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Ancient Egyptian inscribed block statue (black granite). Artist unknown; ca. 664-332 BCE (Late Period). Now in the Harvard Semitic Museum, Cambridge, MA.
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Youtube channel of the Harvard Museum Of The Near East - they upload rather nice lectures that I've enjoyed tremendously.
#egyptology#youtube channel#museums#harvard semitic museum#lectures#online ressources#this blog is just a dump for stuff i find interesting#tumblr keeps deleting my links does anyone else have this issue?
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bds boston published the results of a "mapping initiative" to outline how "zionist actors" were "linked" to harms like ableism, policing, the prison industrial complexm, gentrification and privatization of the medical system. the map includes such terrible actors as the synagogue council of massachusetts, the adl and aclu, the jewish community relations council, the gann academy (a jewish high school) and the jewish teen foundation, yachad (an org supporting jewish people with disabilities), the harvard semitic museum and the harvard center for jewish studies.
and of course there is the super obvious antisemitism of publishing a list of semi-random jewish organisations who have done such terrible things as "featuring a 'full-scale reproduction of a first millennium B.C. house from ancient Israel' in their first floor gallery" and linking them to an insane number of vaguely defined evils for which the jews zionists are then responsible. and the fact that this is something leftist activists thought was totally cool and fine less than five months after the colleyville synagogue hostage crisis where a british citizen took hostages in a synagogue to force the release of a pakistani al qaeda terrorist who blamed israel for the verdict by an american jury that put her in jail - you know, essentially handing antisemitic terrorists like the halle shooter a fun list of targets in the boston area.
but there's also the more subtle antisemitism of it where the link between the jewish people and the land that is now israel is consistently denied and jewish people returning to israel from the diaspora are presented as 'colonizers' who are displacing the 'true' indigenous population (as if they aren't also indigenous to the region and as if they haven't been forced to flee from there and literally everywhere else). and when jewish people do anthropological and archaeological research in the area and show their own historical ties to the region to disprove this narrative, they're accused of engaging in "a modern extension of the racist theorizing that has characterized western anthropology and archaeology from its beginnings".
idk. i'm just very tired.
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Pagan gods (Moloch) par Boston Public Library
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File name: A1-Pagan_Gods-Moloch Title: Pagan gods (Moloch) Creator/Contributor: Sargent, John Singer, 1856-1925 (artist); Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies (sponsor) Date created: 2003 Physical description: 1 transparency : color ; 4 x 5 in. Summary: Mural depicting the Pagan God Moloch, who was known as the God of materialism and child sacrifice. Genre: Film transparencies; Paintings Subject: Murals; Religion; Gods; Moloch (Semitic deity) Notes: Title and other information from: John Singer Sargent's Triumph of religion at the Boston Public Library : creation and restoration / edited by Narayan Khandekar, Gianfranco Pocobene, Kate Smith. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard Art Museum, 2009.; This mural was installed in the Boston Public Library in 1895. It is located on the west side of the north ceiling vault.; Photograph by William Kipp for the Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies. Location: Sargent Gallery, Boston Public Library Rights: Rights status not evaluated
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The Epic of Gilgamesh, Lecture by Andrew George
Found this on Youtube this evening and just wanted to share it for those who might be interested(*entirely metaphorically unflinchingly stares @rosenagldky and @arrows-for-pens*)
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Hymn to the Queen of the Stars
The Hymn to the Queen of the Stars is a liturgical poem written in 5813 EA by forerunner of the Imperial Cult, High Priestess Ishkhar-ramat. Originally, it was written in Zīzlishani, but has since been translated into countless other languages. It is one of the earliest surviving documents proclaiming the divinity of Empress Elishewa rikhut Bit-Kinakhn, and was compiled within the cult's holy text, the Book of Quiet Mercy.
As of 6021 EA, the original text, along with the 26 other poems written by the High Priestess, resides within her tomb beneath the Temple of Martyrs, Esha.
Description
The poem is etched on a single titanium plate, 6.25 ubanu (13 centimeters) wide, 6.73 ubanu (14 centimeters) high, 0.19 ubanu (0.4 centimeters) thick, but has been alchemically preserved. Three holes, 0.24 ubanu (0.5 centimeter) in diameter, are been drilled along the left margin of the tablet at equal distance, 0.36 ubanu (0.75 centimeters) away from the edge.
The Text
It is comprised of 12 lines, 4 stanzas and a 2-line colophony.
The first stanza (1-3) introduces the subject of the hymn, Empress Elishewa, by her common title "Queen of the Stars," describing the figure, her mythologised ancestry, along with her titles.
The second stanza (4-5) continues to extol her virtues and her place above the previous pantheon of gods, the Sleeping Gods, who are relegated to servants of her will according to the Imperial Cult.
The third stanza (6-8) expands on this, describing her place within the Imperial Cult as well as dictating several regional names attributed to her, each a representation of her divine aspects.
