1.4 Concept of god (1)

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Acdestis and the marriage of Attis (1)
Achaemenid royal investiture (1)
Adad as the greatest god (1)
Adam as both male and female (1)
The Adar rituals of Harranian Sabians (1)
The Adonia festival (1)
The agricultural images (1)
Air the supreme element (1)
Alexander and Nectanebus (1)
Allat as Isharbel in Hatra (1)
The ancient philosophers (1)
The ancient Titans (1)
The androgynous prophets (1)
The angel ˀAnael (1)
Angels and Ištars (1)
Angels and Ištars (2)
Angels who rule over planets (1)
Antiochus Soter's Babylonian gods (1)
Apamea and the Chaldean Oracles (1)
Aphrodite as philosopher (1)
Apollo's statue in Hierapolis (1)
Apostles as merchants (1)
Apostles as military figures (1)
Apostles as the gods (1)
Apples in sexual magic (1)
Ascending through the gates (1)
Ascension to the stars (1)
Ascent of the soul (3)
Assembly of stars in Aeschylus (1)
Association between Sirius and Mercury (1)
The Assyrian Tree of Life (1)
Assyrian worship of the dove (1)
Assyrians and Tarsus (1)
Attis and Agdistis (1)
Attis and the Syrian goddess (1)
Aurelian and the cult of Sun (1)
The Avestan Anāhitā was influenced by Ištar (1)
Baals and Astartes (1)
Bablita and Bēltīa (1)
Babylon in a Pahlavi text (1)
Babylonia and the Eastern Iran (1)
Babylonian Empire as a continuation of the Assyrian Empire (1)
Babylonian theogony according to Damascius (1)
The battle of Tiamat and Marduk (1)
Bel and Nabû at Shapur's court (1)
Bel and Nebo in Daskyleion (1)
Bel in Mandaic texts (1)
Bel the father (1)
Bel the father in Mandaic texts (1)
Bel's creation of heavenly bodies (1)
Bel's temple Etemenanki in Babylon (1)
Belus and Saturnus (1)
Belus as the first man (1)
Birth of the Phrygian Great Mother (1)
al-Bīrūnī on the Harranians (1)
Bishop Noh and the sacred tree (1)
The body was created by rulers (1)
The Book of the Chaldeans (1)
Bound are the demons (1)
The building of Babylon (1)
The building of Babylon (2)
The building of SGYL in Hatra (1)
Byblian Damu in the Amarna letter (1)
Byblos sanctuary of Aphrodite (1)
Calendar of offerings of the Harranian Sabians (1)
Castration of Zeus (1)
The Cave of Nymphs (1)
The central position of the goddess (1)
The Chaldean astrologers (1)
Chaldean cosmology according to Jacob of Edessa (1)
A Chaldean learning of powers (1)
Chaldean theory of planets (1)
Chaldean theory of the moon (1)
Chaldean theory of the moon (6)
Chaldean theory of the sky (1)
The Chaldean view of the cosmos (1)
The chest of Osiris (1)
Christian worship of the Sun (1)
The Christmas Day (1)
Circe and Aiaia (1)
Colours of planets (1)
Commemoration of a miracle in a Palmyrene inscription (1)
Complaint in heaven (1)
The condition of the moon (1)
Continuity of Assyrian religion (Sabians) (1)
Cosmic extent of a goddess' power (1)
Crassus and the goddess in Hierapolis (1)
Creation of man (2)
Creation of man (3)
The cult of Nabû in the 4th century (1)
Cults of Borsippa (1)
Debt release in Mesopotamia and Israel (1)
A dedicatory inscription of Palmyra (1)
Dilbat in the Mandean Ginza (1)
Dinanukht the scribe (1)
Dionysus as the founder of Syrian goddess' temple (1)
Divine legitimation of Iranian kingship (1)
The divine triad (1)
The divine triad in Baalbek (1)
Division of the world among gods (1)
Do not change the names (1)
Elagabalus and his Syrian god (1)
Elagabalus as a deity (1)
Emergence of gods in {Enūma Eliš} (1)
Enmeduranki the Diviner (1)
Enmeduranki the Diviner (2)
Enoch as scribe of righteousness (1)
Enoch as the heavenly scribe (1)
Ephrem on the doctrine of Bardesanites (1)
Ephrem on the seven planets (1)
Ephrem on the seven planets (2)
Ephrem on the seven planets (3)
An Epicurean school in Apamea (1)
Establishment of cosmos by Bel (1)
Every god is good (1)
Exaltations of the planets (1)
The Exegesis on the Soul (1)
Eye of Nergal (1)
Eye, daughter of Bel (1)
Eyes of planetary demons (1)
Farmer, plough my lands! (1)
