#atar

[thrdnarrative]

Two women on a stroll together in Atar, Mauritania by Gerardo Amechazurra

[tsalmu]

Attarshamayn and Worshiper Text in Old Aramaic, dedication of Baraq to the goddess Attarshamayn ("Attar of the Heavens", related to Attar, Atargatis, Astarte) 11-10th c. BCE, likely crafted in ancient Assyria. Acquired from Jableh, Syria. __________________________ Translated excerpt from: Antiquités syriennes Henri Seyrig Syria T. 32, Fasc. 1/2 (1955), pp. 29-48 (23 pages)

Atarshamayn. Pl. Ill, 5. Burnt carnelian. 21 X 9. Brought from Djeblé (Gabala). Goddess advancing on the right, dressed in a long split garment, a sword at her side, wearing a polos crowned with globules and surmounted by a star; she holds in her left hand a ring made of globules, and she raises her right hand; from her head, a dewlap falls to the height of her waist. Behind her, a recumbent ibex, a lozenge, a bucranium. In front of her, an offering table, laden with a footed vase, a bird, and another object. To the right, a bearded figure, long-robed, stands in the attitude of prayer, hands outstretched with palms in the air. Above the scene, crescent and eight-pointed star. In the field, inscription in Phoenician characters: HTM BRO BD TRSMN, seal of Baraq, servant of Atarshamayn. Note the archaic character of the letters, and in particular that of the daleth without a tail. This carefully crafted cylinder appears to belong to the class of Assyrian cylinders .11 from the 10th century (1). Phoenician characters were commonly used in these ancient times for the transcription of Aramaic, and do not allow us to conclude that the seal was engraved in Phoenicia. Moreover, if Baraq (2), the owner of the cylinder, had been Phoenician, his tutelary deity would not have borne an Aramaic name, where the element Atar is the equivalent of the Phoenician Ashtart. The fact that the cylinder was found in Gabala, in Phoenicia, is therefore probably fortuitous Atarshamayn, "Atar of the Heavens," is still known only from a single text, notably later than our cylinder. Around 640, Ashurba-nipal was campaigning against the Arab tribes of the Syrian Desert (3), and his annals specify that he then subdued "the band of Atarsamayn and the people of Oedar" (4). No doubt the people of Atarsamayn were Arabs, just as the people of Qedar were, and they were named after their principal deity. It was a form of the Lady of Heaven (I), whose cult is common to the Semites. Perhaps the warrior goddess, represented on the seal, is the one named in the inscription. This text seems to be composed with the decoration. Barak must have ordered his cylinder as we see it, and, in this case, it will seem natural that he had engraved on it the goddess whose servant he proclaims himself.

[viejospellejos]

Hombres somos

[nerogore]

i like how the australian government has to keep putting out disclaimers that your ATAR doesn’t determine your worth as a person, before they’re released on the 11th. because they’re aware of how many people go into a crisis over their results and or kill themselves. like yeah let’s not provide active support for students in year 12 but we WILL tell them for years that everything hinges on their atar and then attempt shitty damage control and do nothing about the youth mental health crisis. good stuff

[geekandmisandry]

Any Australian students out there who might read this and are disappointed by your ATAR results: I get it, it sucks to work hard and feel like the number doesn't reflect that.

But please keep in mind these numbers do not matter. I did not even finish high school and was able to gain entry into one of the best universities in the country.

If your ATAR is too low for the specific course at a specific university, then do not sweat it. You can apply for a class at the same university with a lower ATAR requirement or apply to the same course at a different uni with a lower ATAR. Then, after a semester, you just apply to transfer unis (slightly harder) or transfer into the degree you want at the same university (easy mode, though, both are easy). If you do a complementary class to your degree you can get Recognition of Prior Learning, or if your course has any electives then you can get RPL for that too, so it is not like you are generally wasting a semester or money, you will be on the same financial and time track as everyone else.

I was assured about this many years ago and it is so true. Once you are IN the uni system it all becomes so easy, ATAR fades away, the score has no power over you. You can do whatever you wanted to do at whatever school in this country, there is not a barricade from that if you didn't get the ATAR to get into the class or school, that is just not really how our system works.

Breathe, enjoy your fucking holidays, relax. It is going to be fine, it is going to be easy, you are going to have an enjoyable uni experience if that is what you want. I promise nothing is compromised.

[eye-of-mordor]

In the lands of ancient Armenia, Anatolia, and the Fertile Crescent, there was a pre-Islamic religion called Zoroastrianism. The supreme god of that religion, Ahura Mazda, is believed to be the very essence of fire itself. On one miraculous day when fires raged across the land, it is said that he made himself incarnate into a man named Atar. In one different offshoot of the religion, his name is instead Adar. This divine man brought the tradition of fire worship to these ancient lands when volcanoes and wildfires raged. Still today, adherents conduct rituals in where the sacrificial fire is lit and they dance around it in seven circuits, very much like the modern Hindu wedding ceremony of saptapadi intended to honor their fire-priest god Agni. One often overlooked aspect of Atar is the very nature of his incarnation. This very old account of a god being made manifest in a human body should remind us of the Abrahamic tradition of how God created Adam in its own image, and the Norse account of how Odin breathed his holy breath into Askr. And yet, here we are faced with the startling fact that the Zoroastrian account, by academic consensus, is older than these two accounts - but the possibility of it being far older cannot be ruled out. The sagas still sung of Atar today tell of his heroic deed in battling the demonic fire dragon named Aži Dahāka, and killed it. Later accounts say that he bound it, chained it up, and banished it deep within the earth. Today in Armenia, there is an extinct volcano named Azhdahak that has been named after this dragon. But in yet another account in Iran today, it is instead said that he was imprisoned in Mount Damāvand where he shall remain until the end of the world comes, and shall break free again. By then, Atar will return to vanquish him once more.

[rem1mustd13]

dude what atars do u do

and is it yr 11 or 12?

Apps, English, Psych and Bio yr 12 IM SO CLOSE 2 THE FINISH LINE

[una-michi-naranja]

Michinaranja🐈