#adapa

[pietruszko]

Oannes !

I’ve always loved Sumerian mythology and ancient history ^^ a friend asked me for a fish guy in some IG doodle box requests so couldn’t help to indulge myself xD needed to finish that doodle !

[ocbeyme]

Obey Me Headcanon talk: Lilith and her lover

Who I named Adapa

Lilith fell in love with Adapa, a human who was terminally ill or physically fragile. Their love was doomed from the start, even without the forbidden food, because his body was already failing him. What captured Lilith’s heart was the way Adapa viewed life: with awe, curiosity, and a stubborn determination to keep loving the world even as it slipped from his grasp.

She adored his optimism, a brightness that matched her own. In his short, fragile life, he possessed a deeper appreciation for every moment than anyone she had ever known. And Lilith, naturally hopeful and drawn to warmth, found herself pulled toward his spirit like a flower reaching for sunlight.

For Adapa, Lilith was that sunlight. To him, she became the warm, radiant force that made life worth enduring despite the pain. He saw her as his sun. The light he wanted to live for, the reason he wished for more time.

Her choice to seek the forbidden food came from love, not rebellion: she simply wanted to grant him a little more time under the same sky, enough for him to chase dreams his body had denied him. Their love remained gentle, sincere, and achingly tragic an angel who embodied hope, and a human who saw her as the light of his world.

Divider by @/ferretmilkshakezzz

[kispu]

The Neo-Assyrian ritual of the Bīt Mēseri (“the sealed house”)

Incantation:

Uanna, who completes the plan of heaven and earth, Uanneduga, endowed with broad mind, Enmeduga, ordained with a happy fate, Enmegalamma, formed in a house, Enmebulugga, who grew in a field, Anenlilda, incantation-priest of Eridu, Utuabzu, who ascended to heaven. They are the seven brilliant Purādu-fish, Purādu-fish of the sea; Seven apkallū formed in the river, who keep the plans of heaven and earth in order. Nungalpiriggal, apkallū of Enmerkar, who brought Ishtar down from heaven into the Eanna. Piriggalnungal, formed in Kish, who angered Adad in heaven so that he did not let there be rain or vegetation in the land for three years. Piriggalabzu, formed in Abad, who hung his seal on a Seal-fish and thus angered Enki in the Abzu so that a fuller struck him with his own seal. Fourth, Lu-Nanna, two-thirds apkallū, who drove a dragon out of the Eninkiagnunna, the Ishtar temple of Shulgi. Four apkallū of human descent, who Lord Enki endowed with broad understanding.

(ritual action:) Before the seven Purādu-apkallū who are striped with plaster and back paste, which are drawn on the wall of the side of the sanctuary, you recite (the above)

Source: Seth Sanders. From Adapa to Enoch: Scribal Culture and Religious Vision in Judea and Babylon. p. 53.

This is a protective Neo-Assyrian ritual, performed facing images of the apkallū, semi-divine sages from antediluvian times. Calling on them, as one invokes the angels during the LBRP, for instance, one could draw on their power to repel evil. On adapting it to modern times, I figure maybe this might work similarly to The Golden Dawn’s Rose Cross Ritual, but I still need to check this out myself. The apkallū are often portrayed as half-human, half-fish beings, though there are winged genies who are sometimes identified as apkallū.

The most famous sage is Adapa, well-known from the myth in which he breaks the wing of the Southern Wind and is summoned by Anu to dine with him in heaven and explain himself. Enki warns him not to eat any food offered by Anu, in which case he will die, and he follows those instructions to the letter. Unfortunately, Adapa is tricked by Anu, as he really does offer him the food of life, and because he refused it, he and all humans are made mortal. In this myth Adapa is a wise king, though later tradition identifies him as an apkallū, named Uanna (or Oannes, in Berossus). Adapa was the most famous ancient sage and his name was often invoked in exorcism rituals.

[shootingstarsue]

Some of my own characters for the Adapa comic

Art and characters are mine

[abi-sain]

Adapa

Art by @littletarsier

Adapa is a Subordinate of Marowit, and one of the few sane figures residing within the Dreamlands. He tends to the day to day administration of Marowit's domain and is a check on his Creators erratic personality.

Adapa is a very rational and analytical figure, and has his share of rivals within the Dreamlands. In addition to being an administrator, he is also an effective strategist, and can hold his own against even the most powerful of Jehovah's angels.

A few basic facts:

Nice guy, but a bit strict.

Observes the rules and is very respectful towards other.

Maintains the balance between dreams and nightmares.

Is equal to Paschar in terms of power and skill.

Has called Paschar a miserable flaterrer, and a poor example of a model angel.

Likes cute things.

