Mesopotamian paganism per se seems unlikely to me that late. But surely not Romans, yeah.
February 16, 2026 at 8:20 AM
Mesopotamian paganism per se seems unlikely to me that late. But surely not Romans, yeah.
Or some kind of Mesopotamian pagans/early Mandeans. But not Romans, certainly.
February 16, 2026 at 8:15 AM
Or some kind of Mesopotamian pagans/early Mandeans. But not Romans, certainly.
English-Scots (not Scotts you moron) -Irish culture owes much to Arabic algebra and astronomy, Arabic (actually Indian) numerals, the Roman alphabet Mesopotamian astronomy and mathematics, Greek geometry, mathematics and astronomy, not to mention Roman engineering and law.
February 15, 2026 at 11:13 PM
English-Scots (not Scotts you moron) -Irish culture owes much to Arabic algebra and astronomy, Arabic (actually Indian) numerals, the Roman alphabet Mesopotamian astronomy and mathematics, Greek geometry, mathematics and astronomy, not to mention Roman engineering and law.
giving in to temptation with the Mesopotamian game and labeling every person from the island of Lesbos "Lesbian" despite all the reality-based reasons I shouldn't.
It's just more enjoyable this way.
It's just more enjoyable this way.
February 15, 2026 at 4:52 PM
giving in to temptation with the Mesopotamian game and labeling every person from the island of Lesbos "Lesbian" despite all the reality-based reasons I shouldn't.
It's just more enjoyable this way.
It's just more enjoyable this way.
Forgive my pedantic ass, but ekindu and gilgamesh were Mesopotamian, closer to where Iraq, Syria, and turkey are now; not Greek. That said, yeah TT_TT the very foundations of the story rests on their tragedy. Hippogriff they come out better though? T_T
February 15, 2026 at 3:18 PM
Forgive my pedantic ass, but ekindu and gilgamesh were Mesopotamian, closer to where Iraq, Syria, and turkey are now; not Greek. That said, yeah TT_TT the very foundations of the story rests on their tragedy. Hippogriff they come out better though? T_T
I want to see the game about Mesopotamian gnoticism, especially if it involves some sort of dualistic comic-super level supers, mytho-wizkids and demonic henchmen
February 15, 2026 at 2:41 PM
I want to see the game about Mesopotamian gnoticism, especially if it involves some sort of dualistic comic-super level supers, mytho-wizkids and demonic henchmen
Id (from bottom of rabbit hole, three miles deep): Hey, did you know that the gnostic bad guy Yaldabaoth can be easily refitted for a polytheistic Mesopotamian setting just by removing the vowels in his name and swapping the "Y" for a "B"?
Superego: "YOU GET BACK HERE THIS INSTANT, MISTER!"
Superego: "YOU GET BACK HERE THIS INSTANT, MISTER!"
February 15, 2026 at 2:11 PM
Id (from bottom of rabbit hole, three miles deep): Hey, did you know that the gnostic bad guy Yaldabaoth can be easily refitted for a polytheistic Mesopotamian setting just by removing the vowels in his name and swapping the "Y" for a "B"?
Superego: "YOU GET BACK HERE THIS INSTANT, MISTER!"
Superego: "YOU GET BACK HERE THIS INSTANT, MISTER!"
Mesopotamian Art and the Birth of Visual Narrative
https://artmegapolis.com/?p=4616
https://artmegapolis.com/?p=4616
February 15, 2026 at 7:07 PM
Mesopotamian Art and the Birth of Visual Narrative
https://artmegapolis.com/?p=4616
https://artmegapolis.com/?p=4616
Id: "I don't see any reason why--"
Superego: *hits the alarm button* *braces self*
Id: "gnosticism couldn't have existed in world of the Mesopotamian game."
Superego: "DON'T YOU DO IT! DON'T YOU GO DOWN THAT RABBIT HOLE!"
Id: (from deep within the rabbit hole) "What? I can't hear you!"
Superego: *hits the alarm button* *braces self*
Id: "gnosticism couldn't have existed in world of the Mesopotamian game."
Superego: "DON'T YOU DO IT! DON'T YOU GO DOWN THAT RABBIT HOLE!"
Id: (from deep within the rabbit hole) "What? I can't hear you!"
February 15, 2026 at 1:12 PM
Id: "I don't see any reason why--"
Superego: *hits the alarm button* *braces self*
Id: "gnosticism couldn't have existed in world of the Mesopotamian game."
