Tag: Mesopotamia

  • Angirasa Founder Pre Sumerian Civilization Akkadian Empire?

    I have written on the presence of artifacts in the middle east, areas surrounding it in Europe which indicate the presence of ย Sanatana Dharma and Tamil in the culture of Mesopotamia ย and Sumeria.

    Akkadian Civilization remains
    Akkadian Relgious artifact.Trishul or Subrahmanya’s Spear?

    Kings' List, Akkadian Empire
    Akkadian King List. Note the similarities to Sanskrit Names.

    1.Lord Ramaโ€™s Chapel was found in UR, Iraq.*

    2.A burial ground called as Nagar is fond in Syria. It is called Tel Brak now.

    3.Idols of Rama,Sita and Lakshmana are found.*

    4.Ancestors of the Syrians were the Halaf and Ubaid.

    They date back to 6100 BC.

    They had connection with the Tamils and this is reflected in the ruins of ย Nagar.*

    These people traded with the Tamils.

    โ€Naram-Sin traded with Meluhha (almost certainly corresponding to the Indus Valley civilization), and controlled a large portion of land along the Persian Gulf. He expanded his empire by defeating the King of Magan at the southern end of the Persian Gulf, and conquering the hill tribes to the north in the Taurus Mountains.

    5.Akkadianโ€™s( Forefathers of the Sumerians) Moon God was Naram Sin, Narasimha.*

    6.There are repeated references in the Sumerian/Akkadian language to Meluuha.

    7.Ancient Tamil Brahmi Scripts were found in Oman and Egypt.

    These facts establish that,

    The Tamils were an advanced civilisation by 2200 BC(Akkadian Empire)

    The Hindu Gods and Goddesses were worshiped in Sumeria,

    Names of Lord Rama and Bharata were found in the Kings List of Sumeria.’

    ‘A Tamil-Brahmi script inscribed on a potsherd, which was found at the Khor Rori area in Oman, has come to light now. The script reads โ€œnantai kiranโ€ and it can be dated to first century CE, that is, 1900 years before the present. The discovery in the ancient city of Sumhuram has opened a new chapter in understanding the maritime trade of the Indian Ocean countries, according to specialists in history.

    Tamil city in Sumeria ย 2200 BC

    OM in Sumerian Prayer 2600 BC

    Haran Shiva In Turkey

    Please read the related posts of the above as well.

    Who are Akkadians?

    The Akkadian Empire /ษ™หˆkeษชdiษ™n/ย was the first ancient Semitic-speaking empire of Mesopotamia, centered in the city of Akkad/หˆรฆkรฆd/ย and its surrounding region, also called Akkad in ancient Mesopotamia. The empire united all the Akkadian and Sumerian speakers for the first time under one rule. The Akkadian Empire controlled Mesopotamia (modern Iraq, Kuwait, northeast Syria and southeast Turkey), the Levant (modern Syria and Lebanon), and eastern and southern parts of Anatolia(modern Turkey) and Iran, sending military expeditions as far south as Dilmun and Meluhha (modern Bahrain and Oman) in the Arabian Peninsula.

    During the 3rd millennium BC, there developed a very intimate cultural symbiosis between the Sumerians and the Akkadians, which included widespread bilingualism.ย Akkadian gradually replaced Sumerian as a spoken language somewhere between the 3rd and the 2nd millennia BC (the exact dating being a matter of debate).

    The Akkadian Empire reached its political peak between the 24th and 22nd centuries BC, following the conquests by its founder Sargon of Akkad (2334โ€“2279 BC). Under Sargon and his successors, the Akkadian language was briefly imposed on neighboring conquered states such as Elam and Gutium. Akkad is sometimes regarded as the first empire in history,ย though there are earlier Sumerian claimants.

    Elam was an Empire of Tamils which exited before the great Flood probably in ย Lemuria.

    And there was one more Tamil Empire in the North west of India.

    Please read my article Two Tamil Empires?

    After the fall of the Akkadian Empire, the people of Mesopotamia eventually coalesced into two major Akkadian-speaking nations: Assyria in the north, and, a few centuries later, Babylonia in the south.”

    Now there is a theory that Rishi Angirasa was worshiped/funded the Akkadian Empire

    There seven Seers of Hinduism, who, at the beginning of every time cycle formulate the code of conduct, texts to follow.

    These are called Saptha(7) Rishis.

