Anytime it is said, written or placed into a meme, yes we all know those notoriously truthful facebook memes that the poster believes is actually counted as evidence for the claim in the meme but proves absolutely nothing, that Semiramis was the wife of Nimrod, the source of the information in that claim will undoubtedly be direct from or based on the information and claims made inside the pages of this book. In 1778 Carsten Niebuhr a Danish mathematician published accurate copies of three trilingual inscriptions from the ruins at Persepolis. Damuzzi was a shepherd god and associated with vegetation. They became the gods of Egypt, Greece and Rome and now are worshipped by the Catholic Church in the form of the father,son and MARY the mother. [xiii] Alexander Hislop: The Two Babylons; p. 23-25. This daily newsletter provides a starting point for personal study, and gives valuable insight into the verses that make up the Word of God. Again simply through association and a whole heap of assumption. Hislop used historically incorrect information of Eusabius, Diodorus Siculus and Ctesias of Cnidus in particular, in his work and so came to conclusions that were simply shown incorrect when new historical data was found. . So where did Hislop get these ideas from? So it cannot be stated that the story is a biblical one. Nimrod was the latter name of Dumuzi, Enki's son and Marduk's brother. Taylorsville, NC 28618, Phone : 828-228-4140 So there we have it, if the Bible disagrees with history simply change the meaning of the Bible to fit history. The city and mountain of Nimrud in Turkey. I will assume that this question is Read more, Supporting Followintruth.com in 2022 Hello, and happy new year to all the followers of FollowInTruth.com. Pagan tradition kept the trinity alive to this day. Indeed, clear scriptural references suggest the detestable practice of child sacrifice incited Gods terrible wrath on multiple occasions. All 3 have had many more names accredited to them. Sir Henry Rawlinson started deciphering the previously unknown information contained on these tablets. The name Tammuz seems to have been derived from the Akkadian form Tammuzi, based on early Sumerian Damu-zid, The Flawless Young, which in later standard Sumerian became Dumu-zid, or Dumuzi. Now i'm certainly not saying that this is the case for everyone, there are many highly studied people who still believe this. The whole thing comes from the fictional work, The Two Babylons by Alexander Hislop. The infant represents the Seed of the woman, prophesied thousands of years earlier in Genesis 3:15. Genesis10-9 He was a mighty hunter before the Lord: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord. Ninus and Semiramis had a son called Ninyas who would eventually rule after Semiramis. While this all might seem like it does what it is supposed that it does, and prove that Nimrod was none other than Ninus and Semiramis was married to Ninus who was Nimrod and so therefore also proves Semiramis was indeed married to Nimrod, there are some major and irreconcilable flaws in the evidence used to prove it. She was also the mother of Tammuz who was considered to be the reincarnation of Nimrod. But today modern Assyriologists have much more to go on and a completely different picture of the Assyrians and Mesopotamia as a whole has emerged. This was mainly done to appease the gods "just in case" they had been offended by the subjugation of their peoples, as well as to smooth relations between the Persians and their vassals. Yes thats right the 1850s AD. Tammuz was killed by a wild boar when he was age 40; so 40 days of Lent were set aside to honor his death. So the question must be asked, a question that is vitally important to the understanding of this theory. Nimrods followers assigned him many mythical names that implicate works achieved only by the true Son of God, Jesus Christ. Plans for Read more, http://www.followintruth.com/nimrod-semiramis-and-tammuz. Mercury was another name for the god Hermes. Some features were disabled. With Semiramis collecting his parts.Finding all apart from his male organ which prompts her to build an obelisk which becomes a phallic symbol. He wrote many works. The original pagan festival of "Easter" was a sex orgy that celebrated the return of life via the fertility of Ishtar's conception of Tammuz. Nanna is angry at Inannas craving for the divine powers, However Father Enki explains how to bring Ianna back, Inanna was caught before she