Moon God

The Moon God Sin was the Semitic form of the Sumerian Emu meaning Lord of Wisdom. The Luna cycle gave Emu a special position based on order and immortality. He was seen as the father of both the Sun Shamash and Inanna, the Queen of Heaven. Emu was the central astral deity, father of the great gods and Lord of Heaven found in every Semitic land. ... 

This triangular relationship between Sin, Shamash and Inanna can be rotated one hundred and twenty degrees clockwise to produce a new internally consistent relationship based on the Indo-Hittite primacy of the Sun god Shamash. If Yahweh, as the furnace or sun god Q re, substitutes for Shamash, the Moon God Sin and Queen of Heaven Inanna are the two subordinate deities to Yahweh. 

In the tenth century CE, the Arab writer Al-Kindi agreed that Abraham lived in Harran for four-score years and ten, worshiping the moon deity. Certainly several of the names in Abraham s family are derived from the worship of the Moon God and seem to confirm this Abraham s father Terah, Laban, Sarai axidMilcah. ... 

Abraham is a synonym for Ab-ram and Ab-Sin the Moon God. This association was important because Abraham, like Sin, represents water and therefore fertility." He was the giver of time and the principal ambassador of the unseen god whom the Mesopotamians called Marilaha meaning lord of all or Be elshamin meaning lord of heavens. 

The main temples indicate an advanced knowledge of metallurgy and alchemy. The most important temple, indeed one of the most famous in antiquity, was for the revered Moon god, It was octagonal... 

All of the Sabians of Yemen, Soba, Nabateans and the Sabians of Harran followed a similar complex system of astral worship. The premier god was the Moon God who ruled over the god of the sun and the seven planetary gods. 

The Sabians of Yemen and the Nabateans had a very close affinity because both claimed the cmcial female line of descent to Ishmael through Bashemath, the wife of Esau. Esau and Bashemath gave birth to Ruel the Midianite. Also called Jethro, he was Moses father-in-law. Ruel then became a priest of Yaho the Moon God. Many biblical scholars believe that Moses was also a priest of the Moon God. The headdress of the Levite priests seems to confirm this as it displayed the crescent moon of Sin. 

The Nabatean storm god was Duchares who was later identified with Dionysus. Like Yahweh, the Nabateans worshipped Duchares on high rocky places. However, both Duchares and his consort, the fertility goddess, were subservient to the Moon God. We continue to see the triple character of God represented by three deities. 

Wisdom, is also feminine. This is just the reverse of the Moon God Sin, who became Yahweh s wife Ashima Recognition of the Son as both masculine and feminine is the key to understanding western religion. 

However, Inanna acquiesces to the marriage only when Dumuzi likens himself to Utu. Transcendental Utu the Sun God is identical with Shamash the God of the Sun and God of the Covenant with man. Utu-Shamash and Inanna are children of the supreme Moon God Nanna, who became the God Sin. Utu-Shamash is also Mithra of the broad pastures and he is the perfect Gawain of the Arthurian romances. 

In Harran, in the Commagene, the 550BCE stele of Nabnoidus of Babylon depicts the royal sceptre topped with a similar wedge shape representing revealed wisdom of the Moon God Sin. Chapter 5 showed the same cone shape is the symbol of the Sumerian KUR and Q re. " ... 

The nature of the philosopher s stone depends on the positive interaction (+) of Sun, Moon and Hermes Trismegistos, the mythical founder of alchemy, whose name appears on the Rosetta stone and who represents the syncretic link between the Greek god Hermes and the Egyptian moon god Thot. Active masculine qualities are separated from passive feminine qualities. The relationship between Avicenna s two-element model and the four elements of Aristotle is shown. The total pattern resembles the incommensurable nesting of Platonic solids within the celestial sphere. 

I pray that you and all at Astley are well. I sail tomorrow and the Lord providing I shall be with you Saturday the next before Whit Sunday. It is often said that the firstborn waitfor the full moon, and I have found it to be so. So tides and winds willing I shall be with you. But my dear daughter, should your pains begin before that, pray to Our Lady, but fear not. Mai is wise and handy—did she not save my little Martha when she would not breathe —and God will send you a son, and all will be well,... 

Considering the importance placed on the sun, particularly the moments of sunrise and sunset as sacred times, it is not surprising that Egyptians were keenly aware of the east, where the sun rose, the west, where the sun set, and the north and the south which formed the perpendicular axes. Most of their sacred structures reflect this awareness in both alignment and symbolism. Isis son, Horus, who was the god of both the sun and the moon, had four sons of his own, who represented the four cardinal directions. Each had the head of a different creature, and each was associated with organs of the body and with a goddess as shown in Table 1.2. 

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