The final stanza (9-10) ends the poem with an invocation of peace and wellness.
Zizlishani Transliteration
i (1)
šarrat-kakkabī azammar anāku azammar
mārat bīt-maḫrîlī u awīlūtī kāšid bīt-ekleti
bēlet erṣetī ša atti ina bīrīni ittalakki
ii (4)
atti elī kala ṣalīl-ilānū dannat
šarratu ḫībti kitta nēmeqa hasīsa eršēt
iii (6)
ilatni ummani mušēzibatni šamašni tašīlīni
nīnu kattu šumātu ana dārū u dārū nitallal
ūripaēssa zāmira aḇala aya neḫṭet
vi (9)
šarrat kakkabī dāriat bēlet išḫar
dāriš ūmī qīšīniāšim šalama u napišta
colophony
tuppi išḫar-rāmat mārat kakki
riḫût awīlūtī enat išḫar
English Translation
i (1)
I sing to the queen of the stars, I sing! Daughter of the House of the First Gods, Conqueror of the House of Darkness, Lady of [all] the Earths, who walked among us.
ii (4)
You are mightier than the sleeping-gods. My beloved queen, you are wise in justice, knowledge, and understanding.
iii (6)
Our Goddess, our mother, our saviour, our sun, our glory. For generations and generations we will exult your names: Euryphaessa, Zamira, Avala, Aya, Nekhtet.
vi (9)
Immortal Queen of the Stars, Lady Ishkhar. For all days grant us peace and good health.
colophony
Tablet of Ishkhar-ramat, daughter of Kakki. Descendant of [all] Humanity, Priestess of the Queen of the Stars.
References
Abdusch, Tzvi. “Essays on Babylonian and Biblical Literature and Religion.” Harvard Semitic Studies, vol. 65, no. 1. 2020.
Chiera, Edward. List of Personal Names from the Temple School of Nippur. The University Museum. 9116.
Cousin, Laura; Watai, Yoko. “Onomastics of Women in Babylonia in the First Millennium BC.” Orient, vol. 51, no. 1, 2016, 3-27.
Gelb, Ignace J., et al. The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. 2010.
Huehnergard, John. A Grammar of Akkadian. 3rd edition. Winona Lake, Ind., 2011.
Lauffenburger, Oliver. Hittite Grammar. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. 2014.
Sahala, Aleksi. Akkadian verb list. University of Helsinki. 5772.
Slightly Alive Translations. “‘Hymn to Ishtar’ (RA 22, 170-171).” Tumblr, <mostlydeadlanguages.tumblr.com/post/139566565563/hymn-to-ishtar-ra-22-170-171>. 2016.
Wikipedia contributors. “Dialogue between a Man and His God.” Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. 2021.
Further Reading
Hennessey, Michael; Van Boekel, Advena. Queen of the Stars: The Imperial Blood Cult. Discord. 2021.
Van Boekel, Advena. Divine Intervention or: What Comes After Immortality. [REDACTED]
Author's Notes
Elishewa is the Zizlishani transcription of Babette's Hebrew name, Elisheva, which she used in various official forms for personal reasons. The name falls out of use post-Dark Age in lieu of her title, Queen of the Stars. She strongly disapproves of her deification, has repeatedly refuted her supposed divinity, but the religion(s) persist.
Zizlishani is the common language of the Empire since before its founding, and trade language of the wider galactic community post-Dark Age. It originated as a creole of Akkadian, Mycenaean, Hittite, Egyptian, and various Canaanite languages. For simplicity, I just use Akkadian to represent the language instead of creating a conlang.
I have reasonable authority that line 7 is a bit wack, but not why it's wack. So I'm leaving it until someone can correct me on my Akkadian.
The names attributed to Babette each have their own origins and meaning reflecting here worshipers understanding of her.
"išḫar" Hittite origin, meaning "blood." Not referencing her war aspect but rather the spilt blood of the trillions who died during and those who sacrificed their lives in order to end the Dark Age.
"aya" is the name of the wife of the Babylonian sun god, serving as a point of synchronization between Empress Elišēwa and the wider Mesopotamian mythology.
"neḫṭet" Egyptian for "Victory" (?), referencing her place as a war goddess within the pantheon. Also due to her being the representation of victory against the Ancient Enemy who came from the House of Darkness, the Abyss.
"ūripaēssa" my attempt at an Akkadian transcription of the Greek "Euryphaessa." Not linking Babette to Theia, rather the use of this name focuses on its meaning, "Wide-Shining," to reflect Babette's melammu (aura) which is often described as Big™ and Bright™.
"aḇala" Aramaic for "to grieve," used in conjunction with "išḫar" to reference Babette's widely known grief at those who died in her name and those who sacrificed their lives for a brighter future.
"zāmira" unsourced Akkadian. "To Sing" (zamāru) in singular participle genitive. I have no idea what gender, but it doesn't matter. Canonically, Babette's worshipers have a fluid understanding of her gender as she becomes more of an icon than a person. The name references her music which has been a major aspect of her character.
