-named personage in early Mesopotamian mythology. The Hebrew Bible states Abraham comes from ‘Ur of the Chaldees’ — that is Mesopotamia.  Therefore, his grandson Jacob posing as a hairy man in order to trick his father for the lineage blessing (a switcheroo of identity that is accounted to his good and brilliance in the Bible) may have additional meaning related to Lahmu.

Again, with Jacob fording the tributary of the Jordan and being saved by his god, there’s the linguistic anomaly of God with one name speaking about God with another name:

Genesis 35:1

Then God [Elohim] said to Jacob, ‘Go up to Bethel and settle there, and build an altar there to God [L’El], who appeared to you when you were fleeing from your brother Esau.’

Which isn’t an anomaly if this text preserves a personal god and a supreme god, which is common for any ballpark period estimated for the Patriarchal Age.

I know what you’re thinking, “Sounds like John the Baptist!” Maybe. I’m a little less quick to rush to conclusions than you.

Hold onto your kitty memes.

Deuteronomy 33:2

The Lord came from Sinai and dawned from Seir upon us; he shone forth from Mount Paran.

It is my refined hypothesis (and maybe that of my guide and Gemini 3 Pro – available for free at AI Studios) that these locations represent the triad of entities that form the new titulary deity of Yahweh Elohim:

Sinai = Yah

Mount Sinai is uncontestedly named after the moon god Sin. Moon Mountain. The interpretio of the moon god in an Egyptian narrative like the Exodus though, is Iah who the Hyksos called Yah. Iah/Yah’s epithet is “The Shining One.” This deity is symbolized by, but not actually the, crescent moon. Iah has a clear rebirth role in incantations and is later syncretized as Osiris-Iah. Iah is associated with the waxing moon typically symbolizing rebirth above, and a watery deep of rebirth below.

This is how The Shining One could  DAWN from Mount Seir – because it’s the moon. This is how The Shining One could SHINE forth from Mount Paran – because it’s the moon. 

Mount Seir is more to the East, so it would dawn there low first, and then once high in the sky it would spotlight Paran’s desert floor.

This would continue to make the Egyptian deity Iah/Hyksos Yah in my opinion likely to be the cultural diffusion of Ea with anûtu, Anu’s power, and why “Iah is in Anu” in the Egyptian Book of the Unalived. Again it is my original take that this worship would be brought by foreign wives, since the Iah theonyms are first present in noble female names, and native Egyptian noble women usually did not marry out. The unifying characteristic of all Mesopotamian deities is that they have melammu (shine).

Seir = Lahmu

Seir literally means hairy:

Se’ir Heb. Sei‘r‘, שֵׂעַיר, hairy [i.e. rough, by a play upon the name of Esau, see ** you do not have permission to see this link **]

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Edom literally means red:

E’dom (Hebrews Edom’, אֵֹדם or אדֵוֹם so called from his red hair, Ge 25:25, or from the red pottage for which he bartered his birthright, verse 30; Sept. Ε᾿δώμ), the later name of Isaac’s son, elder twin-brother of Jacob; more frequently called ESAU

Esau literally means hairy:

E’sau (Hebrews Esav’, עֵשָׂו, hairy [see Ge 25:25; his surname EDOM was given him from the red pottage, Ge 25:30]

Seir, Edom (for the postal service) is the mountain landmark of Esau of Edom’s home.

All definitions, McClintock and Strong Biblical Cyclopedia.

“The Hairy One” is of course, Lahmu whose only covering is red:

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Wiki for ease.

Paran = Ha

Yes, Ha the not-too-famous desert deity that replaced the trés unpopular Seth Baal as Lord of Foreign Lands, as I’ve mentioned before. While Paran is a mountain in this verse, the mountain is the landmark of the desert many times in the Hebrew Bible, like:

Genesis 21:19–22

While he was living in the Desert of Paran, his mother got a wife for him from Egypt. 

Ha goes back to the Archaic Period in Egypt. Ha was first associated with manufacturing, like mining and metallurgy in the desert mountains between Egypt and Canaan, tasks performed by Semetic-speaking peoples for Egypt. Once he gets upgraded to Lord of a geographical region, he now has the hills too. 

Again, actual scholarship has Ha the Egyptian desert deity’s first role, ‘Lord of the West’ as the underworld as ‘West,’ and not the geographic West. He claims lordship over foreign peoples from both geographic East and geographic West in his inscriptions.

Refresher:

The Concept of the Desert Embodied By The God Ha, 2023 Dr. Kata Jasper,   ** you do not have permission to see this link **

Why would you add a Lord? Because Yah/Iah and Lahmu are not Lords. I think you need a Lordship for the titulary deity of a kingdom, and Baal is out.

Now in Deuteronomy 33:2 you have in text form the exact symbol of three ridges and desert of the Lord of Foreign Lands, the khaset. And that symbol of the Foreign Lands were first specifically attributed to the Shasu, the Semetic-speaking nomads:

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YaHW+Ha  LaHMu?

I know, I thought LHM, read as Elohim, could be a catchall for El and the divine council, and it could still be or stack meanings. That’s why the ‘?’. Both the YHW and Yahu forms existed at the Jewish temple at Elephantine, and the Egyptian -w swaps for the Akkadian -u.

Here’s where the three unite:

2 Kings 3:9 

So the king of Israel set out with the king of Judah and the king of Edom. After a roundabout march of seven days, the army had no more water for themselves or for the animals with them.

Israel, Judah, Edom seem to be in order of leadership status?

Kingdom of Israel

• Baal, (then much, much later Ha) is the deity outside of Egypt that is ascribed ‘Lord of Foreign Lands.” The Lord of Foreign Lands is what Hyksos means. Originally it is a tribal chieftan that rules other tribes. As an Egyptian deity, Ha’s personal name would likely not be used by a vassal, and so would be simply called Lord.