Superego: "DON'T YOU DO IT! DON'T YOU GO DOWN THAT RABBIT HOLE!"
Id: (from deep within the rabbit hole) "What? I can't hear you!"
Superego: *hits the alarm button* *braces self*
Id: "gnosticism couldn't have existed in world of the Mesopotamian game."
Superego: "DON'T YOU DO IT! DON'T YOU GO DOWN THAT RABBIT HOLE!"
Id: (from deep within the rabbit hole) "What? I can't hear you!"
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MISTER! May the year be filled with KOREAN TREWS, MESOPOTAMIAN COMPLAINTS, ANGRY FOLK, and BUNNEHS X
AND let’s hope ensign Bob’s incompetence is not the death of us all… xx
AND let’s hope ensign Bob’s incompetence is not the death of us all… xx
February 15, 2026 at 9:49 AM
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MISTER! May the year be filled with KOREAN TREWS, MESOPOTAMIAN COMPLAINTS, ANGRY FOLK, and BUNNEHS X
AND let’s hope ensign Bob’s incompetence is not the death of us all… xx
AND let’s hope ensign Bob’s incompetence is not the death of us all… xx
Great day all around for the Mesopotamian goddess Ishtar
February 15, 2026 at 4:46 AM
Great day all around for the Mesopotamian goddess Ishtar
The thing that is erroneously called “Western” is a chauvinistic distortion of what is really a bigger thing. It could be broadly defined as the cultures who owe more to the Mesopotamian origin point than to the other four or five or so independent inventions of urban civilization.
February 15, 2026 at 4:39 AM
The thing that is erroneously called “Western” is a chauvinistic distortion of what is really a bigger thing. It could be broadly defined as the cultures who owe more to the Mesopotamian origin point than to the other four or five or so independent inventions of urban civilization.
Our science and maths has its origins elsewhere too! Algebra has Egyptian and Mesopotamian origins - its very name is from the North African al-jabr, meaning the reunion of broken parts. The concept of Zero is from India.
February 15, 2026 at 2:36 AM
Our science and maths has its origins elsewhere too! Algebra has Egyptian and Mesopotamian origins - its very name is from the North African al-jabr, meaning the reunion of broken parts. The concept of Zero is from India.
Today I learned, from @[email protected], that scholars have identified the original Tower of Babel.
The Mesopotamian ziggurat Etemenanki is the likely inspiration for the story in Genesis.
Fully constructed, it likely stood about 66 meters tall, or the equivalent of about 20 stories in a […]
The Mesopotamian ziggurat Etemenanki is the likely inspiration for the story in Genesis.
Fully constructed, it likely stood about 66 meters tall, or the equivalent of about 20 stories in a […]
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February 15, 2026 at 1:34 AM
Today I learned, from @[email protected], that scholars have identified the original Tower of Babel.
The Mesopotamian ziggurat Etemenanki is the likely inspiration for the story in Genesis.
Fully constructed, it likely stood about 66 meters tall, or the equivalent of about 20 stories in a […]
The Mesopotamian ziggurat Etemenanki is the likely inspiration for the story in Genesis.
Fully constructed, it likely stood about 66 meters tall, or the equivalent of about 20 stories in a […]
Yes, Max Mallowan, who was a prominent Mesopotamian archaeologist. I was at a retrospective lecture by Joan Oates, who'd been a young digger on Mallowan's digs but was by then an eminent archaeologist in her own right, and in her 90s. I don't think she took to Christie very much.
February 14, 2026 at 8:15 PM
Yes, Max Mallowan, who was a prominent Mesopotamian archaeologist. I was at a retrospective lecture by Joan Oates, who'd been a young digger on Mallowan's digs but was by then an eminent archaeologist in her own right, and in her 90s. I don't think she took to Christie very much.
Another grace/humor note from the text of my Mesopotamian game:
There's a certain region which, for various reasons, is more likely to have monsters in its southern half than it's northern half.
Naturally, the monsters in the southern half sound like Tucker & Dale in Tucker & Dale vs. Evil.
There's a certain region which, for various reasons, is more likely to have monsters in its southern half than it's northern half.
Naturally, the monsters in the southern half sound like Tucker & Dale in Tucker & Dale vs. Evil.
February 14, 2026 at 12:20 PM
Another grace/humor note from the text of my Mesopotamian game:
There's a certain region which, for various reasons, is more likely to have monsters in its southern half than it's northern half.
