The Gospel of Judas:Irenaeus notes: They produce a fictitious history of this kind, which they style the Gospel of Judas. There are other Gnostic sects associated which begin really in the garden of Eden where the serpent (a Musical Enchanter) wholly seduced Eve so that "Cain was OF that wicked one." Cain is derived from "A Musical Note" and his family fathered all of the COMMERCIAL and "magical" practices to steal other people's property.

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On Line Ancient Near Eastern Texts keyed to Britannica Online for Serious links to research on Babylonia. This material is keyed to links to the Britannica On Line Eddition for a coherent outline of the events recorded in the Ancient Near Eastern Texts.

Brother's History of Lewis County, TN. Good reading. This was once the FAR WEST! Swiss Roots - Redneck heritage: "Cave of the Bear Clan"

You may want to look at some reviews of MAX LUCADO. His radical views seem to support the ANCIENT-MODERN form or religion or a Spectacle of Worship. I helps see how Ancient Babylon religious views have suddenly become very popular. Some views on SUN worship related to SHAMASH. And Baptizing Santa by Rubel Shelly

Christians have been seeking to turn every symbol (mark IDOL) to the glory of God. Thus a midwinter festival to the s-u-n was converted into a day of rejoicing over the S-o-n of God. If Jesus is described by biblical writers as the "Sun of Righteousness" and God's "true light coming into the world," what could be more natural?

To those with Britannica Online Membership (Bm). They have SCRAMBLED their links and I am slowly updating them.

Our Topical Research

See the Background to Tithing in Babylon

David's Temple as a request to rule and worship like THE NATIONS. The Hebrew word goyim, "nations", is a clerical error for Gutium or Guti, a neighbouring state which plays an important role throughout Babylonian history.

Comparing the Elements of the Jerusalem Temple to the Tower of Babel and other ancient temples

Babylonian Background to Jewish Sabbath

This page does not expand upon the fact that the primary "gods" were originally the erratic heavenly bodies including the Sun, Moon and the known planets. The world's literature is aware of a much less stable world and the elements which controlled their lives were seen as living powers. Lesser gods were deified men and women who made it to god status because of some great invention of control devices such as canals, dikes, weapons or musical instruments.

The Bible also personifies God's power by explaining His "Spirit" or Mind as hovering over the waters; God "walks upon the wings of the wind." And His ministers are "wind, fire, earthquakes, etc." Because God is invisible we see His work in the natural world. Job (27:1; 29:1) speaks of the creative events as "parables" and Jesus said that the mysteries of God were hidden in parables from the foundation of the world (Matthew 13). It is important to understand that mountains do not "praise" God and trees do not "clap their hands."

Mesopotamian religion (BM)

Beliefs and practices of the Sumerians and Akkadians, and their successors, the Babylonians and Assyrians, who inhabited ancient Mesopotamia (modern Iraq) in the millennia before the Christian era. These religious beliefs and practices form a single stream of tradition.

Four periods of Sumerian can be distinguished: Archaic Sumerian, Old or Classical Sumerian, New Sumerian, and Post-Sumerian.

Archaic Sumerian covered a period from about 3100 BC, when the first Sumerian records make their appearance, down to about 2500 BC. The earliest Sumerian writing is almost exclusively represented by texts of business and administrative character. There are also school texts in the form of simple exercises in writing signs and words. The Archaic Sumerian language is still very poorly understood, partly because of the difficulties surrounding the reading and interpretation of early Sumerian writing and partly because of the meagreness of sources.

Akkadian spread across an area extending from the Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf during the time of Sargon (Akkadian Sharrum-kin) of the Akkad dynasty, who reigned from about 2334 to about 2279 BC. By about 2000 Akkadian had supplanted Sumerian as the spoken language of southern Mesopotamia, although Sumerian remained in use as the written language of sacred literature

Sumerian in origin, it was added to and subtly modified by the Akkadians (Semites who emigrated into Mesopotamia from the west at the end of the 4th millennium BC), whose own beliefs were in large measure assimilated to, and integrated with, those of their new environment.