    They are.,

    Atri,

    Bhrigu,

    Kutsa,

    Vasishta,

    Gautama,

    Kasyapa and

    Angirasa.

    Now. the theory states that.

    ‘The supreme deity of the Sumerian pantheon is AN, or Anu. In the first two letters of the Sanskrit word An-gir-as, AN could refer to Anu. GIR might relate to the Akkadian fire-godโ€” fire as in rocket propulsion. DinGIR in the cuneiform writing meant sky or heaven, and also a god or goddess. The masters of the sky were perceived as deities by the earthbound. This reminds of Angiras and his descendants, the Angirasas, as a group of higher beings who traversed the realms between gods and men โ€” an inter-stellar and inter-dimensional elite…

    The Angirasas and the Bhrigus families “…represent the pre-Rig Vedic past: they go so far back into the past that not only are they eponymous founders of these families (Angiras and Bhrigu respectively), but even certain other ancient Rishis belonging to these families (Brihaspati, Atharvan, Ushana) are already remote mythical persons in the Rigveda; and the names of the two families are already names for mythical and ritual classes: the Angirasas are deified as ‘a race of higher beings between Gods and men’ …the Bhrigus and the Atharvans are synonymous with fire-priests in general. …the names of these two families are also found in the Iranian and Greek texts…” [Shrikant G. Talageri]..

    No one can compare the Avestan poetry with the Indian [Rigvedic] poetry in its content, in its style of expression, and in its entire coloring, without coming to the conclusion, on account of their agreement in small details which force themselves on us at every step, that both the literatures point not only to a common origin of these two peoples and their religions, but also to a community of Indo-Iranian religious poetry, developed in well-established forms.
    [Hermann Oldenberg]

    “The name Anu or ร‚nava for the Iranians appears to have survived even in later times: the country and the people in the very heart of Avesta land, to the immediate north of Hรขmรปn-i Hilmand, were known as late as Greek times as the Anauon or Anauoi. The names of Anu tribes in the Rigveda and the Puranas can be clearly identified with the names of the most prominent tribes among latter-day Iranians.”ย ย  [Shrikant G. Talageri]..

    ….Malati J. Shendge says “Sanskrit is derived from Akkadian and Sumerian…Sanskrit is not a language of the Aryas…It is essentially a lineal descendent of the languages of the Asuras.” She states that the Rig Veda does not belong to the Aryas and in fact in her view this was “purely an assumption without any firm basis.” And she states “…it is possible to find parallels in the Akkadian sources to many clans and personal names of the poets of Rig Vedic compositions, and of the Asuras, the enemies of Indra.” She believes that the language of the Rig Veda โ€” [meaning the older Vedic Sanskrit which is very different from the latter classical Sanskrit] โ€” is a form of Akkadian and “that the Akkadian in the process of evolution has become what we know today as Sanskrit….

    References and citations.

    Prolegomena on Metre and Textual History of the Rigveda, by Hermann Oldenberg, Berlin 1888; translated into English by V.G. Paranjape and M.A. Mehendale; Motilal Banarsidass Publishers Private Ltd., Delhi, 2005.

    The Rig Veda and the History of India, by David Frawley; Aditya Prakashan, New Delhi, 2001, 2003.

    The RIGVEDA, A Historical Analysis, by Shrikant G. Talageri; Aditya Prakashan, New Delhi, 2000, 2004.

    The Civilized Demons: The Harappans in Rigveda, by Malati J. Shendge; Abhinav Publications, New Delhi, 1977.

    The Language of the Harappans: From Akkadian to Sanskrit, by Malati J. Shendge; Abhinav Publications, New Delhi, 1997.

    http://metaphysicalmusing.com/articles/rigveda2015/AnuPart1.htm

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akkadian_Empire

    Images credit.

    http://www.wikiwand.com/en/Akkadian_Empire

  • Tamil City In 2200 BC Sumerian Akkadian Text Ellu เฎŽเฎณเฏ

    I have , based on the available evidence, that there was a close contact between the Tamils and the rest of the world, specially with the Middle East ,South East Asia and Italy.

    To cite a few archeological facts,

    Potsherd with Tamil Inscription in Oman.Image.png
    Potsherd with Tamil Inscription in Oman.

     

    A Tamil-Brahmi script inscribed on a potsherd, which was found at the Khor Rori area in Oman, has come to light now. The script reads โ€œnantai kiranโ€ and it can be dated to first century CE, that is, 1900 years before the present. The discovery in the ancient city of Sumhuram has opened a new chapter in understanding the maritime trade of the Indian Ocean countries, according to specialists in history.

