Ancient Psychedelia: Alien Gods & Mushroom Goddesses
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| The main three heads of the Sumerian pantheon consist of An, the Sky deity, Enlil the Earth deity and Enki, the waters and sea deity. (8) The verb Zu in Sumerian means “to know.” (9) The Noun means “wisdom, knowledge.” Azu means a “doctor.” (10) Enki was an “Azu” from what we can gather. (11) Enki in Sumer, Ea, Hea or Hoa in Akkad, Enki was a Sumerian god associated with knowledge, wisdom, incantations of exorcism, who lived in the ocean under the earth, called the Abzu. He came to represent healing springs and waters. Ea was the inventor of writing and possessed extreme wisdom. He taught civilization industry, literature and culture. He was a healer and physician and one of his epithets was the “Lord of Incantations.” The priests of Ea were adepts who conducted schools in the magical arts of divination and astrology as well as the interpretation of oracles and omens. The highest culture of Babylonia came from his temple at Eridu. Ea became the deity Thoth, centuries later in Egypt. (12) Ea was one of the trinity of the Chaldean gods and goddesses. Rawlinson speculates it may be the origin of the Greek Aus and says his most important epithet refers “to his functions as the source of all knowledge and science.” He was supposed to be a mystic animal, half man, half fish, who rose up from the deep in the Persian Gulf and taught mankind the sciences of astronomy and the alphabet to the settlers of the Tigris and Euphrates. He was said to be the “intelligent fish.” Berossus in his writings regard this creature as Oannes, or Ho-ana, or Hoa or Uan (22h, i, j). The Arabic word Hiya means “life” and also “serpent.” Several of his epithets include “lord of the earth,” “king of the rivers,” “lord of the abyss,” or “great deep,” “teacher of mankind” and “lord of understanding.” He is also a “god of glory” and “god of giving.” One of his emblems is the wedge or arrowhead (mushroom?), (one of the letters of cuneiform), and the other is a serpent. Some of his characteristics correlate with those of Poseidon and Neptune. (13)   R: (22i) Oannes from Nineveh |
 (22j) Oannes. Bas-relief from the palace of the Assyrian king Sargon II Louvre c. 721-705 BC In the Babylonian epics we hear of the Seven (7) Sages, the Apkallu, fish-like men who emerged from the water Abzu, the primeval sea below the void space of the underworld (Kur) and the earth (Ma) above. These are often depicted offering what appears to be the pinecone and carrying a “situla,” a water bucket which carried the “Water of Life” (21d, e). These were said to be Ea’s priests and thus endowed with the wisdom of Ea. The Apkallu were sent by him to act as sages or advisors to the earliest kings of Sumer. In the Erra epic, Marduk asks “Where are the seven sages of the depths, those sacred fish, who, like Ea their lord, are perfect in sublime wisdom, the ones who cleansed my person?” (14) They are often referred to by the “ancient alien” crowd as the Anunnaki. In some image depictions they can be seen as mushrooms when the wings are viewed as the cap and their bodies as the stem (21c, f). (8) Adapa and the South Wind: Language Has the Power of Life and Death, Shlomo Izre’el, Eisenbrauns, Indiana 2001, p. 140 (9) ZU: The Life of a Sumerian Verb in Early Mesopotamia A dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree Doctor of Philosophy in Near Eastern Languages and Cultures by Jared Norris Wolfe (10) Sumerian Lexicon Version 3.0 by John A. Halloran (11) The Apples of Apollo: Pagan and Christian Mysteries of the Eucharist, Cark A.P. Ruck, Blaise Daniel Staples, Clark Heinrich, Carolina Academic Press, 2001, p. 167; https://is.muni.cz/el/1421/jaro2013/PAPVB_13/um/ 40794229/Halloran_version_3.pdf, p. 16; https://books.google.com/books?id=1qFDAAAAYAAJ&pg= A161&dq=anointer++sumerian&source=bl&ots= Z0rS9PS5OE&sig=pMWvudKYjbxEipLCQbh50zgUtWc&hl= en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiy_ZOjw-veAhVzIDQIHTA8DoYQ6A EwD3oECAcQAQ#v=onepage&q=anointer%20%20 sumerian&f=false (12) Healing Gods, p. 119 (13) Ancient Symbol Worship: The Influence of the Phallic Idea in the Religions of Antiquity, Hodder, Westropp and C. Staniland Wake, New York, 1875, Book Tree Reprint, 1999, p. 40; History of the Ancient Chaldea, Henry Rawlinson (14) Adapa and the South Wind; The Myth of the Seven Sages; http://www.ancientpages.com/2016/02/20/mystery-of-the-seven-sages-in-ancient-myths-and-legends/ |
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