Inanna Myth: Moon Vs Mood

Inanna

Inanna is the Queen of  Heaven, Goddess of  Sexual Love, Fertility and Warfare.

Her symbol is the eight-pointed star.

She is the Goddess of the Planet Venus, the daughter of the moon God Nanna, and sister of the sun God Utu and the rain God Ishkur.

She stands on two lions as she was the Queen of Power.

One day she decided to attend the funeral rites of  her brother in law Gugalana the Bull of Heaven who was married to her sister Ershkigal, Goddess of the Underworld.
Gugalana was killed by the King of Uruk Gilgamesh and his companion Enkidu.

Before leaving to the Underworld, she instructed her servant Ninshubar to beg the Gods: Enlil, Nanna and Enki to save her if she does not come back in three days.
She was aware how much her sister used to hate her, and she was quite sure that Ershkigal would do anything to get rid of her.

Inanna and Erishigal: Meeting the Shadow of Oneself

For her trip she dressed elaborately with a turban wig, a lapis lazuli necklace with its intense blue color, beads upon her breast, pala dress, mascara, pectoral, a golden ring and laspis lazuli measuring rod.
Each garment represents a powerful mes or ability she used to have.
This elegance made her sister hates her even more..

Inanna - Sumerian Mother Goddess

When she arrived at the first gate of the Underworld, she called on the gatekeeper to open, but the gatekeeper and under the instructions of Ershkigal said she will be allowed to enter if she hands over her lapis lazuli Measuring Rod.
He said this is one of the rules of the Underworld.
She obliged and passed through the seven gates and at each gate she gave up one of her garments she had been wearing, thus reaching her sister's steps naked and stripped of all her powers.
She was deprived from talking.
After she had crouched down and had her clothes removed, they were carried away. Then she made her sister Erec-ki-gala rise from her throne, and instead she sat on her throne. The Anna, the seven judges, rendered their decision against her. They looked at her -- it was the look of death. They spoke to her -- it was the speech of anger. They shouted at her -- it was the shout of heavy guilt. The afflicted woman was turned into a corpse. And the corpse was hung on a hook.

Erskigal's hate for Inanna was due to her destiny, she can not leave her kingdom of the Underworld to join the other 'living' gods, and they can not visit her in the Underworld, or else they can never return. Inanna symbolized erotic love and fertility, and contrasts with Ershkigal.

After three days Ninshubar asked the three Gods to save her. 

Only Enki was deeply troubled and agreed to help. The other two refused blaming her for her own mess.

ENKI 

 The deity of crafts; mischief; water, seawater, lakewater, intelligence and creation

Enki created two asexual figures from the dirt under the fingernails of Gods.
One he named Galatura and the other Kurajara.
He taught them how to reach to Ershkigal and make peace with her.
He instructed them to reach the corpse of Inanna and sprinkle it with the food and water of life.

Galatura and Kurajara reached Ershkigal who was in deep agony, she led them to Inanna's corpse and asked them to relieve her as well and she offered them rivers of water and fields of grain.
They denied the request of Ershkigal and sprinkled Inanna's corpse sixty times with water of life, so she got her soul back.

However, Demons of her sister came to her and insisted that she was not free to go unless someone takes her place.
They wanted her to choose one of her family including her husband Dumuzi, and they let her see him enjoying a moment under a tree not caring for his wife's absence.
This view displeased her, but his sister begged that she can be in his place.
So it was decreed that Dumuzi spent half a year in the underworld and the other half to be spent there by his sister.
She stood up and walked with them and when she was passing the gates of the Underworld back to her World, she was retrieving her garments one by one at each gate.
When she passed the first gate out, she had all her powers back.
But Inanna regretted what she agreed for her husband and started to miss him.

The fertility she controls with her godly powers begins to fade when she misses her husband during the six months that he is in the Underworld.
This infertile time corresponds to the Fall and winter months.