I mean King David commissions the architect of the First Temple from a big Baal city. I think he united the Baals before the Yahwists of the Josian Reform raised a household deity to a national one. Which is what seems to be implied in Hosea 2:16

On that day, says the LORD, you will call me, “My husband,” and no longer will you call me, “My Baal.”

Originally within Egypt, the Lord of Foreign Lands was Seth, and outside of Egypt it was Baal (imo they reference Seth and Abel). Ha replaces Seth because Seth is foreigny and Ramessidey. The characteristics of the Lord in the Hebrew Bible seemp to change, in my hypothesis (from storm god of split sacrifices to a sword god known for desert food miracles, and who still has those mountain storm associations. This would be facilitated by the miraculously-found proto-Deuteronomy text).

Kingdom of Judah

• Yah/Iah/Ea. Gihon Springs is a perfect apsu. And the lunar eclipse over Jerusalem, that Acts 2:20 alludes to when it subtweets Joel 2:31, also seems to match the purview.

“Salvation is of the Jews.” – Jesus, John 4:22. If Yah/Iah is the symbol of Ea’s rebirth aspect, as is my best guess, Ea is of course the earliest savior of humanity in written religion.  The Jewish people having a Yah deity and an apsu may explain why it would be especially them that salvation would come from. 

Kingdom of Edom

• Lahmu. Edom is described as ‘hairy’ and red. As far as people, Jacob and Esau both become Hairy Ones. That’s ok. Lahmu can be multiple.

I think Lahmu’s traits are in the mix of attributes assigned to the Hebrew deity (protector, guardian, blunt weapons, thresholds, marking the doorways) and I am giving up on exploring an L-to-Y swap because LHM could work just fine. 

In my not humble opinion, Jerusalem’s Gihon Springs being the apsu is why a man from Judaea was widely prophesized to be the rebirth of new leadership that Jesus might have been accounted to fulfill. And there is no one more declared Lord globally than Jesus. Suck it Vespasian.

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Jesus, who named himself ** you do not have permission to see this link ** in Revelation 1:17-18, is crowned in vegetal matter and hung on a cross of olive wood.

John the Baptist’s followers, the Mandaeans’ deity ** you do not have permission to see this link **

The Living One is what the shining white silk banner, the ** you do not have permission to see this link **, on the Mandaean cross is symbolic for. This Living One epithet is used for the emanated aspect of their deity, The Great Life. Yes, the silk is intentionally draped into an anthropomorphic form.

As far as the claim that Jesus‘ cross was made of olive wood, there are three points that support it:

1. Byzantine emperors purportedly gifted fragments to churches, including Notre Dame. When four of these fragments were examined by Charles Rohault De Fleurry in 1870, all were of ** you do not have permission to see this link **.

2. Fragments of the world’s only modern discovery of a crucifixion in the Levant in 1985 were of ** you do not have permission to see this link **.

3. Roman soldiers expediently sourced the wood for a crucifixion from the immediate area. The 2022-2016 excavations at the site found one type of wood, ** you do not have permission to see this link **.

Yet scholars say that any resemblance between these two crosses are coincidental?

I think au contraire mon frere.

The more that scholarship arises for Sumero-Akkadian Mesopotamia, and the more that the secret texts of the Mandaeans are generously made public by them, the more that I believe their claim is bolstered that they are cultural re-enactors of the world’s oldest religion. I’ve made a case for that being originally Sumerian An, the unmanifested supreme deity whose will is manifested as his son Enki in Anûtu, which is variously translated now as “Anu-ship” and “Anu power.” Enki’s epithet as “Lord of Life,” when raised to Anu’s title of “Great,” seems like it can easily form the Mandaean deity’s primary name, Hayyi Rabba, meaning “The Great Life.” This deity is also sometimes called The Life and The Living One. (And as I’ve written before, the very similar-sounding Hayya and Hayya Rabbu, meaning, “The Living [One/God]” and “The Great Living [One/God]” are attested Eblaite names for Ea, which is the Akkadian name for Enki. The [One/God] in brackets is a translation convention for this name that is used to supply the substantive noun which the grammar leaves understood.)

Enlil, who also received a lot of cuneiform press, is not only a later addition per Mesopotamian gods lists, he almost disappears in the Antiquarian Revival. His powers seem connected to an empire that is no longer.

Refresher: ** you do not have permission to see this link **

My original hypothesis seems to match what I’m reading in scholar E.S. Drower’s ** you do not have permission to see this link **, 1937, and her assessment of the Mandaean god’s earliest origins:

This dual application was characteristic of the cults of Anu and Ea in Sumerian times…

I’ve made the analogy of Colonial America vs America, that while the Mandaeans re-enact the original religion, Jesus’ movement would be influenced by its modern form.

In the Antiquarian Revival of Seleucid (and some Alsacid) Uruk that ends around the 1rst Century BCE, there was a de facto supreme trinity:

• Anu (Akkadian name for the Sumerian An, the father deity)

• Antu (Anu’s emanation, which is simply Anu with a feminine suffix added. Compare the Holy Spirit which has feminine pronouns in the Peshitta, or the Mandaean Anana, the water cloud*.)

• Ea (Anu’s son, the exorcist-physician savior of humanity with the water ablution rites.)

*I think it’s magic tadpole water, which is usually the male domain obviously, but unusually falls under the female deity Anahita’s domain, for whom Antu and Anana could possibly share characteristics. This would make the Dad, his tadpole water, and his tadpole all of the same substance.)

Again, my hypothesis is that this cultural transmission would be relayed in the First Century via Judaea’s borderless neighbor of  Nabataea, semi-nomadic people whose deity Dushara likely had the epithets of “The Life” and “The Great Life” per scholar Dr. Healey, and whose blessing for royals, “For the Life of [insert royal name here]” was shared with the Antiquarian Revival of Seleucid (and some Alsacid) Uruk, and who have a Mesopotamian origin, per scholar Dr. Graf.