The Hurrians enter the orbit of ancient Middle Eastern civilization toward the end of the 3rd millennium BC. They arrived in Mesopotamia from the north or the east, but it is not known how long they had lived in the peripheral regions. There is a brief inscription in Hurrian language from the end of the period of Akkad, while that of King Arishen (or Atalshen) of Urkish and Nawar is written in Akkadian.

Amorite: member of an ancient Semitic-speaking people who dominated the history of Mesopotamia, Syria, and Palestine from about 2000 to about 1600 BC. In the oldest cuneiform sources (c. 2400-c. 2000 BC), the Amorites were equated with the West, though their true place of origin was most likely Arabia, not Syria. They were troublesome nomads and were believed to be one of the causes of the downfall of the 3rd dynasty of Ur (c. 2112-c. 2004 BC).

The Kassites in Babylonia: The Kassites had settled by 1800 BC in what is now western Iran in the region of Hamadan-Kermanshah. The first to feel their forward thrust was Samsuiluna, who had to repel groups of Kassite invaders. Increasing numbers of Kassites gradually reached Babylonia and other parts of Mesopotamia. There they founded principalities, of which little is known. No inscription or document in the Kassite language has been preserved. Some 300 Kassite words have been found in Babylonian documents. Nor is much known about the social structure of the Kassites or their culture. There seems to have been no hereditary kingdom. Their religion was polytheistic; the names of some 30 gods are known.

Chaldea: also spelled CHALDAEA, Assyrian KALDU, BABYLONIAN KASDU, Hebrew KASDDIM, land in southern Babylonia (modern southern Iraq) frequently mentioned in the Old Testament. Strictly speaking, the name should be applied to the land bordering the head of the Persian Gulf between the Arabian desert and the Euphrates delta. Words related to the Chaldeans shows that the word is synonynous with "Astrologers, Magi, Sorcerers, and musical magicians" because of their discovery of the god-calling power of ringing brass or vibrating strings.

Britannica History of Mesopotamia (Cheap membership required from Britannica)

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AB

ABGAL

ABRAHAM

Abraham, Ur of Chaldees, Fertile Crescent Travel
Sanctuary Dedicated to Ibrahim (below)

ABSU

ABYSS s

ABZU abzu wr. ab-su, ab-zu

ADAD (+BM) See Hadad

ADAPA (+BM) (Uan, Oannes)

Adapa Myth

ADMINISTRATION (BM)

ADONAI (+BM)

AGADE (+BM)

The Legend of Sargon of Agade-Barton\
The Sargon Legend From etcsl\
The Cursing of Agade\

AGRICULTURE

Three ox-drivers from Adab\
The farmer's instructions\
How Grain Came to Sumer

AHIKAR (+BM)

The Story of Ahikar, Grand Vizier of Assyria
Book of Tobit

AKITU (BM)

Akitu Festival

Akitu Festival At Ur: http://www.GatewaysToBabylon.com/religion/sumerianakitu.htm

Magic: http://www.GatewaysToBabylon.com/religion/magic1.htm

AKKAD (BM) The first Babylonian city.

AKKADIANS (BM)

AN

The Worm and the Toothache

ANSHAR and KISHAR (BM)

ANTUM (BM)

ANU (BM)
Anunnki - Anu, Enlil, Shamash, Ea - The Creation of Man

ANUNNA

ANUNNAKI (Anukki, Enunaki)

ANZU

Epic of Lugalbanda
Myth of Anzu
LUGALBANDA AND THE ANZU BIRD

Enunaki

APOPIS (BM)

APSU (BM)

AQHAT or Aqahat See DANIEL

ARURU (Mammi) (BM)

ASAG (KUR)

ASALLUHE (BM)

ASHERAH (BM)

ASHUR (Assur) (BM)

The Creation Account From Ashur

ASHURBANIPAL (BM)