    Tamil Brahmi Script in Egypt.Image.jpg
    Tamil Brahmi Script in Egypt.

    1.Lord Rama’s Chapel was found in UR, Iraq.*

    2.A burial ground called as Nagar is fond in Syria. It is called Tel Brak now.

    3.Idols of Rama,Sita and Lakshmana are found.*

    4.Ancestors of the Syrians were the Halaf and Ubaid.

    They date back to 6100 BC.

    They had connection with the Tamils and this is reflected in the ruins of ย Nagar.*

    These people traded with the Tamils.

    โ€Naram-Sin traded with Meluhha (almost certainly corresponding to the Indus Valley civilization), and controlled a large portion of land along the Persian Gulf. He expanded his empire by defeating the King of Magan at the southern end of the Persian Gulf, and conquering the hill tribes to the north in the Taurus Mountains.

    5.Akkadian’s( Forefathers of the Sumerians) Moon God was Naram Sin, Narasimha.*

    6.There are repeated references in the Sumerian/Akkadian language to Meluuha.

    The interpretation and location of this place is hotly debated.

    Sumerian texts repeatedly refer to three important centers with which they traded: Magan, Dilmun, and Meluhha. Magan is usually identified with Egypt in later Assyrian texts; but the Sumerian localization of Magan was probably Oman. Dilmun was a Persian Gulf civilization which traded with Mesopotamian civilizations, the current scholarly consensus is that Dilmun encompassed Bahrain, Failaka Island and the adjacent coast of Eastern Arabia in the Persian Gulf.[1][2]

    The location of Meluhha, however, is hotly debated. There are scholars today who confidently identify Meluhha with the Indus Valley Civilization (modern South Asia) on the basis of the extensive evidence of trading contacts between Sumer and this region. Sesame oil was probably imported from the Indus River region into Sumer: the Sumerian word for this oil is illu (Akkadian: ellu). In Dravidian languages of South India, el or ellu stands for sesame”

    7.Ancient Tamil Brahmi Scripts were found in Oman and Egypt.

    These facts establish that,

    The Tamils were an advanced civilisation by 2200 BC(Akkadian Empire)

    The Hindu Gods and Goddesses were worshiped in Sumeria,

    Names of Lord Rama and Bharata were found in the Kings List of Sumeria.

    * Read My posts on This.

  • Narasimha Rama Nagar Tamils In Ancient Syria

    The ruins of the Mesopotamian culture reveals more about Indian connection.

    A city,a burialย mound,called Nagar was found in Syria.

    Naram SinImage.jpg
    Naram Sin with a false beard and a crown- giving him resemblance to a lion. Narasimha ?

     

    It is now called Tell Brak.

    Narasimha Sculpture.Image.jpg
    A carving of the Hindu god Narasimha (a form of Vishnu). In this image Narasimha is killing a deamon on his lap. In one of his hands he is pulling the eyeballs off another deamon. This angry form of the god is worshipped as a vanquisher of evil. Royalty free image ID 12698889 ยฉ Hrishim | Dreamstime.com

    Tell Brak, ancient Nagar, is a tell, or settlement mound, in the Upper Khabur area in Al-Hasakah Governorate, northeasternSyria. The site was occupied between the sixth and second millennia BC. At 40 metres (130ย ft) in height, and an area of approximately 130 hectares (320 acres), it is one of the largest archaeological sites in northern Mesopotamia. It was taken over during the “Syrian Civil War” by the People’s Protection Units, as well as its surrounding settlements.

    Their ancestors were the Halaf and Ubaid.

    They date back to 6100 BC.

    They had connection with the Tamils and this is reflected in the ruins of ย Nagar.

    These people traded with the Tamils.

    ”Naram-Sin traded with Meluhha (almost certainly corresponding to the Indus Valley civilization), and controlled a large portion of land along the Persian Gulf. He expanded his empire by defeating the King of Magan at the southern end of the Persian Gulf, and conquering the hill tribes to the north in the Taurus Mountains

     

    The location of Meluhha, however, is hotly debated. There are scholars today who confidently identify Meluhha with the Harappan Civilization, in modern Pakistan, on the basis of the extensive evidence of trading contacts between Sumer and this region. Sesame oil was probably imported from the Indus valley into Sumer: the Sumerian word for this oil isillu (Akkadian: ellu). In Dravidian languages of South India el or ellu stands for sesame’

     

    Nagar’ (เคจเค—เคฐ) is Sanskrit for ‘city’ or ‘settlement’.ย So is theย nameย Naram Sin, it seems to be a deviation ofย the Sanskrit ‘narsimha’ meaning ‘man-lion’, a name fit for a king. Narsimha is also another name forย the fourth avatar ofย the Vedic God Vishnu.ย Here are two steles of the Akkadian King Naram Sin – the link toย man-lion is evident.