When her husband is with her, everything is filled with love and life, and this time corresponds to Spring and Summer.

Some scholars interpreted this myth as an allegorical report of related movements of the planets Venus, Mercury and Jupiter, and those of the waxing Crescent Moon in the Second Millennium, beginning with Spring Equinox and concluding with a meteor shower near the end of one synodic period of Venus.

Inanna and The Moon Cycle

The seven gates resembles the Moon Cycle of seven days till the Moon became a thin Crescent, and seven days to reach back to reach a Full Moon.
The Human Body follows the same Cycle.

Astrologists and Scientists co-relate between the Moon Cycle and Life Cycle.
Scientists also resembles the Moon Cycle with the Woman Blood Cycle, and Woman Mood as to the changes she experienced during her blood cycle.
They claim that the Moon has a strong Physical and Psychological influence on  Woman's Mood.

Moon, Mood only a letter makes a difference.......... or not?

Sami Cherkaoui

Esis - Osiris A Life Cycle

Well, in order to end this series on creation, and after putting some lights or sheds on the interlink with Religion, Myth and Science.. It would be useful to mention the mythology of Esis and Osiris... Why?

Because this could be a perfect Mythical example that is directly related to the concept of Creation, what is meant.... What are the causes.... What are the procedures...

How it is inter-related to Science and Religion....
With Life and Death.....
With Good and Evil....

ESIS - OSIRIS

The story in brief is about Esis who is an Egyptian Goddess, who was worshiped by Egypt as well as by the Greco-Roman worlds.

She was the Goddess of  Motherhood, Fertility and Magic.

Her link to Magic is in her hair knot which became a symbol of Esis and called the Knot or Buckle or Blood of Esis, which later resembles Eternal Life or Resurrection.

She became associated with the harvest of wheat and grain, consequently with Fertility.
She was a friend to good and bad people at the same time.
Her parents were the God of Earth and Goddess of Sky.

ESIS ARTS

Her brother Osiris became her husband..
From him she conceived Horus... who was also her father and the ultimate God who had different forms in history.

HORUS

It is suggested by some scholars that he name is also linked with the Arabian Goddess Al Ozza which was worshiped by Arabs before Islam.

The story tells that Set another brother of Esis, conspired against his brother Osiris by locking him in a coffin box and threw it in the sea... So he could marry his sister Esis.

Esis went to look for the coffin of Osiris and found him in a tree in Phoenician city Byblos and brought it back to Egypt..

Set found the coffin and chopped the body of Osiris to thirteen pieces and scattered them all over Egypt.
Each part represented one of the 13 full moons (each year has 12 or 13 full moons
Esis found only twelve pieces and made the thirteen's out of Magic

Osiris was resurrected and became Lord of Dead and Afterlife .
Esis conceived from him Horus.

Alternatively, Nephthys the sister of Esis, shift-shaped as Esis and seduced Osiris, who thought she was Esis and conceived from him Anubis, God of the Underworld whose name was associated with mummification and afterlife.

Nephthys later convinced Esis to adopt Anubis.

As a Death and Resurrection legend, in which evil seeks to destroy a deity, thus bringing darkness, she was associated with the Lunar Cycle, in which the moon appears to be destroyed by darkness, and then brought back to life.

As a Life-Death-Rebirth deity, Horus AND Osiris became a reflection of the annual Cycle of Crop harvesting as well as reflecting people's desires for a successful afterlife. 

And so the legend became extremely important, outstripping all others.

The legend's ventures into both Life and Afterlife meant that religious rites associated with the legend eventually began to take on aspects of a mystery religion. Where initiates were said to be able to partake in Horus/Osiris' Resurrection, purging themselves of past ills, and entering a new life.

This is why Esis is also known as the Goddess of simplicity, protector of the dead and Goddess of children from whom all beginnings arose.

The Ancient Egyptians believed that the Nile River flooded every year because of her tears of sorrow for her dead husband, Osiris.