Had great help from a good bloke by the name of Michael Hennessy in writing this. He was basically my guy looking at the abominable sentences I hobbled together and told me "no," while giving me good resources (and direct help) to polish this off.
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Funerary Relief of a Man and Child, c. 150 CE, HAM: Sculpture
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Transfer from the Semitic Museum, Harvard University
Size: 66 cm h x 56.5 cm w x 22 cm d (26 x 22 1/4 x 8 11/16 in.)
Medium: Limestone
https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/291586
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Philistine Cemetery
Excavations conducted in Ashkelon National Park in Israel have yielded some intriguing finds. A 3,000-year-old Philistine cemetery has been discovered, and between 2013-2016, over 200 sets of remains have been excavated (one source stating exactly 227 sets of remains). Only a small area of the cemetery has been excavated, and Adam Aja of the Harvard Semitic Museum “estimates that approximately 1,200 people were interred there over a span of about 100 years.” The remains discovered range from infants to adults.
Remains of women and children were found still adorned with bronze jewelry; necklaces, bracelets, even toe rings. Several male skeletons were found with ornamental beads, as well as engraved stones. One grave yielded a set of iron arrows, discovered near the man’s hip. Small juglets that likely contained perfumed oils were found alongside remains, while larger jugs discovered contained infant remains. There is also evidence of six cremations, which would have been expensive for the time period, found in jugs in pit graves.
This excavations has and will continue to shed light on Philistine burial practices. For example, archaeologists have found that it was common practice to place a small perfume juglet near the face of the deceased, while jugs found near the legs typically contained perfumed oils, food, or wine. Further research is being conducted to learn more about these illusive people!
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The Adornment of a Goddess with Scents: A Sumerian shirnamshuba song of the Goddess Ninisina
This is my rendition of a cultic song of Ninisina, the chief deity of the important Mesopotamian city of Isin, whose most prominent role in the larger Mesopotamian pantheon was that of a healing goddess, a role she shared with a number of other goddesses such as Gula, Nintinuga, and Bau. Her son Damu, a so-called “dying god” who was widely featured in Sumerian lamentations and was associated in this role with Dumuzi, frequently assists her in her curative procedures. A remarkable Sumerian letter of the Larsa king Sin-iddinam to Ninisina herself (one of a number examples of letters of humans to gods) survives to us where Sin-iddinam implores the goddess to cure a grave illness that cannot be diagnosed that a demon infected him with in a dream. She is also memorably depicted as a ferocious protector of king Shulgi’s enemies in a shirnamerima song, the so-called “Execration of Shulgi’s Enemies” or “Shulgi S,” where in one passage, she seems to use her knowledge as a physician to maximize harm to the enemy. Ninisina’s spouse was the warrior god Pabilsang, chief god of the city of Larak, one of the five original cities of Mesopotamia before the gods sent the great flood. Pabilsang is best known to posterity for his place in the nighttime sky as the constellation Sagittarius.
In this text, Ninisina is described as adorning her body with various oils and perfumes. In ancient Mesopotamia, the perfume industry was relatively advanced and utilized a number of aromatic trees and plants, many of which were exotic imports. Most famous was the eren tree, originally understood to grow in the eastern mountains, which was the prize sought by Gilgamesh in his heroic journey, leading to conflict with Huwawa, the guardian of the forest, who was imbued with paralyzing aurae. The song does not mention it explicitly, but the goddess was most likely applying scents over the whole of her naked body while beautifying herself for sex with her spouse (or possibly the mortal king, although there is more evidence for this practice with the goddess Inana). The application of perfumes is featured during the most detailed account of the so-called “sacred marriage ritual” between king Iddin-Dagan of Isin and the goddess Inana.
The lone ancient manuscript of this text currently known to us is an immaculately preserved manuscript in the Harvard Semitic Museum. Here is a picture (credit Havard Semitic Museum and the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative):
The text was first published in copy in the Journal of Cuneiform Studies in 1962. The original editor of this text, Mark Cohen (“The Incantation-Hymn: Incantation or Hymn?,” Journal of the American Oriental Society volume 95 (1975), pg. 601, see also the Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature (etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk), text number 4.22.2) suggested that this cultic song may have been performed while the statue of the goddess was naked in order to appease her anger.
The reading of this text in the original Sumerian and its translation is as follows. The character “š” is pronounced “sh” and the character “ĝ” is pronounced “ng” (a nasal “n”). The subscripted numbers are not pronounced, and the signs given in brackets ({...}) are not pronounced (they merely indicate what category the word belongs to). My translation differs substantially from the previous edition of this text (including several different sign readings and values). A backslash indicates where the line has been indented.
