Names of Semiramis
Semiramis - The Wife of Nimrod
is also known under various aliasses,
Allilah or Allah
Ariadne
Astarte
SHING MOO (sounds like King Ma)
the holy mother in China
was portrayed with a child in her arms
and a glory (halo - nimbus) around her.
Starting from Semiramis on prehistoric worship of Mother alone with all her powers conflated with Universal powers and Earthly and those of all Stars on the sky was started to be seen in sense of usefullness which is true in it's essence but this was a period that will shape destiny of a woman for the future generations more and more as something to be used and abused.
Napoleon said many millenia later that
"women are nothing but machines for producing children"
or;
"Nature intended women to be our slaves. They are our property"
He too is "famous" conqueror.
This is where it all started and it spread trough entire ancient world.
A legendary Assyrian queen, often identified with Sammu-Ramat, the wife of Shamshi-Adad V, she was believed to be the daughter of the goddess Atargatis. Her youth was filled with mythic adventure, and her otherworldly beauty and voluptuous sexuality ensured her two advantageous marriages. When she took the reins of power of Empress of Assyria, she expanded her kingdom by conquering much of Mesopotamia and Asia. She beautified and revitalized Babylon, and implemented improvements in Nineveh that helped to moderate the flow of the Tigris. She was renowned for her military and political prowess, as well as her ferocious and merciless sexual appetite.
Semiramis and Tammuz
were worshipped as
"Madonna and child."
Nimrod and his mother Semiramis
became the chief entities of worship
as a Madonna and child.
And as the generations passed,
they were worshipped under other
names in different countries and
languages. Many of these are
recognizable - such as -
Fortuna and Jupiter in Rome;
Aphrodite and Adonis in Macedonia
and Ashtoreth/Astarte and
Molech/Baal in Canaan.
Semiramis
Semiramis
(Macedonian: Σεμίραμις, Armenian: Շամիրամ Shamiram) was the legendary queen of King
Ninus, succeeding him to the throne of Assyria .
The
legends narrated by Diodorus Siculus, Justin and others from Ctesias of Cnidus
describe her and her relationship to King Ninus, himself a mythical king of
Assyria, not attested in the Assyrian King List.
The
name of Semiramis came to be applied to various monuments in Western Asia and Asia Minor , the origin of which was forgotten or unknown.
Nearly every stupendous work of antiquity by the Euphrates or in Iran seems to
have ultimately been ascribed to her, even the Behistun Inscription of Darius.
Herodotus ascribes to her the artificial banks that confined the Euphrates and
knows her name as borne by a gate of Babylon
Various
places in Assyria and throughout Mesopotamia as a whole, Media, Persia, the
Levant, Asia Minor, Arabia and the Caucasus bore the name of Semiramis, but
slightly changed, even in the Middle Ages, and an old name of the city of Van
was Shamiramagerd (in Armenian it means created by Semiramis).
A
real and historical Shammuramat (the Akkadian and Aramaic form of the name) was
the Assyrian queen of Shamshi-Adad V (ruled 824 BC–811 BC), king of Assyria and
ruler of the Neo Assyrian Empire, and its regent for four years until her son
Adad-nirari III came of age.
The
indigenous Assyrians of Iraq, northeast Syria Turkey Iran
Other
sources:
According
to the legend as related by Diodorus, Semiramis was of noble parents, the
daughter of the fish-goddess Derketo of Ascalon in Syria
She
then married Onnes or Menones, one of Ninus' generals. Ninus was so struck by
her bravery at the capture of Bactra
She
and Ninus had a son named Ninyas. After King Ninus conquered Asia Asia
She
restored ancient Babylon Persia Ecbatana Persia Libya Indus.
While
the achievements of Semiramis are clearly in the realm of mythical Greek
historiography, the historical Assyrian queen Shammuramat (Semiramis), wife of
Shamshi-Adad V of Assyria
Shammuramat
would have thus been briefly in control of the vast Neo Assyrian Empire, which
150 years later stretched from the Caucasus Mountains in the north to the
Arabian Peninsula in the south, and western Iran Cyprus
Approximate
area controlled by Assyria
In
Shammuramat's time, however, Assyria only ruled over parts of neighboring areas
in Mesopotamia Syria Iran
Georges
Roux speculated that the later Greek and Indo-Iranian (Persian and Median)
flavoured myths surrounding Semiramis stem from successful campaigns she waged
against these peoples, and the novelty of a woman ruling such an empire. Some
authors allow for the possibility of more than one figure named Semiramis.
In
later traditions
In
The Divine Comedy, Dante sees Semiramis among the souls of the lustful in the Second Circle
And
as the cranes go chanting forth their lays,
Making
in air a long line of themselves,
So
saw I coming, uttering lamentations,
Shadows
borne onward by the aforesaid stress.
Whereupon
said I: "Master, who are those People, whom the black air so
castigates?"
"The
first of those, of whom intelligence Thou fain wouldst have", then said he
unto me,
"The
empress was of many languages. To sensual vices she was so abandoned,
That
lustful she made licit in her law,
To
remove the blame to which she had been led.
She
is Semiramis. . .
She
succeeded Ninus, and was his spouse;
She
held the land which now the Sultan rules. She married her son after Ninus'
death and lived with him.
The
Assyrian people indigenous to Iraq Syria Turkey Iran
