Is It Socially Acceptable To Ask Your Neighbor To Come Smell Your Art Project? I Mean, I Know When Something

Is it socially acceptable to ask your neighbor to come smell your art project? I mean, I know when something smells like sulfur and death warmed over, but. That's my limit. I need test subjects. Sincerely, An incense maker with anosmia

The Epic of Gilgamesh: D&D style

Inanna rolling a Nat 20 to summon the Bull of Heaven. Gilgamesh failing a Perception check when he goes to take a bath and having a snake steal the herb of immortality. Please, tabletop nerds and mythology bookworms, make this a thing?

Excuse me as I make unimpressed noises while cleaning my altar to Nuska.

I wish I knew which campus that was on, too, or at least which group or whoever set it up. I can't make out what it says on the bottom of the sign in the first picture, but I have a sneaking suspicion that it says the group name there. I'd like to let them know there's plenty of people still worshipping these gods.

I was reading the notes and apparently this made the news in 2013. Forget the rise of neo-paganism and polytheist revivalism, it just gets ancient history wrong; not to mention ignoing all the folk customs. Regardless of belief or lack there of— when does a God die; because this clearly states that these Gods were once alive by their definition. Is it when they become venerated as a saint? Feared as a demon? If their worship changes form? or do they need to be 100% forgotten, like those with no literary record?

Edit: Found it. Its a rebuttle against Pascals Wager

https://secularstudents.org/gotg/

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Enki aka Satan… what? That is literally not even in the Abrahamic traditions.

Krishna…. Hinduism has over a billion adherents. The sheer enormity of ignorance.

“Some of the gods in our graveyard may still have followers. We included them because the number of followers has been declining. And to many people, they are indeed ‘dead’ in a sense.” — Their activity guide. One billion, you are so arrogant.

This figure is not wearing a horned cap, aka not a major God. Its holding a bucket and cone so is, at most, a minor deity but more likely is a GENIE.

Additionally,

“…probably worshipped by a largely Aramaic population, and Nusku is probably the same as the name ‘Nasuh’ found in Neo-Assyrian personal names and as the god written ‘Nsk’ in Old Aramaic inscriptions. These cults appear to have lasted into the early centuries AD and perhaps even longer.” — Gods, Demons, and Symbols of Ancient Mesopotamia by Jeremy Black and Antony Green pg 145

That image is identified simply as a “fish-garbed figure” by the dictionary, interprted as possibly a type of exorcist priest. Note the lack of divine horned cap. Also Dagon Dagan, was the God of the Philistines, he is not a fertility God, he invented the plough and is a grain god. Grain god =/= fertility God. He was father of Ba’al to the Canaanites, and a minor God to the Mesopotamians as a attendant of Enlil.

Dear college students , do better research; and no, wikipedia does not count.

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I'm sorry, I was just scrolling through the internet and saw this. WHAT IS THIS. Admittedly when I first stepped out of Christianity I could take a very polar view of things and heavily based my views on the myths, but everyone grows out of misinformation at some point. Or so I'd like to think. Or as least I like the lie. Nergal is the blazing summer sun, the seasons of war, sickness. If you don't like him you can stick to Gugulanna I suppose, or even Ereshkigal as a widow, but Nergal is not the "satan" to Ereshkigal's position or whatnot. And if this has a radical feminist group, let me say this, and say it again louder for the people in the back: A healthy marriage is not and has never been abusive. Due to the sheer amount of conflicting interpretations, you do realize you can pick which version of the myth you like best? Ereshkigal begging for mercy while being dragged down by the hair doesn't have to be your canon, or even relevant to your practice if you like a different version better? Myths weren't just stories of the gods, totally untouched by current events. They were frequently political tools. An excellent example is the Contendings of Horus and Set, in Egypt. You can interpret the works of man as the works of their gods if you like. But if Tumblr alone has taught anyone anything, it's that people can be opinionated and convinced that their way is the only way. I'm not here to tell anyone what to think. I do get my knickers in a twist over people dragging a god I honor like he's an upstart dog. I still want that Anointed book, but now I'm wondering how good it actually is.

“The Appearance of Ereškigal in Egypt,”— I am beyond livid.

Its a piece found in the devotional anthology Anointed. It is written by a Greco-Roman-Egyptian synctetist reconstructionist. Notice the lack of the words Akkadian, Sumerian, Mesopotamian, or Babylonian in that descriptor.

So they wrote a piece from Ereškigal’s perspective. To boil it down, Ereškigal is spitting on her husband Nergal, mocking him, hating him, denying that he ever ruled Irkalla. Claiming he did all these horrendous things in Egypt [Edit: Well Aten’s crimes so assisting him, I guess] so she stripped him of his possession, power, and takes all his offerings.

My stomach turned. How can you have so much hatred in your heart for a God that you write a horrendous piece in the voice of his wife. HIS WIFE. Whom he loves and she loves him.

Its just a matter of fact that in later periods the cult worship of Nergal shifted his position to that of ruler of the underworld and Ereškigal was no longer solely Queen. Thats how the Mesopotamians viewed this God and Goddess. Unless I’m missing something and Ereškigal was worshipped in Egypt where she despised her own lover.

For those interested in the myth of their marriage here: https://michi-izkur-ereshkigal.tumblr.com/post/176564264973/what-is-your-favorite-mesopotamian-myth

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What is your favorite mesopotamian myth?

Anonymous said: What is your favorite mesopotamian myth? Answer: My favorite is definitely “Ereshkigal and Nergal” To start I will say:

And if you want , read the disgusting piece of work:

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Teaser for my upcoming video. Incense making is hard when you don't have a functioning nose, but this is why other people are useful. Fun fact: you don't need an expensively carved mortar and pestle, this one was around five bucks. And the Sumerian gods are big on innovation and evolution, so a spice grinder isn't really out of place.