Advice To A Prince
Prayer of Ashurbanipal to Shamash (the sun god)
Babylonian Proverbs and recepts- Ashurbanipal's Library - Ancient Education

ATRAHASIS (BM)

Atrahasis and Human Creation -
The Creation Account From Ashur
Enki and Ninmah

BABEL (BM)

BABYLON (Babil) (BM)

Babylonia Catholic Encyclopedia
The Legend of Sargon of Agade

BAU (BM)

BEER AND BARLEY

The Hymn to Ninkasi - Making Beer
Read a Modern Testing
How Grain Came to Sumer

BEL (BM)

Bel and the Dragon may speak to modern performing clergy.

Baal Cycle

BELILI

BELIT (BM)

BRAZEN Serpent

Some Articles on Serpent Worship

BULL OF HEAVEN

Gilgamesh and the Bull of Heaven Photos Added

BULL WORSHIP

BYTHUS, Bythos

See Gnostic version of Jesus' "in spirit and in truth concept."

CALAH (BM)

CHALDEA (Chaldaea, Assy Kaldu, Bab Kasdu, Heb Kasddim) (BM)

CHALDEAN (BM)

Chronology and Images Off Site

COSMOS (BM)

DAG, DAGAN, Dagon (BM)

Bell and the Dragon

DAMKINA (Chaldean, Babylonian)

DAMU (BM)

DAZIMUA:

DANIEL or Danel

Daniel in North Syria Aqahat, Paghat, El, Anath, Daniel, Danel
Daniel's Need for a Son

DEEP

DEMON OR Daemon

The Seven Evil Spirits or Demons

DEMIGODS

DEMONS GALAS

DILMUN

DIMME LAMASHTU

DINGIR

Epic of Paradise Column I, II, III, IV, V, VI

DRAGON

DUMUZI (BM)

Dumuzi is Presented to Inanna
The Courtship of Inanna and Dumuzi
Dumuzid and Geshtin-ana
Dumuzid's Dream
Shumdunda Grass

DUMUZI-AMASHUMGALANA (BM)

DUMUZI-ABZU

EA-EL

EA (ENKI) (BM)

The ME, Inanna - Ea - Gift of Wisdom and Music
Enki and the World Order,
Enki and the World Order From ECCL
Nam-shub of Enki confusion of tongues

EA-ENGURRA Temple of the god Ea in Eridu.

ENKI BUILDS THE E-ENGURRA
 
EANNA or E-Anna
ENHEDUANNA
PRAYER OF ENHEDUANNA -ADORATION OF INANNA OF UR
ENMEBARAGESI, king of Kish (BM)

ENKI (EA)

Atrahasis myth
Enki and Ninhursanga
Enki and Ninmah
Enki and the world order
Enki's journey to Nibru
Enki Builds the E-Engurra
Adapa Myth
The Eridu Genesis
ENKIDU
Domestication of Enkidu
Gilgamesh, Enkidu and the nether world
ENLIL See Bel
Enlil and Ninlil
Enlil and Ninlil - ETCSL Translation
The Worm and the Toothache
How Grain Came to Sumer
Enlil and Sud
Enlil in the E-Kur (Enlil A)
Enlil and Nam-Zid.Tara
 

ENMERKER (BM)

Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta
Enmerkar and En-suhgir-ana
 

ENUMA ELISH

The Creation - Magian Version

Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta

 
The Babylonian Creation Epic All Tablets in One File: N.K.Sandars
Tablet I, Tablet II, Tablet III, Tablet IV, Tablet V, Tablet VI, Tablet VII By Stephanie Dally
Fragment describing the creation of animals.
Tablet I, Tablet II, Tablet III, Tablet IV, Tablet V, Tablet VI, Tablet VII From George A. Barton 

Enuma Elish, The Fifty Names of Marduk, Tablet VIb - VII From E. A. Speiser uploaded  

