You know how everyone thinks that Inanna/Ishtar (Morning Star) is Venus and how I think that it was originally Sirius, and only later became Venus?
Well, it seems that Ancient Egyptians preserved the proof of this switch in their mythology.
Meet Sopdet...
Sopdet, the personification of Sirius, was the consort of Sah, the personification of Orion. And their child was Sopdu, the personification of Venus, "Lord of the East" (Venus as morning star)....
Ta Ta Taaaaaaa!!!!
Why the f*ck would Sirius be the mother of Venus? Because Venus is what everyone thinks when we say "Morning Star"...But Sirius is also "Morning Star", actually "The (most important) Morning Star", in Jul/Aug, when it rises together with the sun, to announce the Nile Flood...
So does this myth, Mother (Sirius, Older Morning Star) --> Son (Venus, Younger Morning Star), trying to tell us that Sirius was (Original, Important, Once A Year) The Morning Star, and Venus is (Later, Less Important, Every Day) Morning Star?
I think so.
BTW if you want to see where the "Lioness of heaven" (Ishtar) is hiding in Egypt, check these two articles: "Sphinx" and "Giza lioness"...
Did Mesopotamians forget this switch? Don't know. They certainly left is clues that we can use to decipher the true nature of Ishtar:
Sirius...The morning star in Leo. Hence Inanna/Ishtar (personification of Sirius), also known as the lioness of heaven, standing on a lion, with sun above the lion, in Leo...
In my article "Inana and Šukaletuda" I analysed the epic "Inana and Šukaletuda" which is used as "proof" that Inanna is Venus, but in which all calendar markers point at Inanna being Sirius and not Venus...
More about Inanna/Ishtar as Sirius can be found in this article, "The brightest star", about Ishtar being the the most shining when Sirius is the most shining, and also about Bow and Arrow constellation and its link with Leo, Ishtar and Nergal...And in this article, "Woman of the Apocalypse" about the true identity of this mysterious "Lady"...
To read more about ancient animal and plant calendar markers, start here…Then check my twitter threads I still didn't convert to blog post...I am way way behind...
you did not explained why she was consort of sah!
ReplyDeletesiriusly, whole thing should be examined more closely from historic and politico-cultural point of view, otherwise is a mess full of conflation.
eight-pointed star is dingir, sky/star/god/An, later inanna.
and biggest conflation is single person taking over both sides of consort pair of sky and earth. all theese jokes about effeminate priests...
variations of pointy and wavy radiants is also a mess, iraq in sixties used combo of 8 wavy for sun and 8 pointy for ishtar, romans had pointy sol invictus, and i honestly doubtful about your interpretation of shamash cross.
What can I say...
DeleteThe only comment I would add is that the heliacal rising of Sirius has been getting progressively later, at something like 1.75 days per 200 years. So if we go back to Sumeria and Ur and Urukh we get a heliacal rising in around the end of June.
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