ascended by the Anuna and was instructed to provide a substitute, After the demons ask to take a series of people in her place and being told no by Inanna they come to Damuzi, innanas husband. The very story that Hislop uses to start all this off, that of Ninus and Semiramis acts as evidence against this as nowhere in the Greek writings relating to Ninus and Semiramis is this version recorded about them. He may very well have thought that the way in which he connected the dots was correct. Ishtar is then reinstated with all the things that were removed. Further to Genesis 10: 8 and 9 we Genesis 10-10 and 11 where we are told that he had a kingdom. And so we come to the story of Osiris, Isis and Horus that are apparently just the retelling of the story of Nimrod ,Semiramis and Tammuz. Are you interested in the hidden story of Nimrod found in Genesis? called me Chaos.[vii] Chaos is the god of confusion and is derived from the name Cush. This is where the myths of the Egyptians are drawn in and linked with Nimrod, Semiramis and Tammuz. Semiramis has been worship under the names Ishtar, Astarte, Rhea and Isis to name just a few while Nimrod has been Ninus, Osiris and Baal. The Seed of God lives today, and one day He will deliver the mortal blow to the dragon. Because you have burned incense and have sinned against the Lord and have not obeyed Him or followed His law or His decrees or His stipulations, this disaster has come upon you, as you now see. Jeremiah 44:19-23. The story of Nimrod, Semiramis and Tammuz is not in the slightest bit biblical. We know this because the poem is actually a replica of an older Sumerian Poem called Inanna's descent into the netherworld/underworld.The Sumerian poem of Inanna is much longer and more detailed than the Akkadians Ishtar version. . Alexander Hislop used an Egyptian myth that was associated with Osiris, Isis and Horus and because as he claimed they are Egyptian versions of the earlier gods he proceeded to input those beliefs back into history even though this story is not told of anywhere by anyone that included Nimrod, Semiramis and Tammuz. Asshur is the passive participle of a verb, which, in its Chaldee sense, signifies "to make strong," and, consequently, signifies "being strengthened," or "made strong." The whole story of Nimrod, Semiramis and Tammuz is simply made up. While Josephus attests to the historical figure of Semiramis he states that Berossus, (c. Apion I., 20), opposes the view of Greek writers who make Semiramis the founder of Babylon. As we see in the story Damuzi was to spend 6 months of the year in the underworld. This is obviously some sort of pagan sunrise service, in which they honor the sun more highly than God, to whom they contemptuously show their backsides. Furthermore Tammuz was not a king of Egypt and the connection between Thamus, Tammuz and Osiris is illogical and just doesn't hold up. [8]The second inscription, Class II, proved more difficult to translate. The Berean: Daily Verse and Comment Sign up for the Berean: Daily Verse and Comment, and have Biblical truth delivered to your inbox. The cults of Mithra, the sun god, and Anaita, the goddess of fertilitysimilar to Nimrod/Tammuz and Semiramis, the old Babylonian Mystery Religiongrew in popularity until Zoroastrianism faded into obscurity. Lenoir, NC 28645, What the Bible says about Orphans and Widows. In fact, they think that the Romans borrowed Persian ideas in forming their own. Nimrod is the sun god, his wife was Semiramis and their son was Tammuz. Anyone that uses it has not actually studied History. The Sumerian name Sammur-amat was the original name of this woman. The claims in this book are the basis on which the claims made by most people who state Nimrods wife was Semiramis. The history of queen/goddess as prostitute/brothel owner is not the material of good legends. The Babylonians wept for him on "Good Friday." They worshipped a cross-the initial letter of his name. Before she then set off in a war against India having heard of their great wealth. Semiramis and Ninus emerge as monarchs of Assyria only in Greek versions of Assyrian history and never in the history of the Assyrians themselves It was for many centuries that most of the information regarding Mesopotamia came from these classical Greek writers. However his attempts at taking over Bactria were foiled at Bactra the capital of Bactria. Ancient mythology depicts Semiramis as ascending to heaven as a dove, where she became the fertility