This eagle dude from a frieze from Aleppo dating to 900 B.C. (left) could have been a model for artists working 30 years later on the famous reliefs at the Assyrian city of Nimrud (right)...
You can read more about it in the article "Temple of the storm god" by Andrew Lawler
They are both holding baskets and pine cones...Why?
The vulture dude is a well known symbol used in Central Asia, Mesopotamia and Iran to represent wet part of the year (Nov-Apr)...Because vulture mating season in this part of the world starts in Oct-Nov and takes place during the wet part of the year...
I talked about these eagle dudes in several of my posts. Like these ones: "Double headed eagle" "Giant eagle dude with mouflons" "Fluffy" and "Eagle calendar marker", "Eagle dance", "The judgement of the birdman", "Mysterious creature"...
This depiction is from an Akkadian seal dated to 2200BC...
These eagle dudes are found from Central Asia to Anatolia, with identical meaning.
It is the rain (and snow) that falls during the mating season of vultures that is the source of life in this part of the world...Hence the association of the eagle dudes with the tree of life...
Interestingly, pine cone (pine nuts, seeds) harvest season in the northern hemisphere starts in Oct-Nov (when eagle dudes bring rain) and lasts over the wet part of the year...
So probably not a coincidence that the eagle dude is holding a pine cone...
As for the basket...Have you seen this article about the pillar 43 from Gobekli tepe?
In the area of Gobekli tepe the solar year is divided into two seasons, dry season (end of May to start of October) and rain wet season (end of October to start of May). And in places with this kind of climate, the arrival of life giving rain is the most important calendar event.
Vultures begin their mating season when the first rains arrive, November.
And you can't miss it, because they start their mad areal synchronised displays:
Scorpions hide when the first rains arrive, November. And you can't miss this because they disappear from the fields, where it's cold and wet, and appear in your houses, where it's warm and dry
I talked about this in my post "Dilmun goats seal"...
So both scorpion and vultures being depicted on the pillar 43 could mean: when rains arrive...
Cool, I can hear people say, but maybe just a coincidence. How do you explain the bags?
Well, scorpion was used in Mesopotamia (just down the road from Gobekli tepe) as calendar marker to mark the beginning of the grain sowing season.
Sowing of grains was done after the first rains, when the scorpions disappear. I talked about this in my articles "Sowing" and "7 stars of scorpio"...
After the furrow is made, the seeds are planted into the furrow. Now how did these early sowers bring the seeds to the field? Most likely in a basket...or a bag...with a handle...
Like this one carried by the sower walking next to the plow on this Mesopotamian seal.
So Eagle dude with a pine cone and a bag = pine harvest, grain sawing time, when vultures mate...
One more interesting bit...The eagle dude is not the only dude with a handbag found in Aleppo temple...There is also the lion dude...
But the lion dude is not holding a pine cone...He is holding grain...Why?
Remember my article about this orthostat (engraved stone block) from Arslantepe, dated to 1200-700BC...
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