'Astronomical and Astrological Diagrams from Cuneiform Sources.' Journal for the History of Astronomy 53(3): 338-61. Mesopotamian Astrology: An Introduction to Babylonian and Assyrian Celestial Divination. Neue Untersuchungen zur Topographie des babylonischen Fixsternhimmels. Cuneiform Texts from Babylonian Tablets in the British Museum 33. 'Astronomical Dating of the Rising Star List in MUL.APIN.' Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes: 107-120. Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, 539-78. 'What Do Deities Tell Us about the Celestial Positioning System?' Enthalten in the Intellectual Heritage of the Ancient Near East, ÖAW 924, R. This example sums up their questionable methods for me. therefore the entire argument is driven by their beliefs and not by evidence, nor by any understanding of cuneiform.īasically, if you accept that the translation of a language is somehow authorative, you cannot just pick and choose what of that authority you like, ignore the rest and then claim you have created a new translation.Įither you accept that authority or you need to provide a completely new translation model. What I have provided here is just grotesque highlights. This gleefully cavalier approach is applied consistently throughout to the translation of individual cuneiform signs, the names of stars and constellations. (There really ought to be a face-desk emoji) These are gods associated with stars in the region of Gemini which is also named in this section 'The twins who stand before Sipazianna'. LAL 3 dingir LA.TA.RAK - and name these gods, rather than the incoherent nonsense B & H have provided. As their example they cite it as the source of the myth of the god Enlil supplanting the god Anu as supreme god in the creation. The astonishing survival of this document is explained by the event having acquired religious significance, serving as the basis for catastrophic myths in Mesopotamia and in other cultures. Ending up on the Neo-Assyrian planisphere from Nineveh. Then this document was supposedly kept and copied for another 2473 years in the archives of various Mesopotamian cultures, incidentally changing from Sumerian to Akkadian in this process. Bond and Hempsell argued that the cuneiform on the Nineveh planisphere documents an Aten asteroid strike that caused a massive landslide in Tyrol, Austria, at 1.23 am on the 29th of June 3123 BCE (Julian calendar).īecause even a basic understanding of geography may raise an eyebrow it should be added that they argue a Sumerian astronomer at Kish (in Iraq) saw the asteroid trail as it approached and later the impact plume, and this person meticulously documented the event.
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