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It’s that time of year again. Courtesy of digitalhammurabi.com
Addition about the image, courtesy of Twitter user @lui_log: wrt the background image, which is a stone plaque showing a winged goddess flanked by owls: “Also, we don't know whether this is a depiction of Ishtar, as the piece has been looted, thus has no archaeological context that could point us to whom it shows. Nor does it bear an inscription. The owls could mean that it is Ishtar's sister Ereshkigal, Goddess of the Underworld.”
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「 FATE/GRAND ORDER - ABSOLUTE DEMONIC FRONT: BABYLONIA 」
Right now, Nisaba and Enki have the godly equivalent of Google Docs open, and are staring at a joint project. Enki, among his many talents as Organizer Of The World Order and Maker Of Stuff (see: sheep, grain), knows how to shape worlds out of binary code as easily as Ninhursag (his wife) can shape people out of clay. His is the power of knowledge, for knowledge gives you the grasp of the soul of a thing. Nisaba is the written word itself, numbers, and the recording of that knowledge. They're pretty proud of this bizarre brainchild. It's grown in unexpected ways, thrown a few pudding cups and accidentally made entirely new concepts, but all in all it seems to be going well. It's been in the care and keeping of their pet project, humanity, for several decades now, and adopted several interesting personality quirks. Inanna, the lady of passion and violence and the precipice of night, loves this new thing humans have access to. She revels in the snuff films and porn viruses, the beauty blogs and military histories. All of the gods want in on the action when humans learn how to communicate, but none do so to better effect than her. But now these three gods are staring at one another, blank faced. Nisaba of-ten-thousand-tongues just read aloud a DM from Inanna, lady-of-delight. She's excellent at reading comprehension and is possessed of an extraordinarily compelling voice, but she reads this with the methodical caution of a person asked to teach chemistry at a puppy training school. She runs it by her husband, Haia, who is the scribal god excelling in matters of economics. Surely he can provide some clarification on the message? At it happens, he can. He does so with a frown normally reserved for double-stuffed bookcases and sharpie redactions. Together, playing off of their strengths to shore up the shaky parts of Inanna's rather empassioned and emoji-riddled complaint, they present the whole of the issue to Father Enki. Enki, on being presented with it, promptly summoned all involved. All are in favor of protecting children and advocating for human rights and freedoms, this is a given. The fact that these two goals might be opposed is a bit of a joke, but it isn't a funny joke by any means. Nisaba is carefully dragging a graphite-dusted nail over the Constitution of the United States. Inanna has somehow set her bra on fire and is casually tossing physical copies of several internet posts on it to keep the present company warm. Enki and Haia are discussing the logistics behind the issue while the goddesses gather ammunition. December 17 is the International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers. December 17 is Wright Brothers Day, commemorating the first successful flight. If ever there were a day for big changes, if ever there were a day to NOT piss off a goddess who personifies sex and violence, it would be that day. The Internet in all its forms is ours, just as the domestication of animals is ours now. The gods can only do so much, though they are vast beyond our wildest daydreams. And right now while Inanna flaunts nipple rings and a rainbow wrap skirt, and Nisaba pulls up research on cis male breastfeeding and every freedom of speech court case known to man? At this very moment, while Haia combs business records and the dictated notes of corporate meetings? Enki is sitting behind his Power Desk(tm) fiddling with a fidget spinner, waiting to see which way this chemical cocktail will explode. He'll make his move if he must, when he must. For now, his apkallu are bustling around the lower offices, and they're always at their most adorable when hard at work. Everyone is politely ignoring the fact that they don't actually want the big man to make a move. The last time that was necessary, he was saving mankind from a flood brought about by his brother's divine annoyance. Surely, the apkallu whisper. Surely it won't come to that? Enki spins his fidget spinner, scrolls through a few more memes, and waits.
“In Egypt the Hebrews had known the worship of the Goddess as Isis or Hathor. For four generations they had been living in a land where women held a very high status and the matrilineal descent system continued to function at most periods. Judging from the numbers of the Hebrews who emerged from Egypt, as compared with the family of the twelve sons who supposedly entered it four generations earlier, it seems likely that a great number of those Hebrew people known as Israelites may actually have been Egyptians, Canaanites, Semitic nomads and other Goddess-worshipping people who had joined together in Egypt. Just to the east of Canaan, in Babylon, stood the temples of Ishtar. And in the land of Canaan, the land that the Hebrews invaded and made their own after their departure from Egypt, archaeological records and artifacts reveal that the religion of the Goddess as Ashtoreth, Astarte, Anath, Elat or Baalat still flourished in many of the great cities.”
— When God Was A Woman. Merlin Stone. Dorset Pres. 1976
… Ishtar, the moon goddess of Babylon, was thought to be menstruating at the full moon, when the sabattu, or evil day, of Ishtar was observed. The word sabattu comes from Sa-bat and means Heart-rest; it is the day of rest which the moon takes when full, for at that time it is neither increasing nor decreasing. On this day, which is the direct forerunner of the Sabbath, it was considered unlucky to do any work or to eat cooked food or to go on a journey. These are the things that are prohibited to the menstruating woman. On the day of the moon's menstruation everyone, whether man or woman, was subject to similar restrictions, for the taboo of the menstruating woman was on all. The Sabbath was at first observed only once a month, later it was kept at each quarter of the moon's phases.
In the Fourth Dynasty of Ur (the third millennium B.C.) it is recorded that taboo days were observed at the new and the full moon, when no cooked food could be eaten (that is, anything which had been touched by fire was prohibited), no journey could be taken and no work could be done. Similar directions were given for the observance of the four "evil days" in the Babylonian calendar. They run as follows: "An evil day. The Shepherd of the Great People shall not eat flesh cooked upon coals, or bread from the oven [or ‘anything touched by fire’]. He shall not change his garment, nor put on clean raiment, nor offer sacrifice. The king shall not ride in his chariot. He shall not deliver judgment. The priest shall not give oracles in the secret place. The physician shall not lay his hands upon the sick. The day is inauspicious for all affairs whatsoever. At night the king shall bring his offering before Marduk and Ishtar." The Babylonian "sabattu" was the "evil day" of the moon goddess Ishtar, when it is not unlikely that she was thought to be actually menstruating.
The sabbaths of the Jews were closely related, in their origin, to the Babylonian sabbaths, and the Christian weekly day of rest is directly connected with the Jewish sabbath, even though it is observed on a different day of the week. This historical fact all can readily concede, but it is strange to us to think that the prohibitions connected with "sabbath observance" are, in their far-off origins, menstrual taboos connected with the belief that the moon is herself a woman having a monthly period and sickness.
-M. Esther Harding, Woman’s Mysteries: Ancient and Modern
Malik: You diRtY bItcH Look what you did to my PEONIES
Mai: You can take your precious peonies and shove them up your ass! and besides you silly queen these aren’t even peonies they’re MARIGOLDS!
Bakura: Hey I think she’s right those are marigolds
Malik while sobbing: I may not know my flowers but I knoW A BITCH WHEN I SEE ONE
Almost a week ago Brunch with the Bard (created by the VA’s of Flayn, Ignatz/Seliph, and Leonie/Ishtar) did a radio play of one of my fav plays of all time: The Wizard of Oz. Leonie/Ishtar’s VA played as Glinda the good witch. I had a doodle and finally decided to color it If I have the energy I’ll do two more doodles from this but I’m tired.