and queen goddess, Inanna. This simply has no factual historical basis. Osiris was also a vegetation god, as Horus was believed to be Osiris Damuzi who we know was Tammuz was linked to Horus by way of Osiris and so Tammuz became the equivalent of Horus.. (all very complicated indeed). The name, Marduk, was altered by various civilizations of the ancient world due to the languages given at the Tower of Babel. Does Jesus forgiving sins mean that he is God? that from Astarte, whose name in Nineveh was Ishtar,, Hislop does this and then uses it to attack the festival of Easter. We are introduced to the concept of and the significance of the son through this myth. Its adherents realized the danger of practicing their religion in the public domain. They are most likely although I cannot say for certain intentionally so. The language was at first called Babylonian and/or Assyrian, but has now come to be known as Akkadian.From 1850 onwards, there was a growing suspicion that the Semite inhabitants of Babylon and Assyria were not the inventors of cuneiform system of writing, and that they had instead borrowed it from some other language and culture. I'm sure many modern Assyriologists would not be able to claim this so emphatically. It comes as no surprise then that modern Assyriology does not cite Hislops Two Babylons; it is a discredited source. Sumerians worshipped the mother/son duo. Richard T. Ritenbaugh Old Testament Scriptures record the history of this momentous conflict over the millennia preceding the incarnation of Jesus Christ. Many believe this ziggurat was the Tower of Babel. Nimrod and Cush also contributed significantly to its development. Please do not hold us to these views forever. Nimrod became "god-the-father", Tammuz became "god-the-son", and Semramis became the "dove" or "spirit" that held this holy union together. Ctesias of Cnidus was both a Physician and Historian. The idea of inferiority seems to pass to the succeeding empires as well. It must be stated that there is no historical evidence that Semiramis lived at all, let alone at the time of Nimrod. So Inanna is synonymous with Ishtar and Dumuzi becomes Tammuz. Itt would seem that Hislop simply chooses which parts of a story and from which version of the story to take and make up the correct story. Genesis 10- 11 Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah, Asshur was the 2nd son of shem , Asshur is also the name of a people (the assyrians). This daily newsletter provides a starting point for personal study, and gives valuable insight into the verses that make up the Word of God. If the death of Osiris should be taken as the death of Nimrod then the death of Ninus should be the same if Ninus was Nimrod. To be honest that would be bad enough but its made even worse by the fact Hislop was trying to make the Bible fit a demonstrably erroneous history in the first place. . In 1850, Edward Hincks published a paper showing that the Class II was not alphabetical, but was in fact both syllabic and ideographic, which led to its translation between 1850 and 1859. Inanna's Sister allowed Damuzi to be released from the underworld for half of the year and in his place his sister would spend the other half of the year in the underworld. The dragon stood in front of the woman who was about to give birth, so that he might devour her child who will rule all the nations with an iron scepter. The video on Youtube said so.They even gave the evidence, which so turns out to be the information provided in the 2 babylons bookand round in a circle we go. . Who exactly was Ishtar? His history of the Assyrians is found in books 1-6 of his Persika called the Assyriaka which were written in opposition to Herodotus. The discovery of the Cuneiform tablets however showed that Ctesias writings on which both Eusebius and Justin indirectly drew upon was nothing more than fables. He wrote that gods and their associated legends arose from the deification of dead human heroes.