And the Grasshopper is symbol of "one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind".
JOHN13
19/10/2008 Timeless
THE DESCENT OF ISHTAR
Babylonian account on how Ishtar, the Great Goddess of Love and War, descended through the seven gates of the Underworld to find her beloved,Tammuz. Enjoy a tale of resurrection and love beyond death! From Ancient Near Eastern Texts, translated by E.A. Speiser
Winged Ishtar standing on a Lion
Come on, Inana , go on that journey which is yours alone -- descend to the underworld.
To the Land of No Return, the realm of Ereshkigal,
Ishtar, the daughter of the Moon, set her mind.To the dark house, the abode of Irkalla,To the house which none leave who have entered it,To the road from which there is no way back,To the house wherein the entrants are bereft of light,Where dust is their fare and clay their food,Where they see no light, residing in darkness,Where they are clothed like birds, with wings for garments,And where over door and bolt is spread dust.When Ishtar reached the gate of the Land of No Return,She said to the gatekeeper:"O gatekeeper, open thy gate,Open thy gate so I may enter!If thou openest not the gate so that I cannot enter,I will smash the door, I will shatter the bolt,I will smash the doorpost, I will move the doors,I will raise up the dead eating the living,So that the dead will outnumber the living."The gatekeeper opened his mouth to speak,Saying to exalted Ishtar:"Stop, my lady, do not throw it down!I will go to announce thy name to Queen Ereshkigal."The gatekeeper entered, saying to Ereshkigal:"Behold, they sister Ishtar is waiting at the gate,She who upholds the great festivals,Who stirs up the deep before Ea, the king."When Ereshkigal heard this, her face turned pale like a cut-down tamarisk,While her lips turned dark like a bruised kuninu-reed.What drove her heart to me? What impelled her spirit hither?Lo, should I drink water with the Anunnaki?Should I eat clay for bread, drink muddied water for beer?Should I bemoan the men who left their wives behind?Should I bemoan the maidens who were wretched from the laps of their lovers?Or should I bemoan the tender little one who was sent off before his time?Go, gatekeeper, open the gate for her,Treat her in accordance with the ancient rules."Forth went the gatekeeper to open the door for her:"Enter, my lady, that Cutha may rejoice over thee,That the palace of the Land of No Return may be glad at they presence."When the first gate he had made her enter,He stripped and took away the great crown on her head."Why, o gatekeeper, didst thou take the great crown on my head?""Enter, my lady, thus are the rules of the Mistress of the Underworld."When the second gate he had made her enter,He stripped and took away the pendants on her ears."Why, O gatekeeper, didst thou take the pendants on my ears?""Enter, my lady, thus are the rules of the Mistress of the Underworld."When the third gate he had made her enter,He stripped and took away the chains round her neck."Why, O gatekeeper, didst thou take the chains round my neck?""Enter, my lady, thus are the rules of the Mistress of the Underworld."When the fourth gate he had made her enter,He stripped and took away the ornaments on her breast."Why, O gatekeeper, didst thou take the ornaments on my breast?""Enter, my lady, thus are the rules of the Mistress of the Underworld."When the fifth gate he had made her enter,He stripped and took away the girdle of birthstones on her hips."Why, O gatekeeper, didst thou take the girdle of birthstones on my hips?""Enter, my lady, thus are the rules of the Mistress of the Underworld."When the sixth gate he had made her enter,He stripped and took away the clasps round her hands and feet."Why, O gatekeeper, didst thou take the clasps round my hands and feet?""Enter, my lady, thus are the rules of the Mistress of the Underworld."When the seventh gate he had made her enter,He stripped and took away the breechcloth round her body."Why, O gatekeeper, didst thou take the breechcloth round my body?""Enter, my lady, thus are the rules of the Mistress of the Underworld."As soon as Ishtar had descended to the Land of No Return,Ereshkigal saw her and burst out at her presence.Ishtar, unreflecting, flew at her.Ereshkigal opened her mouth to speak,"Go, Namtar, lock her up in my palace!Release against her the sixty miseries:Misery of the eyes against her eyes,Misery of the sides against her sides,Misery of the heart against her heart,Misery of the feet against her feet,Misery of the head against her head -Against every part of her, against her whole body!"After Lady Ishtar had descended to the nether world,The bull springs not upon the cow, the ass impregnates not the jenny,In the street the man impregnates not the maiden.The man lies in his own chamber, the maiden lies on her side.The countenance of Papsukkal, the vizier of the great gods,Was fallen, his face was cloudedHe was clad in mourning, long hair he wore.Forth went Papsukkal