By strange coincidence I had two friends ask about syncretism over the last few days. As generally understood, syncretism refers to the blending of religions. In the ancient world when one culture came into contact with another inevitable sharing resulted. Since all religions at the time were polytheistic, there was no concern about sharing deities too. Ancient people wanted to assure their good fortunes and survival just like modern folk do, and so the safest course of action when you become aware of a new deity is to placate her or him. There are few risks at worshipping additional gods in a polytheistic system, since all deities thrive on adoration. Some ancient societies, such as that of the Mesopotamians, realized that the number of gods could grow well beyond reasonable proportions. After all, many kinds of phenomena had gods, including the natural world, human inventions, and the cosmos. Recognizing overlap between the roles or functions of certain deities they began to draft up lists equating the various gods. Some of these lists are quite extensive.

This is the practice of syncretism. Your Yarikh is my Sin, and why offer two sacrifices when one will suffice? Ancient worshippers did not worry about the endless confusion that this would cause for future monotheistic scholars rediscovering their lost civilization. James Frazer, of Golden Bough fame, was a Victorian scholar who saw syncretism everywhere. Ancient cultures became a melting pot with countless variations on every theme. With more sophisticated anthropological methods Frazier’s work eventually fell into disfavor, and syncretism with it. Each ancient culture was distinct, with nuances and subtleties unguessed by rampant blending and blurring of the lines. Some scholars today shy away from the word syncretism since it has such unholy associations.

Fallen Saint James George Frazer

Part of the issue is where our culture stands. We are not the final word in discovery or understanding of our world, and yet monotheistic religions, the majority position in the western hemisphere, make absolute claims. Those of us who examine ancient religions are born into these outlooks, assured that modern-day religion is the true religion and that it, unlike other aspects of culture, will cease to evolve. Religion, however, changes as soon as it leaves its founder’s mouth or hand. The multiplicity of human perceptions and outlooks assures us that each believers’ religion is unique. We may be ashamed by the implications, but syncretism, it seems, will always have the last laugh.

Podcast 18 considers the perceptions of the world of the dead, according to Ancient Near Eastern sources. Specifically the question addressed is can the dead return from the underworld, based initially on the story of Samuel’s return from the dead in the Bible — this leads to a description of the underworld based on ancient sources. The Zoroastrian connection is encountered in the development of the realms of heaven and hell.

1950s science fiction films are perhaps the most parsimonious celluloid genre. Standard Saturday afternoon fare in my childhood, I still have a soft spot for the unapologetic self-confidence of these movies with their painted backdrops and hokey effects. The messages are frequently self righteous and often biblical. So yesterday as I treated myself to a viewing of The Mole People, I went on instant alert as the biblical references began right away for an audience that would have known the Bible well enough to take it all in. Set in “Asia,” the archaeologists are digging for Sumerian artifacts when then discover a stone tablet “below the great flood level.” That makes it at least 5,000 years old, the assembled academics declare. A diffident Dr. Roger Bentley tells his fellow excavators, “in archaeology all things are possible!” When a young boy of the indigenous population discovers an oil lamp shaped like a boat, the archaeologists note, “the flood’s been proven to be a historical fact.” The boat is a model of Noah’s ark, the Sumerian version. The scene of the expedition climbing Mount Kuitara includes footage from the 1955 Fernand Navarra trek up Mount Ararat during which a wooden beam was found, reputedly from Noah’s ark.

If you can stomach the bogus Sumerian you’ll learn that ancient Mesopotamians also survived the flood, a kind of “children of Cain” motif. These Ishtar-worshiping pagans are practitioners of a kind of social Darwinism, killing off their own kind when resources in their underground world become strained. Their great underground civilization parallels that of ancient heathenism while more advanced civilization on the surface of the globe has the benefit of an enlightened Christian worldview. Even the Sumerians whipping the actual mole-men is reminiscent of the Egyptians whipping the Hebrews in the Ten Commandments (released the same year).

Fast forward fifty years. We now live in a technologically advanced civilization where the myths of ancient people have little place. Science provides logical explanations for most of what we encounter in the world around us. Yet there are still otherwise intelligent people seeking Noah’s ark on Mount Ararat. The past is impossible to escape. The Sumerians in the film (whose walls are inexplicably decorated by Egyptian artwork and hieroglyphics) represent those who hold onto a confused religion that has become a form of terrorism in the eyes of the more advanced archaeologists. Perhaps the paradigm has shifted, and those who use religion today to gain political power and personal gain have become the self-righteous Sumerians of The Mole People.