So while Mandaeans would be cultural re-enactors churning butter in powder wigs, the Jesus movement would be the “Spirit of ’76”, emblifying the spirit of innovation in installing the “mes,” the niceties of civilization:

• Healthcare (** you do not have permission to see this link ** and accompanying them with river clay is an Ea practice) by bringing it to the last place in the civilized world to receive it:

Mark 6:13

They cast out many demons and anointed with oil many who were sick and cured them

• Printing. Books as a technology replacing scrolls are first found in highly-civilized Alexandria, and owes its spread to the earliest ** you do not have permission to see this link **.

• I’d say maybe even running water — the Nabataeans were the undisputed masters of this, and Nabataean Edessa becomes the home of ** you do not have permission to see this link **. And it is my original hypothesis that the Book of Isaiah’s plan for roads, running water, and agroforestry in the desert wilderness came to fruition in Petra.

Know your hegemons.

But why would the wreath-crown of the Mandaean The Living One be myrtle? As I’ve stated earlier, per their text the Inner Haran/Haran Gawaitha, the Jewish inflow of Mandaeans, self-described apostates from Jewish religion, in escaping an unrestful Jerusalem first find refuge in the Haran (historically Nabataean-controlled), and then after generations, maybe around the time that the Haran is ceded to Rome, are taken in by a King Artabanus (the dynastic name means there are several) in the Persian, Parthian empire. To this day, their main community of Nasoriyah lives on the same lagoon system of the Sumero-Akkadian The Living One — that of Eridu that is now dried up.

Myrtle just so happens to be the sacred twig, per Aban Yasht (Yasht 5.129), of the water ablution, light, and mercy deity called The Mother of The Living that peaked in any King Artabanus’ Parthian empire — Anahita. The Mother Of The Living potentially sharing a symbol with, or bestowing a symbol to, The Living One may be a type of syncretization, idk, but it is thematically the same, unlike say, Amun-Ra (the Egyptian air and sun deities syncretized into one persona), or a storm deity creating a miracle of food in the desert. I’m calling it right now — Antu, mother of The Living One, and Anahita, Mother of The Living – have they ever been seen in a room together?

Anahita embodies the pure river. Her tradition of myrtle twig bundles was part of the tradition of twig bundles called barsam (alike to the 7 myrtle twig bundles sometimes attached to the Mandaean cross). Strabo in his ** you do not have permission to see this link ** associates Persian river reverence with a myrtle twig bundle. The use of myrtle specifically in wreath-crowns might enter when Anahita is interpretio’d with Aphrodite, who is known for the myrtle wreath-crown. In fact, the first dateable reference so far for Anahita, “The Mother of The Living” is in 280 BCE as Aphrodite Anaitis, as described by Berossus, an author from Mesopotamia writing in Koine Greek.

For Jesus’ wreath-crown, my best guess so far is that the thorns may be a vegetal representation of the Radiate Crown of the Roman empire. Vegetal crowns are even more popular in this period than Coachella.

And apparently the Peshitta uses the Mandaean word ** you do not have permission to see this link **a word that is used for the Mandaean Living One’s wreath-crown, for Jesus‘ wreath-crown, while instead the customary word for crown is used in Revelation.

So, almost 6,000 years of continuous worship at Eridu,  established 5400 BCE, and its natural springs start drying up. Worship, whose main city center had already moved to Ur millennia prior, then moves to (Antiquarian Revival) Seleucid Uruk, which still had a vigorous flow of the sacred water of the Tigris-Euphrates alluvial basin, which is the source of the Fertile Crescent where civilization first arises. But once the Parthians begin de facto defunding the temples, Gihon Spring might have started looking really nice, especially with the term Gihon being linked to original waters in Genesis 2:13. *trash panda hands start water washing*. Cue the arrival of water ablutionist softies, the (these are the presumed merged influences) Mesopotamian-Aramean-Quedarite Arab Nabataeans in 1 Maccabees 5:25

They encountered the Nabateans, who met them peaceably…

Their royal intermarriage allows them a claim to Jerusalem and its Gihon Spring. That is, up until Herod Antipas divorces his first wife, the Nabataean Phaesalis, for Herodias. First Century Jewish historian Josephus again, ties Phaesalis, her dad Aretas, and John the Baptist’s stories together in ** you do not have permission to see this link **.

This period of Nabataean chocolate in the Jewish peanut butter, or jelly in the peanut butter, which I guess is called the Intertestamental Period, happens to coincide with the absence of living “god-kings” claiming hegemony over the Levant (to recap, a living “god-king” commissioned the Septuagint) until the practice of apotheosis is revived by Gaius Julius Caesar Germanicus (12 CE-41 CE.)

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Matthew 13:35

that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, “I will open My mouth in parables; I will utter things which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world

Nasoraeans — “shup uuuup”.

From Hadrian Augustus to Servianus the consul, Greetings. The land of Egypt (praises of which you have recounted to me, dear Servianus) I have found to be wholly light-minded, fickle, and following after rumors. There, those worshipping Serapis are Christians, and devotees of Serapis are {calling/styling themselves} ‘bishops of Christ’. There is no chief of the Jewish synagogue, no Samaritan, no Christian presbyter, who is not an astrologer, bird-diviner, or fortune-teller. Even Patriarch himself, if he comes to Egypt, is forced on the one hand to show reverence Serapis, and on the other to Christ” — c. 134 CE

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Recapping my Mandaean (John the Baptist’s followers, the priests of which are Nasoraean) First Life-Fourth Life cipher:

• Enki v 1.0

• Ea v 2.0

• Osiris v 3.0

• Serapis v 4.0

So, syncretizing male water ablution salvific figures may not just be simply a matchy-matchy continuity of function, it may even reflect an understanding of cultural diffusion.

Compare the ** you do not have permission to see this link ** in John 5:1-15. Also Isis, Osiris/Serapis’ consort that reached a zenith of status with Serapis, experienced a continuity of function with Mary veneration.

