@ninshubur
Minister who speaks fair words, escort who speaks trustworthy words. I really like Mesopotamian mythology, Heian and medieval Japanese literature, Daijiro Morohoshi's works and Hecatia from Touhou 15.
yamayuandadu.tumblr.com/post/8107459... finally posted my loose thoughts on the recent paper about new excavations in the temple of Ishtar of Assur. Tl;dr strong evidence for sourthern influence, weak for Shaushka but I want to believe
i think i talked about it before but one of my pet theories is that the weidner god list inanna-ninshubur-nanaya sequence in the WGL corresponded to shaushka-ninatta-kulitta in the bi- and trilingual versions, none of which preserve ninshubur's and nanaya's entries
with an appendix on ninatta and kulitta...
one reason why I'm really sad i don't think i'll ever be able to become an assyriologist for real is that the exact thing i would like to write has been identified as a desideratum in 1992(!) already but hasn't materialized since
still need to post my brief thoughts on that new article about Ishtar of Assur and Shaushka, too... tomorrow maybe
yamayuandadu.tumblr.com/post/8105662... brief discussion of some puzzling attestations of Dagan
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like in the case of "i found yahweh in this unprovenanced sealand text!" i wonder if it's basically meant to be clickbait
so wait Stephanie Dalley actually has an entire decades-long bit going where she tries to prove that Nineveh was confused with Babylon just to validate random low quality Greek accounts? do i get that right? i do not understand the purpose of this
*the post-NB Anu elevation for clarity
rewriting the EE to be about Ashur tbh doesn't seem weird though, frankly; it's not any weirder than reassigning Enlil's or Ninurta's competences to Marduk (or, to use an older example, Inanna's to Ninisina wrt royal legitimacy), and less weird than the Anu elevation
honestly whatever sennacherib had going on religiously with resurrecting or increasing the importance of completely random deities (haya???) strikes me as much more unusual than nabonidus' personal devotion to Sin (which, once again, represents a tradition with OB roots and ample NA attestations)
9koma.locale2.net seen people doing these, figured i should too.
I thought about limiting myself to 1 per author but ultimately went against it; if i were to stick to that there would be either Wakusei or the 1st Kitaro run for Mizuki, and either Munakata or The Emperor of Winter for Hoshinobu
between the manga and the fanbook raidou supplementary material is... rough, to put it lightly; i haven't read the novel, is that any less bad
i'm half convinced that if this book covered raidou 2 as well they'd find a way to explain taotie is not chinese
i don't make accusations of this sort easily but there's something deeply suspect about the raidou fanbook going out of its way to state rei is not chinese, making onmyodo a jjcat thing, and also power scaling characters based on arbitrarily making them "shinto" or "buddhist"
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no source is given for this; also there ARE post-kassite middle babylonian attestations of zababa, they're just rare...? not to mention theophoric names...
he was a newcomer in assyria for sure, but comparing his presence with tishpak, let alone haya and kakka, seems unwarranted
was it really defunct? afaik there's no evidence the cults of kish were disrupted to any greater degree and zababa was doing fine all the way up to achaemenid times
my best bet is that this is extrapolating from the odd "AΕ‘Ε‘ur-Ε akkan-TiΕ‘pak" entry in Ashurbanipal's takultu; but i think it's up for debate what's going on there and it arguably has no bearing on Tishpak's much earlier history
watched it. mixed feelings honestly. i get that this was probably transgressive to an early 1920s audience but i honestly think i would've enjoyed it more if there was no plot alterations to explain a woman playing hamlet. the costumes are kind of unremarkable, also.
I don't have access to Gods of Medieval Japan vol. 4 yet, but while I'm excited for the kushojin and placenta deities chapters, I have to say I'm uncertain if dedicating 1/3 of the final volume in the series to more highly debatable shukujin coverage was the right decision
0 clue where Zaia got this idea from
i know you can't expect much from jungians but it's kind of wild that they are obsessed with making ereshkigal inanna's double or whatever instead of saltu, a character who literally exists to be an exaggerated copy of her
who the hell is this
it would be like that thing modern shonen series often do where fodder side characters appear for no real reason to extend the battle against the main villain beyond mortal comprehension
honestly i wish sennacherib's enuma elish rewrite included all the deities depicted on the relief showing ashur battling tiamat that was reportedly prepared during his reign, it would be comedic if all these z-listers like kakka and haya and kippat-mati and so on tried contributing