“They sure made a mess of Mesopotamia,” Daryl said, blowing steam off his chai. “A hippopota-mess.”

“And traded peace for a mess of pottage,” Jess added, a bit of whipped cream from her polysyllabic latte on her nose.

Daryl, Margot, Jess, and I were discussing Stuff Happens, a play we had just seen by David Hare about the US invasion of Iraq. “Interesting,” I said, “that someone in the play referred to the area as Mesopotamia in the present, as we’re doing. I mean, it’s still there – the area between the rivers, meso ‘middle’ and potamos ‘river’ – but usually you see the word Mesopotamia somewhere near the word ancient. Civilization and years B.C. show up often with it too.”

“Interesting, too,” Margot said, “that everyone says it ‘mess-o,’ even though the same prefix in other places is said differently – mesomorph and Mesozoic, with ‘me-zo,’ for instance.”

“Both of which are said with ‘mess-o’ in England,” Jess pointed out. “And can be said as ‘mez-o’ in North America.”

“Which would seem to be a happy medium,” I chimed in.

“Well, it’s a rare medium that’s well done,” Margot said, which Jess parried with “You speak as though you have a stake in it.”

“Anyway, if we’re going to be particular,” I said, “we can’t forget meson, which can have ’s’ or ‘z’ and ‘ee,’ ‘eh,’ or ‘ei.’”

“Well,” Daryl said, with a pause for a sip, “there’s sure a whole pot of them.”

“And perhaps that’s a reason that it doesn’t seem to carry a very strong associative effect from word to word,” Jess said. “I mean, Mesopotamia, what does it make you think of? Not mesons or mesomorphs or the even more ancient Mesozoic period, and probably not a hippopotamus either.”

“Since they don’t have them there,” Margot interjected, dunking her teabag.

“A mess of petunias, perhaps,” I said.

“I’d like to tame ya,” Margot replied.

“It makes me think of ancient civilizations, and friezes of battles and bearded kings,” Jess said. “National Geographic kinds of things.”

“Ziggurats,” Daryl added. I pulled out my little black book and made a note to do a tasting of ziggurat.

“Cuneiform,” Jess said, relishing evey phoneme.

“Hittites,” Margot said.

“Et in Akkadia ego,” I added.

“You can’t be Assyrious,” Margot shot back.

“Babylon,” Jess said. “The moment you bring in Babylon you have a huge variety of associations, all the way from hanging gardens to figure skaters.”

Daryl looked up. “Figure skaters?!”

“Tai Babilonia,” Jess explained. It occurred to me that not too many people now would have heard of her; her world championship in pairs skating was in 1979. (But she did get back in the news a couple of weeks ago doing a PETA promo stunt at Rockefeller Rink.)

“But Sumer is icumen in!” I punned.

“In some area” – or did she say “Sumeria”? – “but not here,” Jess replied. “I think Ezra Pound’s parody of ‘Sumer is icumen in’ is more appropriate for today’s weather. ‘Raineth drop and staineth slop, and how the wind doth ramm!’”

Daryl knew the poem too. “‘Skiddeth bus and sloppeth us, an ague hath my ham!’” He raised his coffee to toast the weather.

“Well,” I said, raising my decaf, “we’re a long way from Mesopotamia now. It may not be confined to the impossibly distant past, but it’s nowhere near here.”

“And we’re nowhere near its temperature,” Jess said, raising her fancy coffee. “But I’ll take Canada anyway. And our freezes don’t last as long as their friezes.”

Margot raised her tea. “Stone cold either way.”

Yesterday I attended a holiday-themed concert. It was an unusual mix of the archaic and post-modern in that although many traditional holiday pieces were sung, the readings were from an assortment of writers, some still living. The theme, not surprisingly, was the wonder of birth. One of the readings was from D. H. Lawrence, a writer more often associated on the making of babies end of the equation. Nevertheless, as the soporific music flowed I found myself once again thinking of special babies.

The concept of a special child marked at birth has an ancient pedigree. Long before Samuel, Samson, and Moses there were ancient heroes known from their unusual births. The theme is at least as old as Sargon of Akkad, and probably even older. Those who grow to achieve great things in life must, by back-formation, have had a wonderful birth. Of course, when they were born nobody knew they were special yet, and so our mythopoeia demands we devise incredible births for them. Anyone who is a parent knows that time stops and the entire world stands in rapt silence as your own child is born. All babies are billion-dollar babies.