before Ea, the king:"Ishtar has gone down to the nether world, she has not come up.Since Ishtar has gone down to the Land of No Return,The bull springs not upon the cow, the ass impregnates not the jenny,In the street the man impregnates not the maiden.The man lies down in his own chamber,The maiden lies down on her side."Ea in his wise heart conceived an image,And created Asushunamir, a eunuch:"Up, Asushunamir, set thy face to the gate of the Land of No Return:The seven gates of the Land of No Return shall be opened for thee.Ereshkigal shall see thee and rejoice at thy presence.When her heart has calmed, her mood is happy,Let her utter the oath of the great gods.Then lift up thy head, paying mind to the life-water bag:"Pray, lady, let them give me the life-water bagthat water therefrom I may drink."As soon as Ereshkigal heard this,She smote her thigh, bit her finger:"Thou didst request of me a thing that should not be requested.Come, Asushunamir, I will curse thee with a mighty curse!The food of the city's gutters shall be thy food,The sewers of the city shall be thy drink.The threshold shall be thy habitation,The besotted and the thirsty shall smite they cheek!"Ereshkigal opened her mouth to speak,Saying these words to Namtar, her vizier:"Up, Namtar, knock at Egalgina,Adorn the thresholds with the coral-stone,Bring forth the Anunnaki, seated them on thrones of gold,Sprinkle Ishtar with the water of life and take her from my presence!"Forth went Namtar, knocked at Egalgina,Adorned the thresholds with coral-stone,Brought forth the Anunnaki, seated them on thrones of gold,Sprinkled Ishtar with the water of life and took her from her presence.When through the first gate he had made her go out,He returned to her the breechcloth for her body.When through the second gate he had made her go out,He returned to her the clasps for her hands and feet.When through the third gate he had made her go out,He returned to her the birthstone girdle for her hips.When through the fourth gate he had made her go out,He returned to her the ornaments for her breasts.When through the fifth gate he had made her go out,He returned to her the chains for her neck.When through the sixth gate he had made her go out,He returned to her the pendants for her ears.When through the seventh gate he had made her go out,He returned to her the great crown for her head."If she does not give thee her ransom price, bring her back.As for Tammuz, the lover of her youth,Wash him with pure water, anoint him with sweet oil:Clothe him with a red garment,
let him play on a flute of lapis.Let the courtesans turn his mood."When Belili was stringing her jewelry,And her lap was filled with "eye-stones,"On hearing the sound of her brother, Belili struck the jewelry on...So that the "eye-stones" filled the..."My only brother, bring no harm to me!On the day when Tammuz comes up to me,When with him the lapis flute and the carnelian ring come up to me,When with him the wailing men and wailing women come up to me,May the dead rise and smell the incense."
DUMUZID
Dumuzid (= "true/right child/son" in Sumerian), "the Fisherman", originally from Kuara in Sumer, was the 3rd king in the 1st Dynasty of Uruk and Gilgamesh's predecessor, according to the Sumerian king list.
Today several versions of the Sumerian death of Dumuzi have been recovered, "Inanna's Descent to the Underworld", "Dumuzi's dream" and "Dumuzi and the galla", as well as a tablet separately recounting Dumuzi's death, mourned by holy Inanna, and his noble sister Geštinanna, and even his dog and the lambs and kids in his fold;
number of pastoral poems and songs relate the love affair of Inanna and Dumuzid the shepherd. A text recovered in 1963 recounts "The Courtship of Inanna and Dumuzi" in terms that are tender and frankly erotic.
Based on the incomplete texts as first found, it was assumed that Ishtar/Inanna's descent into Kur occurred after the death of Tammuz/Dumuzid rather than before and that her purpose was to rescue Tammuz/Dumuzid. This is the familiar form of the myth as it appeared in M. Jastrow's Descent of the Goddess Ishtar into the Lower World, 1915, widely available on the Internet. New texts uncovered in 1963 filled in the story in quite another fashion,[8] showing that Dumuzi was in fact consigned to the Underworld himself, in order to secure Inanna's release.
Inanna's faithful servant attempted to get help from the other gods but only wise Enki/Ea responded.
In Sumerian mythology, a vegetation god representing the decay and growth of natural life; he died at midsummer and was rescued from the underworld the following spring by his lover Ishtar. His cult spread over Babylonia, Syria, Phoenicia, and Palestine. He was possibly identified with the Egyptian Osiris and the Greek Adonis.
His name was given to the fourth month of the Babylonian and Hebrew year.
The Sumerian name of Tammuz was Dumuzi. In the Bible his disappearance is mourned by the women of Jerusalem (Ezek. 8.14).