Introduction, Tablet I, Tablet II, Tablet III, Tablet IV, Tablet V, Tablet VI, Tablet VII E. A. Speiser some not on internet
 
ENSUHKESHDANNA See Enmerker Above
 
Enmerkar and Ensuhkeshdanna
ERECH

ERESHKIGAL (BM)

Marriage of Nergal and Ereshkigal

ERIDU (BM)

THE ERIDU GENESIS (BM)

The Eridu Genesis

ERRA (BM) (Mythica)

ERRA AND ISHUM
ESAGILA (BM)

ETANA MYTH

The Myth of Etana

ETEMENANKI (BM)

FLOOD (BM)

Tablet XI of the epic of Gilgamesh
The Flood Story
Flood Narrative
GARDEN (BM)
Expulsion From the Garden

GALAS, The demons

GESHTINANNA, GESTINNANA (Demi-god) (BM)

Dumuzid and Geshtin-ana
GILGAMESH (BM)
 
Gilgamesh Prologue
Tablet I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XI, XII
Speiser XI
Translation by E. A. Speiser, in Ancient Near Eastern Texts (Princeton, 1950), pp. 60-72, as reprinted in Isaac Mendelsohn (ed.), Religions of the Ancient Near East, Library of Religion paperbook series (New York, 1955). PP. 100-6; notes by Mendelsohn
http://www-etcsl.orient.ox.ac.uk/catlist.htm

Flood Account From Nineveh 7th Century B.C.

The Flood Narrative From the Gilgamesh Epic 11th tablet
Another Flood Narrative From the Gilgamesh Epic
Sumerian Flood Narrative From the Gilgamesh Epic
Gilgamesh and Agga of Kish
Gilgamesh and the Bull of Heaven Photos Added
Flood Narrative
The death of Gilgamesh
Gilgamesh, Enkidu and the nether world
Gilgamesh and Huwawa (version A) or Humbaba
Gilgamesh and Huwawa (version B)
GUDEA (BM) general background)

GUGALANA

GULU

HADAD (BM)

HAMMURABI King of Babylon 1848-1806 BC. (BM)

Code of Hammurabi
Marriage Contracts
HESOID
Hesoid's Theogony

HULLUPU TREE

Hullupu Tree

HUMBABA (Humwawa)

Gilgamesh and the Bull of Heaven
Gilgamesh and Huwawa (version A) or Humbaba
Gilgamesh and Huwawa (version B)
Gilgamesh and Agaga of Kish
IGIGI (ee gee' gee)

INANNA (Inannu) (BM)

PRAYER OF ENHEDUANNA -ADORATION OF INANNA OF UR
Hullupu Tree
The ME, Inanna - Ea - Gift of Wisdom and Music
The Courtship of Inanna and Dumuzi BabCourtship.html
The Exhaltation of Inana BabInanaB.html
Inana's descent to the nether world J.A. Black etal.
Inanna Descent Wolkstein - Kramer

Inana and Enki

Inanna and Ebih
Dumuzi is Presented to Inanna
Inana and Shu-kale-tuda
Dumuzid and Geshtin-ana
The death of Dumuzi
Dumuzid's Dream
Hymn from Inanna to Tammuz
Hymn of Love from Inanna to Tammuz
Inanna and Bilulu
IMDUGUD See NINURTA

ISHKUR Married goddess Shala (BM)

ISHTAR (BM)

Ishtar Descent into to the Nether world
Istar Descent into the Netherworld - Babylon
The Sleep of Ishtar
Hymn to Ishtar
Prayer of Lamentation to Ishtar
KI / Ninhursag (BM)
EIGHT CHILDREN OF KI, THE??????

KINGS (Sumerian)

Sumerian King List
Sumerian King List - Long *
Long-Lived Patriarchs
Antediluvian Patriarchs
KINGU The dragon of chaos. See Below

KISH (BM)

KISHAR (BM)

KOSMOS (BM) Pythagoreanism

KOTHAR (BM)

KUR The Underworld. (See Asag).