The subtext to all of this is that without even looking for a special child we should realize that all people have inherent value. If religions truly taught that message there would be a lot less religious violence in the world and the dreams of many more infant dreamers might be attained. Perhaps all religions should take the stories of their own origins more to heart and hear them more often than once a year.

Bell Ringer

• How did Mesopotamia pave the way for later civilizations?

Process

• Review game for Mesopotamia test
  • Mesopotamia Jeopardy
• Break
• Cuneiform video

Homework

• Study for test
  • Lesson 21-27
• Mesopotamia crossword puzzle

Jesus’ promise of the pouring out of the Holy Spirit came to pass a few days later on the day of Pentecost. As the 120 were waiting before the Lord, the Holy Spirit of promise filled them all. The sound of the rushing wind and the many voices caused a multitude to soon gather and ask, “Whatever could this mean?”

Acts 2:1 When the Day of Pentecost had fully come, they were all with one accord in one place.

2 And suddenly there came a sound from heaven, as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting.

3 Then there appeared to them divided tongues, as of fire, and one sat upon each of them.

4 And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.

5 And there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men, from every nation under heaven.

6 And when this sound occurred, the multitude came together, and were confused, because everyone heard them speak in his own language.

7 Then they were all amazed and marveled, saying to one another, “Look, are not all these who speak Galileans?

8 “And how is it that we hear, each in our own language in which we were born?

9 “Parthians and Medes and Elamites, those dwelling in Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia,

10 “Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya adjoining Cyrene, visitors from Rome, both Jews and proselytes,

11 “Cretans and Arabs—-we hear them speaking in our own tongues the wonderful works of God.”

12 So they were all amazed and perplexed, saying to one another, “Whatever could this mean?”

13 Others mocking said, “They are full of new wine.”

Peter explained the event by quoting from the prophet Joel.

Acts 2:14 But Peter, standing up with the eleven, raised his voice and said to them, “Men of Judea and all who dwell in Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and heed my words.

15 “For these are not drunk, as you suppose, since it is only the third hour of the day.

God was fulfilling at least three great promises at one time.    1) Joel’s prophecy of the pouring out of the Spirit on all flesh.       2) God’s promise to gather His people from every nation under heaven to pour out His Spirit on them. (Ezekiel 36:21-27)  3) God’s promise to Abraham that through him and his Seed, Jesus, all the nations of the earth would be blessed.  (Genesis 22:15-18; Galatians 3:8-16)

Devout Jews from every nation under heaven were in Jerusalem, as Ezekiel had foretold. (Ezekiel 36:24) Each of them heard the disciples glorify God in their own language. Some said they were drunk.  But Peter explained what was happening by quoting from the prophet Joel. May we also heed his words?

Today there was a deadly explosion of a bus. It wounded and killed dozens of people. Damascus is in Syria. People still do not know who did it. You need to be very careful if you go to the Middle East. All of the people in Syria have been rattled by this bombing.The explosion was not clear as it is believed to have been caused by terrorists in the Middle East. The same explosion happened in September 2008 that killed 17 people.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/12/03/syria.bus.blast/index.html

Bell Ringer

• What were some of the major achievements from Mesopotamia?
• How did the sea power of the Phoenicians help spread civilization throughout the Mediterranean area?
• What is the difference between Cuneiform and the Phoenician Alphabet?

Unit Essential Question

• How did Mesopotamia pave the way for later civilizations?

Process

• Return “Letter to the Editor”
• Mesopotamia video
• Time Warp Video
• Review Vocab
  • Sketch

Homework

• Mesopotamia test will be on Wednesday 12/9 & Thursday 12/10

Yesterday I ran across a graphic on the Awilum blog that juxtaposed the tower of Babel with the Burj Dubai, the world’s tallest structure, to be completed next month. Perhaps it is a “guy thing,” but I can’t stop being fascinated by very tall buildings. An inveterate acrophobe, I avoided New York City until I was in my twenties and I was gritting my teeth the entire visit the first time I went to the top of the Empire State Building. Although they frighten me, I can not keep away from them. Driving through Chicago while living in the Midwest, I always kept a wary eye on the Sears Tower, lest it should fall my way. When the Society of Biblical Literature met in Toronto, I braved the CN Tower and even stood on one of the thick glass plates that give a bird’s eye view of the ground far, far below. Now there is an even taller building that fully deserves the name “sky-scraper.” At 818 meters, the Burj Dubai in the United Arab Emirates soars far beyond other efforts at the ultimate masculinity. It will be nearly twice as high as the Empire State Building when it is completed.