1. i3-li-a i3-li-a i3-li he2-en-na-tum2 /na-aĝ2-i3-li-a
2. i3 lum-ma he2-en-na-tum2
3. tum-ma sag9-ga-ĝu10 ul-la
4. ga-ša-an-ĝu10 ga-ša-an sir2-sir2-e /ama ugu ma-ma
5. ga-ša-an-ĝu10 kurun-a tuš-a-ra
6. Ga-ša-an-i3-si-in{ki}-na kurun-a tuš-a-ra
7. izi an-na mu2-mu2-de3
8. ga-ša-an-ĝu10 sim{mušen} -gin7 tu5-tu5-a
9. i3 {ĝeš}eren-na i3 ha-šu-ur2-ra-ka
10. i3 {ĝeš}eren-na nam-dim3-me-er ki aĝ2
11. i3 šim-gig i3 bulugx-ga
12. i3 ab2 kug-ge gara2 ab2-šilam-ma
13. i3-nun tur3 kug ga-ga amaš-gin7 ga-ga
14. i3 šim-gin7 an-šag4-ge-ka
15. i3 ligidba(ŠIM.{d}NIN.URTA) {ĝeš}eren babbar-ra-ka /mul-ma-al he2-em-mi-ib2-za
16. zi-pa-aĝ2-ĝa2-na i3 šim {ĝeš}eren-na-ka
17. gaba-ni i3 {ĝeš}eren babbar-ra-ka
(reverse)
18. igi-na i3-a he2-ni-ib2-lum-lum-e /i3-li he2-en-na-su3
19. gu-sa-ni i3 šim {ĝeš}eren-na-ka /hu-mu-ni-ib2-lum-lum-e
20. siki ur2 siki pa dub-dub-ba-ni i3-li he2-en-na-an-su3
21. gu2 bar za-gin3 šu gur-ra-ni i3-li he2-em-su3-su3
22. šu ĝir3 aĝ2-lum-ma-lam-ma-ni /i3-li he2-em-luh-e
23. ĝeš-ge-en-ge-na alan šu du7-a i3-a he2-en-nu2
24. nin ab2 a-e ĝar-ra-gin7 i3 he2-la2-e
(double ruling)
25. 24 šir3-nam-šub {d}Nin-isin2{si}-na-kam
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1. Fine oil shall be fitting for her, it is the “state of (being covered in) fine oil”!<br />
2. Luxuriant oil shall be fitting for her!
3. My beautiful …, swollen (with attractiveness),
4. My lady, Lady Sirsir, birth mother …,
5. For my lady, who dwells among the liquor,
6. For Ninisina, who dwells among the liquor,
7. Fire is burning in the sky!
8. My lady, bathing like a swallow
9. Oil of juniper, oil of cypress
10. Oil of juniper, loved by divinity
11. Oil of the shimgig tree, oil of the bulug tree
12. Butter of the pure cow, cream of the cow
13. Ghee of the pure cattle pen, cream(?) as if (from) the sheepfold, cream
14. Like oil resin, it is of the midst of heaven
15. Oil of the euphorbia plant, oil of white juniper, may it splash (upon you)
16. On her throat, oil of juniper
17. On her chest, oil of white juniper
18. On her face may oil be made luxuriant! May fine oil be sprinkled upon her!
19. On the muscles of her neck, may oil of juniper be made luxuriant!
20. On her hair, styled from base to tip, may fine oil be sprinkled upon her!
21. On the nape of her neck, ringed with lapis, may fine oil be sprinkled upon her!
22. May fine oil cleanse her hands and feet, that which flourish and thrive(?)
23. May her perfect limbs and form lie in oil!
24. May the woman, like a cow placed in the water, be immersed in oil!
subscript: 24 lines: it is a shirnamshub song of Ninisina.
line 1) The very beginning of the song is pronounced “ili’a ili’a ili.” Such a replication of the “l” noise, called “ululation,” is frequently employed at the beginning of Sumerian cultic songs.
line 3) “tum” is primarily a value used to spell Akkadian words, the meaning of Sumerian tum here is obscure. The spelling tum-ma is possibly an error for ib2-ba “hips,” which in this context would have a highly sexualized connotation, in the possession of the would-be lover.
line 4) Possibly reflecting the Etarsirsir temple in the city of Girsu, which was a temple of the goddess Bau, who is associated with Ninisina as a healing goddess during this period. ma-ma possibly reflects the Emesal form of the verb ĝar “to set, put, establish” or the divine name Mama. Mama was a birth goddess: if correct, the reference here is unclear, but may have a sexual connotation.
line 5) Presumably this describes the goddess’s participation in a banquet.
line 9) Sumerian eren is often translated as “cedar” based on the association of the tree with the Lebanese cedar arising primarily from the Akkadian Gilgamesh Epic. However, in the Old Babylonian period this is probably an anachronism: the eren tree grows in the mountains east of Mesopotamia.
line 10) Elsewhere the eren tree is also described as the “flesh of divinity.”
line 13) The interpretation of Sumerian ga-ga here is uncertain: it may be the Emesal form of the verb “to bring” or another dairy product. The cattle pen and sheepfold (Sumerian tur3 and amaš) were often invoked in description of the dairy industry and its productivity.
line 20) Sumerian siki ur2 was understood by Cohen as pubic hair, but in conjunction with siki pa it is describing the hair of the head from the base to the tip of the hair follicle (for the meaning, see Couto Ferreira Etnoanatomia y partonomia del cuerpo humano en sumerio y acadio (2009), pg. 108). The verb dub/dab6 may be more technically describing a specific hairstyle worn by young women, embodied by the goddess Inana, as discussed by Mirelman and Sallaberger, Zeitschrift fur Assyriologie 100 pg. 83.
