Ningishzidda
Relief impression of the royal libation cup of King Gudea of Lagash (Sumer), ca 2000 BC.
Depicting Ningishzida in his/her TwinSerpent form. article
Every now and then I get pulled away from my main focus of Abrahadabra and Mutational Alchemy by a mystery so profound that I am compelled to try to get to the bottom of it. I initially ran into Ningishzidda researching the
Caduceus and its roots of which the above icon is the oldest known version. I didn't think too much about it until a few years later when it came up again in a conversation regarding the historical roots of Satan. Getting the exact low-down on Ningishzidda (Ng for short) is not an altogether easy task as there are various forms it has assumed and there appear to be at least 2 distinct forms stemming from the Sumerian culture itself...one of which is clearly masculine and the other feminine. We also have to contend with competing interpretations from different scholars, some of which are starkly opposed to each other.
I am not going to try to resolve Ningishzidda's diverse definitions in this one thread since it would simply take too long. As regarding the character of Satan, our prinicipal interest lies with the Serpent from Genesis and the stark parallels to be found in the earlier myths of the Sumerians. An excellent article discussing these parallels can be found
here. The parallels don't end here however but get progressively stronger the harder we delve into it. It should be remembered when examining all of this that while the symbolism of the serpent in Genesis is true to its Hebrew origins, the name (or term)
Satan never actually appears in the original text. This is a Christian association that was added on much later.
It's a little hard to be sure what the architects of this connection actually had in mind, but there can be little doubt that it was their intention to equate the character of Satan with the symbolism of the Serpent, which then, presumably, made it much easier to villify. But serpentine symbolism is much older than Christianity itself and has almost universally been a symbolism depicting the healing arts & sciences in one fashion or another, so it was a risky business perpetrating this intense negativity under this particular iconography, virtually guaranteed to backfire somewhere down the line. Snakes, like Spiders and Rats, are of a class of lifeforms that people have historically forged powerful phobias around with very little impetus. Snakes in particular have a longstanding association to human sexuality, so it is not a great stretch to imagine that these things may have factored into the choice of a symbolism of ultimate evil.
I have discussed all of this in a fair amount of depth on several other forums, so I am mainly interested in preserving its general outline here on these forums. This is a powerful topic and sets an excellent precedent for the whole notion of "protosatanism" in general. Whether we are operating within the framework of LaVeyan Satanism or Theistic Satanism or Traditional Satanism or any other branch of Satanism, a certain amount of confusion persists as to who or what Satan actually is. The protosatanic take on this is to attack the symbolism (including etymology) associated to the construct and attempt to cross-reference that symbolism everywhere it might happen to be found. From this we may hope to arrive at a definition of Satan that meets with a more universal criterion, rather than having to confine ourselves to either spoon-fed definitions (that make very little sense) or else *personal* definitions rooted in the enigmatic to begin with.
What follows is a partial list of links to Ningishzidda that may be of some use to anyone wanting to start their own investigation. There are a number of alternate spellings and I am not going to try to list them all. I am partial to *Ningishzidda* for purely personal reasons since it classes as an 11-letter word (viewing *sh* as a shin) whose notaricon (vowels removed) adds to 418 = Abrahadabra. The proof of this is here: N=50 + N=50 + G=3 + Sh=300 + Z=7 + D=4 + D=4 = 418. Nevertheless, the more accepted spelling is Nin + Gish + Zida = Ningishzida, so you will tend to find more links under that spelling.
Search Tip:
Other spellings will include Ningishzida, Ningizzida, Ningiszida,Ninjiczida, Ninñišzidda, etc...
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Overview:
http://www.halexandria.org/dward376.htm
DNA and Ningishzidda:
http://disc.server.com/discussion.cg...e=Grid%20POINT
Generations of the Annunaki:
A Time Line Of Events...
http://www.motherbedford.com/ANUTimeLine.htm
Sumerian Resource:
http://www-etcsl.orient.ox.ac.uk/
Sumerian Lexicon:
http://www.sumerian.org/sumerlex.htm
Sumerian Font:
http://gmalingue.free.fr/UrIII/UrIII/
Ng Iconography:
source: http://prophetess.lstc.edu/~rklein/Documents/genesisgenesis.htm
http://www.bibleorigins.net/Serpentningishzida.html
http://www.bibleorigins.net/Ningishzidabasrelief.html
http://www.bibleorigins.net/cherubim.html
http://www.bibleorigins.net/Cherubimsoutharabia.html
http://www.bibleorigins.net/Sacredtreeassyrian.html
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Serpent Symbolism:
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/5789/serpent
Mesopotamia Overview:
http://www.geocities.com/darkmage71/myth/middleeastern/mesopotamian
Genetic Seeding etc:
http://www.soulinvitation.com/enki/
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Dictionary & Encyclopedia Ditties:
http://www.britannica.com/eb/article?tocId=9055882
http://www.bibleorigins.net/ningishzida.html
http://home.earthlink.net/~templezagduku/ningishzida.html
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Ningishzida & Hermes:
http://www.richeast.org/htwm/hermes/hermes.html
http://www.gatewaystobabylon.com/gods/lords/lordninazu.html
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Ningishzida & Mutational Alchemy:
http://survive2012.com/dragon_myths_5.php
http://www.alchemylab.com/origins_of_alchemy.htm
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Annunaki in General: (with at least some reference to Ng)
http://www.geocities.com/digital3v14/texts/ancients.htm
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Ningishzida & Related Serpent Symbolism:
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/5789/serpent.htm
http://www.reptilianagenda.com/research/r073101d.shtml
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edit: I'm making this topic a sticky. I spent almost 3 years moderating the Satanism forum on a very busy discussion board and I'm not about to let this one turn into that one. Ng sets a very potent standard of what Satanism can be so I'm positioning that standard shotgun on this forum. I believe in the very best that Satanism/Protosatanism has to offer and that's about all of Satanism/Protosatanism I actually do believe in. If that means nobody else posts here, so be it. I'll add stuff in occasionally just to keep the trail warm...
This stuff really isn't for everybody anyway, though it does, in fact, include all people.
m1thr0s
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