Gnu view from Wikipedia

Joseph Campbell, the late mythographer from Sarah Lawrence College, has had an enormous impact on the study of myth. As a specialist in Ugaritic mythology I find many points of disagreement with his assessment of mythic symbiosis, yet he once said something that has stayed with me ever since. In his Power of Myth video, he states that societies show their values by their tallest buildings. This statement is perfectly justifiable — the amount of resources required to erect enormous buildings does show a dedication to a quasi-divine purpose on the part of a society. Campbell’s example was the medieval cathedrals, and for anyone who has visited a medieval town this is easily affirmed. (St. Vitas Cathedral in Prague and St. Andrews Cathedral in Scotland confirmed this for me.)

The Hebrew Bible, however, casts another view on tall structures. Buildings such as the Tower of Babel are the ultimate in a Judaic assessment of hubris. Genesis 11 makes short work of Babel, stating that God has to stoop down to see this great effort, yet he feels threatened by it nevertheless. Our towers today demonstrate our conspicuous consumption, yet I can’t help but be impressed. Where some see only shifting sand atop endless pools of petroleum, other visionaries see the tallest structure on the planet. Just thinking about it, I find myself clenching again. I don’t plan a visit there anytime soon, but it is in the neighborhood of Babel, for those who speak the language.

What is it:

This is a bas relief panel carved in limestone from an enormous frieze depicting the royal lion hunts of Assyria, built for the North Palace of Nineveh, circa 645-635 BC. It is now on display at the British Museum in London in a massive hall that will take your breath away.

Why is it Awesome?

I first came across the sculpture when I was seventeen, wandering around the British Museum. The lion’s expression of suffering –of great dignity struck low– was so palpable that felt compelled to sit down and sketch it. I have that drawing taped into one of my early notebooks, and in an idle moment a year or so ago I decided to look around online to see if the image was available. Much to my delight, my very lion –of the dozens depicted on the frieze– was available on the Wikipedia Commons. It promptly became my desktop. I have since scoured the Internet for more images and information with limited results at best, I’m afraid. What I did find is compiled into this article.

Assyria was the Cradle of Civilization’s first true super power. There had been a great number of powerful city states and confederations before, but it was Assyria who first created a true Mesopotamian Empire in the modern sense. Assyria can be credited with the invention of the first modern, standing army. Their wars of conquest are well-known even today thanks in large part to their many appearances in the Bible. At the time of this frieze’s construction, the Assyrians ruled over the entire Fertile Crescent, the Holy Land, and much of Egypt.

As might be expected from a powerful militaristic monarchy, the Assyrian Kings were avid hunters when not campaigning. Ashurnasirpal II (king from 883 – 859 BC) claimed in one of his epithets: “I killed 30 elephants with the bow. 257 powerful wild bull I killed them from my war chariot. I killed 370 strong lions just by spear like birds in a cage.”

While all men and beasts were prey to the Assyrian nobility, lions were the particular sport of kings, symbolizing the ruling monarch’s duty to protect and fight for his people as well as his dominion over everything within his borders. The palace of the new capital at Nineveh was decorated with these sculpted reliefs to illustrate the prowess of the last great Assyrian king, Ashurbanipal (668-631 BC). That’s him thrusting a sword into the belly of a wounded lion, an image he duplicated for his royal seal.

The hunt itself was highly organized and orchestrated. The animals were collected ahead of time and kept in cages in the royal menagerie. When the King had time to indulge in his sport the cages would be transported out of the city by his soldiers. Infantry would serve as beaters to keep the prey within a level killing field, and cavalry would drive the lions towards the royal chariot, where the King would use arrows and spears to wound the lions before dispatching some with his sword. Although little was left to chance, much of the sport was based around how dangerous the wounded lions were, and the friezes show a number of scenes where the lions are mauling the backs of retreating chariots.

I’m afraid the pictures I’ve found don’t really convey the true feeling of the frieze. The room in the British Museum is set up much as it would have been in Nineveh: A great hall, with life-sized scenes of the hunt all around you. The bas reliefs weren’t just for the edification of the King. Embassies and visitors would have walked past these scenes while waiting for a royal audience. The power and authority of the King is obvious even more than two and a half thousand years later.