The fate of Evil Eye (1)
Father = Intellect (1)
The flesh of the gods (1)
The flood account of Berossus (1)
Flood story according to Gnostics (1)
A fragment of Sudines (1)
Garments of glory (1)
The gate of Bel (1)
The Gnostic Book of Life (1)
The Gnostic Pleroma (1)
God = pine tree (1)
God as Once Transcendent (1)
A god descending (1)
Goddess and the Moon (1)
The goddess as androgyne (1)
The goddess Atargatis in Hierapolis (2)
The goddess of Hierapolis (1)
Gods and ascent (1)
Gods and Ištars (1)
The gods of Hierapolis (1)
The gods reigned over Phoenicia (1)
A great altar in the centre of Edessa (1)
Greek festival of Adonis and Aphrodite (1)
Greek worship of stars (1)
The hanging Sun disk (1)
Harranian rites to the Moon (1)
He falls and does not know it (1)
Hekate and theurgy (1)
Hekate of the Chaldean Oracles (1)
Helios = Šamaš in Palmyra (1)
Heracles in far west (1)
Hera's cult on Samos (1)
The heresy of Chaldeism (1)
The heresy of Nergalians (1)
Hermes the Babylonian (1)
Herodotus' description of Babylon (2)
Herodotus on the cults of the Persians (1)
His mission will not prosper (1)
The holiness of astrology (1)
Holy Spirit as feminine entity (1)
Holy Spirit as feminine entity (2)
The Holy Spirit as Mother (1)
The Holy Spirit as Mother (2)
The Holy Spirit as Mother (3)
The holy trees of Lycia (1)
Holy war in Mesopotamia and in Israel (1)
The host of heaven and archons (1)
The hour of birth (1)
Hugeness of God (1)
The Hymn of the Pearl (1)
Hymn to Nanaya (1)
The idea of Holy Scripture (1)
Image for Sin (1)
An inscription relating to Šamaš in Hatra (1)
An inscription to Šamaš in Palmyra (1)
Intellect of the Father (1)
Ionitus and Nimrod (1)
Isaac of Antioch on the religion of Beth Hur (1)
Istahar ascending to heaven (1)
Ištar and Aphrodite (1)
Ištar as the Holy Spirit (1)
Ištar of Akkade (1)
Jacob of Serugh on Syrian paganism (1)
Jesus as the mariner (1)
Julian and the Chaldeans (1)
The Kantean heresy (1)
Kewan in the Mandean Ginza (1)
Kislimu rituals of the Harranian Sabians (1)
The knowledge of Seth (1)
Lady at the window (1)
Laws counteract the fate (1)
The legendary king Kay Kaus (1)
Lord of the Gods and Nergal (1)
A love charm invoking Dilibat (1)
Macrobius on the planets' infuence (1)
Macrobius on the soul's descent (2)
A magic bowl from Nippur (1)
Magical images of gods (1)
Maimonides on Harranians (1)
The Mandaic angels (1)
Mandaic charm (1)
Mandaic charm to induce pregnancy (1)
The Mandaic demon-list (1)
Mandaic jealousy charm (1)
Mandaic jealousy charm (2)
Mandaic love charm (1)
Mandaic love charm (2)
Mandaic love charm (3)
Mandaic love charm (4)
Mandaic phylactery for Rue (1)
Mandaic phylactery for Rue (2)
Marduk after the battle (1)
Marduk's inspection of heaven (1)
Marduk's processional chariot (1)
Marduk's temple in Babylon (1)
Marduk's temple in the first century Babylon (1)
Mars makes men fierce (1)
Masculine and feminine planets (1)
al-Masˁūdī's description of the Sabian temples (1)
Mesopotamian Flood story (1)
Metatron the scribe (1)
Mistress of animals (1)
Mistress of whisperings (1)
Mother of the Seven houses (1)
Mourning for Attis (1)
Mourning of the goddess (1)
Mulit in Mandaic texts (1)
Mural crown of the Gods' Mother (1)
Mysteries of the Mother of the Gods (1)
Mysteries of the Mother of the Gods (2)
The myth of Cybele and Attis (1)
The myth of the Seven Sages (1)
Nabû and Nanaya in Mandaic texts (1)
The names of goddesses (1)
Names of planets in Greece (1)
Nanai in the Manichaean texts (1)
Nanay, "my mamma" (1)
Nanaya in Bactria (1)
Nanaya in Syria and Mesopotamia (1)
Nanaya in Transoxania (1)
Nanâ in Dunhuang (1)
Nbu in the Mandean Ginza (1)
Nbu the watchman (1)
Nebo and writing (1)
Nebo as the god of oracles (1)
Nergal and Mammitu from Kutha (1)
Nergal in Hatra (1)
Nergal "the butcher" (1)
Nerig in the Mandean Ginza (1)
Net of the god (1)
The New Year festival in Edessa (1)
Nimrod (= Ninurta) as giant (1)
Nimrod = Zoroaster (1)
Nimrod and Ninus (1)