Naturally, the monsters in the southern half sound like Tucker & Dale in Tucker & Dale vs. Evil.
There's a certain region which, for various reasons, is more likely to have monsters in its southern half than it's northern half.
Naturally, the monsters in the southern half sound like Tucker & Dale in Tucker & Dale vs. Evil.
The opium poppy has been used in traditional medicine for thousands of years. Ancient Egyptian and Mesopotamian texts discuss opiate use for medical purposes, such as pain relief. In the Hippocratic tradition of ancient Greece, opium poppy was a frequent
www.jneuropsychiatry.org/peer-review/...
www.jneuropsychiatry.org/peer-review/...
The Mind Based and Most Controversial Plant: Papaver somniferum The Opium Poppy: A Plant with Many Faces and Roles in Human History and Culture
The Mind Based and Most Controversial Plant: Papaver somniferum The Opium Poppy: A Plant with Many Faces and Roles in Human History and Culture, Hamiksha
www.jneuropsychiatry.org
February 14, 2026 at 10:19 AM
The opium poppy has been used in traditional medicine for thousands of years. Ancient Egyptian and Mesopotamian texts discuss opiate use for medical purposes, such as pain relief. In the Hippocratic tradition of ancient Greece, opium poppy was a frequent
www.jneuropsychiatry.org/peer-review/...
www.jneuropsychiatry.org/peer-review/...
Those are spiritual concepts created by people, over a long period of time. Im kind of a fan of old Mesopotamian version where the dead just live underground. Its just a place where spirits go. Later, they imagined it was also in the sky. They thought that spirits could come thru cracks in the Earth
February 14, 2026 at 9:32 AM
Those are spiritual concepts created by people, over a long period of time. Im kind of a fan of old Mesopotamian version where the dead just live underground. Its just a place where spirits go. Later, they imagined it was also in the sky. They thought that spirits could come thru cracks in the Earth
Ancient Mesopotamian Bussy Wagon
Is that anything
Is that anything
February 14, 2026 at 6:33 AM
Ancient Mesopotamian Bussy Wagon
Is that anything
Is that anything
my man said mesopotamians had holes
February 14, 2026 at 4:33 AM
my man said mesopotamians had holes
No. The main character Maggie goes through most of her journey in Hell with her Grannie and the Mesopotamian demon Pazuzu, with her QPR partner Roe (they/them) saving the day halfway through. But I'm definitely going to grow their relationship and represent QPRs as best as I can
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February 14, 2026 at 2:59 AM
No. The main character Maggie goes through most of her journey in Hell with her Grannie and the Mesopotamian demon Pazuzu, with her QPR partner Roe (they/them) saving the day halfway through. But I'm definitely going to grow their relationship and represent QPRs as best as I can
Mesopotamian clay tablets and envelopes, (the source of cuneiform writing), were the result of people wanting to keep records not reliant on memory and thus less prone to error. But today, that impulse has been lost as we create records full of misinformation and disinformation.
February 14, 2026 at 1:05 AM
Mesopotamian clay tablets and envelopes, (the source of cuneiform writing), were the result of people wanting to keep records not reliant on memory and thus less prone to error. But today, that impulse has been lost as we create records full of misinformation and disinformation.
Neo-Assyrian bas-relief depicting ships carrying and dragging cedar logs from Lebanon, guided by protective deities. Court in Dur-Sharrukin, present day Khorsabad, the unfinished capital city of Sargon II, c. 700 BCE. Mesopotamian lands were poor in stone and forest, so...
February 14, 2026 at 1:04 AM
Neo-Assyrian bas-relief depicting ships carrying and dragging cedar logs from Lebanon, guided by protective deities. Court in Dur-Sharrukin, present day Khorsabad, the unfinished capital city of Sargon II, c. 700 BCE. Mesopotamian lands were poor in stone and forest, so...
The concept of white beauty has been a standard practiced in most cultures and societies as far back as the Early Mesopotamian dynasties and as far east as China.
We know from the historical artifacts that we've been able to keep (and are available to the West) that this conception of whiteness
We know from the historical artifacts that we've been able to keep (and are available to the West) that this conception of whiteness
February 13, 2026 at 10:30 PM
The concept of white beauty has been a standard practiced in most cultures and societies as far back as the Early Mesopotamian dynasties and as far east as China.
We know from the historical artifacts that we've been able to keep (and are available to the West) that this conception of whiteness
We know from the historical artifacts that we've been able to keep (and are available to the West) that this conception of whiteness