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given the unambiguous evidence only comes from ugarit and ebla tbh my conclusion for now is that "female Shamash" is probably an "areal feature" of sorts, and not a relic of a tradition early Akkadian speakers also followed
November 28, 2025 at 8:10 AM
given the unambiguous evidence only comes from ugarit and ebla tbh my conclusion for now is that "female Shamash" is probably an "areal feature" of sorts, and not a relic of a tradition early Akkadian speakers also followed
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Honestly regardless of the original purpose of those texts I feel like calling them "law codes" has really reinforced a consensus to treat them as words of law leading to most scholars either not considering daily documents seriously or viewing them as secondary, I think Roth puts it pretty well
November 28, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Honestly regardless of the original purpose of those texts I feel like calling them "law codes" has really reinforced a consensus to treat them as words of law leading to most scholars either not considering daily documents seriously or viewing them as secondary, I think Roth puts it pretty well
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November 27, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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what is even going on here
November 26, 2025 at 8:06 AM
what is even going on here
November 25, 2025 at 7:35 PM
the whole "adonis is a direct mesopotamian import" thing is just a relic of the Golden Bough, right. the myth doesn't actually resemble anything Mesopotamian too closely and even if we take the name in Phoenicia as relevant, cf. all the dudes named Belos in Greek mythology
November 23, 2025 at 10:55 PM
the whole "adonis is a direct mesopotamian import" thing is just a relic of the Golden Bough, right. the myth doesn't actually resemble anything Mesopotamian too closely and even if we take the name in Phoenicia as relevant, cf. all the dudes named Belos in Greek mythology
November 23, 2025 at 7:46 PM
also: i'm sorry but it's physically impossible to cover any mythology well in the form of tweets
November 23, 2025 at 7:41 PM
also: i'm sorry but it's physically impossible to cover any mythology well in the form of tweets
there's a megaten guy on the other site who basically seems convinced all big name kojiki kami "evolved" directly 1:1 from specific ainu figures and i feel that crosses multiple lines at once but also idk if i want to argue with teenagers
November 23, 2025 at 7:37 PM
there's a megaten guy on the other site who basically seems convinced all big name kojiki kami "evolved" directly 1:1 from specific ainu figures and i feel that crosses multiple lines at once but also idk if i want to argue with teenagers
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November 19, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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this paper is good overall, but i don't really think this is true? she's the most major ally of baal through the yam section if the narrative (in which anat does next to nothing) and she has a solo myth (poorly preserved, but still). that's actually more than shapash or yarikh
November 18, 2025 at 11:58 PM
this paper is good overall, but i don't really think this is true? she's the most major ally of baal through the yam section if the narrative (in which anat does next to nothing) and she has a solo myth (poorly preserved, but still). that's actually more than shapash or yarikh
seems it's not a mistransaltion - the hittite viceroy really called shapash "lady shimige" in a letter to niqmaddu of ugarit (not sure which one of the niqmaddus, though)
November 18, 2025 at 6:04 PM
seems it's not a mistransaltion - the hittite viceroy really called shapash "lady shimige" in a letter to niqmaddu of ugarit (not sure which one of the niqmaddus, though)
also ok does the search for female Shamash only go back to Roberts' The Earliest Semitic Pantheon from the 1970s? neither Krebernik nor Westenholz - who were my introduction to this idea - cite a specific source, and Woods (who questions this, imo rightfully) only brings up Roberts
November 17, 2025 at 12:06 AM
also ok does the search for female Shamash only go back to Roberts' The Earliest Semitic Pantheon from the 1970s? neither Krebernik nor Westenholz - who were my introduction to this idea - cite a specific source, and Woods (who questions this, imo rightfully) only brings up Roberts