As I remarked at the outset, very few ancient materials are available which offer any sort of explanation of either the nature or the meaning of the ablution rites conducted within the Isis-Sarapis cult. Of particular value are a few passages found in the Metamorphoses of Apuleius, for they offer an indication of the manner in which ablutions were carried out. According to Metamorphoses 11.23, before Lucius underwent his initiation, he was led by the priest ‘‘to the neighboring public baths’’ (ad proxumas balneas) in order to be purified…

— ** you do not have permission to see this link **Robert A. Wild, 1981, Brill

Christian apologist Tertullian (165-225 CE) thought that Serapis was formed from Joseph’s good deeds being exaggerated into miracles. Oh no 🐢ian, how could that even happen?

It is therefore a small matter that they have also deified a man—him, I mean, whom not Egypt only, or Greece, but the whole world worships, and the Africans swear by; about whose state also all that helps our conjectures and imparts to our knowledge the semblance of truth is stated in our own (sacred) literature. For that Serapis of yours was originally one of our own saints called Joseph.

Returning to Matthew 13:35’s quote:

I will open My mouth in parables; I will utter things which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world

Sumerians seem to value intelligence over might, the benefits of civilization, and grace; and cast any other group than themselves as rougher. So does setting information to be found by only those with emotional intelligence avoid upsetting assumptions about reality, and selects for grateful seekers when they reach a point in their own emotional development where they know what to look for?

The foundation of the world ≠ the creation of the universe, or the creation of earth, or even the creation of humanity in Sumerian lore, such as is revived in the Antiquarian Revival of Seleucid Uruk — the “foundation of the world” corresponds to the installation of the mes, the beginning of civilization.

John 1:1

In the beginning was the Word…

To recap, I believe that John the Baptist’s followers, the Mandaeans, are essentially re-enacting the world’s first written religion, while Jesus was running the latest version of this ‘software’.

I’ve claimed that the Mandaean concept of Emanations seem to describe how the original Lord of Life epithet iterates across civilizations — Sumerian, Akkadian, Egyptian and Greek.

Enki to Ea — academic consensus.

Osiris to Serapis — academic consensus.

Ea to Osiris — Serene and Serene consensus.

So how could a Mesopotamian deity iterate in Egypt? The answer is That Simple — Ea’s son Asar has Osiris’ original name, Asar.

• Ea’s son Asar’s name in logogram: City + Eye (“Watcher of the City”).

• Osiris/Asar’s name in logogram: Throne + City (“Watcher of the Throne”).

To me this reads as a deity transported by a royal family, the same as the Nabataean deity Dushara. And in the Mandaean Diwan of Abator (Scroll of Abator), the Third Life’s symbol is the throne. Reminder that I think that the Mandaean Third Life describes Osiris, and that I think that the Third Life’s name of Abator likely works out to “He/One of Abot,” Osiris’ city of Abydos’ original name.

Osiris shows up during Egypt’s Fifth Dynasty c. 2498 BC–c. 2345 BC, faaaar after the “** you do not have permission to see this link **” that begins c. 3600 BCE. Wiki link for ease.

The first genetic background of an Egyptian high-status Third/Fourth Dynasty individual was sequenced in 2025 (all bolding mine):

For the first time in 2025, a study was able to give insights into the genetic background of Early Dynastic Egyptians, by sequencing the whole genome of an Old Kingdom adult male Egyptian of relatively high-status, radiocarbon-dated to 2855–2570 BCE, with funerary practices archeologically attributed to the Third and Fourth Dynasty, which was excavated in Nuwayrat (Nuerat, نويرات), in a cliff 265 km south of Cairo.[76][77] Before this study, whole-genome sequencing of ancient Egyptians from the early periods of Egyptian Dynastic history had not yet been accomplished, mainly because of the problematic DNA preservation conditions in Egypt.[76]

Let’s get granular with the “two-source model”:

Most of his genome derives from Neolithic North African ancestry, itself rooted in a Levantine expansion into northeast Africa ~8,000 years ago. 

The remaining ~20% of his genetic ancestry derives from populations of the eastern Fertile Crescent, including Mesopotamia.[76] The resulting genetic profile is most closely represented by a two-source model, in which 77.6% ± 3.8% of the ancestry corresponded to genomes from the Middle Neolithic Moroccan site of Skhirat-Rouazi (dated to 4780–4230 BCE), which itself consists of predominantly (76.4 ± 4.0%) Levant Neolithic ancestry and (23.6 ± 4.0%) minor Iberomaurusian ancestry, while the remainder (22.4% ± 3.8%) was most closely related to known genomes from Neolithic Mesopotamia (dated to 9000-8000 BCE).[76][79].)

To sum up, they found about 20% of Mesopotamian DNA in a noble Egyptian’s remains of the Third or Fourth Dynasty. Osiris first appears during the Fifth Dynasty. This is plenty of time to facilitate cultural diffusion.

Mesopotamian Asar, later called Asarluhi/Asalluhi functions mostly like the agent of his father Ea, with special associations with the netherworld:

There are several examples in the early texts where the borders between abzu and the netherworld are fuzzy. For example, P. Stein- keller has claimed that abzu, as it appears in the Zami hymn preceding the hymn dedicated to Asar can be considered synonymous (“virtually identical”) with the netherworld, i.e., the land of the dead.  

This extra emphasis on the netherworld is where Osiris could come in.

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• Mesopotamian Asar/Asalluhi has an epithet of “** you do not have permission to see this link **” because he judges people at the river.

• Egyptian Asar/Osiris judges people at the river.

• Mesopotamian Asar/Asalluhi is the “leopard prince.”

 • Egyptian Asar/Osiris’s priests wear leopard to embody him. 

• Mesopotamian Asar/Asalluhi The folk etymology for “Asar-” describes how he fertilizes garden greenery with his water.