I took a course of Greek sculpture in university, and it talked a lot about pathos: The conveying of emotion and suffering through art. I didn’t know the term at the time, but you could feel it, coming out of the rock. The Assyrian artists gave great dignity to their suffering subject matter. The lions are shown with every sinew in their legs and paws straining; face after face is twisted in a rictus of pain; most of them bristle with arrows, and many vomit up blood from punctured lungs. You can almost hear the roars and snarls, the thunder of hooves, the curses and cheers in a language lost to time. It’s magnificent and horrifying, all at the same time.

I’ve written two works of historical fiction so far, and I plan to write a lot more in the future. I doubt I’ll ever write about the Assyrians; they’re not a particularly sympathetic lot from a narrative view point. I do have some interest in writing about the Neo-Babylonians under Nebuchadnezzar II, and, if and when I do, you can bet there will be some lion hunting. It’s too gripping a drama, too moving a scene, to pass over unremarked. In the half-formed idea for what the book looks like in my mind so far, this would be the very first scene. It’s good to start off with a bang.

Anyway, the ruins of Nineveh were excavated by Sir Austen Henry Layard in the 19th Century, and like most British antiquarians of the time, he shipped everything he found back to England. I’m glad he did. Say what you want about the thieving nature of European empires in regards to the great artworks of their colonial possessions, but if this frieze was still in Iraq, it would be in someone’s basement right now, ‘liberated’ (looted) from a museum during the Iraq War. Very possibly it would have been destroyed, and it almost certainly would have been damaged and scattered in a way that would be a hopeless task to gather back up and reassemble. Instead they are available for anyone to see. They formed a very powerful and lasting impression on me, and I’m glad to have had this opportunity to share it with you.

Bell Ringer

• What were the two major achievements from King Hammurabi?
• Why is it important to have laws in society?

Unit Essential Question

• How did Mesopotamia pave the way for later civilizations?

Essential Questions

• What are the major achievements and how did they impact future civilizations?
  • What is the difference between Cuneiform and the Phoenician Alphabet?
• What were the major religious beliefs of ancient Mesopotamia?
• How did the sea power of the Phoenicians help spread civilization throughout the Mediterranean area?

Process

• Vocab
  • Review Vocabulary Quiz
  • Introduce new vocabulary
• Inventions
  • Battering Ram
  • Wheel Invention
  • Science and Inventions
  • Ziggurats
    • Pictures of Ziggurats
• Alphabet
  • Phoenician Alphabet
• Trade
  • Phoenician Trade Skills
  • Trade
  • Phoenician Ships
• Israelites 
  • Land of the Israelites
  • Exodus
• Location
  • Geography

Eastern Saint Christopher

In Stephen Asma’s recent book, On Monsters, he discusses the role of early Christianity in perpetuating or perhaps even inventing various monstrous creatures. As is clear from sources going all the way back to Sumerian times, ancient religions are the spawning beds for monsters. One of the monsters Asma mentioned that caught my attention was the familiar St. Christopher. According to sources as orthodox as St. Augustine, there lived races of dog-headed people in Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages. These Anubis-like cynocephali were barbarians in the extreme, eating human beings like the more familiar werewolf.

In some Eastern Orthodox traditions, St. Christopher was said to be among the cynocephali. Converted to Christianity, the dog-headed saint was martyred and entered the great kennel in the sky. The message proclaimed by this strange story is the tolerance of the early Christian movement. While battles raged over Orthodox vs. heterodox vs. Gnostic vs. pagan, there was still room to allow dog-headed humans into the fold. (They could be quite useful in rounding up straying sheep as well, one supposes.)

One of the hallmarks of modern Christianity is its exclusiveness. Naturally, not all Christians fit this profile, but many of the current movements define themselves by those not permitted to enter. In the sordid history of the Religious Right there are many chapters demonstrating a stark mistrust of non-Anglo believers. Roman Catholicism maintains that it is the only historically correct version of the faith. Other religions also erect barriers to keep others out. If religions truly promoted tolerance we might see a few more dog-headed saints in the news today instead of those who earn headlines for their exclusive claims on the truth.

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La Coleccion de Creaciones Plasticas en las que el artista investiga en la noche de los tiempos está compuesta por un buen numero de Obras de Arte que ya se consideran piezas Clasicas sobre la Ilustracion en el campo de la Arqueoastronomia.

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SPECIAL TRIBUTE TO ZECHARIA SITCHIN WRITER AND INVESTIGATOR AND HIS AMAZINGS BOOKS.

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Los Dioses de Sumeria a menudo representados en las esculturas y bajo-relieves de las Culturas de Sumeria y Mesopotamia  como verdaderos  Seres Voladores provenientes del Planeta Nibiru.

