#atar

Two women on a stroll together in Atar, Mauritania by Gerardo Amechazurra

Atarshamayn. Pl. Ill, 5. Burnt carnelian. 21 X 9. Brought from Djeblé (Gabala). Goddess advancing on the right, dressed in a long split garment, a sword at her side, wearing a polos crowned with globules and surmounted by a star; she holds in her left hand a ring made of globules, and she raises her right hand; from her head, a dewlap falls to the height of her waist. Behind her, a recumbent ibex, a lozenge, a bucranium. In front of her, an offering table, laden with a footed vase, a bird, and another object. To the right, a bearded figure, long-robed, stands in the attitude of prayer, hands outstretched with palms in the air. Above the scene, crescent and eight-pointed star. In the field, inscription in Phoenician characters: HTM BRO BD TRSMN, seal of Baraq, servant of Atarshamayn. Note the archaic character of the letters, and in particular that of the daleth without a tail. This carefully crafted cylinder appears to belong to the class of Assyrian cylinders .11 from the 10th century (1). Phoenician characters were commonly used in these ancient times for the transcription of Aramaic, and do not allow us to conclude that the seal was engraved in Phoenicia. Moreover, if Baraq (2), the owner of the cylinder, had been Phoenician, his tutelary deity would not have borne an Aramaic name, where the element Atar is the equivalent of the Phoenician Ashtart. The fact that the cylinder was found in Gabala, in Phoenicia, is therefore probably fortuitous Atarshamayn, "Atar of the Heavens," is still known only from a single text, notably later than our cylinder. Around 640, Ashurba-nipal was campaigning against the Arab tribes of the Syrian Desert (3), and his annals specify that he then subdued "the band of Atarsamayn and the people of Oedar" (4). No doubt the people of Atarsamayn were Arabs, just as the people of Qedar were, and they were named after their principal deity. It was a form of the Lady of Heaven (I), whose cult is common to the Semites. Perhaps the warrior goddess, represented on the seal, is the one named in the inscription. This text seems to be composed with the decoration. Barak must have ordered his cylinder as we see it, and, in this case, it will seem natural that he had engraved on it the goddess whose servant he proclaims himself.

Hombres somos

Breathe, enjoy your fucking holidays, relax. It is going to be fine, it is going to be easy, you are going to have an enjoyable uni experience if that is what you want. I promise nothing is compromised.

In the lands of ancient Armenia, Anatolia, and the Fertile Crescent, there was a pre-Islamic religion called Zoroastrianism. The supreme god of that religion, Ahura Mazda, is believed to be the very essence of fire itself. On one miraculous day when fires raged across the land, it is said that he made himself incarnate into a man named Atar. In one different offshoot of the religion, his name is instead Adar. This divine man brought the tradition of fire worship to these ancient lands when volcanoes and wildfires raged. Still today, adherents conduct rituals in where the sacrificial fire is lit and they dance around it in seven circuits, very much like the modern Hindu wedding ceremony of saptapadi intended to honor their fire-priest god Agni. One often overlooked aspect of Atar is the very nature of his incarnation. This very old account of a god being made manifest in a human body should remind us of the Abrahamic tradition of how God created Adam in its own image, and the Norse account of how Odin breathed his holy breath into Askr. And yet, here we are faced with the startling fact that the Zoroastrian account, by academic consensus, is older than these two accounts - but the possibility of it being far older cannot be ruled out. The sagas still sung of Atar today tell of his heroic deed in battling the demonic fire dragon named Aži Dahāka, and killed it. Later accounts say that he bound it, chained it up, and banished it deep within the earth. Today in Armenia, there is an extinct volcano named Azhdahak that has been named after this dragon. But in yet another account in Iran today, it is instead said that he was imprisoned in Mount Damāvand where he shall remain until the end of the world comes, and shall break free again. By then, Atar will return to vanquish him once more.

Apps, English, Psych and Bio yr 12 IM SO CLOSE 2 THE FINISH LINE

Michinaranja🐈