by rain » Thu Sep 22, 2005 1:03 pm
Downward, too, into the abysm."<br><br>“The tooth of the Lion, and the Mighty Serpent of Ilu, thou (Adar) removest, making (them) to turn away from the land.<br>Adar, the king, the son of the god King Sakh, has caused (them) to turn unto themselves.<br>He is the warrior whose lasso overthrows the foe.<br>O Adar! the fear of thy shadow inclines towards the world.<br>He assembles his people in strength to invade the hostile land.<br>Adar the Warrior who knows not fear has driven away the pest.<br>The strong Darru before whom the foe exists not,<br>Adar, manly exalter, who makes joyful his side,<br>has driven the chariot over the mountain, has scattered wide the seed.<br>Men altogether have proclaimed his name for sovereignty over them.<br>In their midst like a great wild bull has he lifted up his horns.<br>The Shu (Vessel) Stone, the precious [stone of the Chaldees],<br>the strong stone, the Serpent-Stone of the mountain-stone,<br>That Warrior --- the Fire Stone [Cauldron] too --- the Hero has carried off to the city.” <br><br>It has been generally considered by Assyriologists that this broken Stone - Bowl which had been esteemed of such importance as to have this ancient genealogy inscribed on it and termed ‘precious or choice’ and given the chief place of honour in the Sun-cult by being deposited under the foundations of the tower in the oldest Sun-temple in Mesopotamia, must have been a famous war-trophy captured at the city of Khamazi. But where the latter place was situated has hitherto been quite unknown. It is, I now find, undoubtedly ‘Car-chemish’ of the Hebrew Old Testament, which we have seen was the last stronghold of the Hittites on the Upper Euphrates, where the river debouches on to the Mesopotamian plains; and it was called by the Babylonians Kar - Kamish or Gar-Gamish, that is ‘the Fort of Kamish or Gamish.’ And it is at this site also, that the Nordic Eddas locate the capture of the Stone Bowl, namely, at ‘the Fort of Gymi or Gymis’ at Urd, the headquarters of the weirds of the Mother-Son and Serpent cult or Joro-velli, now identified with Hieropolis Jerablus or Carchemish. <br><br>In his deification, this title of Sagg is found remodelled on the same general form as In-Sakh (or In-Zakh) or King Sakh or Zakh, meaning literally ‘King of the Winds,’ and thus making his title truly mythological, and obviously connecting it to his Sun-Eagle or Sun-Hawk emblem of his Sun-worship<br><br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.geocities.com/sa_ga_g/">www.geocities.com/sa_ga_g/</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.antiqillum.com/texts/bg/Rose_Croix/RC004.htm">www.antiqillum.com/texts/.../RC004.htm</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br><br> <p></p><i></i>