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HOWEVER, EL and IL are language variants in neighboring cultures for the exact same word. For example, BABEL is also BABIL or BABILU. some scholars try to argue this by ignoring pretty much all other linguistic queues and etymological trails. that's a no-no. One reason they do that is because ILU is "gods" and you can't very well have a monotheistic religion based on multiple gods
Originally posted by pthena
reply to post by undo
HOWEVER, EL and IL are language variants in neighboring cultures for the exact same word. For example, BABEL is also BABIL or BABILU. some scholars try to argue this by ignoring pretty much all other linguistic queues and etymological trails. that's a no-no. One reason they do that is because ILU is "gods" and you can't very well have a monotheistic religion based on multiple gods
It's much easier to just go ahead and be a polytheist. That way, you can simply strip away the mythology (de-mythologize) and go with what's left.
Zeus, Jupiter, Tangri, Ashur, It's all Father Sky to me.
not sure about the list you have there. i mean ashur is a possibility,
As the deified city Assur (pronounced Ashur), which dates from the mid 3rd millennium BC and was the capital of the Old Assyrian kingdom.[1] As such, Ashur did not originally have a family,
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When Assyria conquered Babylon in the Sargonid period (8th-7th centuries BC), Assyrian scribes began to write the name of Ashur with the cuneiform signs AN.SHAR, literally "whole heaven" in Akkadian, the language of Assyria and Babylonia. The intention seems to have been to put Ashur at the head of the Babylonian pantheon, where Anshar and his counterpart Kishar ("whole earth") preceded even Enlil and Ninlil.[3]
Ashur
Does it seem to you that you may have derailed the thread?
gentile women are to be stuffed in gunney sacks along with the muslim women, whereas israel, which is completely secular, gets to wear normal clothing, and so on. maybe he hopes the israeli women will get the idea and hide themselves out of shame, as well.
In her first interview since the incident, Shear says that on the bus three weeks ago, she was slapped, kicked, punched and pushed by a group of men who demanded that she sit in the back of the bus with the other women. The bus driver, in response to a media inquiry, denied that violence was used against her, but Shear's account has been substantiated by an unrelated eyewitness on the bus who confirmed that she sustained an unprovoked "severe beating."
Woman beaten on J'lem bus for refusing to move to rear seat