LAGASH (BM)

Umma and Lagash
Rulers of Lagash
Sumerian Inscription Umma and Lagash - Babylonia
LAHMU AND LAHAMU (BM)

LAMU:

LAHAMU:

LAMASHTU (BM)

LARSA (BM)

LEVIATHAN liweyathan (Hebrew) (BM

LILITH (Hebrew) (BM)

LUCIFER (Latin) (BM)

LUDLUL BEL NEMEQU (BM)

Ludlul Bel Nimeqi, Tabu-utul-Bel (Job)
LUGALBANDA (Mesop. hero) (BM)
Lugalbanda and kar
Lugalbanda in the mountain cave
Lugalbanda epic
Lugalbanda and Enmerkar
LUGALBANDA AND THE ANZU BIRD
MARDUK ((BM))
Enuma Elish, The Fifty Names of Marduk, Tablet VIb - VII From E. A. Speiser
The Feast of Marduk and Zarpanit - the Sabbath, Shabbat, Shabatum
Psalm to Marduk
Poem Of The Righteous Sufferer
MARTU
Marriage of Martu

MASHU, Mount

See First Adam and Eve for a description of the Supernatural Mountain and Second Adam and Eve

Supernatural Mountain and
Second Adam and Eve
ME
The ME, Inanna - Ea - Gift of Wisdom and Music

MESLAMTAEA (BM)

MESOPOTAMIAN CULT (BM)

MOABITE-STONE (BM)

Moabite Stone

MUMMU-TIAMAT (BM)

MUSIC

See how music was introduced
Musical Worship in Babylon
Tammuz, Lament on the Flute
MUSIC OF THE SPHERES (BM)

MUSIC

Some of the References to Demon Worship
NABU (BM)
Alexander Hislop The Death of the Child
Alexander Hislop The Child in Greece
NAMMU

NAM-SHUB begin here.........

Nam-Shub

NAMTAR (Namtara) (BM)

Myth of Atrahasis
Enki and Ninmah.
 

NAM-ZID-TARA

Enlil andNam-Zid-Tara

NANNA

The Herds Of Nanna
Journey of Nanna to Nippur
NANNAR.
Hymn to Sin - Moon God
NANNA-SIN Nanna-Suen (BM)
Journey of Nanna to Nippur
Hymn to Nannar/Sin
Nanna-Suen's journey to Nibru
NANSHE (BM)

NERGAL (BM)

Marriage of Nergal and Ereshkigal
Abraham, Ur of Chaldees, Babylonian Tablets
NIBRU
Lament for Nibru

NIMROD (BM)

A Collection of Notes on Nimrod and Musical Worship in Babylonia

NINAZU (BM)

The building of Ningirsu´s temple
NINGAL (BM)
Lament for the Destruction of Ur.

NINGIRSU (BM)

NINGISHZIDA (BM))

Adapa Myth
Ningishzida and Damu
Ningishzida and Ninazimua
Journey To The Netherworld
 
NINHAR (BM)
NINHURSAG (BM) See Ki.
Enki and Ninmah.
Enki and Ninhursanga
NINIB

NINKASA

The Hymn to Ninkasi - Making Beer
NINLIL (BM)
Enlil and Ninlil

NINMAH SEE NINHURSAG

NINSUN (BM)

NINURTA (BM)

Ninurta and the Turtle
Pabilsang's (Ninurta) journey to Nibru
Exploits of Ninurta
The return of Ninurta to Nibru (Nippur)
Ninurta's fields
NINUS (BM)

NIPPUR (BM)

Journey of Nanna to Nippur
Enki and Enlil Establish order at Nippur With the Grain Goddess Ezinu
NUSKU (BM)

OANNES

Alexander Hislop - The Name of the Beast
Alexander Hislop - The Beast From the Sea
PABILSAG (BM)
Pabilsang's journey to Nibru

PAPSUKKEL

PHILO

Creation Account

PROPHECY (BM)

PUKKU AND MIKKU

RIMMON (BM)

RESHEP (BM)

SABBATH (BM)

Sabbath Musical Instruments David-Like Lament
The Feast of Marduk and Zarpanit - the Sabbath, Shabbat, Shabatum
Expulsion From the Garden
Babylonian Background to Jewish Sabbath
 

SAMMU-RAMAT (BM)

SARPANITUM: Marduk's consort.