[i]. Semiramis, the wife of Nimrod-bar-Cush. Ninus easily overtook the cities of these people but was unable to take the city of Bactra. Charles Whitaker (1944-2021) You end up with nothing more than false history. God often judged His own people, the Israelites, more severely than the pagans adhering to these practices. But its principle of dualism lived on in Gnosticism and the mystery religions of the Roman Empire. Hislop even states that having changed the meaning of the verse it now exactly agrees with the historical statement. She was also called Diana/Artemis great fertility goddess of the Ephesians. She also deified herself. The empire, from this point on, was dominated by Persians, or as the Bible says, the "bear . Once through the gates Ishtar sat above her sister Ereskiga. Ultimately invalidating both.The work of Justin were an epitome of Trogus Pompeius (cited by Hislop) whoes own works were based upon the works of Ctesias. The most popular version is that Nimrod and Semiramis were king and queen of Babylon. Another false statement regarding the name Easter is that it comes from a Germanic goddess ostre or Ostara who again is simply another version of Ishtar and so another version of Semiramis although this actually isnt a claim made by Hislop. People revered Zoraster through the generations as the promised seed of the woman, destined to bruise the head of the serpent in Genesis 3:15. Myths from civilizations of antiquity describe the sun god (deified Nimrod) fathered Tammuz using a sunbeam to impregnate the maiden Semiramis. All of which seem, by its silence on the matter, to be irrelevant to the Biblical narrative. Now Thoth is universally known as the "counsellor" of Osiris. The Egyptians named him Osiris, the Phoenicians referred to him as Tammuz, and in Canaan he became the sun god of fire Molech. For this she is judged by the Anuna,the 7 judges. Kronos was also the Roman god Saturn, who devoured his own sons as soon as they were born. Clinton, who is of high authority in chronology, places the reign of Ninus somewhat earlier. The pagan concept of the trinity began most likely in the days of the Tower of Babel. 4 1 Since after the founding of this city Ninus made a campaign against Bactriana, where he married Semiramis,5 the most renowned of all women of whom we have any record, it is necessary first of all to tell how she rose from a lowly fortune to such fame.. These 3 characters being the start of pagan sun god worship throughout the world. In verse 17, God asks, "Is it a trivial thing to the house of Judah to commit abominations which they commit here [in the Temple!]? His Akkadian name was Amarutuk. There are literally thousands of counsellors today each being counsellor to more than one person that doesn't make each person the same person that's just a ridiculous conclusion. The history of the Assyrians as told by Ctesias and portrayed by Didious begins by detailing the reign of the Assyrian king named Ninus. God has provided clues throughout Biblical history suggesting the lineage of His Seed. El mito anti navideo promovido por algunos grupos como los Testigos de Jehov y algunos evanglicos, y que asocia a Nimrod, Semramis y Tamuz, ensea que Nimrod naci precisamente el 25 de diciembre. See what over 150,000 subscribers are already receiving each day. Thus, then, Nimrod, or Ninus, was the builder of Nineveh; and the origin of the name of that city, as "the habitation of Ninus," is accounted for, * and light is thereby, at the same time, cast on the fact, that the name of the chief part of the ruins of Nineveh is Nimroud at this day. Greeks deified Nimrod as the god, Adonis. These counterfeit names deceptively attracted multitudes to worship Nimrod. The Egyptians commemorated Cush as the god Hermes, which means son of Ham. Hermes was recognized as the author of religious rites and the interpreter of the gods. [xxi] Even Roman mythology repeatedly illustrates an affiliation between a serpent and the fire god and they were worshipped together. Why did God instruct stoning to death as a punishment under the Old Covenant law system? Although it is very clear through Egyptian texts that the Egyptians had gods called Osiris, Isis and Horus, there are actually many different versions of the Isis, Osiris and Horus mythological story. The pregnant woman described in this passage is Gods chosen nation, Israel. If they are the same person just worshipped by different people under different names then this would be expected. . Tammuz was the son of Queen Semiramis, born after the death of his father Nimrod who built both Babel and Nineveh (Genesis 10:8-12). She would give birth to their son Ninyas and shortly after this Ninus died. Hislop even dismissed parts of the Bible and changed their meanings in order to force his understanding into it. The identity of Nimrod, however, and the Egyptian Osiris, having been established, we have thereby light as to Nimrod's death. 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