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He was loved by the fertility goddess Ishtar, who, according to one legend, was so grief-stricken at his death that she contrived to enter the underworld to get him back. According to another legend, she killed him and later restored him to life.
The black dog, your shepherd dog, the noble dog, your lordly dog – Dumuzid had a dog he loved very much.
ABOUT THOSE OF THE NETHERWORLD
Babylonian account on how Ishtar, the Great Goddess of Love and War, descended through the seven gates of the Underworld to find her beloved,Tammuz. Enjoy a tale of resurrection and love beyond death! From Ancient Near Eastern Texts, translated by E.A. Speiser
Winged Ishtar standing on a Lion
Come on, Inana , go on that journey which is yours alone -- descend to the underworld.
To the Land of No Return, the realm of Ereshkigal,
Ishtar, the daughter of the Moon, set her mind.To the dark house, the abode of Irkalla,To the house which none leave who have entered it,To the road from which there is no way back,To the house wherein the entrants are bereft of light,Where dust is their fare and clay their food,Where they see no light, residing in darkness,Where they are clothed like birds, with wings for garments,And where over door and bolt is spread dust.When Ishtar reached the gate of the Land of No Return,She said to the gatekeeper:"O gatekeeper, open thy gate,Open thy gate so I may enter!If thou openest not the gate so that I cannot enter,I will smash the door, I will shatter the bolt,I will smash the doorpost, I will move the doors,I will raise up the dead eating the living,So that the dead will outnumber the living."The gatekeeper opened his mouth to speak,Saying to exalted Ishtar:"Stop, my lady, do not throw it down!I will go to announce thy name to Queen Ereshkigal."The gatekeeper entered, saying to Ereshkigal:"Behold, they sister Ishtar is waiting at the gate,She who upholds the great festivals,Who stirs up the deep before Ea, the king."When Ereshkigal heard this, her face turned pale like a cut-down tamarisk,While her lips turned dark like a bruised kuninu-reed.What drove her heart to me? What impelled her spirit hither?Lo, should I drink water with the Anunnaki?Should I eat clay for bread, drink muddied water for beer?Should I bemoan the men who left their wives behind?Should I bemoan the maidens who were wretched from the laps of their lovers?Or should I bemoan the tender little one who was sent off before his time?Go, gatekeeper, open the gate for her,Treat her in accordance with the ancient rules."Forth went the gatekeeper to open the door for her:"Enter, my lady, that Cutha may rejoice over thee,That the palace of the Land of No Return may be glad at they presence."When the first gate he had made her enter,He stripped and took away the great crown on her head."Why, o gatekeeper, didst thou take the great crown on my head?""Enter, my lady, thus are the rules of the Mistress of the Underworld."When the second gate he had made her enter,He stripped and took away the pendants on her ears."Why, O gatekeeper, didst thou take the pendants on my ears?""Enter, my lady, thus are the rules of the Mistress of the Underworld."When the third gate he had made her enter,He stripped and took away the chains round her neck."Why, O gatekeeper, didst thou take the chains round my neck?""Enter, my lady, thus are the rules of the Mistress of the Underworld."When the fourth gate he had made her enter,He stripped and took away the ornaments on her breast."Why, O gatekeeper, didst thou take the ornaments on my breast?""Enter, my lady, thus are the rules of the Mistress of the Underworld."When the fifth gate he had made her enter,He stripped and took away the girdle of birthstones on her hips."Why, O gatekeeper, didst thou take the girdle of birthstones on my hips?""Enter, my lady, thus are the rules of the Mistress of the Underworld."When the sixth gate he had made her enter,He stripped and took away the clasps round her hands and feet."Why, O gatekeeper, didst thou take the clasps round my hands and feet?""Enter, my lady, thus are the rules of the Mistress of the Underworld."When the seventh gate he had made her enter,He stripped and took away the breechcloth round her body."Why, O gatekeeper, didst thou take the breechcloth round my body?""Enter, my lady, thus are the rules of the Mistress of the Underworld."As soon as Ishtar had descended to the Land of No Return,Ereshkigal saw her and burst out at her presence.Ishtar, unreflecting, flew at her.Ereshkigal opened her mouth to speak,"Go, Namtar, lock her up in my palace!Release against her the sixty miseries:Misery of the eyes against her eyes,Misery of the sides against her sides,Misery of the heart against her heart,Misery of the feet against her feet,Misery of the head against her head -Against every part of her, against her whole body!"After Lady Ishtar had descended to the nether world,The bull springs not upon the cow, the ass impregnates not the jenny,In the street the