    There are also finds with three figures resembling either Rama ,Lakshman and Sita or Krishna, Balarama and Subhadra.

    Syrian Archeological Finds, Krishna,Balaraa and Subhadra or Rama ,Lakshmana and Sita?image.jpg
    Syrian Archeological Finds, Krishna,Balaraa and Subhadra or Rama ,Lakshmana and Sita?

    Citation.

    Naram Sin

     

     

     

     

     

     

  • First Pyramid Builder Roman Emperor With Vaishanava Marks

    Mittani are the ancient people in Mesopotamia.

    They were the ancestors of the Egyptians.

    Look at the Sanatana Dharma connection.

     

    Mitanni (/mษชหˆtรฆni/; Hittite cuneiform KUR URUMi-ta-an-ni; also Mittani Mi-it-ta-ni) or Hanigalbat (Assyrian Hanigalbat, Khanigalbatcuneiform แธชa-ni-gal-bat) or Naharin in ancient Egyptian texts was a Hurrian-speaking state in northern Syria and southeast Anatoliafrom ca. 1500 BCโ€“1300 BC. Founded by an Indo-Aryan ruling class governing a predominantly Hurrian population, Mitanni came to be a regional power after the Hittite destruction of Amorite[1] Babylon and a series of ineffectual Assyrian kings created a power vacuum in Mesopotamia.

     

    The Mittanni was in northern Mesopotamia , roughly from 1500-1300 BC.

    At its height the empire extended from Kirkuk (ancient Arrapha) and the Zagros Mountains in the east through Assyria to the Mediterranean Sea in the west.

     

    Mittani Kings, but the Egyptian Pharaohs have also have been known to have a major Indic influence.
    Egyptian King with Vaishnava marks.image.jpg
    Egyptian King with Vaishnava marks.
    These Kings and even a Roman Emperor sported Thiruman, The Vaishnavite marks on their Body.
    Mittani and Egyptian King with Vaishnava Marksjpg.
    Mittani and Egyptian King with Vaishnava Marks.

     

    The Sun King Akhenaten of Egypt who ruled between 1352-1336 BC was a son-in-law of Tushratta, the Mitanni king. The name Tushratta has been recorded in theย Hittite cuneiform script.

    Roman Emperor with Vaishnava Marks.image.jpg
    Roman Emperor with Vaishnava Marks.

    Some have suggested that the Sanskrit origin of Tushratta is Dasaratha, aย few others that it is Tvesaratha (having splendid chariots), a name which isย attested in the Rigveda.

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    Mittani Empire.

     

    “The first Mitanni king was Sutarna I (good sun). He was followed byย Baratarna I (or Paratarnaย great sun), Parasuksatra(ruler with axe),….ย Saustatar (Sauksatra, son of Suksatra, the good ruler), Artadamaย (abiding in cosmic law)..Tushratta (Dasaratha), and finally Matiwazza (Mativaja, whose wealth is thought) during whose lifetimeย the Mitanni state appears to have become aย vassal to Assyria”. Subhash Kak traces the ‘arna’ syllable in the names of the kings to ‘araNi’ (เค…เคฐเคฃเคฟ) meaning ‘sun’…

    (Akhenaten, Surya, and the Rigveda’, Prof Subhash Kak (an Indian American computer scientist, previous Head of Computer Science Department, Oklahoma State University)

    A number of Indo-European sounding words have been identified in the cuneiform documents of the Mitanni kingdom (1500-1200 BC). In addition to nouns and adjectives with parallels in Sanskrit this Hurrian speaking kingdom had kings with Indo-Aryan names and two documents even list the main Gods of the Indian pantheon….”

    (About the ย Mittani-Aryan Gods’, Arna ud Fournet)

    Citation,

     

  • Lord Rama’s Chapel In UR Iraq

    Lord Rama seems to have been popular in Mesopotamia anda Chapel of Lord Rama was found by archeologists.