[dreamsyntax1]

Adapa's Myth in Mesopotamian Matte Painting

Adapa was a Sumerian citizen who was blessed by the god Enki with immeasurable intelligence. However, one day Adapa was knocked into the sea by the south wind, and in a rage he broke the south wind’s wings so that it could no longer blow. Adapa was summoned to be judged by An, and before he left Enki warned him not to eat or drink anything offered to him. However, An had a change of heart when he realized just how smart Adapa was, and offered him the food of immortality, which Adapa, dutiful to Enki, turned down.

[mshamsaddin]

The Perception of the Divine - I

God created Man and not Man God; consequently, God defined Man and not Man God. That is why Man sensed God, perceived the Divine, and acted accordingly within the spiritual and the material universes. Due to the first fall of Man, this sense and this perception were gravely impaired. Because of this situation, the early men started developing faculties in order to catch up with what they had missed but to no avail. These faculties, which we now identify as the basics of civilization, were truly unnecessary and they only resulted in further falls.

If we consider the original sin as an infidelity, the so-called 'human civilization' was constructed on unrequested powers, skills and intelligence. This invalid, counterfeit intelligence is what exactly we read in the First Epistle to the Corinthians (3:19; ἡ γὰρ σοφία τοῦ κόσμου τούτου μωρία παρὰ τῷ Θεῷ ἐστιν / Sapientia enim hujus mundi, stultitia est apud Deum): "For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God's sight".

Texts and representations from the scene related to the Weighing of the Heart of Ani, which took place in the Hall of Judgment (from the Papyrus of Ani); Ani and his wife Tutu (lower section, left) enter the realm of the Divine. At center, Anubis, in kneeling position, weighs Ani's heart (left plate of the scale) against the feather of Maat (right plate of the scale). He is observed by the divine forces Renenutet, Meshkenet, and Shay, as well as by Ani's own Ba (lower spiritual body which is depicted as a bird with human head). At the right end, Ammut, intending to devour Ani's soul if his heart is proven sinful, awaits the verdict. Identified as the Divine Wisdom, Thoth (with human body and the head of the bird ibis) prepares to record it. In the upper section, all supreme aspects of the Divine act as judges: (from left to right) Hu and Sia, Hathor, Horus, Isis and Nephthys, Nut, Geb, Tefnut, Shu, Atum, and Ra-Horakhty. Written by the Theban scribe Ani -for the preparation of his life in the Hereafter- in the first half of the 13th c. BCE, the Papyrus of Ani was discovered in 1888 in Luxor by the English Egyptologist Sir E. A. Wallis Budge and smuggled to the British Museum. It is a 24 m long scroll that has a width of 33 cm; the monumental document needed three volumes to be duly published (introductory analysis; transcription and translation; facsimile reproduction),

Yet, this conclusion is nothing more than the true essence of Ea's advice to Adapa (the First Human) according to the Ancient Sumerian/Assyrian-Babylonian sacred text "Adapa and the South Wind":

«At the door of Anu, Tammuz and Gishzida are standing, "they will see thee, they will ask thee; 'Sir,' For whose sake dost thou so appear, Adapa? For whom Art thou clad in a mourning garment?' 'In our country two gods have vanished, therefore Am I so.' 'Who are the two gods, who in the land Have vanished?' 'Tammuz and Gishzida.' They will look at one another and Be astonished. Good words».

In other words, in the original Paradise, there would never be any 'civilization'. Then, the quest for the original perception of the Divine is a direct, straightforward and conscious rejection of all the human cultures and civilizations. Quite unfortunately for them, all those who intend to stick to their traditions and cultures, by so doing, they bring the total collapse of the human civilization closer. This is apparently so because their civilization is flawed and putrefied, their faith nonexistent, and their perception of the Divine dishonest and erroneous.

Contents (Part I: I-VI)

Introduction

I. Man: soul, body, and character

II. Communication with the material universe

III. Communication with the spiritual universe

IV. The function of the Man: interaction among soul, body and character

V. Mind without thoughts; heart without sentiments; solar plexus without desires

VI. At the antipodes of the ancient Spiritual Sciences, Modern Psychology produces monsters, leading to the extermination of mankind

VII. The human soul, its parts, and their functionality

VIII. Soul consciousness without subconscious and unconsciousness

IX. Knowledge as self-consciousness: no need of language, writing and learning

X. Wisdom as consciousness of one's own destination in the material universe

XI. Fate: the process of all interconnections and mutual impact of all created factors

XII. Fortune: inherent sense of conditions enabling man to outdo what Fate specified

XIII. Perception of the Divine: from the Five Elements to the Twelve Supreme Beings

XIV. God & the Divine vs. the Divine & the gods

XV. The perception of God and the perceptions of gods

XVI. The human concept of the Divine: result of the malfunction of the Fallen Man

XVII. End Times: liberation from thoughts, sentiments, desires, languages & writings

Introduction

The modern Western (in fact: Western European) world, which by means of military, political, economic, academic, intellectual, educational, religious, cultural and spiritual colonization invaded and (by so doing) desecrated the rest of the world, has been based on a peremptory, 'humanist' assumption, an arbitrary, detrimental rejection of the pre-Renaissance world, a baseless, yet unprecedented historical revisionism, and a self-determination to deliberately define God. Within this vicious and calamitous context, which precipitates the total annihilation of the mankind, there is absolutely no place for perception of the Divine.