man impregnates not the maiden.The man lies in his own chamber, the maiden lies on her side.The countenance of Papsukkal, the vizier of the great gods,Was fallen, his face was cloudedHe was clad in mourning, long hair he wore.Forth went Papsukkal before Ea, the king:"Ishtar has gone down to the nether world, she has not come up.Since Ishtar has gone down to the Land of No Return,The bull springs not upon the cow, the ass impregnates not the jenny,In the street the man impregnates not the maiden.The man lies down in his own chamber,The maiden lies down on her side."Ea in his wise heart conceived an image,And created Asushunamir, a eunuch:"Up, Asushunamir, set thy face to the gate of the Land of No Return:The seven gates of the Land of No Return shall be opened for thee.Ereshkigal shall see thee and rejoice at thy presence.When her heart has calmed, her mood is happy,Let her utter the oath of the great gods.Then lift up thy head, paying mind to the life-water bag:"Pray, lady, let them give me the life-water bagthat water therefrom I may drink."As soon as Ereshkigal heard this,She smote her thigh, bit her finger:"Thou didst request of me a thing that should not be requested.Come, Asushunamir, I will curse thee with a mighty curse!The food of the city's gutters shall be thy food,The sewers of the city shall be thy drink.The threshold shall be thy habitation,The besotted and the thirsty shall smite they cheek!"Ereshkigal opened her mouth to speak,Saying these words to Namtar, her vizier:"Up, Namtar, knock at Egalgina,Adorn the thresholds with the coral-stone,Bring forth the Anunnaki, seated them on thrones of gold,Sprinkle Ishtar with the water of life and take her from my presence!"Forth went Namtar, knocked at Egalgina,Adorned the thresholds with coral-stone,Brought forth the Anunnaki, seated them on thrones of gold,Sprinkled Ishtar with the water of life and took her from her presence.When through the first gate he had made her go out,He returned to her the breechcloth for her body.When through the second gate he had made her go out,He returned to her the clasps for her hands and feet.When through the third gate he had made her go out,He returned to her the birthstone girdle for her hips.When through the fourth gate he had made her go out,He returned to her the ornaments for her breasts.When through the fifth gate he had made her go out,He returned to her the chains for her neck.When through the sixth gate he had made her go out,He returned to her the pendants for her ears.When through the seventh gate he had made her go out,He returned to her the great crown for her head."If she does not give thee her ransom price, bring her back.As for Tammuz, the lover of her youth,Wash him with pure water, anoint him with sweet oil:Clothe him with a red garment,
let him play on a flute of lapis.Let the courtesans turn his mood."When Belili was stringing her jewelry,And her lap was filled with "eye-stones,"On hearing the sound of her brother, Belili struck the jewelry on...So that the "eye-stones" filled the..."My only brother, bring no harm to me!On the day when Tammuz comes up to me,When with him the lapis flute and the carnelian ring come up to me,When with him the wailing men and wailing women come up to me,May the dead rise and smell the incense."
DUMUZID
Dumuzid (= "true/right child/son" in Sumerian), "the Fisherman", originally from Kuara in Sumer, was the 3rd king in the 1st Dynasty of Uruk and Gilgamesh's predecessor, according to the Sumerian king list.
Today several versions of the Sumerian death of Dumuzi have been recovered, "Inanna's Descent to the Underworld", "Dumuzi's dream" and "Dumuzi and the galla", as well as a tablet separately recounting Dumuzi's death, mourned by holy Inanna, and his noble sister Geštinanna, and even his dog and the lambs and kids in his fold;
number of pastoral poems and songs relate the love affair of Inanna and Dumuzid the shepherd. A text recovered in 1963 recounts "The Courtship of Inanna and Dumuzi" in terms that are tender and frankly erotic.
Based on the incomplete texts as first found, it was assumed that Ishtar/Inanna's descent into Kur occurred after the death of Tammuz/Dumuzid rather than before and that her purpose was to rescue Tammuz/Dumuzid. This is the familiar form of the myth as it appeared in M. Jastrow's Descent of the Goddess Ishtar into the Lower World, 1915, widely available on the Internet. New texts uncovered in 1963 filled in the story in quite another fashion,[8] showing that Dumuzi was in fact consigned to the Underworld himself, in order to secure Inanna's release.
Inanna's faithful servant attempted to get help from the other gods but only wise Enki/Ea responded.
In Sumerian mythology, a vegetation god representing the decay and growth of natural life; he died at midsummer and was rescued from the underworld the following spring by his lover Ishtar. His cult spread over Babylonia, Syria, Phoenicia, and Palestine. He was possibly identified with the Egyptian Osiris and the Greek Adonis.