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Ancient Egyptian faience figurine of Taweret, goddess who protects women in childbirth. Artist unknown; 664-332 BCE (Late Period). Now in the Harvard Semitic Museum, Cambridge, MA.
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There is nothing new about the fanatical hatred of Jews that we see playing out in today’s world––literally a pandemic of anti-Semitism which echoes the fear and loathing that gave rise to the over-4,000-year history of the Inquisition, the Crusades, centuries of pogroms, the expulsion of Jews from country after country, and the Holocaust of the 20th century in which six-million Jews were savagely incinerated in the crematoria of Hitler’s Germany as the entire world––including U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt––looked on and did nothing!
Plus ça change and all that. But it’s not exactly true that things have remained the same. Today, the staggering power of technology makes the spread of Jew Hate all the more rapid, powerful and lethal.
In America, while blacks, Muslims, feminists, single mothers, immigrants, the global-warming fetishists, college graduates in debt for their exorbitant-but-meaningless “educations” and minorities of every stripe all bleat endlessly about being victims of this or that indignity, slight, “unfairness,” historical insult or crime, the Annual Report on Hate Crimes released by the Uniform Crime Reporting Program of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) show that, by far, it is the world’s tiny population of Jews––15 million in a world of nearly eight billion––who experience the most bias, hatred, assaults, blatant racism and hate crimes.
I purposefully have not included the 2018 statistics from the global study on anti-Semitism by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), whose director, Jonathan Greenblatt, worked for three far-left regimes––the Clinton administration, the Obama fiasco, and the George Soros-funded Aspen Institute, and who has been accused by the founder and president of Americans for Peace & Tolerance, Dr. Charles Jacobs, of actively deceiving the American Jewish community about polling around the world that shows Islamic Jew hatred tops all others by a significantly wide margin.
“To stay anchored in the left,” explains Dr. Jacobs, “the ADL has had no choice but to bury its findings about Muslim anti-Semitism…prioritizing the protection of American Muslims over the protection of American Jews.”
Writer Isi Liebler elaborates at length on this premise, calling the ADL “a radical extension of the Democratic Party” that refuses to fight the Boycott Divestment Sanctions (BDS) movement––declared anti-Semitic by the American government––because the ADL actively supports the Marxist anti-Semitic group Black Lives Matter, which “incorporates anti-Israel passages in its platform and campaigns against anti-boycott legislation.”
HERE, THERE & EVERYWHERE
But we don’t need skewed polls from the ADL to know what is happening to innocent Jews both here and abroad.
All you have to do is to read the daily exposés on Jew hatred around the world and in America that Pamela Geller has been documenting for almost 20 years at https://gellerreport.com. ––definitely subscribe to this powerful site. Here, a small sample of typical headlines:
Gang of five men attack Jewish teens walking on Brooklyn street.
Blind Hate Against Israel Displayed at Times Square Rally.
Swastika found near Coney Island Jewish Community Center.
‘Ugly And Racist’ Graffiti Found At Holocaust Museum In Glen Cove (Long Island).
Jewish Student Arrested During Shabbat Services after Protesting Anti-Semitism at Amherst College.
Attacks on Jews by Blacks in New York SKYROCKET, and the Media Ignores Because Attackers Are Not White.
NJ shooting of Jews — bystanders blame Jewish victims.
And in other venues:
Panel: Judge who shared ‘get the f**k over the Holocaust’ link not anti-Semitic.
European Court of “Justice” condemns Israeli winemakers in Judea and
Samaria but not Iran for nuclear violations.
The esteemed Gatestone Institute‘s Denis MacEoin writes about A “Guide” to the Israeli-“Palestinian” Conflict by the United Church of Christ which leaves “no room in it for a Jewish, Israeli or moderate Christian voice; just hatred of Israel…”
The European Union openly declares war on the Jews.
Amnesty International Teams with Radicals to Blast Israel.
Shock as Merkel Donates Half a Billion Dollars in Aid to Palestinian President, Paying Terrorists to Kill Jews.
Jewish cemetery in France vandalized, over 100 graves desecrated.
December 17, 2018 in eastern France. Getty Images
ON CAMPUSES
Again, the headlines say it all:
Tenured Columbia Professor Endorses Terrorism.