Los Anunnaki,Anunnakis,Annunakis,Annunaki, Antiguos Dioses de Sumeria , Mesopotamia, en las Pinturas del Artista Pintor ERNEST DESCALS.Coleccion de cuadros en oleos y tecnicas mixtas en la que el creador plastico de Manresa, Barcelona, Catalunya, Cataluña, nos sorprende con imagenes relativas a la Historia y la Leyenda de los seres venidos del Planeta Nibiru y que fueron proclamados Dioses en los viejos tiempos de la civilizacion sumeria.Arquetipos entre la mistica, los conocimientos tecnologicos y geneticos que han quedado en la Historia de las mas antiguas civilizaciones de nuestro mundo.Vinieron del espacio por motivos de supervivencia de su Mundo y aqui en la Tierra emprendieron la busqueda de los metales y minerales que les eran necesarios, mas tarde, dicen que se movieron en el campo de la Revolucion Genetica que aceleró de forma trepidante la natural Evolucion de la Especie Humana, al mismo tiempo que se vieron envueltos en guerras y luchas entre ellos mismos por aumentar sus areas de influencia en los paises de Mesopotamia,Egipto,La India, Centro America, Sudamerica y otros muchos y distantes enclaves, dejando en todos ellos unos vistosos rastros que en los continuos descubrimientos arquelogicos adquieren una drastica importancia.Parece ser que la Humanidad ha tomado de ellos sus principales rasgos fisicos y temperamentales.Son muchos los que relacionan a los Annunaki con las profecias mayas del fin de los tiempos previstos en el año 2012.

El artista pintor Ernest Descals ha querido rendir un Homenaje al investigador y historiador Zecharia Sitchin que tanto ha hecho para sacar a la luz a unos personajes historicos y a los hechos que protagonizaron en los Milenios anteriores al Diluvio Universal y tambien en los Milenios posteriores. “CRONICAS DE LA TIERRA“

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HISTORY AND LEGEND IMAGES OF MESOPOTAMIAN ART FIGURES

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La conexión Atlante

• La conexión Atlante. Cap.2º

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Los seres provenientes del Planeta Nibiru.
Coleccion de Pinturas del Artista Pintor ERNEST DESCALS.Estudios artisticos e historicos sobre estos Humanoides que llegaron a la Tierra y fueron aclamados como Dioses en la antigua civilizacion de Sumeria, entre otras muchas de todo el mundo terraqueo.
La Coleccion de Creaciones Plasticas en las que el artista investiga en la noche de los tiempos está compuesta por un buen numero de Obras de Arte que ya se consideran piezas Clasicas sobre la Ilustracion en el campo de la Arqueoastronomia.

Las muchas posibilidades en la hora de versionar a los seres venidos del espacio exterior, ofrecen al Creador Plastico un sinfin de interesantes maneras de crear unas ilustraciones en oleos de grandes valores en cuanto a la Sugerencia.

Los restos arqueologicos que nos han llegado hasta nosotros son de enorme variedad y el espiritu libre del Arte permite hallar distintas e interesantes formas de dar una imagen a los visitantes del planeta Nibiru.La  inspiracion del  Artista  vuela por los cielos y encuentra sus motivos en la Tierra, aunque tambien llegaran desde el mismo Cielo.

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SPECIAL TRIBUTE TO ZECHARIA SITCHIN WRITER AND INVESTIGATOR AND HIS AMAZINGS BOOKS.

NIBIRU HUMANOIDS

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SERES DEL PLANETA NIBIRU – ARTISTA PINTOR ERNEST DESCALS

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Daratan Mesopotamia diduga kuat sebagai lokasi Banjir Nuh. Di sini terdapat peradaban tertua yang dikenal sejarah. Lagi pula, karena berada di antara sungai Tigris dan Eufrat, secara geografis tempat ini sangat memungkinkan terjadinya sebuah banjir besar. Di antara faktor penyebab terjadinya banjir besar kemungkinan karena kedua sungai ini meluap dan membanjiri wilayah tersebut.