Nonetheless, it has been inevitable that several humans managed to liberate themselves from today's destitute, fake and corrupted religions, absurd and nonsensical philosophies, and various other schemes, theories and ideologies in order to find their true inner selves and in the process perceive the Divine.

In today's world, there is no self-definition of Man. This is so because the peremptory concept of Humanism constitutes an unfounded dogma and the foundation of all posterior conclusions, considerations and theories. Any spiritual-intellectual attempt to question the validity of the 'humanist' absurdity results instantaneously in utterly dictatorial persecution, hysterical rejection, and fanatical, systematized defamation. Yet, the insanity of 'Humanism' leads straight to the eradication of mankind.

As a matter of fact, for every civilization and culture, the self-definition of Man was never the first priority in terms of ancestral narratives, meditation, rumination and world view; on the contrary, the definition of God was the central, fundamental task. We do not exist of our own; we live because God created us. Contrarily to Him, we cannot say "I am who I am" (אֶֽהְיֶ֖ה אֲשֶׁ֣ר אֶֽהְיֶ֑ה; ἐγώ εἰμι ὁ ὤν; ego sum qui sum / Exodus 3:14). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_that_I_Am

Similarly, and more authoritatively than the Torah, the Assyrian-Babylonian sacred text of Enuma Elish (the world's paramount 'Genesis' or 'Cosmogony') in its 3rd and 4th verses stipulates the following: «apsûm-ma rēštû zārûšun; mummu Tiamat muallidat gimrišun» {Naught but primordial Apsu, their begetter, (and) Mummu Tiamat, she who bore them all / as per the transliteration in P. Talon, The Standard Babylonian Creation Myth: Enūma eliš; Helsinki, 2005}.

https://ia600707.us.archive.org/16/items/Holy-Books/EnumaElish.pdf

Everything, every aspect of the Divine, every later name of God or aspect of God depended on the primordial Apsu and Tiamat, the names of God before Creation. In the World History's first and foremost holy text, the narrative of the Creation starts before the Creation. After the original moments of Becoming are stipulated, all the rest follows. In other words, only because humans defined God first, they were able to determine who they were at a second stage. But to define God, men had to perceive the Divine at an earlier moment.

I. Man: soul, body, and character

In this brief presentation, I don't intend to expand on the perception of the Divine of the Ancient Sumerians, Akkadians, Assyrians-Babylonians and Egyptians, thus composing a historico-religious monograph. On the contrary, I will use material and concepts, methods and approaches of the Ancient Mesopotamian monotheists, which can help today's people to best question and ultimately refute the prevailing, absurd and preposterous definition of the Divine, which has become good reason for the mankind's decay. 

There cannot be mental, sentimental or sensual perception of the Divine. The brain, the heart, and the solar plexus are parts of the human body that function at the very intersection of the soul and the body within every human being; however, they still generate material functions. Through these means a human obtains perception of the material universe. However, only the human soul creates spiritual functions, and it is only through one's soul that a man can perceive the spiritual universe, the Divine, and God. In brief, there is only spiritual perception of the spiritual world.

Because the dissociation between the human soul and the human body is the result of the successive falls of mankind, today's man has lost the originally inherent ability to establish a complete synergy between the soul and the body. Many misinformed and disoriented people, who believe in the existence of the human soul and the spiritual universe, think that the thoughts, the ideas, the theories, the sentiments, the desires and the passions constitute the soul, but that's very wrong.

As driving force of life, the soul is entirely different from the body; it does however permeate the human body and, to enable the human being's major functions at the material level, it forms particular junctures within the body in the heart, the brain, and the solar plexus. At best, which means before all the Falls, the three junctures (or intersections) are totally empty, and ethereal vitality keeps the human being in perfect synergy between the soul and the body.