Students at Oberlin College erect a memorial to “Palestinian” Islamic Jihad terrorists.
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“Ancient Egyptian Culture and Its Continuity in Modern Egypt”
Presentation by Fayza Haikal at the Harvard Semitic Museum on February 13, 2020.
Video Length: 50:04. If you want to skip the introductions the presentation begins at 2:38
Description given by the HSM: “ Egypt’s recorded history spans six thousand years and is, therefore, one of the longest and best known in the world. Today, Egyptians practice several religious, artistic, and social traditions that can be traced to ancient Egypt, demonstrating the power and longevity of cultural memory. Drawing on research in archaeology, Egyptian art, writing, and culture, Fayza Haikal examines Egyptian society’s cultural expressions from antiquity to the present, focusing on language, spirituality, superstitions, funerary traditions, and folklore. “
Dr. Haikal is a Professor of Egyptology at the American University in Cairo.
All people have biases and content should be consumed in a discerning and respectfully critical manner.
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Master List of Museums with Greek, Roman, Egyptian, and/or Near Eastern Antiquities in the United States of America
These collections may not be extensive or on display (and may contain only one culture from the above list), and I am including museums with minimal collections as well; please check with the museum before you visit or check their collections search online if the object(s) you wish to see is/are on view.
Feel free to message me if I’ve missed a museum! I’ll be constantly updating this post. (Initial Post: October 16, 2018; First Update: October 16, 2018, 2:18 p.m. Pacific; Second Update: October 16, 2018, 7:15 p.m. Pacific; Third Update: October 17, 2018, 6:29 p.m.; Fourth Update: October 21, 2018, 10:36 p.m.; Fifth Update: November 4, 2018, 9:06 a.m.; Sixth Update: June 1, 2019, 8:55 a.m.)
Alabama:
Anniston Museum of Natural History (Anniston, AL)
Birmingham Museum of Art (Birmingham, AL)
California:
Badè Museum of Biblical Archaeology (Berkeley, CA)
Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University (Stanford, CA)
J. Paul Getty Museum ("the Getty" which includes the Getty Center and the Getty Villa) (Los Angeles, CA)
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Los Angeles, CA)
Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley, CA)
Robert and Frances Fullerton Museum of Art (RAFFMA) at the California State University, San Bernardino (San Bernardino, CA)
Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum (REM) (San José, CA)
San Diego Museum of Man (San Diego, CA)
Santa Barbara Museum of Art (Santa Barbara, CA) (Collection for Greek and Roman Art not on view, but can be found in Collections Search)
Colorado:
Denver Museum of Nature & Science (Denver, CO)
University of Colorado Boulder Art Museum (Boulder, CO)
Florida:
The John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art at Florida State University (Sarasota, FL)
Lowe Art Museum at the University of Miami (Coral Gables, FL)
Museum of Dinosaurs and Ancient Cultures (Cocoa Beach, FL)
Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg (St. Petersburg, FL)
Tampa Museum of Art (Tampa, FL)
Georgia:
Michael C. Carlos Museum at Emory University (Atlanta, GA)
Illinois:
The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, IL)
The Field Museum (Chicago, IL)
The Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago (Chicago, IL)
Spurlock Museum of World Cultures at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (Urbana, IL)
Krannert Art Museum at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (Champaign, IL)
Indiana:
Eskenazi Museum of Art at Indiana University (Bloomington, IN)
Gustav Jeeninga Museum of Bible & Near Eastern Studies at Anderson University (Anderson, IN)
Kansas:
Museum of World Treasures (Wichita, KS)
Maryland:
Baltimore Museum of Art (Baltimore, MD)
John Hopkins Archaeological Museum (Baltimore, MD)
Walters Art Museum (Baltimore, MD)
Massachusetts:
Arthur M. Sackler Museum at Harvard University (Cambridge, MA)
Berkshire Museum (Pittsfield, MA)
Fitchburg Art Museum (Fitchburg, MA)
The Harvard Semitic Museum (Cambridge, MA)
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, MA)
The New Bedford Museum of Glass (New Bedford, MA)
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University (Cambridge, MA)
Worcester Art Museum (Worcester, MA)
Michigan:
Institute of Archaeology & Siegfried H. Horn Museum at Andrews University (Berrien Springs, MI)
Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, MI)
Kelsey Museum of Archaeology at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI)
Minnesota:
Minneapolis Institute of Art (Minneapolis, MN)
Mississippi:
The Lois Dowdle Cobb Museum of Archaeology at Mississippi State University (Mississippi State, MS)