Esis was associated with the star Sept (Sirius).
The appearance of the star signified the advent of a new year and Esis was likewise considered the Goddess of rebirth and reincarnation, and as a protector of the dead.

BOOK OF THE DEAD

The Book of the Dead outlines a particular ritual that would protect the dead, enabling travel anywhere in the underworld, 

In the Book of the Dead, the dead were taken into the presence of the god Osiris, who was confined to the subterranean Duat.
It also depicts the dead living on in the 'Field of Reeds', a paradisiac likeness of the real world.

The path to the afterlife as laid out in the Book of the Dead was a difficult one. 
The deceased was required to pass a series of gates, caverns and mounds guarded by supernatural creatures
Then the dead person's heart was weighed on a pair of scales, against the goddess Maat, who embodied truth and justice. 
At this point, there was a risk that the deceased's heart would bear witness, owning up to sins committed in life.
If the scales balanced, this meant the deceased had led a good life. Anubis would take them to Osiris and they would find their place in the afterlife.
If the heart was out of balance with Maat, then another fearsome beast called Ammit, the Devourer, stood ready to eat it and put the dead person's afterlife to an early and unpleasant end.


The judgement of the dead and the Negative Confession were a representation of the conventional moral code which governed Egyptian society.

So....

In this story we can see the full cycle of life being repeated again and again in various forms and shapes but always with the same fixed elements... Sun, moon, Earth, Sky, Sea, Nature, Darkness,Light, Fertility,  motherhood, Death.. Etc...

But most importantly the Good and Evil who are in continuous struggle to overcome the worlds...
Same like what Religions tell us.....
And same like the Actual Facts are telling us

Sami Cherkaoui

The Divine Ratio - Story of Phi

The Divine Ration In Human Bodies

The Golden Ratio is an irrational mathematical constant, equals approximately 1.618. It is 0ften referred to by the letter Phi.

What is this ratio?

The Golden Ratio In Paintings

Dan Brown in his book De Vince Code explained how the golden ration interferes with artists work, Living creatures and Plants.

The Golden Ration In Plants

Some scientists linked it to more than 2400 years ago.

The fascination with the Golden Ratio is not confined just to mathematicians.

Applied Ration in Monaliza Face

Biologists, artists, musicians, historians, architects, psychologists, and even mystics have pondered and debated the basis of its ubiquity and appeal. In fact, it is probably fair to say that the Golden Ratio has inspired thinkers of all disciplines like no other number in the history of mathematics.

Golden Ration In Construction

Ancient Greeks studied it for its frequent appearance in Geometry. They attributed the discovery to Pythagoras.

The Acropolis

Beginning in the Renaissance, a body of literature on the aesthetics  of the golden ratio was developed.

As a result, architects, artists, book designers, and others have been encouraged to use the golden ratio in the dimensional relationships of their works.

A geometrical analysis of the Great Mosque of Kairouan, Tunisia, reveals a consistent application of the golden ratio throughout the design, according to Boussora and Mazouz.

Kairawan Mosque

It is found in the overall proportion of the plan and in the dimensioning of the prayer space, the court, and the minaret. Boussora and Mazouz also examined earlier archaeological theories about the mosque, and demonstrate the geometric constructions based on the golden ratio by applying these constructions to the plan of the mosque to test their hypothesis.

Speaking about Islamic Architect, it is worth mentioning that the Quran emphasized in so many verses that God created everything in proportion, Gave wealth and power in proportion, caused rain in proportion.

Miracle of Kaaba - English Version - The Golden Ratio

Some Islamic scholars are trying to prove that Mecca and Kaaba are good examples of the golden proportion.

This is why scientists refer to is as the Divine Ratio.

Both Egyptian pyramids and those mathematical regular square pyramids that resemble them can be analyzed with respect to the golden ratio and other ratios.

One Egyptian pyramid is remarkably close to a "golden pyramid" – the Great Pyramid of Giza (also known as the Pyramid of Cheops or Khufu).

