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Based on powerfu winged monster from Mesopotamian mythologies. It looked a bit like inverted griffin. inannafilm.files.wordpress.com…Related content
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O, jeden z moich ulubionych stworków z sumeryjskich mitów! Taki ziejący ogniem orzełek z głową lwa
Naprawdę ciekawie Ci wyszedł, podoba mi się ten dotatek rogów, jakoś dziwnie pasują do tej postaci
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W oryginale to chyba był uszy, ale tak rogowato wyglądały.. XD
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No proszę, dawno nie widziałem niczego z mitologii pozagreckich.
Wyobrażałem sobie Anzu nieco inaczej, ale to pewnie dlatego bo nie czytałem za bardzo mezopotamskiej mitologii. Dużo jest opisów na ten temat?
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Opisy tam są marne (albo ich nie ma) i kieruje się głównie wyobrażeniami.
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Yeah! More Mesopotamian beasts, please... I wrote many articles about them, but I never find any good illustrations... How about a mushussu ("dragon" from the Gate of Isthar)? www.redorbit.com/media/uploads…
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A few days ago I read that mushussu is the dragon of Marduk. Tiamat created the monster to kill Marduk, but he can tame the mushussu and it's became his pet.
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I see.. well Tiamat must have been pissed of to see that!
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Yes, more will surely come. Can you link some of those articles ? I'd love to have a read.
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Really? I wrote them in Hungarian. It's much better than my English... can you read them?
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Uh.. unfortunately I do not speak hungarian. Maybe you can at least list creatures that you wrote about and I'll thell you if I have plans for drawing them.
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My personal favourite, mushussu (dragon); Assur, god of war; Inanna or Asthar, goddess of love and war; dragon of Marduk; Nergal, god of death; Dagon or Dagan; aaand Pazuzu.
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Hm/ i certainly plan to do Pazuzu and Scorpion Man. Probably the Dragon as well... Do you have any interesting news on it's mythical background? I couldn't find much... And tiamat. I'll surely give some time to cosmic serpents of various mythologies.
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Tiamat was the arch-evil, mother of many daemons. News about Marduk's dragon or the mushussu?
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Yes, the book I read didn't have much to say about thos edragons.
Well that's a bit funny because Timat and Absu wanted to slay young gods because they disturbed them, just as the gods later destroyed humanity with flood.. So they were all basterds of same kind yet only Tiamat and Absu are considered evil
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Yes... sometimes they describe Tiamat as Chaos or the abyssal, lurking in the sea's deep evil. She could be a bizarre chimera, fusioning some elements of sea serpents and other beasts (for example a kraken).
Marduk's dragon like a dog... a very powerful creature. Mushussu is a hibrid too... it has a head of a viper (and the neck too) with horns, body of a lion, legs like an eagle, and tail of a scorpion. Very extreme, but I totally like it! Many decades before historians thought that this creature was the sirrush, but it's a different kind of beasts, not the mushussu itself. According to the legends, it's mother was Tiamat. Mushussu appears in the walls of the Isthar-gate, as you know. Nobody knows it perfect, but I think the mushussu is the symbol of the ultimate and most deadliest predator. Combine of the king, the lion, the eagle, the ruler of the skies, and venomous animals like viper and scorpion. Who can stop a monster like this?
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I just realized why the assyriologists though that the name of this creature was ZÛ and not AN.ZÛ.
It is because the way of writing in sumerian/akkadian. Those people use it cunneiform and that writting system has a lot of symbols. Also, those symbol have multiple meanings. For example, the symbol 𒀭 (that symbol is the neoassyrian version, I can't write the symbol in the original sumerian, you can see it here en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dingir#m…) it can be read in sumerian as AN, and in akkadian like dingir.
That particle means sky, god, and have also the particularity of serving as a predeterminative. So, after that symbol, the following can be the name of a god.
So the first assyriologists missunderstand the 𒀭 before ZÛ and they read dZÛ.MUŠEN (the Zû bird-god) and not like AN.ZÛ.MUŠEN (the Anzû bird). MUŠEN is a postdeterminative for birds.
Thanks!
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I see.. didn't know! Thank you/
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