Alasan kedua, daerah tersebut diduga kuat sebagai tempat terjadinya banjir bersifat historis. Dalam catatan sejarah berbagai peradaban manu-sia di wilayah tersebut, banyak dokumen yang ditemukan merujuk pada sebuah banjir yang terjadi dalam periode yang sama. Setelah menyak-sikan kebinasaan kaum Nabi Nuh, peradaban-peradaban tersebut agak-nya merasa perlu mencatat dalam sejarah mereka, bagaimana bencana itu terjadi, serta akibat-akibat yang ditimbulkannya. Diketahui pula bahwa mayoritas legenda tentang banjir tersebut berasal dari Mesopotamia. Lebih penting lagi bagi kita adalah temuan-temuan arkeologis. Temuan-temuan tersebut membenarkan terjadinya sebuah banjir besar di wilayah ini. Sebagaimana akan kita bahas secara rinci pada halaman-halaman be-rikut, banjir ini telah menyebabkan tertundanya peradaban selama perio-de tertentu. Dalam penggalian-penggalian yang dilakukan, tersingkap jejak-jejak nyata sebuah bencana dahsyat.

Penggalian-penggalian di wilayah Mesopotamia mengungkap bah-wa berkali-kali dalam sejarah, wilayah ini diserang berbagai bencana sebagai akibat dari banjir dan meluapnya Sungai Eufrat dan Tigris. Misal-nya, pada alaf kedua Sebelum Masehi (SM), pada masa Ibbisin, penguasa negeri Ur yang luas, yang berlokasi di sebelah selatan Mesopotamia, sebuah tahun tertentu ditandai dengan “pasca Banjir yang melenyapkan garis batas antara langit dan bumi”.1 Sekitar 1700 SM, pada masa kekua-saan Hamurabi dari Babilonia, sebuah tahun ditandai dengan terjadinya peristiwa “kehancuran kota Eshnunna oleh air bah”.

Pada abad ke-10 SM, pada masa pemerintahan Nabu-mukin-apal, sebuah banjir terjadi di kota Babilon.2 Setelah zaman Nabi Isa (Jesus) pada abad ke-7, ke-8, ke-10, ke-11, dan ke-12, banjir-banjir yang bersejarah terjadi di wilayah tersebut. Dalam abad ke-20, kejadian serupa terjadi pa-da tahun 1925, 1930, dan 1954.3 Jelaslah bahwa wilayah ini telah senantiasa diserang bencana banjir, dan sebagaimana ditunjukkan dalam Al Quran, sangat mungkin suatu banjir besar-besaran telah membinasa-kan suatu komunitas secara keseluruhan.

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HISTORY AND LEGEND IMAGES OF MESOPOTAMIAN ART FIGURES

Tablillas  Mesopotamicas con escritura cuneiforme, muy parecidas a las que el patriarca Biblico Moises recibió de Yahve con los Diez Mandamientos en el Monte Sinai.Gracias a este tipo de tablas ó tablillas, los arqueologos han podido descifrar los cuantiosos documentos sobre la antigua civilizacion Sumeria y con ello empezar a entender la Historia de los Dioses Mesopotamicos.
Pintura al oleo de la Coleccion de Pinturas sobre los Annunaki,Annunakis, Anunnaki,
Artista Pintor ERNEST DESCALS.

Tablillas  Mesopotamicas con escritura cuneiforme

TABLES CUNEIFORM MESOPOTAMIAN WRITING

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Registros Historicos de la Antigua SUMERIA -SUMER – MESOPOTAMIA

En la antigua Civilizacion de Sumeria, mas tarde Mesopotamia y Babilonia, se procedia de forma sistemática a anotar en Tablillas todos los hechos mas relevantes, y gracias a los continuos descubrimientos Arqueologicos se ha podido reconstruir la verdadera Historia de unos pueblos con avanzada Cultura en una gran variedad de disciplinas como la Astronomia, las Matematicas, la Religion, la Contabilidad, los asuntos judiciales, las guerras y sus enigmaticos Dioses y personajes que se hunden en la noche de los tiempos.

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ARTISTA PINTOR  ERNEST DESCALS

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El descanso de las vacaciones es un premio que merece la familia completa, incluida la mascota. Te mostramos algunos de los alojamientos “pet friendly” de Hideout, consulta a su propietario sobre las condiciones de la prestación.

Cabañas El Tirol en La Falda, sierras de Córdoba.

Un lugar serrano, pintoresco, alternativo: para quien desea estar al aire libre o bien disfrutando de las cálidas y amplias instalaciones de cabañas de 2 y 3 dormitorios

Otra opción, la casa quinta: un chalet de 6 dormitorios con entrada y pileta independiente y a su vez, integrado a las 50 hectáreas del complejo “El Tirol”.

Un laguito algo melancólico esperando la lluvia estival para regocijar a las pequeñas truchas.