In Enūma eliš, col. vii, ll. 1–2 (Lambert 2013, 124–125) Asar (dasar-re) is described as an agricultural deity explained in Akkadian based on dividing asar-re into elements a (“water”), sar (“garden, greenery”) and rig (“to donate”) in Sumerian (see Deimel 1945, 262–263). 

• Egyptian Asar/Osiris is colored green for how he fertilizes agriculture with his water.

• Egyptian Asar/Asalluhi is:

“He who raises the dead to life.”

• Mesopotamian Asar/Osiris is:

“The One who executes reanimation.” s-ꜥnḫ

Were there any ancient people claiming that there had been early cultural diffusion in Egypt? A group who claimed to be ethnically Sabaean but left because of a deteriorating dam, and whose name root “Sab,” in Aramaic means “wash,” which could possibly be connected to Asarluhi’s appended  “-luhi,” which Assyriologist Dr. Lambert thought meant “to wash”?

The Ethiopians say that the Egyptians are one of their colonies which was brought into Egypt by Osiris”. — ^{1rst Century BCE Greek historian Diodorus Siculus}

Pretty easy cipher, right? Yeah, none of you billions of people got it. Gets carried by teddy bears like C-3PO.

I hope to improve my working hypothesis “How Government Made God” with this new-to-me information. And additionally considering the ancient Pantera commentary around Jesus, and panther being just another name for leopard (for which I’ve earlier explored the Persian myth around Rostam, who I believe is an excellent candidate for having an Asar precedent), and Asar’s attribute of eloquence (compare Luke 4:22 and Luke 21:15), I propose that Jesus is first acting in the living image of the son, Asar, and then in Revelation as the father, Ea, a name which again, scholar Peeter Espak interprets as “The Living One.” This would likely be in anútu, in Anu the unmanifested all-that-is deity’s power.

And that this explains the persistent comparisons of Enki, Ea, Osiris (and even that one Roman with Serapis) to Jesus — because the Antiquarian Revival that swept almost the entire Ancient Near East, including books like Enoch (Mandaean Anush), was slowest to arrive in really rural Galilee.

Apocalyptic literature — predicting the signs of the beginning or end of an age — makes more sense when you just dug up millennia of golden age cycles. 

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1. The man who rages in his house…is [the Lord]…

Jesus flips the tables. (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━

John 2:15-16

So he made a whip out of cords, and drove all from the temple courts, both sheep and cattle; he scattered the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables. To those who sold doves he said, “Get these out of here! Stop turning my Father’s house into a market!

 

1. …He is held fast in the prison.

Jesus is detained.

Mark 15:1

…They bound Jesus, led him away, and handed him over to Pilate.

 

2. [The man who on the 7th of Nissan……]…

Jesus‘ Passion Week ends around Nisan 14.

 

7. [The [Seat of Investiture] where] he goes, is the house at the edge of (the place of) the ordeal; they question him there.

Jesus is questioned by Pilate, who is sitting on the seat of investiture near the Crucifixion site.

John 19:13

When Pilate heard this, he brought Jesus out and sat down on the judge’s seat (Bēma) at a place known as The Stone Pavement (which in Aramaic is Gabbatha).

 

10. [The Lady] whose hands are stretched out, prays, “Let [The Lord] live!”

Mary Magdalene and other female figures are near Jesus at the Crucifixion.

John 19:25

Near the cross of Jesus stood his mother, his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.

 

11. [The Lady] who goes away, is going to the graveyard and looking for him.

Mary Magdalene goes looking for Jesus at the tomb.

John 20:1-2

Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb…

 

12. …his guards; they are appointed over  him, and guard [him].

Jesus is appointed guards.

Matthew 27:54 NIV

When the centurion and those with him who were guarding Jesus…

 

13. …he fled and we[nt up] there [thinking: “Per]haps I will be saved.”

Jesus goes up to the Mount of Olives and prays to be saved from the upcoming Crucifixion.

Luke 22:39-42

Jesus went out as usual to the Mount of Olives, and his disciples followed him… He withdrew about a stone’s throw beyond them, knelt down and prayed,  “Father, if you are willing, take this cup from me…”

 

13. They brought [him] down from there.

Jesus is brought down from the Mount of Olives by a group.

Luke 22:54

Then seizing him, they led him away and took him into the house of the high priest.

 

15. [The saddle] beneath him (and) the red wool with which he is clothed, are the blows with which he was struck. They are [dyed] with his blood.

Jesus’ saddle of cloaks is typically red in ** you do not have permission to see this link **.

Matthew 21:7

They brought the donkey and the colt and put on them their cloaks, and he sat on them

And Jesus is given typical Roman soldier hospitality.

John 19:1

He had Jesus flogged…

Jesus wears the scarlet robe.

Matthew 27:28

They stripped him and put a scarlet robe on him.

 

15. […] who does not go with him, saying: “I am not a criminal; I have nothing to do [with him]!

Peter denies Jesus.

Luke 22:56-58

But Peter was following at a distance… “This man also was with him.” But he denied it, saying, “Woman, I do not know him.” A little later someone else, on seeing him, said, “You also are one of them.” But Peter said, “Man, I am not!” 

 

16. On behalf of [God] they open the case before him, he h[ears] the case.

Jesus is trialed.

Jesus’ trial before Caiaphas ended in the early hours of the morning.

 

20.[The head] which hangs from the crossbar…is the head of the criminal who assi[sted and ad]vised him.

Jesus is crucified with criminals. 

Luke 23:33

…And the criminals were also crucified.

 

22. …sprinkles about the  stamens of the date palms there: [(that) is because] [the Lord] went to (the place of) the river  ordeal.

Jesus is greeted by palm tree branches and branches spread on the road.

Matthew 21:18

A very large crowd spread their cloaks on the road, while others cut branches from the trees and spread them on the road.

John 12:17

They took branches of palm trees and went out to meet Jesus. They shouted, “’Praise Him!’ ‘Welcome…’

Occuring after Jesus is baptized in the river.