The University of Mississippi Museum (Oxford, MS)
Missouri:
Museum of Art and Archaeology at the University of Missouri (Columbia, MO)
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (Kansas City, MO)
Saint Louis Art Museum (St. Louis, MO)
Nevada:
Las Vegas Natural History Museum (Las Vegas, NV) (Note: the artifacts are replicas of the tomb of Tutankhamun and other Egyptian antiquities and are one of only two sets that were authorized by the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities)
New Hampshire:
Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College (Hanover, NH)
New Jersey:
Newark Museum (Newark, NJ)
Princeton University Art Museum (Princeton, NJ)
New York:
The Brooklyn Museum (Brooklyn, NY)
Memorial Art Gallery at the University of Rochester (Rochester, NY)
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY)
The Morgan Library & Museum (New York, NY)
Museum of Greek, Etruscan and Roman Art in the William D. Walsh Family Library at Fordham University (New York, NY)
Onassis Cultural Center (New York, NY) (Note: exhibitions vary but may contain art from Ancient Greece)
Steinberg Museum of Art at Long Island University (Brookville, NY)
North Carolina:
Ackland Art Museum at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, NC)
Gregg Museum of Art & Design at North Carolina State University (Raleigh, NC)
Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University (Durham, NC)
North Carolina Museum of Art (Raleigh, NC)
Ohio:
Cincinnati Art Museum (Cincinnati, OH)
Cleveland Museum of Art (Cleveland, OH)
Museum of Classical Archaeology at Ohio State University (Columbus, OH)
Museum of Natural History & Science (Cincinnati, OH)
Toledo Museum of Art (Toledo, OH)
Oklahoma:
Mabee-Gerrer Museum of Art (Shawnee, OK)
Oregon:
Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University (Salem, OR)
Prewitt–Allen Archaeological Museum at Corban University (Salem, OR)
Pennsylvania:
Barnes Foundation (Philadelphia, PA)
Carnegie Museum of Natural History (Pittsburgh, PA)
Kelso Museum of Near Eastern Archaeology at the Pittsburg Theological Seminary (Pittsburgh, PA)
Reading Public Museum (West Reading, PA)
University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (Philadelphia, PA)
Rhode Island:
Rhode Island School of Design Museum (Providence, RI)
Tennessee:
Art Museum of the University of Memphis (Memphis, TN)
Lynn H. Wood Archaeological Museum at Southern Adventist University (Collegedale, TN)
McClung Museum of Natural History and Culture at the University of Tennessee (Knoxville, TN)
The Parthenon (Nashville, TN) (Note: the Parthenon is more like a building of art itself as it’s a replica and the art in its galleries are not from the ancient world)
Texas:
Dallas Museum of Art (Dallas, TX)
The Houston Museum of Natural Science (Houston, TX)
Kimbell Art Museum (Forth Worth, TX)
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (Houston, TX)
San Antonio Museum of Art (San Antonio, TX)
Utah:
Utah Museum of Fine Arts (Salt Lake City, UT)
Utah State University Museum of Anthropology (Logan, UT)
Vermont:
Fleming Museum of Art at the University of Vermont (Burlington, VT)
Middlebury College Museum of Art (Middlebury, VT)
Virginia:
Chrysler Museum of Art (Norfolk, VA)
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (Richmond, VA)
Washington:
Seattle Art Museum (Seattle, WA)
Washington, D.C.:
Freer Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C.)
West Virginia:
Huntington Museum of Art (Huntington, WV)
Wisconsin:
Logan Museum of Anthropology at Beloit College (St. Beloit, WI)
Milwaukee Art Museum (Milwaukee, WI)
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Pictures from the Harvard Museum of Semitic History, small but very cool museum! A replica of a house in biblical times, and on the third floor was a gallery of replicas of important Assyrian reliefs. Some cool highlights: An Assyrian officers tent, a stele of the King being presented with tribute, including mythical beasts like the sphinx and the unicorn seen on Indus Valley seals! A tent of building where horses are being groomed, a hunter with a patterned shirt, some chariots with cool standards on the poles. And lastly, two sides of the stele of Esarheddon ( Aššur-aḫa-iddina / Asshur has given another brother aka he was not meant to be king LOL), showing the two crown princes who later fought in a civil war, Šamaš-šuma-ukin and Ashurbanipal / Aššur-bāni-apli.
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IS/LAM (LAMIA) DID OPEN THE PANDORA'S BOX. THE PORTALS BEFORE THE
DEMONIC SPIRITS OF LILITH /LAMIA HAD THUS BEEN UNLEASHED BY THE
INCANTATIONS SPELLED THROUGH THE ARRANGED BLACK MAGICAL BOOK OF
MUAWIYE(ANOTHER MARDUK CARRAST) NAMELY QURAN.
MUAWIYE AS A PERSON IN PHYSICAL TERMS WAS ALSO A SERVANT OF NAGINI RACE.
HOWEVER, THE GREAT ANNUNAKI SORCERER LOFTY VAMPIRE MARDUK HAD PLANNED
THIS PLOT TO SPAWN MANKIND WITH TERROR PESTILENCE AND CHAOS.