SARGON (BM)

The Sargon Legend 2
The Legend of Sargon of Agade
 
SEMIRAMIS (BM)
SERPENT (BM)
Index of ANE and other Documents on Serpent Worship

SHAMASH (BM)

Anunnki - Anu, Enlil, Shamash, Ea - The Creation of Man
Shamash (Sun god), Hymn To
The Worm and the Toothache
Great Hymn to Shamash
SHULGI (BM)
Self-Hymn of Praise to Shulgi
SHULPAE (BM)

SHURUPPAK (BM)

The Instructions of Shuruppag
The Eridu Genesis
 
SIDURI (BM)
GILGAMESH EPIC
Ishtar Descent to the Nether world
Istar Descent Babylon
 
SIN (BM)
Hymn to Sin - Moon God
Shamash (Sun god), Hymn To
Hymn to Nannar/Sin
Prayer to Sin - The Moon God
Prayer of Ashurbanipal to Shamash (the sun god)
EIGHT CHILDREN OF KI

EKUR (BM)

Enlil in the E-kur (Enlil A)

ELLIL (Illil, Sumerian Enlil)

The Creation of the Pickax by Enlil, the Babylonian Holy Spirit
Anunnki - Anu, Enlil, Shamash, Ea - The Creation of Man
CULT OF TAMMUZ (BM)
Tammuz, Lament on the Flute
Hymn from Inanna to Tammuz
Hymn of Love from Inanna to Tammuz
Ishtar Descent to the Nether world (The 7 Gates of Hell)
 
TIAMAT (BM)

TOBIT (BM)

Book of Tobit
The Story of Ahikar, Grand Vizier of Assyria
 
TOWER OF BABEL (babel, gate of God), (BM)
UMMANU
Story of Lamech and His Children
Genun as Composit of Lamech's Children
UNDERWORLD
Ishtar Descent to the Nether world

UR (BM)

Lament for the Destruction of Ur
Abraham, Ur of Chaldees, Babylonian Tablets
 
UR-NAMMU (BM)
URUK (BM)

UTNAPISHTIM (BM)

UTTU (BM)

UTU see Shamash

Enlil and Ninlil

UTU-HEGAL, Utu-Hegal (Utu-khegal) (BM)

Poem of Utu-hejal - Destroying the Serpent Gutium - Enemy of the gods

WORSHIP

Babylonian Worship: A man and his god
YAH (BM)

ZARPANIT (BM)

The Feast of Marduk and Zarpanit - the Sabbath, Shabbat, Shabatum

ZIGGURAT (BM)

The Temple Hymns

ZISUTRA

Atrahasis.

ZIUSUDRA (Sumerian) (BM)

The Eridu Genesis

ZU (Imdugud)

For an expanded Glossary of these topics and more 
The Best Collection of Links to Gilgamesh and History 3010 Professor Lee Huddleston
Comprehensive Index of Myths and Legends
Gateway to Babylon
Rutgers University Virtual Religion Index
Iraq4You: News, events, etc----Iraq Religions ---Mandaean Christians
U-Penn resources
Yahoo Mesopotamia
Yahoo Babylonia
The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature---All Ancient Near Eastern Texts
Barton , George, A. Archaeology and the Bible, 7th Edition
 

The Book

Myths from Mesopotamia : Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others, Stephanie Dalley

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TALE of SINUHE

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Dumuzid's Dream
Dumuzi is Presented to Inanna
The Courtship of Inanna and Dumuzi
Weeping for Tammuz
 

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