Nimrod as the astronomer (1)
Nimrod as the king and sage (1)
Nimrod the founder of Babylon (1)
Nimrod the inventor of magic arts (1)
Nimrod the Persian (1)
Ninurta and Heracles (1)
Ninurta in Aramaic inscriptions (1)
No name to the One (1)
The number seven (1)
Observation of the lunar periods (1)
On the origin of astrology (1)
On the paganism in Syrian cities (1)
Organization of the sky (1)
Oriental titulature of Zeus (1)
Osiris as the king (1)
An ostracon from Elephantine invokes Mesopotamian gods (1)
Overpopulation of the earth (1)
Paradise on the top of the Ziggurat (1)
The pastoral symbolism (1)
The people of Shinar (1)
Persians and the worship of statues (1)
Philo of Alexandria on Genesis 12:4 (1)
Philo of Alexandria on Genesis 15:7 (1)
Phoenician myth of dying and rising god (1)
The Phrygian Cybele (1)
Physical size of a god (1)
Physician (1)
Planetary gods like a flock (1)
Planets and stones (1)
Planets as gods in the Greek tradition (1)
Planets' role in the Chaldean astrology (1)
Plato on the celestial phenomena (1)
Plato on the celestial phenomena (2)
Plato on the celestial phenomena (3)
Plato on the celestial phenomena (4)
Pliny on the origin of writing (1)
Posidonius of Apamea (1)
Powers of stone (1)
Prayer to the Sun-god (1)
The priest of Atargatis (1)
The priest of Sharbel (1)
Priestess of Isharbel in Hatra (1)
Proclus on the Chaldaean Oracles (1)
Proclus quotes a Babylonian omen (1)
Prophecy in the Old Babylonian period (1)
Punishing the planets (1)
Punishments of Mithras (1)
Putting on the Spirit (1)
Qiqel and Darwish (1)
Rabbi Rav on the Babylonian temples (1)
Rays of the Sun (1)
Resurrection of Melqart (1)
The rites of Galli in Hierapolis (1)
The Roman cult of Sol Invictus (1)
The Roman Sun-worship (1)
Ruha and the planets (1)
Ruha and the planets (2)
Ruha and the planets (3)
Šamaš in magical papyri (1)
Šamiš and Dlibat (1)
Šamiš in the Mandean Ginza (1)
Saturn = Mithras (1)
Saturn and kingship (1)
Saturn as the star of the Sun (1)
Saturn as the Sun of night (1)
Saturn was a man (1)
Saviour in the Manichaean texts (1)
The second plague (1)
Seek paradise (1)
Seneca on the astrological determinism (1)
Septimius Severus and Belus of Apamea (1)
A sermon against Harranians (1)
A sermon against Harranians (2)
The Seven Governors (1)
Seven grades and planets (1)
The Seven in Ginza (1)
The Seven in Ginza (2)
Seven masters of the house (1)
Seven parts of the world (1)
The seven week-days (1)
The Seveners (1)
Sevenfold division of the soul (1)
Shahrastani on Harranians (1)
The signs of gods (1)
Signs of Venus (1)
Sin, Šamaš, and Ištar (1)
The solar world (1)
Some astrological correspondencies (1)
The Son of the Phrygian Great Mother (1)
The soul as divine triad (1)
Soul consists of seven parts (1)
Soul in the middle (1)
The speech of Misfortune (1)
A spell for fear (1)
The spleen and kidney (1)
The stars as gods (1)
Stoicism and the Chaldean doctrines (1)
Sun as the seventh (1)
Sun, our Lord (1)
Sun, you see all... (1)
The sungod caused misfortune (1)
The Sun's statue in Heliopolis (1)
Sun's wife and mother (1)
Syncretic hymn to Ninurta (1)
Syncretism of the Persian Period (1)
The Syrian god of Elagabalus (1)
Tammuz as the king of Phoenicians (1)
The temple of Bel in Babylon (1)
The temple of Heavenly Aphrodite in Ascalon (1)
Temple of Nabû in Hatra (1)
Temple of Nebu in Palmyra (1)
Temple of Nergal in Hatra (1)
The temple of the Syrian goddess (3)
The temple of the Syrian goddess (4)
The temple of the Syrian Goddess (5)
A temple ritual in Hierapolis (2)
Three meanings of Apsu (1)
Three-layered heaven (1)
Triad connecting the All (1)
True Father and Mother (1)
Tyche with beard (1)
Vehicles of soul's ascension (1)
Venus and Mercury (1)
The Virgin Isharbel of Hatra (1)
Weeping for a god (1)
Weeping in Sun's temple (1)
Who but this god? (1)
The world controllers (1)
Worship of the Sun (1)
Yezidis as Daisanites (1)
Zaddiq and Shekhinah (1)
Zeus and Typhon (1)