The Great Pyramid

The golden ratio is also apparent in the organization of the sections in the music of Debussy's Reflets dans l'eau (Reflections in Water), from Images  (1st series, 1905), in which "the sequence of keys is marked out by the intervals 34, 21, 13 and 8, and the main climax sits at the phi position.

Its slope of 51° 52' is extremely close to the "golden" pyramid inclination of 51° 50' and the π-based pyramid inclination of 51° 51'; other pyramids at Giza (Chephren, 52° 20', and Mycerinus, 50° 47' are also quite close.

The height of the great pyramid is equal = 146.515 meters, and its base equals 230.363 meters.

The Pharaohs used a simple math to find that half of the base is 115.182 m and the "slant height"  is 186.369 meters.

Dividing the "slant height" 186.369m by "half base" 115.182m gives 1.6180, which is practically equal to the golden ration!

The Pharaohs bring this ratio by discovering that the earth/moon relationship is the only one in the solar system that contains this unique golden section ratio that "squares the circle. 

If the base of the great pyramid is equated with the diameter of the earth, then the radius of the moon can be generated by subtracting the radius of the earth from the height of the pyramid.

The height of the great pyramid times 2p exactly equals the perimeter of the pyramid.
This proportion results from elegant design of the pyramid with the height equal two diameters of a circle and the base equal to the circumference of the circle.
The number Pi is the mathematical constant 3.1415, with the ratio of the diameter to the distance around the circle, called the circumference.

In the pyramid it is the ratio of the height to twice the length of the base.

Whether the relationship to the golden ratio in these pyramids is by design or by accident remains controversial. Several other Egyptian pyramids are very close to the rational 3:4:5 shape.

The Golden Ratio In Music

The musicologist Roy Howat has observed that the formal boundaries of La Mer correspond exactly to the golden section.

Trezise finds the intrinsic evidence "remarkable," but cautions that no written or reported evidence suggests that Debussy consciously sought such proportions.

Also, many works of Chopin, mainly Etudes (studies) and Nocturnes, are formally based on the golden ratio. This results in the biggest climax of both musical expression and technical difficulty after about 2/3 of the piece.

Pearl Drums positions the air vents on its Masters Premium models based on the golden ratio. The company claims that this arrangement improves bass response and has applied for a patent on this innovation.


Long before the advent of digital recordings, the Babylonians and Hindus, and then Pythagoras and his followers translated music into number and geometric proportions (Durant 1939).

For example, by dividing a vibrating string into various ratios they discovered that several very pleasing musical intervals could be produced.

Hence, the ratio 1:2 was found to yield an octave, 2:3 a fifth, and 3:4 a fourth, 4:5 a major third, and 5:6 a minor third (McClain 1978).

The harmonic system utilized in the nineteenth century by various composers was based on these same ratios. Indeed, Bartok utilized these ratios in his musical compositions.

These same musical ratios, the Pythagorians discovered, also were found to have the capability of reproducing themselves. That is, the ratio can reproduce itself within itself and form a unique geometrical configuration which Pythagoras and the ancient Greeks referred as the the "golden ratio" or "golden rectangle." The gold rectangle was postulated to have divine inspirational origins. Indeed, music itself was thought by early man to be magical, whereas musicians were believed by the ancient Greeks to be "prophets favored by the Gods" (Worner, 1973).

The Golden Ratio has fascinated layman and mathematician for centuries.

It seems like magic that it turns up in such different arenas as pine cones, earth-moon and planet  relationships, the Cheops Pyramid in Egypt, the Mona Lisa  and even our DNA.
Indeed its widespread appearance shows that there is a unifying mathematical principle that is more subtle than science has thus far been able to define.

It remains a mathematical mystery or should we say .......

God's Mystery...

Sami Cherkaoui

Creation, Destruction and People With Visions

In the Bible it is said that God create Man in his own image.

In the Qur'an it is said that God taught Adam all names, and God teach Man what he did not know.

