Friday, .January 6th., 2017
23 March, 2015 - 02:56
Katrina Sisowath
Goddess Ninkharsag—Ancient Powerful Mother who Faded into The Holy Ghost
Sud / Ninkharsag /Asherah / Astarte / Isis / Diana / Artemis/ Aphrodite / Hera / Parvati/.... = The Mother Goddess who created Eve, Lilith, Inanna with Co-creator Enki...Enlil ~=Yahweh
Enki ~=The Serpent
"...We get the sense that Enlil becomes embittered by these setbacks and that this anger passes to his sons and grandsons, and the ideas spread, even to some of Enki’s sons. It was this, through an amalgamation of the different Sumerian Gods, that the figure of Yahweh is said to have come into being—one whose followers proclaimed that he wanted supremacy over all, declaring that man should have no other gods but him, and decreeing the others to be “demons”.
Though ancient texts say Enki was figuratively cast out of the Pantheon as the serpent, and Eve and Lillith demonized for their demonstration of will, it was still difficult for the priesthood to supplant Ninkharsag, who had become the middle-eastern Asherah (Astarte), the partner of El...."
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Enlil,
however, felt himself betrayed—by his brother Enki not accepting his
claim to the throne, and by Ninkharsag taking his side. Also he felt
deceived by their creation of intelligent humans starting with Eve, and
by Innana (often mistaken for Ninkharsag, but a different female), who
ransacked his ‘Holy of Hollies’ in her quest to dominate the earth.
Though ancient texts say Enki was figuratively cast out of the Pantheon as the serpent, and Eve and Lillith demonized for their demonstration of will, it was still difficult for the priesthood to supplant Ninkharsag, who had become the middle-eastern Asherah (Astarte), the partner of El.
In many places in the Old Testament, there were prophets begging the people to forget Asherah, and threatening god’s wrath and punishment for disobedience. Yet worship of the Mother was ingrained in them.
For example, the book of Jasher (who was the personal staff-bearer to Moses) which tells us the story of the Exodus, but from a different perspective, says that it was not Moses, but Miriam who was the spiritual leader of the tribes. At that point the Jews did not worship Jehovah, but Asherah, who was symbolized as a golden cow.
It was a struggle for Moses to wean his people away from the worship of Asherah and he had to resort to imprisoning Miriam, yet it still took hundreds of years during which time Yahweh and Asherah were worshipped together, before the priests were able to stop the worship of the goddess.
What happened to Ninkharsag/Asherah? She could not be completely erased, so they rendered her ethereal, inconsequential. She was acknowledged as holy, yet held no personality, no voice, no force of will, or identity. In the end she became, literally, a ghost.
Featured image: Detail of Painting, Astarte Syriaca (1881) Public Domain
References
Stichin. The Wars of Gods and Men, HarperTorch; Reprint edition (1 April 2007)
Gardner. Genesis of the Grail Kings, Fair Winds Press (January 1, 2002)
SpiritBride.org [Online] http://www.spiritbride.org/A/_ngel/1-00f/new_page_1aaa.htm
Proof Female HOLY SPIRIT, a SHE in Bible - Hebrew feminine more than grammatical gender [Online] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEhRXACPaf4
HaCohen. Dr., Dancing Erotically with the Golden Calf [Online] http://thetorah.com/dancing-erotically-with-the-golden-calf/
By Katrina Sisowath
Inanna, the most prominent female deity in ancient Mesopotamia on the Ishtar Vase. Public Domain
We get the sense that Enlil becomes embittered by these
setbacks and that this anger passes to his sons and grandsons, and the
ideas spread, even to some of Enki’s sons. It was this, through an
amalgamation of the different Sumerian Gods, that the figure of Yahweh
is said to have come into being—one whose followers proclaimed that he
wanted supremacy over all, declaring that man should have no other gods
but him, and decreeing the others to be “demons”. Though ancient texts say Enki was figuratively cast out of the Pantheon as the serpent, and Eve and Lillith demonized for their demonstration of will, it was still difficult for the priesthood to supplant Ninkharsag, who had become the middle-eastern Asherah (Astarte), the partner of El.
In many places in the Old Testament, there were prophets begging the people to forget Asherah, and threatening god’s wrath and punishment for disobedience. Yet worship of the Mother was ingrained in them.
For example, the book of Jasher (who was the personal staff-bearer to Moses) which tells us the story of the Exodus, but from a different perspective, says that it was not Moses, but Miriam who was the spiritual leader of the tribes. At that point the Jews did not worship Jehovah, but Asherah, who was symbolized as a golden cow.
It was a struggle for Moses to wean his people away from the worship of Asherah and he had to resort to imprisoning Miriam, yet it still took hundreds of years during which time Yahweh and Asherah were worshipped together, before the priests were able to stop the worship of the goddess.
The Adoration of the Golden Calf. (1633) Public Domain
It was not until their captivity in Babylon that the
followers of Yahweh, who despised the influence of Asherah, took
advantage of the vast libraries and texts to create their own religious
texts—rewriting their history in the process. ‘God’ became a single
being, creating man and woman in ‘his’ image. What happened to Ninkharsag/Asherah? She could not be completely erased, so they rendered her ethereal, inconsequential. She was acknowledged as holy, yet held no personality, no voice, no force of will, or identity. In the end she became, literally, a ghost.
Featured image: Detail of Painting, Astarte Syriaca (1881) Public Domain
References
Stichin. The Wars of Gods and Men, HarperTorch; Reprint edition (1 April 2007)
Gardner. Genesis of the Grail Kings, Fair Winds Press (January 1, 2002)
SpiritBride.org [Online] http://www.spiritbride.org/A/_ngel/1-00f/new_page_1aaa.htm
Proof Female HOLY SPIRIT, a SHE in Bible - Hebrew feminine more than grammatical gender [Online] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEhRXACPaf4
HaCohen. Dr., Dancing Erotically with the Golden Calf [Online] http://thetorah.com/dancing-erotically-with-the-golden-calf/
By Katrina Sisowath