Doug Holland to Atheist Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish • 2 months agoShamash is the one true god.lemmy.worldimagemessage-square157fedilinkarrow-up1720
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minus-square@fukurthumz420@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink10•2 months agofun fact: although shamash is a sun and light deity, he is also considered an underworld god, and serves the queen of the dead, erishkigal, as a judge in her court.
minus-square@fukurthumz420@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink8•2 months agoand shamhurish is the name for a mythical jinn king from pre islamic arabian folklore, who was also a judge.
minus-square@fukurthumz420@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink1•2 months agoit goes all the way back to proto-indo-european.
fun fact: although shamash is a sun and light deity, he is also considered an underworld god, and serves the queen of the dead, erishkigal, as a judge in her court.
Shemesh is also the hebrew word for sun.
and shamhurish is the name for a mythical jinn king from pre islamic arabian folklore, who was also a judge.
Maybe Semitic languages are related?
it goes all the way back to proto-indo-european.
Coool