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Thursday, July 28, 2016

Babylonian Mythology Gods list and myths date from 700 B.C


Most records of Babylonian myths date from 700 B.C., when they were transcribed in cuneiform on clay tablets and stored in the library of the Assyrian King Ashurbanipal at Nineveh. However, the two major Babylonian epics probably originated around 2000 B.C. The Epic of Creation justifies Marduk's rule over gods and men; and it reflects the political supremacy of Babylon in Mesopotamia, since Marduk was the chief god of that city. The Gilgamesh Epic shows the failure of man's quest to overcome death.

Generally Babylonian mythology lacks the transcendental quality of the myth of Osiris. It is more earth-bound and more materialistic. Death puts an end to the sensual pleasures of life, and the underworld of the dead is the most dismal place imaginable. The Babylonian gods themselves indulge in eroticism, feasting, and fighting. But if the values are coarser and more masculine, the Babylonians produced a literary triumph in the Gilgamesh Epic.

Major Babylonian Gods

Anu, the head of the gods, reigned in the uppermost part of heaven and had an army of stars to destroy evildoers.

Anu-God of the sky - Mesopotamian Gods and Goddesses Google Sites


Enlil, god of the hurricane and deluge, was also the source of royal power and dealt out good and evil to men.




Ea, a god of the waters, was a benefactor to nature and men by virtue of his all-encompassing wisdom.



Marduk was a fertility god and the principal deity of Babylon. He established lordship over all the other gods by killing the malevolent and chaotic Tiamat and by creating the world out of Tiamat's body.
              




Sin, the moon god, was an enemy to the wicked, shining his nightly light upon their deeds. His children were Shamash, the sun, and Ishtar, the planet Venus.



Shamash was the sun god, a dispenser of light and justice to the world, but also the god of prophecy.

Shamash Definition, Symbol, & Facts photo: Britannica

Ishtar or Inanna, one of the most popular Babylonian deities, was the goddess of sexuality, a potent force among beasts and men. She sanctified temple prostitution. Lustful herself, Ishtar had numerous lovers, most of whom had dreadful fates.

Animation Color Drawing: Magical Winged Lioness. Ishtar, Astarta, Inanna. Stock Vector - Illustration of akkad photo: Dreamstime.com

                      Isthar

One of Ishtar's lovers was the harvest god Tammuz. When he died of her love Ishtar wailed bitterly. Thinking to retrieve Tammuz from the kingdom of death, Ishtar entered the seven portals to the underworld. At each portal she left one of her garments or pieces of jewelry until at last she stood naked before Ereshkigal, the queen of the dead. Ereshkigal had Ishtar imprisoned and assaulted her with sixty illnesses. During this incarceration the earth withered and became desolate, and the gods of heaven mourned.

Marduk (Sumerian spelling in Akkadian AMAR.UTU "solar calf"; Biblical Merodach) was the name of a late generation god from ancient Mesopotamia






















Finally Ea, the god of wisdom, took matters in hand and through his magical intervention Ishtar was released. Allowed to leave, she gathered up her garments and jewelry, accompanied by Tammuz, who was allowed to stand guard at the gates of heaven. Upon Ishtar's return the earth changed from winter to spring.


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Thursday, June 2, 2016

What is the secret message in the Sistine Chapel painted by Michelangelo in Rome?



At age 17 he began dissecting corpses from the local church cemetery. Between 1508 and 1512 he painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Rome. Michelangelo Buonarroti, known throughout the world as an artistic genius with exceptional achievements in painting, sculpture and architecture, was also a great anatomist, who secretly hid by destroying all of his anatomical sketches and notes. However, his secret was revealed thanks to an analysis in more than 500 years after it was hidden from the eyes of Pope Julius II even in the body of God.

Pope Julius II Biography photo: ThoughtCo

This is the conclusion of two experts in neuroanatomy at the School of Medicine Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. The two experts analyzed the "Separation of Light from Darkness", a scene from the creation of the world that Michelangelo painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling, and concluded that the artist had hidden an image of a human brain in God's image.

The Conversation of God Sistine Chapel

Researchers say that Michelangelo's painting is a very accurate representation of the human brain, the spinal marrow and brain stem. Frank Meshberger first physician who identified similarities between the representation of God and the human brain, says that Michelangelo surrounded Divinity with the "shroud" like the human brain to suggest that God had endowed Adam not only with life, but with supreme intelligence that people exhibit. 


Michelangelo painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in four years, making images from east to west, starting and ending at the entrance to the chapel above the altar. Last painted scene depicts God separating light from darkness. In this region, the researchers found that Michelangelo hid brain stem, eyes and optic nerve.


Art critics and historians were surprised by anatomical irregularities in Michelangelo portrayed how God's neck in this scene and how strange it was lit this region. Suk and Tamargo says that it is not error, but a hidden message.

The two experts said that in no other painting is no longer the mistake anatomical human neck, and if this image is superimposed on a photograph of a human brain from below, the lines of God's neck exactly match the features of our brain . Researchers say the optic nerves are represented in exactly the same manner as was illustrated by Leonardo da Vinci in 1487. Da Vinci and Michelangelo lived in the same period, each of the artists knowing each other's work.


The two experts in neuroanatomy concludes that "Michelangelo has enriched this painting depicting what God hidden images of the brain in this way not only celebrating God's glory, but the glory of His most magnificent creation."

Other experts launches another hypothesis regarding the meaning of these secret messages. It is no secret that Michelangelo's relationship with the Catholic Church became strained towards the end of his life, the artist came to detest the opulence and corruption of the Church. Moreover, in his masterpiece Michelangelo painted face in two places, both tortured. Therefore, some experts say that the hidden message is that God gave Adam his intelligence, but that intelligence and bodily organ that makes it possible to allow people to reach God without that relationship to be mediated by the Church.

You may never know the real reason Michelangelo inserted human brain representation masterpiece that combines art, religion, science and faith in a challenging and amazing artistic work,

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