#chaldeans

March 2023: Nuns inspect damaged parts of Deir Mar Mikhael.

"The area where the monastery sits was known to the Mosulites as 'Hawi al-Kanisa' in reference to it [having been] a church, hundreds of years ago," Archbishop Najib Mikhael Moussa said.

Looking up Olga’s magecraft feats and spells for reasons, I just noticed from the Case Files Grace Note anime: the magic circle that appears when she cast the Animusphere signature spell of summoning meteors...it has cuneiforms written around it!

This is kinda surreal, because usually magic circles are just lazy and have runes around them. Even in the Nasuverse with occult lore guy Miwa Kiyomune on board it does use that lazy cliché. But other times, the Nasuverse pleasantly surprises by actually making the magic effects relevant to the character’s magecraft, as seen here. I don’t know if it’s because of Miwa, Nasu, or someone else, but Olga tend to get pretty nifty background details when she does magecraft. She enchants stones by inscribing them with zodiac signs, and to do so she puts them in a magic circle filled not with magical symbol but orbital paths, like you would see in a picture of the solar system.

And now cuneiforms. Because Chaldea and the fact that Chaldeans became synonymous with astrologers.

The Connection of Theosophy to Tibet, Iran and Chaldea

The Connection of the Theosophy of the Trans-Himalayan Adepts to Northern Buddhism, Kabbalism, Ancient Iran and Chaldea “No comparison between our real Brahmanical and the Tibetan esoteric doctrines will be possible unless one ascertains the teachings of that so-called “Aryan doctrine,” . . . and fully comprehends the whole range of the ancient Aryan philosophy.” — T. Subba Row The Connection…

Since the earliest days of humankind, our ancestors looked into the night sky and watched bright celestial spectacles we know today as comets. While modern astronomers have a rich understanding of the phenomenon, ancient comet sightings were thought of as heavenly messages and were often feared as omens of ill fortune.

Hundreds of Iraqis in U.S. rounded up for deportation

By Joe Mchahwar

The Prophet Ibrahim (Abraham)

Description of Abraham and his Family Some of the People of the Book stated that his name was Abraham Ibn Tarikh, Ibn Nahur, Ibn Sarough, Ibn Raghu, Ibn Phaligh, Ibn Aher, Ibn Shalih, Ibn Arfghshand, Ibn Sam, Ibn Noah. They said that when Tarikh was seventy five years old, he had Abraham, Nahor (Nohour) and Haran. Haran had a son named Lot. They also said that Abraham was the middle child and…