I've also been reading Sarolta A. Takacs' Isis and Sarapis in the Roman World for the sake of an upcoming article. it holds up very well
November 17, 2025 at 12:03 AM
I've also been reading Sarolta A. Takacs' Isis and Sarapis in the Roman World for the sake of an upcoming article. it holds up very well
the proposal that in the baal cycle shapash acts on own accord as a voice of reason rather than only as a bearer of el's messages is interesting though i feel like this matches a modern penchant for more elaborate character dynamics more than what a bronze age audience would've expected
November 16, 2025 at 11:56 PM
the proposal that in the baal cycle shapash acts on own accord as a voice of reason rather than only as a bearer of el's messages is interesting though i feel like this matches a modern penchant for more elaborate character dynamics more than what a bronze age audience would've expected
of course, i think a problem is, in the first place, that anat is often treated as just ugaritic (or worse yet, abstractly "canaanite" deity), and that she's treated in isolation, with ashtart - who engages in the exact same pursuits - often dismissed or subsumed under her
November 16, 2025 at 11:23 PM
of course, i think a problem is, in the first place, that anat is often treated as just ugaritic (or worse yet, abstractly "canaanite" deity), and that she's treated in isolation, with ashtart - who engages in the exact same pursuits - often dismissed or subsumed under her
i know i talked multiple times about day's puzzling comments on the phoenician bilingual from cyprus with anat and athena and about her own invented interpretatio graeca of anat but it keeps bugging me. i might have to just write a few k words about this next year
November 16, 2025 at 11:04 PM
i know i talked multiple times about day's puzzling comments on the phoenician bilingual from cyprus with anat and athena and about her own invented interpretatio graeca of anat but it keeps bugging me. i might have to just write a few k words about this next year
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描く度に絵柄が変わってて一人アンソロみたいになってる
November 15, 2025 at 8:51 AM
描く度に絵柄が変わってて一人アンソロみたいになってる
tl;dr not seeing any reason to doubt archi's conclusion that it seems most eblaite deities are local figures peculiar to nothern syria
November 13, 2025 at 1:09 PM
tl;dr not seeing any reason to doubt archi's conclusion that it seems most eblaite deities are local figures peculiar to nothern syria
the pure vibes school of scholarship strikes again, this time with Eblaites somehow being aware of a pairing rare before the Kassite period feat. a goddess not really attested before Ur III (the article consistently uses "Canaanite" when it means Ugarit, also, lol)
November 13, 2025 at 1:05 PM
the pure vibes school of scholarship strikes again, this time with Eblaites somehow being aware of a pairing rare before the Kassite period feat. a goddess not really attested before Ur III (the article consistently uses "Canaanite" when it means Ugarit, also, lol)
November 10, 2025 at 11:00 PM
according to Smith, that Baal Cycle passage where someone says a god without a wife is unfit to rule might be Attar complaining about Yam and not Shapash rebuking Attar; will include this in the eventual critical blog post about Ayali-Darshan's Yam shipping discourse paper
November 8, 2025 at 11:54 PM
according to Smith, that Baal Cycle passage where someone says a god without a wife is unfit to rule might be Attar complaining about Yam and not Shapash rebuking Attar; will include this in the eventual critical blog post about Ayali-Darshan's Yam shipping discourse paper
don't care + didn't ask + cry + mad + get real + L + mald + cope harder + hoes mad + basic + skill issue + ratio + you fell off + surely he will overturn the throne of your kingship + surely he will break the sceptre of your rule
November 8, 2025 at 10:33 PM
don't care + didn't ask + cry + mad + get real + L + mald + cope harder + hoes mad + basic + skill issue + ratio + you fell off + surely he will overturn the throne of your kingship + surely he will break the sceptre of your rule
November 8, 2025 at 9:56 PM
tbh i don't think the "shamash was originally female" proposal is viable, ultimately; in the end it feels like shapash's gender is an outlier with only the eblaite sun deity as a forerunner. perhaps it's more a northwestern syrian feature than anything?
November 8, 2025 at 6:33 PM
tbh i don't think the "shamash was originally female" proposal is viable, ultimately; in the end it feels like shapash's gender is an outlier with only the eblaite sun deity as a forerunner. perhaps it's more a northwestern syrian feature than anything?