The electromagnetic flow is thus exemplarily processed, being uninterrupted and unabsorbed by the various, unnecessary debris formed during cases of traumatic experience. Then, this man is well-lit and bright, able to emit light, and transform his eye into a lantern for his body; this is the meaning of Jesus' famous hint "The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are healthy, your whole body will be full of light" (Ὁ λύχνος τοῦ σώματός ἐστιν ὁ ὀφθαλμός· ἐὰν οὖν ὁ ὀφθαλμός σου ἁπλοῦς ᾖ, ὅλον τὸ σῶμά σου φωτεινόν ἔσται·; lucerna corporis est oculus si fuerit oculus tuus simplex totum corpus tuum lucidum erit; Matthew 6:22)

Quite contrarily, in the case of the man of the Fall, the three intersections are filled with unnecessary data, pieces of 'knowledge', amounts of worthless information, endless thoughts, considerations, theories, ideas, ideologies, sentiments and desires, not to mention passions and abominable calculations, which keep the human being captive of the worst enemies of mankind. In such cases, the soul is greatly affected and clearly condemned to damnation. These unfortunate and unsubstantiated beings have thus already become 'persons', overwhelmingly filling the part of their soul that we conventionally call 'subconscious' with collateral debris, which constitute an enormous burden for the soul and gradually force her to incapacity and castigation.

The intersections of the soul and the body (solar plexus, heart and brain) create what we come to know as the character of the human being; the character is the epitome of individuality. But a human being, i.e. an individual, should never become a 'person'. The character corresponds to what many mystics call conventionally 'lower spiritual body'; this is wrongly called 'astral body' (it has nothing to do with stars). Few days after the separation of the soul from the body (i.e. the 'death'), both, the material body and the lower spiritual body, start getting disintegrated.

Being aware of the intensified spiritual attack against the mankind and the increased number of sinful humans, modern mystics wanted to find a convenient and very conventional 'solution' of the problem. They therefore invented the childish theory of generalized reincarnation. It is certain that some souls can reincarnate; spiritually and materially, reincarnation is possible. Jesus spoke explicitly about that, referring to the Men of Nineveh, i.e. the Ancient Assyrians: "The men of Nineveh will stand up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it; for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and now something greater than Jonah is here" (ἄνδρες Νινευῖται ἀναστήσονται ἐν τῇ κρίσει μετὰ τῆς γενεᾶς ταύτης καὶ κατακρινοῦσιν αὐτήν, ὅτι μετενόησαν εἰς τὸ κήρυγμα Ἰωνᾶ, καὶ ἰδοὺ πλεῖον Ἰωνᾶ ὧδε; viri ninevitae surgent in iudicio cum generatione ista et condemnabunt eam quia paenitentiam egerunt in praedicatione Ionae et ecce plus quam Iona hic; Matthew 12:41).

The generalized theory of reincarnation invalidates the purpose of the Creation. It is an absurdity according to which one human being can achieve perfection in three lives, another man in six lives, and a third person in nine lives; indeed, this is utterly blasphemous. If things had been arranged in this paranoid manner, God would have been snoring at the end station of this useless and otherwise comical process. Only pathetic ignorance and abject immorality can make someone think that the Moral Order does not matter and that the facts of spiritual reward and spiritual castigation are meaningless. Contrarily to this nonsensical scheme, for all early sacred texts, it matters greatly whether the Moral Order is maintained and respected by all humans or not. Without Order there is no Creation; breaching the universal Order is an act that destroys some part of the universe. That is why reward and castigation are consequential, instantaneous and inevitable.

In this regard, it is absolutely puerile to suggest that, since most humans were sinful, if we happen to believe that there will be reward for the innocent and punishment for the guilty, we will end up in a scarcely inhabited Paradise with few souls and in a densely populated Hell packed with the souls of sinners. I am absolutely convinced that this is a hypocritically childish response (pronounced in Modern times) to an inconsistent and unsophisticated sermon (given in Christian and Islamic times).

I cannot expand further here (as this article does not concern the Structure of the Spiritual Universe), but I have to point out that it is mere theological vanity to try to interpret terms like "eternal life" and 'eternal fire" within the context of life of the Fallen Man. Sacred texts that use similar terms apparently give figurative sense to several terms that they use, since their readers will ostensibly be totally unable to fully and deeply comprehend them. I must therefore conclude that modern mystics' opposition to Christian-Muslim preachers is an intentional evildoing, although the latter clearly failed to accurately interpret their respective sacred texts.

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Ascensión a los cielos en la mitología antigua

La ascensión de humanos o seres a los cielos es un tema común entre muchas mitologías y religiones de todo el mundo...

Las fascinantes narrativas de héroes como Hércules y patriarcas como Enoc que trascienden los reinos mortales para morar entre los dioses continúan cautivando a todas las culturas. Desde los relatos míticos de Hércules ascendiendo al Monte Olimpo hasta los relatos bíblicos de Enoc caminando con Dios, o la impresionante ascensión de figuras como Elías, muestran cómo desafiaron las limitaciones terrenales para ascender al reino divino. Estos cuentos eternos discutidos aquí muestran la búsqueda de la humanidad por la comunión divina.