A) Se ingresa a un doble Quincho- Haus, desayunador criollo/ centro- europeo, como para continuar lo alternativo.

B) Para los amantes de 4×4: en lo alto, las casi invisibles cabañas, enmarcadas por toda la vegetación autóctona.

La primera, “DEL MOLLE” ; dando una nueva curva cerrada y siempre en primera, la segunda: “DEL CERRO”; a otros 100 metros la tercera: “DEL SOL” y a 50 metros la cuarta: “DEL ECO”. Flamantes y a estrenar estas dos últimas.

Delante de ellas la enorme pileta (10x 20 mtrs.) de fresca agua salida directamente de la roca; a 900 mtrs. cuesta arriba (fantástico para recorrer -trekking- ese circuito!!!

C) Camino a La Gruta de Santa Teresa: se llega por senderos serpenteantes internos, bordeando las 3 canchas de tenis y cruzando un puentecito.

Bordeando la calle Los Zorzales se sube también a La Gruta, construida en piedra bola local, por el pionero José Ferrarini en honor a su esposa Teresa.

Desde allí se tiene uno de los mejores paisajes de la serranía cordobesa!!!!

A partir de este sitio se puede continuar- siempre en ascenso- el camino que ingresa a una cañada y que próximamente derivará en la futura ruta de El Cuadrado, ruta alternativa a la ciudad de Córdoba.

Este paseo es divertido para andarlo a caballo.

D) Y para los amantes del tenis: a no olvidarse las raquetas!!!!!! 3 excelentes canchas esperan a quienes desean jugar de día o de noche.

E) De noche hay propuestas alternativas también: desde “El Tirol” al centro de La Falda se demoran 7 min. Nos encontramos con vida propia de una villa turística. La otra opción es verla brillante desde lo alto de cada cabaña de “El Tirol”.

Resumiendo: Este lugar serrano reúne varias opciones para un público variado.

Cabañas El Tirol en Hideout Argentina

Estancia Las Mercedes, en la selva misionera, recibe mascotas pequeñas. Eldorado, Misiones Argentina

Estancia Las Mercedes recibe mascotas, sólo si son pequeños controlables y amistosos, ya que tienen perros en la casa y animales como gallinas, gatos y ganado.

Este es un sitio ideal para quienes gustan montar a caballo y practicar canotaje en la selvática provincia argentina de Misiones, ha comenzado en julio 2009 a formar parte de los Alojamientos Destacados por Antiqua Natura en Argentina.

La estancia recibe con cordial hospitalidad en su casco principal, una llamativa casa de singular estilo inglés donde priman las maderas blanqueadas, aberturas naranja y techos enchapados, todo fiel a su originalidad de 1923.

Hay disponibles cinco preciosas habitaciones con baño privado, aire acondicionado individual, frío y calor, y decoradas con ameno gusto.

Sobresalen los muebles de época y se destaca el servicio gastronómico de neta inspiración casera. En uno comedor con capacidad para 20 personas se sirven desayunos, almuerzos, meriendas y cenas con una dieta nutritiva y muy sabrosa, donde abundan los productos típicos de los colonos locales. También hay un quincho para 40 personas, ideal para los grupos que desean pasar un divertido día de campo.

Se encuentra en el exuberante ámbito rural de Eldorado, donde crecen los montes y la selva, camino a las cataratas del Iguazú para quien viene desde Buenos Aires, o a los esteros del Iberá, para quien baja desde Puerto Iguazú.

Aquí se transita uno de los capitos más vívidos de la Ruta de la Yerba Mate y la condición de establecimiento yerbatero contribuye al clima de amistad de esta estancia donde el viajero es recibido con el buen ánimo de unos propietarios generosos en calidez y servicio.

Cristina Gundler, la anfitriona, se refiere así a tu trabajo: “Esta es una actividad muy reconfortante. Tratamos con personas que están de vacaciones, que vienen contentas y predispuesta a divertirse. Mi responsabilidad es no decepcionarlas. No solemos hablar de ‘turistas’, sino de ‘visitas’, ya que abrimos nuestra casa a gente que no conocemos y damos de nosotros todo lo que daríamos a cualquier familiar que nos visita de lejos, como lo hicieron nuestros abuelos cuando vinieron a buscar el ‘oro verde’ a esta bendita tierra. Tratamos que la gente se sienta como en casa, que conozcan nuestra historia de inmigrantes y sepan de sus experiencias, que hasta hoy a mí misma me sorprenden”

Estancia Las Mercedes en Hideout Argentina