    ‘Ur (Sumerian: Urim;[1] Sumerian Cuneiform: ๐’‹€๐’€•๐’†  URIM2KI or ๐’‹€๐’€Š๐’†  URIM5KI;[2] Akkadian: Uru;[3] Arabic: ุฃูˆุฑโ€Ž) was an importantSumerian city-state in ancient Mesopotamia, at the site of modern Tell el-Muqayyar (Arabic: ุชู„ ุงู„ู…ู‚ูŠุฑโ€Ž) in south Iraq’s Dhi Qar Governorate.[4] Although Ur was once a coastal city near the mouth of the Euphrates on the Persian Gulf, the coastline has shifted and the city is now well inland, south of the Euphrates on its right bank, 16 kilometres (9.9 mi) from Nasiriyah.[5]

    Map showing Ur in Mesopotamia.jpg
    Map showing Ur in Mesopotamia.Image credit odysseyadventures

    The city dates from the Ubaid period circa 3800 BC, and is recorded in written history as a City State from the 26th century BC, its first recorded king being Mesh-Ane-pada. The city’s patron deity was Nanna (in Akkadian, Sin), the Sumerian and Akkadian (Assyrian-Babylonian) moon god, and the name of the city is in origin derived from the god’s name, URIM2KI being the classical Sumerian spelling of LAK-32.UNUGKI, literally “the abode (UNUG) of Nanna (LAK-32)”

    Ruins of UR Sumeria.jpg
    Ruins of UR. Credit.”Ur-Nassiriyah” by M.Lubinski from Iraq,USA. – Flickr. Licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons – http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ur-Nassiriyah.jpg#mediaviewer/File:Ur-Nassiriyah.jpg

     

    Lord Rama's Chapel in UR.jpg
    Lord Rama’s Chapel in UR.

    ‘One of the major triumphs of modern archaeology was the hair-raising discoveries of Sir Leonard Woolley at Ur. Amidst the ruins of Ur, he unearthed a Ram-chapel but totally missed its relevance in world history. This crucial finding not only bridges the wide gaps between Indian tradition and archaeology but also unfolds the historic bonds that once united ancient India, Iran and Sumer. Ram-Sin of (Larsa) to whose memory this chapel was dedicated must have been Rama of Valmiki. The name Ararama of Larsa may be an echo of Rama. This Ram-Chapel of Ur is the earliest known memorial to the great Rama and may have been erected by Dilmun merchants who resided nearby. Dilmun was always mentioned in the Sumerian texts together with Magan and Melukkha and it is possible that these three states were somehow allied to each other.’

     

    ‘ In the highly authentic Sumerian king list appears such hallowed names as Bharat (Warad) Sin and Ram Sin. As Sin was the Moon god Chandra Ram Sin can be seen to be same as Rama Chandra. Bharat Sin ruled for 12 years (1834-1822 BC), exactly as stated in the Dasaratha Jataka. The Jataka statement, โ€œYears sixty times hundred, and ten thousand more, all told, / Reigned strong-armed Ramaโ€, only means that Rama reigned for sixty years which agrees exactly with the data of Assyriologists. Ram Sin was the longest reigning monarch of Mesopotamia who ruled for 60 years. The mention of the father in the inscriptions of both Warad Sin and Ram Sin is noteworthy and may point to a palace intrigue. Joan Oates is not aware of the Ramayana but writes with great insight (p. 61) that Warad sin was manoeuvred to the throne by his father. In Mesopotamia, a prince normally became king only after the death of his father. Lakshmana, mentioned the Bible as Lakhamar, ruled as a great king.

    “Ur was a city in the region of Sumer, southern Mesopotamia, in what is modern-day Iraq. According to biblical tradition, the city is named after the man who founded the first settlement there, Ur, though this has been disputed. The cityโ€™s other biblical link is to the patriarch Abraham who left Ur to settle in the land of Canaan. This claim has also been contested by scholars who believe that Abrahamโ€™s home was further north in Mesopotamia in a place called Ura, near the city of Harran, and that the writers of the biblical narrative in the Book of Genesis confused the two. Whatever its biblical connections may have been, Ur was a significant port city on the Persian Gulf which began, most likely, as a small village in the Ubaid Period of Mesopotamian history (5000-4100 BCE) and was an established city by 3800 BCE continually inhabited until 450 BCE.”

    Citation,

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ur

    https://kalyan97.wordpress.com/2007/10/08/988/

    http://www.ancient.eu/ur/