Science says of evolution from ice and stone age to our time..
According to science... it took humans thousands and may be millions of years to develop, adapt, invent and civilized.

The questions that may be asked.
What was the first invention, how and by whom?

Me, I do not have a clue...

But I strongly believe that that there was no first invention...
All inventions came together with humans when they were created.

Well may be not the full thing...
May be some little knowledge, then certain special people gave a little help to develop the little knowledge to great science.

These people are people with visions.
Call them Messengers, Prophets, Inventors, Scientists, Philosophers, Thinkers...
Call them anything you want... They are the people who paved the way to all civilizations, which we know from history, and which we see and witness today.

I strongly believe that technology started with the beginning of days.... then it was lost.

Many disasters came on Earth, which wiped everything from its surface.
History, Religion and Science can confirm this.

However, I believe that "Everything" include also science and technology.

Let us go back to what the Bible and the Qur'an say.
God create Man in his image..
What does this mean?

For sure God image is perfect because he is God.
Perfect image is not only shape.
It is shape and contents.

And if this so...
Then Man should be perfect in shape and content.
May be semi perfect...
He has the brain to know..
The senses to feel...
And the body to age and die..
This is why Man is not as perfect as God.

However, if Man has the brain to know...
Then Man already know everything at time of creation..

This is what the Qur'an confirms..

God taught Adam all names...
Meaning the knowledge of everything.
God taught Man what he did not know before.
But God taught him..
And Man became knowledgeable..

So what went wrong, that we see history tells us that Man was nothing but a Monkey shape creature... had no knowledge..
Then evolved to become in the shape we know today..
Then developed to become civilized.

Najib Mahfouz is an Egyptian Novelist who won Noble Prize on literature in the 1980's, Mahfouz wrote a very nice Novel about Creation. He called it " Awlad Haritna"... means " Children of our Alley".

Najib Mahfouz

In this book, he told us about a certain neighborhood, made and developed by a person called "Gabalawi" (symbolizing God). He is always in his palace at the Alley's Hill. Watching and controlling.

Gabalawi had two sons:

"Adham" (symbolizing Adam), 

"Idris" (symbolizing Iblis or Satan)
The neighborhood was expanding and flourishing.
Adham's and Idris's children married and had children and grand children.

Adham and his children work always to bring good to the Alley

Idris and his children slipped down to crime and evil deeds

One of "Idris's grand children, got involved with weapons and explosives.
He hated Gabalawi because he always favor Adham and his children ...... and wanted to rebel.
In the end he managed to invent a kind of devastating explosions and destroyed the house of Gabalawi and killed him.

In other words the author is trying to say that when God is "killed" in the mind of Man, It means that Man actually killed his own Life and destroyed with his own hands his lodging place ....  Earth

I believe this was happening every time at all times.

Noah Flooding

Civilizations are self destroyed after Man "killed" God over and over each time God decides to save Man and help him to re-build his civilizations.

At the peak of every civilization, someone manages to destroy it.

Noah Arc

The destruction is so intense it wipes almost everything ....

The Exodus

All the brains which created those civilizations vanished together with their science, technology and inventions.
Who ever survived survived and remained to strive and build up from what could be caught.

WW1

And all what could remain is some evidences that bear witness of how brilliant and advanced our ancestors were.....

WW2

No one is able to discover the real meaning of such evidences.

There are some hints in religious books...
But again no one is able to understand those hints..

However, those people with Visions, are not ordinary people like most of us, live, eat, work, love, hate, bring children and die.

To me those people came with a gift to remember what happened before.

All great Scientists, Thinkers, Philosophers, Inventors, have come to this life to remember (if you want) the equations and formulas of the science that existed before. 

When they remember they re-invent what was already invented when the first creation happened.

This links also the De Ja Vu theory.

I will try to elaborate more in the coming blogs, but so far this is my belief..

What is yours?
Sami Cherkaoui