THE FIRST TWO RELIGIONS JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY HAD THUS DEVELOPED BY
SCHISM AND FIGHT AGAINST ISLAM. BEFORE ISLAM NEITHER CHRISTIANITY NOR
JUDAISM WERE ANY STRONGER THAN ZOROASTRANISM... OR IDOLATRY.
SO THE LAMIA/LILITH SEED OF ISLAM HAD GIVEN BIRTH TO TWO OTHER STRONG
EVIL CHILDREN NAMELY JUDAISM (incubus) AND CHRISTIANITY (succubus)
WHICH ARE BOTH HORCRUXES OF MARDUK.
THROUGH THE RISE OF ISLAM ONLY, JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY COULD FIND
THE PRETEXT AND LEVERAGE TO BECOME INSTITUIONALIZED AND WIDESPREAD !
The word Naga/NAGINI in the Sanskrit language means snake or serpent.
It seems likely that the Naga people were a serpent-worshipping group
who were later described as serpents themselves in ancient Indian
literature. Ayus people were Serpent cult people from the beginning.
The most important American snake-god was the Aztec spirit of
intelligence and the wind, Quetzalcoatl ("Plumed Serpent"), who was
balanced by the evil spirit of sacrifice, the Serpent of Obsidian
Knives which was one of the four pillars supporting the sky.
They live in an underground kingdom(as in Capadoccia...) which is
filled with resplendent palaces, beautifully ornamented with precious
gems. The creator deity Brahma relegatedthe nagas to the nether
regions when they became too populous on earth and commanded them to
bite only the truly evil or those destined to die prematurely. They
are also associated with waters—rivers, lakes, seas, and wells
Lamia/Nagini/Medusa/Lilith is just an old word for vampires.
According to Greek mythology, Lamia is a vampire that stole children
to drink their blood. She is usually described as a serpent-like
creature with a female head and breasts. Lamia is typically female but
is sometimes referred to as a hermaphrodite or a male. The name Lamia
comes from the Greek word Laimos meaning gullet.
The Lamia are as much a religious cult as a bloodline. They are almost
exclusively Cappadocians to engage in rites so foul and perverted.
The IS/Lamia’s bite carries a virulent disease; once bitten from the
mind it is too hard for a lay person to recsue himself from the
Is/lamiac black spell.
The cult grew largest in the eastern Mediterranean. Here, the cult had
its most holy of places, temples and places where the magical power of
the world was strong.
They use the occult secrets of the Cult of Lilith.
For 4,000 years Lilith has wandered the earth, figuring in the mythic
imaginations of writers, artists and poets. Her dark origins lie in
Babylonian demonology, where amulets and incantations were used to
counter the sinister powers of this winged spirit who preyed on
pregnant women and infants. Lilith next migrated to the world of the
ancient Hittites, Egyptians, Israelites and Greeks. She makes a
solitary appearance in the Bible, as a wilderness demon shunned by the
prophet Isaiah. In the Middle Ages she reappears in Jewish sources as
the dreadful first wife of Adam.
In most manifestations of her myth, Lilith represents chaos. Lilith
has cast a spell on humankind.
The ancient name “Lilith” derives from a Sumerian word for female
demons or wind spirits—the lilītuand the related ardat lilǐ. The
earliest surviving mention of Lilith’s name appears in Gilgamesh and
the Huluppu-Tree, a Sumerian epic poem found on a tablet at Ur and
dating from approximately 2000 B.C.E.
One talmudic reference claims that people should not sleep alone at
night, lest Lilith slay them (Shabbath 151b). During the 130-year
period between the death of Abel and the birth of Seth, the Talmud
reports, a distraught Adam separates himself from Eve. During this
time he becomes the father of “ghosts and male demons and female [or
night] demons” (Erubin18b). And those who try to construct the Tower
of Babel are turned into “apes, spirits, devils and night-demons”
(Sanhedrin 109a). The female night demon is Lilith.
About the time the Talmud was completed, people living in the Jewish
colony of Nippur, Babylonia, also knew of Lilith.
Her image has been unearthed on numerous ceramic bowls known as
incantation bowls for the Aramaic spells inscribed on them. If the
Talmud demonstrates what scholars thought about Lilith, the
incantation bowls, dating from approximately 600 C.E., show what
average citizens believed. One bowl now on display at Harvard
University’s Semitic Museum reads, “Thou Lilith. . .Hag and Snatcher,
I adjure you by the Strong One of Abraham, by the Rock of Isaac, by
the Shaddai of Jacob. . .to turn away from this Rashnoi. . .and from
Geyonai her husband. . .Your divorce and writ and letter of
separation. . .sent through holy angels. . .Amen, Amen, Selah,
Halleluyah!”9 The inscription is meant to offer a woman named Rashnoi
protection from Lilith. According to popular folklore, demons not only
killed human infants, they would also produce depraved offspring by
attaching themselves to human beings and copulating at night.
Therefore, on this particular bowl a Jewish writ of divorce expels the
demons from the home of Rashnoi.
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