Dr. Arthur Ide more Contact Author Zeus & the Gigante Porphyrion; in Antikenmuseen, Berlin, Germany, No. 52521 Source Zeus, Elohim, Yahweh, Osiris, Isis, Horus and the Others All of the ancient gods and goddesses had equals but different names depending on which civilization mortals invented them in an effort to answer questions that seemed to […]
Gods/Goddesses
Asherah – pdf
Zeus, Elohim, Yahweh, etc. are all the same gods – Dr. Arthur Ide
Bible Inconsistencies … pdf
Gods & Goddesses of Ancient Egypt – A Brief History – Joshua J. Mark
The land of ancient Egypt was alive with the spirit of the gods. The sun god Ra broke from the darkness every morning in his great boat, bringing the light, and many of the gods watched over the people by night as the stars. Osiris caused the Nile River to flood its banks and fertilize […]
The Mesopotamian Pantheon – Joshua J. Mark
by Joshua J. Mark The gods of the Mesopotamian region were by no means uniform in name, power, provenance or status in the hierarchy. Mesopotamian culture varied from region to region, from city-state to city-state and, because of this, Marduk should not be regarded as King of the Gods in the same way Zeus ruled […]
Nanshe – Joshua J. Mark
Nanshe (also known as Nanse, Nazi) is the Sumerian goddess of social justice and divination, whose popularity eventually transcended her original boundaries of southern Mesopotamia toward all points throughout the region in the 3rd millennium BCE. She watched over orphans and widows, oversaw fairness, fresh water, birds and fish, fertility, and favored prophets, giving them […]
Utu-Shamash – Joshua J. Mark
Utu (also known as Shamash, Samas, and Babbar) is the Sumerian god of the sun and divine justice. He is the son of the moon god Nanna and the fertility goddess Ningal in the Sumerian tradition but was known as Shamash (Samas) to the Akkadians who claimed Anu or Enlil as his father. In the […]
The Great Flood Story x 2
Hammurabi and Moses: Law as a Mirror of Civilization – Ken Wolf
Hammurabi and Moses: Law as a Mirror of Civilization excerpted in its entirety from Personalities and Problems, by Ken Wolf (McGraw-Hill: 1999) What do the laws of a society tell us about the lives and beliefs of the people who write, enforce, and obey those laws? What was the chief difference between the law codes […]