Matthew 3:13

Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to be baptized…

 

22. The city has revolted against him and they are fighting in there.

Jesus is rejected by the city of Jerusalem, and predicts conflict there as a result.

Luke 19:41-44

As he came near and saw the city, he wept over it, saying, “If you, even you, had only recognized on this day the things that make for peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes. Indeed, the days will come upon you when your enemies will set up ramparts around you and surround you and hem you in on every side. They will crush you to the ground, you and your children within you, and they will not leave within you one stone upon another, because you did not recognize the time of your visitation from God.”

 

24. The pig reeds which they throw in the path of [the Son of God]…

Jesus is struck by a reed (by multiple people).

Mark 15:19

They struck his head with a reed…

 

27. The exorcists who go in front of him reciting an incantation are his people; they [go] wailing in front of him.

Jesus’ people wail for him in his presence.

Luke 23:27

A large number of people followed him, including women who mourned and wailed for him.” 

Jesus‘ disciples are exorcists.

Matthew 10:1

Then he summoned his twelve disciples and gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out…

Luke 19:17

The seventy-two returned with joy, saying, “Lord, in your name even the demons are subject to us!”

30. His clothing …are his robes; they carried [them off].

Jesus‘ red robe authorized by Pilate is removed, and his earlier, ‘shining’ robe authorized by Herod is already presumed to have been removed, in a harmonization of the Gospels.

Matthew 27:31

After mocking him, they stripped him of the robe.

 

35. …pleads (his case)… “I only did what was good…! What is [my] crime?”

Jesus responds to the Pharisees.

John 10:32

Jesus replied, “I have shown you many good works from the Father. For which of these are you going to stone me?”

 

37. [The Lord] who scans the sky, prays…”Let me live!”

Jesus prays to the one who was able to save him from death.

Hebrews 5:7

In the days of his flesh, Jesus offered up prayers and supplications, with loud cries and tears, to the one who was able to save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverent submission… 

 

44. They ask…”Who is the criminal?”

Jesus is identified by Judas as the criminal.

Mark 14:43-44

Judas, one of the Twelve, suddenly arrived…”The One I kiss,” he said, “He’s the One; arrest Him and take Him away under guard.”

 

 

44. They bring [……], [muzzle] the criminal [and ……].

Jesus does not speak to the charges.

Matthew 27:14

But he gave him no answer, not even to a single charge, so that the governor was greatly amazed.

 

47. [The Lord] …in (his) terror, he quickly thirsts for water.

Jesus thirsts during the Crucifixion.

John 19:28

I thirst…

 

49. The water [which he] mixes [with ……] and pours out, is the turbid water [……].

Jesus is likely offered posca. Posca is a drink that is mostly water with wine-vinegar added in at 4:1 and even 10:1 ratios.

Matthew 27:34

…they gave him wine to drink, mixed with gall, but when he tasted it, he would not drink it.

 

50. The […] which they place [on] the marinaded roasted  meat, is that of … [……].

Jesus’ Crucifixion happens on Passover. The Passover Lamb is specifically roasted.

Exodus 12:9

Do not eat any of it raw or boiled in water but roasted over the fire…

 

51. The flour which is much too plentiful…

Flour in this context is an offering, and Nicodemus brings, what is in academic consensus, an excessive offering of about one hundred pounds of ultra-luxurious aloes (agarwood) and myrrh powders.

John 19:39

Nicodemus, who had at first come to Jesus by night, also came, bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, weighing about a hundred pounds.

 

52. The water for (washing) the hands which they bring near…

Pilate washes his hands.

Matthew 27:24

So when Pilate saw that he could do nothing, but rather that a riot was beginning, he took some water and washed his hands…

 

53. The outfit which is on him and of which it is said: “That is water”…

Jesus is, again, dressed in two different robes at different times in Passion Week in a harmonization of the Gospels — a scarlet/purple one and a “lampros” one.

Luke 23:11 (NASB for its broader koine Greek usage in defining “lampros” as “brightly shining.”

And Herod, together with his soldiers, treated Him with contempt and mocked Him, dressing Him in a brightly shining robe, and sent Him back to Pilate.

This also has commonalities with the Mandaean figure Anush-Uthra (Excellent Enoch) in their text the Ginza (the Treasure), in a passage that — even with Mandaean criticisms of Jesus elsewhere in comparison to their own leader John the Baptist — ** you do not have permission to see this link ** widely believe to be a retelling of Jesus‘ good deeds.

“On the contrary, Enos (Anos)-Uthra comes and proceeds to Jerusalem,
clothed as with a garment in water-clouds. . . . He emerges and comes
during the years of Pilate, king of the world. Enos-Uthra comes into the
world with the powers of the sublime King of Light. He heals the sick and
opens (the eyes of) the blind, makes the lepers clean, raises the crippled
and the lame so that they can move, he makes the deaf and dumb to speak
and gives life to the dead…”

 

54. It is said in [Scripture] “When heaven and earth were not created, [God] came i[nto being].”

John 17:5

“So now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory that I had in your presence before the world existed.”

 

60. Go and tell the good news…

The Gospels literally mean the good news.

Mark 16:15

And he said to them, “Go into all the world and proclaim the good news to the whole creation.”

And that is the end of what scholars originally called The Passion and Triumph of Bel-Marduk, which is now usually called The Marduk Ordeal (this is the ** you do not have permission to see this link **), and for which one scholar suggests should instead be named The Tribulations of Marduk. I used descriptors instead of names in bolded brackets with [Lord] for Bel, [Lady] for Belitu, [Seat of Investiture] for Akitu House, [Scripture] for Enuma Elish, [Son of God] for Nabu, and [God] for Assur.