1. Religious and ideological doctrines and imagery (752)

1.1 Cosmogonic and cosmological ideas (98)

1.1 Cosmogonic and cosmological ideas (98)

1.1.1 Primal undifferentiated unity (23)

1.1.1.1 Primal father: sweet-water ocean (Apsu) (17)

1.1.1.2 Primal mother: salt-water ocean (Tiamat) (9)

1.1.2 Emergence of consciousness (Mummu) (3)

1.1.3 Emergence of binary oppositions (38)

1.1.3.1 Light vs. darkness (9)

1.1.3.2 Purity vs. sin (4)

1.1.3.3 Perfection vs. imperfection (5)

1.1.3.4 Good vs. evil (3)

1.1.3.5 Right vs. wrong/left (1)

1.1.3.6 Life vs. death (2)

1.1.3.7 Spirit vs. matter (1)

1.1.3.8 Sweet water vs. salt water (3)

1.1.3.9 Unity vs. plurality

1.1.3.10 Universe of heaven vs. universe of earth (10)

1.1.4 Emergence of gods (2)

1.1.5 Emergence of chaos (12)

1.1.5.1 Tiamat = angry sea = dragon (6)

1.1.5.2 Creation of demons (6)

1.1.6 Primordial battle and defeat of the Dragon (9)

1.1.7 Establishment of cosmos (17)

1.1.7.1 Fixing places for gods (5)

1.1.7.2 Binding forces of evil (1)

1.1.7.3 Building the heavenly city (7)

1.1.8 Creation of physical world (15)

1.1.8.1 Creation of man (7)

1.1.8.2 Blending spirit and matter (2)

1.1.8.3 Original sin (4)

1.1.9 Immortality of the soul (6)

 

1.2 Human history (96)

1.2 Human history (96)

1.2.1 Three progressively deteriorating world ages (3)

1.2.2 Descent of kingship from heaven

1.2.3 Antediluvian age (44)

1.2.3.1 Seven antediluvian kings (16)

1.2.3.2 Seven antediluvian cities (2)

1.2.3.3 Seven sages (24)

1.2.3.4 Longevity (8)

1.2.3.5 One language (3)

1.2.4 Deluge (43)

1.2.4.1 Sin = noise of mankind (7)

1.2.4.2 Overpopulation of the earth (10)

1.2.4.3 Destruction of mankind through flood (12)

1.2.4.4 Rescue of pious wise man (9)

1.2.5 Postdiluvian age (21)

1.2.5.1 Shortened life time (4)

 

1.3 Kingship as divine institution (76)

1.3 Kingship as divine institution (76)

1.3.1 Divine origin of kingship (2)

1.3.2 Seed of kingship (1)

1.3.3 King as god’s representative upon earth (45)

1.3.3.1 Chosen by god (2)

1.3.3.2 Called by god (1)

1.3.3.3 Created by god

1.3.3.4 Tree planted by god (3)

1.3.3.5 Son of god (1) (3)

1.3.3.6 Image of god (2)

1.3.3.7 Consubstantiality with god (1)

1.3.3.8 Perfect man (5)

1.3.3.9 Incarnation of Ninurta (divine saviour) (18)

1.3.3.10 Incarnation of Tammuz (divine redeemer) (16)

1.3.4 Mission of the king (10)

1.3.4.1 Good shepherd (7)

1.3.4.2 Light of the world

1.3.4.3 Righteous judge (2)

1.3.5 Attributes of the king (7)

1.3.5.1 Omnipotent

1.3.5.2 Omniscient

1.3.5.3 Wise

1.3.5.4 Righteous (1)

1.3.5.5 Merciful (1)

1.3.5.6 Lover of mankind (1)

1.3.5.7 Empowered to raise and abase (2)

1.3.5.8 Empowered to give life and death (2)

1.3.6 Royal titulary (18)

1.3.6.1 Great king (7)

1.3.6.2 King of the universe (1)

1.3.6.3 King of the lands (1)

1.3.6.4 King of kings (3)

1.3.6.5 Priest (2)

1.3.7 Sanctity of kingship (3)

1.3.7.1 Royal purity

1.3.7.2 Royal aura (melammu, šalummatu) (3)

1.3.8 Apotheosis of the king (3)

1.3.9 Deification of the king (1)

1.3.10 King suckled by goddess

 