His name was given to the fourth month of the Babylonian and Hebrew year.
The Sumerian name of Tammuz was Dumuzi. In the Bible his disappearance is mourned by the women of Jerusalem (Ezek. 8.14).
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He was loved by the fertility goddess Ishtar, who, according to one legend, was so grief-stricken at his death that she contrived to enter the underworld to get him back. According to another legend, she killed him and later restored him to life.
The black dog, your shepherd dog, the noble dog, your lordly dog – Dumuzid had a dog he loved very much.
ABOUT THOSE OF THE NETHERWORLD
Demons have no mother; they have no father or mother, sister or brother, wife or children. When ...... were established on heaven and earth...
...they do not know good from evil.
The following Note was written earlier on today
...they do not know good from evil.
The following Note was written earlier on today
First Note
19/10/2008 21:41
The first lady I went to – on 01/10/2008: I first got in more than 3 decks of cards with more than one reference to “The Creator”. She thought I am very pure and are an angel in a human body. But also got the card “Nothingness” in the one reading as the first card that was drawn. These cards, the presence of “The Creator” and the “Nothingness” in all the readings, is for me linked in the myths to “Father (Sky)”.
Then this lady did, just before I left, a Goddess reading which gave the card: Diana. It is a goddess that is in a picture of a kind of hunter!
But the 2nd woman I went to, she couldn’t give me any accurate reading at all. Eventually she said to me to choose 6 cards – I had to choose 6 cards until the whole packet was nearly on the table. But what came of it was the 3 Queens. And they were in such position that they (if they would have been on the Cartesian Plane in Mathematics) in the Quadrants that I had a dream about that is “reality” and not “illusion”. It is from (the Cartesian point of view) from the III Quadrant and the Ist Quadrant. Or – all positive. But the Third one was in the middle on The Point, The Point of Balance, namely [0;0].
And now I discovered from the Divine Order I put the information from Wikipedia in something about a Big Dog (Great Dane – Just Nuisance), Small Dog (Charlie – Chihuahua), a hunter (?) [Diana – goddess] and then a goddess (Ishtar – who is linked to the same mythology than that of Osiris and Isis in Egyptian mythology, this one is just linked to the word “Cedar” and the Mesopotamian mythologies – indeed very old) who is linked to Lions (and see the Ford Focus with registration number: “speculat 8”) and Linda’s link to me, the 16, come from an 8 and 8.
But according to the written piece:
Orion – Father (Sky) [2],
This goddess makes kings from young heroes. But also involved in all of this, is Father (Sky) – and I have added in legend144.blat.co.za the other pieces about Father (Sky).
19/10/2008 21:56 or 9/11
End of Note!
End of Chitchat 10 and 11 together where 10 and 11 gives a 111 or “reveal/insight/revelation”.
19/10/2008 23:16
Then this lady did, just before I left, a Goddess reading which gave the card: Diana. It is a goddess that is in a picture of a kind of hunter!
But the 2nd woman I went to, she couldn’t give me any accurate reading at all. Eventually she said to me to choose 6 cards – I had to choose 6 cards until the whole packet was nearly on the table. But what came of it was the 3 Queens. And they were in such position that they (if they would have been on the Cartesian Plane in Mathematics) in the Quadrants that I had a dream about that is “reality” and not “illusion”. It is from (the Cartesian point of view) from the III Quadrant and the Ist Quadrant. Or – all positive. But the Third one was in the middle on The Point, The Point of Balance, namely [0;0].
And now I discovered from the Divine Order I put the information from Wikipedia in something about a Big Dog (Great Dane – Just Nuisance), Small Dog (Charlie – Chihuahua), a hunter (?) [Diana – goddess] and then a goddess (Ishtar – who is linked to the same mythology than that of Osiris and Isis in Egyptian mythology, this one is just linked to the word “Cedar” and the Mesopotamian mythologies – indeed very old) who is linked to Lions (and see the Ford Focus with registration number: “speculat 8”) and Linda’s link to me, the 16, come from an 8 and 8.
But according to the written piece:
Orion – Father (Sky) [2],
This goddess makes kings from young heroes. But also involved in all of this, is Father (Sky) – and I have added in legend144.blat.co.za the other pieces about Father (Sky).
19/10/2008 21:56 or 9/11
End of Note!
End of Chitchat 10 and 11 together where 10 and 11 gives a 111 or “reveal/insight/revelation”.
19/10/2008 23:16
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