Most of what I excised from the Marduk Ordeal text with ellipses “…”, which wasn’t even much, is simply the polytheism sections that wouldn’t play well in a First Century Jerusalem setting. Line 16 was taken from an alternate translation, because the ORACC translation did not offer anything in English for that line.  And twenty-one of the lines have not yet been translated in this ORACC University of Pennsylvania text linked above; it skips, for example, from line 2 to line 4. There is also obviously a fair amount of lacunae. 

Marduk is of course, Ea “The Living One”‘s son role in the Neo-Babylonian period, who assimilates Enki/Ea’s first-born son Asar/Asalluhi. Within the identity of Marduk-Asalluhi, one finds other commonalities with Passion Week such as the crown of thornbushes, the forgiveness of sins, perfume, river ablution that arises from the river ordeal, and the miraculous healings of the common man.

How was one assumed to become a King of Kings in Revelation 19:16, a title only associated with Nebuchadnezzer in the Hebrew Bible, without the traditions of Nebuchadnezzer’s supreme deity, Marduk?

Again my hypothesis is not that the Gospel authors embroidered Passion Week events with  Mesopotamian themes — an influence that is already academic consensus for Enochian literature and the Book of Revelation — but that the Passion Week events themselves seem to have parallels with Mesopotamian apotropaic rituals, like those of the Tribulations of Marduk, in the service of statecraft.

The Marduk Ordeal is presupposed to be a basis for the Substitute King ritual called the ** you do not have permission to see this link **.

It may be the first full book on religion I’ll read (apart from several of Dr. Ehrman’s books, which I’ve read because they were available at the library in print form.) 

From reading the introduction, where I diverge with Dr. Parpola is that he thinks that Jesus is the substitute for a king of some kind in the Crucifixion, and doesn’t believe the claim by some Gnostic sects that Jesus was the one being substituted by someone else. He doesn’t see Jesus’ stature as high enough, I guess.

Well, I’d just like to point out that I perceive two investitures in the Passion Week narrative —that Jesus is trotted out and called King twice by the powers that be in every Gospel — and that could potentially make the first individual a king that would then merit a substitute king ahead of the ** you do not have permission to see this link **. Akitu investiture, meet Sar Puhi investiture. Technically, it would not be Simon of Cyrene in name if he takes up the king’s name, so Gospel of John would have it right. And it is interesting that Simon of Cyrene’s son’s names are inserted into the Crucifixion story, as if he has some special status.

So, the Substitute King ritual Sar Puhi is a switcheroo of identity. Again, it is my observation that Jesus‘ most famous ancestors, if we believe the lineage lists of the Gospels, have storylines that pivot around um, not quite being transparent about their identity that are associated with a great increase in status.

My newest find is David being substituted by a religious idol in 1 Samuel 19:11-16

Saul sent messengers to David’s house to keep watch over him, planning to kill him in the morning. David’s wife Michal told him, “If you do not save your life tonight, tomorrow you will be killed.”

So Michal let David down through the window; he fled away and escaped. Then Michal took an idol and laid it on the bed, covering it with a garment and putting some goats’ hair at the head. When Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, “He is sick.”

Then Saul sent the messengers to see David for themselves. He said, “Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may kill him.”

When the messengers came in, the idol was in the bed, with the covering of goats’ hair on its head.

Compare John 7:1-10

After this Jesus went about in Galilee. He did not wish to go about in Judea because the Jews were looking for an opportunity to kill him.

Now the Jewish Festival of Booths was near. So his brothers said to him, “Leave here and go to Judea so that your disciples also may see the works you are doing, for no one who wants to be widely known acts in secret. If you do these things, show yourself to the world.” (For not even his brothers believed in him.)

Jesus said to them, “My time has not yet come, but your time is always here. The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify against it that its works are evil. Go to the festival yourselves. I am not going to this festival, for my time has not yet fully come.” After saying this, he remained in Galilee.

 But after his brothers had gone to the festival, then he also went, not publicly but, as it were, but in secret.

In secret. Substitute anyone else’s name in that story, convert it to the modern day, put it on Netflix, and ask someone if that would be considered a fake-out.

Jewish historian Josephus’ books are stuffed with stories where he reveals the fake-out. So not just fake-outs, but faking one’s own demise in the eyes of one’s own Jewish people was on trend for the First Century — Rabbi Yochannan ben Zakkai, the founder of Rabbinical Judaism, does it ** you do not have permission to see this link **.

The gatekeepers asked, ‘What is this?’ They replied, ‘A dead man; do you not know that a corpse may not be kept overnight in Jerusalem?’ They said, ‘If it is a corpse, carry it out’. They carried it out (and bore it until sunset) when they arrived before Vespasian, opened the coffin and [Rabban Joḥanan] stood before him. He asked, ‘You are Rabban Joḥanan b. Zakkai? Ask what I shall give you’.

Titus Flavius Josephus (a Galilean, born Joseph ben Matthias) does it ** you do not have permission to see this link **.

“All of us, it is true, have mortal bodies, composed of perishable matter, but the soul lives forever, immortal: it is a portion of the Deity housed in our bodies. If, then, one who makes away with or misapplies a deposit entrusted to him by a fellow-man is reckoned a perjured villain, how can he who casts out from his own body the deposit which God has placed there, hope to elude Him whom he has thus wronged?”

…their hands were powerless, their swords glanced aside, and many, in the act of thrusting at him, spontaneously dropped their weapons. But, in his straits, his resource did not forsake him. Trusting to God’s protection, he put his life to the hazard, and said: “Since we are resolved to die, come…”

He, however (should one say by fortune or by the providence of God?), was left alone with one other…he persuaded this man also, under a pledge, to remain alive.

Pledges don’t mean ship under pikuach nefesh. Josephus also writes of other Jewish people of that century that plan to pretend-buy the farm, and some do so successfully and others unsuccessfully. So my genuine question is, is there any figure who reappears alive in the First Century who doesn’t have a little help? 

In a physics-based world, what would be the common-sense explanation for someone surviving a crucifixion with enough energy to walk between towns?