1.4 Concept of god (1) (387)

1.4 Concept of god (1) (387)

1.4.1 Unity of god (monotheism/henotheism/cosmotheism) (14)

1.4.1.1 God = universe of heaven (2)

1.4.1.2 God = totality of gods (6)

1.4.1.3 God’s omnipotence (2)

1.4.1.4 God’s transcendence (3)

1.4.1.5 God’s immanence

1.4.2 Trinity of god (34)

1.4.2.1 Divine Triad: Father, Mother, Son (15)

1.4.2.2 Heavenly Father (8)

1.4.2.3 Divine King (1)

1.4.2.4 Creator of visible world

1.4.2.5 Holy Spirit (13)

1.4.2.6 Spirit of God (1)

1.4.2.7 Saviour (2)

1.4.2.8 Son of god (2)

1.4.3 Plurality of god (polytheism) (355)

1.4.3.1 Emanation of gods

1.4.3.2 Creation of gods (1)

1.4.3.3 Hierarchy of gods (1)

1.4.3.4 Syncretism (37)

1.4.3.5 Great gods (200)

1.4.3.5.1 Anu (Heaven) (4)

1.4.3.5.2 Ea/Enki (Wisdom) (11)

1.4.3.5.3 Sin (Prudence) (5)

1.4.3.5.4 Šamaš (Justice) (27)

1.4.3.5.4.1 Kittu (Truth)

1.4.3.5.4.2 Mešaru (Righteousness) (1)

1.4.3.5.5 Adad (Glory, Thunder) (15)

1.4.3.5.6 Marduk (Lordship, Mercy) (38)

1.4.3.5.7 Ištar (Love) (70)

1.4.3.5.7.1 Mullissu (Queen of Heaven) (7)

1.4.3.5.7.2 Sherua

1.4.3.5.7.3 Tašmetu (1)

1.4.3.5.7.4 Nanaya (19)

1.4.3.5.7.5 Kubaba (Cybele) (16)

1.4.3.5.7.6 Shala (Hera)

1.4.3.5.7.7 Gula (1) (1)

1.4.3.5.8 Ninurta (Victory) (57)

1.4.3.5.8.1 Nabû (Scribe) (34)

1.4.3.5.9 Nergal (Power, Destruction) (17)

1.4.3.6 Seven planetary gods (152)

1.4.3.6.1 Sin (Moon) (20)

1.4.3.6.2 Šamaš (Sun) (35)

1.4.3.6.3 Adad (Saturn) (15)

1.4.3.6.4 Marduk (Jupiter) (9)

1.4.3.6.5 Ištar (Venus) (30)

1.4.3.6.6 Nabû/Ninurta (Mercury) (16)

1.4.3.6.7 Nergal (Mars) (12)

1.4.3.7 Gods as divine powers (4)

1.4.3.8 Gods as divine names (10)

1.4.3.9 Gods as divine weapons (2)

1.4.3.10 Gods as numbers (1)

1.4.3.11 Gods as tree (4)

1.4.3.12 Gods as garments (1)

1.4.3.12.1 Divine aura (melammu, šalummatu) (1)

 

1.5 Celestial imagery (77)

1.5 Celestial imagery (77)

1.5.1 Pole connecting heaven and earth (5)

1.5.2 Three-layered heaven (5)

1.5.3 Seven-layered heaven (7)

1.5.4 Planetary spheres (11)

1.5.5 Heavenly city (2)

1.5.6 Heavenly palace (4)

1.5.7 Heavenly court (1)

1.5.8 Celestial council (12)

1.5.9 Throne of god (6)

1.5.10 Heavenly book of life (22)

1.5.11 Lamp of god (2)

1.5.12 Divine chariot (6)

1.5.13 Ladders to heaven (3)

1.5.14 Gate to heaven (2)

1.5.15 Gatekeepers of heaven

 

1.6 Netherworld imagery (18)

1.6 Netherworld imagery (18)

1.6.1 Netherworld = Earth (1)

1.6.2 Netherworld = Mountain (2)

1.6.3 Netherworld = Prison (6)

1.6.4 Netherworld = Foreign land

1.6.5 Netherworld river

1.6.6 Netherworld boatman (1)

1.6.7 Seven gates of the netherworld (6)

1.6.8 Gatekeepers of the netherworld (2)

1.6.9 Infernal gods = Gods of the earth (1)