In a physics-based world, if someone is telling their close friends about events ahead of time, would that be considered knowing about planned events?       

** you do not have permission to see this link **

and for boasting, “We killed the Messiah, Jesus, son of Mary, the messenger of Allah.” But they neither killed nor crucified him—it was only made to appear so.1 Even those who argue for this ˹crucifixion˺ are in doubt. They have no knowledge whatsoever—only making assumptions. They certainly did not kill him.

 

He appeared on earth as a man and performed miracles. Thus he himself did not suffer. Rather, a certain Simon of Cyrene was compelled to carry his cross for him. It was he who was ignorantly and erroneously crucified, being transfigured by him, so that he might be thought to be Jesus. Moreover, Jesus assumed the form of Simon, and stood by laughing at them.

— Basilides (active 117-161 CE) as quoted by Irenaeus in Against Heresies (c. 180).

Why can’t the ** you do not have permission to see this link ** be right for once, as a treat?

All bolding mine. If this is true, then all copyright the true history mine.

Stephen said

Serene said
I don’t see anyone praying to Spiderman.
  

Now, no, but in 400 years? 
  

415 years ago Shakespeare wrote The Tempest with the magical character of Ariel.

•Ariel’s name in the Hebrew Bible means “Lion of God”

• Aslan, I mean Ariel, has powers over storms and water and slipping out invisibly

• Ariel guides the fate of a group of humans per the wishes of a tempestuous Lord

• Ariel intercedes with the Lord to show mercy to humans, “virtue rarer than vengeance”

 

Ariel is the spirit. Prospero is the Lord. Alonso, meaning  “noble-ready” is the king that is supposedly ded but, but, but, but, but, but guess what??!!! It’s a THEATRICAL RUSE ORDEAL OF REDEMPTION.

No one is praying to Ariel, Prospero, or Alonso. 

People are praying to Haile Selassie.

Jah Rastafari, King of Kings and Lord of Lords, Lion of Judah. 

** you do not have permission to see this link ** 🦁

The ** you do not have permission to see this link ** are an Abrahamic religion that believe Haile Selassie to be the living incarnation of Jah (name for God in some Psalms) and the reincarnation of Jesus. So believing in the possibility of Jesus‘ reincarnation, like the Druze, the Mandaeans, Edgar Cayce’s Christians and others.

What did Haile Selassie do? He promised to, and took in a large group, mostly poor and illiterate descendants of slaves in subsistence-agrarian Jamaica and gave them far-away promised land, with their spiritual leaders even receiving high-income positions. 

THIS is the weight and leverage needed to start a new religion. 

Bob Marley was his greatest messenger. Bob Marley believed Haile Selassie was God. 

Marley always started his concerts with the words ‘Greetings in the Name of His Imperial Majesty Emperor Haile Selassie the First, Jah Rastafari’.

— Murielle Schlup, ** you do not have permission to see this link **, 2022

I’ve heard Marley’s songs about this religion covered live from the jungle to the Manhattan subway. I have seen a shrine that has Haile Selassie’s picture at a friend’s house. It was the only photo of someone that people claimed to be God on there, and the rest were claimed miracle workers.

DID Haile Selassie have another name before he ascended to the throne? Yes he did. Ras Tafari. You could hear Rastafari many many times and never recognize that he delivered on his promises under another name. I think Jesus and Malichus II could fit this scenario, too.

IF Haile Selassie had simply considered himself a candidate for King before rising to King of Kings, in Ethiopian called “Negusa Nagast,” and hypothetically been rejected by that kingdom, could he have risen to King of Kings via another kingdom (such as my hypothetical case for Jesus and Malichus II)? Sure, he wasn’t a son of the king, but a cousin several times removed; and the Ethiopian Empire incorporated numerous old regional crowns and historical territories such as Shewa, Gojjam, Begemder, Tigray, and Harar, along with southern kingdoms like Kaffa and Wolaita.

I think John 10:16 can encompass this interpretation.

I have other sheep that do not belong to this fold. I must bring them also, and they will listen to my voice. So there will be one flock, one shepherd.

The news is filled with:

• dozens of cults that sprang up because marginalized people were provided long-term food and shelter

 and

• zero (0) cults that archaeologists trace back to just a 400-year-old TALE. 

(I know you’re not a mythicist Stephen).

So let’s get to literary embellishment possibilities, returning to the example of Santa Claus, who is originally the 4th Century Bishop Nicolaus of Myra. He was THE high authority of Myra, running both its economic and spiritual life, and enters myth by tossing bags of gold through a window for impoverished children. He spent a lifetime being basically the first to introduce systemic charity backed by big pockets. So, Nicolaus of Myra’s is also a lifetime of real wish-granting, like Haile Selassie, that was legendized.

Another famous Negusa Nagast

Then there’s another famous Negusa Nagast besides Haile Selassie — the al-Najashi who surahs say rescued Mohammad’s pbuh people in 615 CE, while the great Quran says that it was God who rescued them. Maybe it’s God working through al-Najashi?

👉Unfortunately, no dirty street preacher without resources and without much of a following in his own lifetime (Dr. Ehrman’s position, though I agree with him on other things), has ever gotten worshiped — just — for talking about a “slightly different” afterlife lol. “Slightly different” because the Gentiles have some really wonderful afterlife concepts, but look who jumped on board the most, the Gentiles. 

Because the Gospels and Apostle Paul’s stories are so close to the time of the events (he writes in the 50s) before legendization had time to snowball, to me this all adds to the weight of evidence that Jesus would have actually, really provided meals for 4,000+ and 5,000+, (there being ~4,000 vessels found at Qumran, and also because banqueting the masses is a genuine Nabataean Arab custom) via angels which just means messengers in koine Greek, had his disciples treat people with anointing oils, and made good on the 100x land. 

But also there’s so many data points showing Jewish refugees arriving in Nabataean-controlled areas.