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Minister who speaks fair words, escort who speaks trustworthy words. I really like Mesopotamian mythology, Heian and medieval Japanese literature, Daijiro Morohoshi's works and Hecatia from Touhou 15.
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描く度に絵柄が変わってて一人アンソロみたいになってる
November 15, 2025 at 8:51 AM
描く度に絵柄が変わってて一人アンソロみたいになってる
tl;dr not seeing any reason to doubt archi's conclusion that it seems most eblaite deities are local figures peculiar to nothern syria
November 13, 2025 at 1:09 PM
tl;dr not seeing any reason to doubt archi's conclusion that it seems most eblaite deities are local figures peculiar to nothern syria
the pure vibes school of scholarship strikes again, this time with Eblaites somehow being aware of a pairing rare before the Kassite period feat. a goddess not really attested before Ur III (the article consistently uses "Canaanite" when it means Ugarit, also, lol)
November 13, 2025 at 1:05 PM
the pure vibes school of scholarship strikes again, this time with Eblaites somehow being aware of a pairing rare before the Kassite period feat. a goddess not really attested before Ur III (the article consistently uses "Canaanite" when it means Ugarit, also, lol)
November 10, 2025 at 11:00 PM
according to Smith, that Baal Cycle passage where someone says a god without a wife is unfit to rule might be Attar complaining about Yam and not Shapash rebuking Attar; will include this in the eventual critical blog post about Ayali-Darshan's Yam shipping discourse paper
November 8, 2025 at 11:54 PM
according to Smith, that Baal Cycle passage where someone says a god without a wife is unfit to rule might be Attar complaining about Yam and not Shapash rebuking Attar; will include this in the eventual critical blog post about Ayali-Darshan's Yam shipping discourse paper
don't care + didn't ask + cry + mad + get real + L + mald + cope harder + hoes mad + basic + skill issue + ratio + you fell off + surely he will overturn the throne of your kingship + surely he will break the sceptre of your rule
November 8, 2025 at 10:33 PM
don't care + didn't ask + cry + mad + get real + L + mald + cope harder + hoes mad + basic + skill issue + ratio + you fell off + surely he will overturn the throne of your kingship + surely he will break the sceptre of your rule
November 8, 2025 at 9:56 PM
tbh i don't think the "shamash was originally female" proposal is viable, ultimately; in the end it feels like shapash's gender is an outlier with only the eblaite sun deity as a forerunner. perhaps it's more a northwestern syrian feature than anything?
November 8, 2025 at 6:33 PM
tbh i don't think the "shamash was originally female" proposal is viable, ultimately; in the end it feels like shapash's gender is an outlier with only the eblaite sun deity as a forerunner. perhaps it's more a northwestern syrian feature than anything?
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Actually did this last year already but I kinda liked it, so heres another for this year's halloween
(It's Ishmekarab and Lagamal going out as the Heibai Wuchang lol)
(It's Ishmekarab and Lagamal going out as the Heibai Wuchang lol)
November 1, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Actually did this last year already but I kinda liked it, so heres another for this year's halloween
(It's Ishmekarab and Lagamal going out as the Heibai Wuchang lol)
(It's Ishmekarab and Lagamal going out as the Heibai Wuchang lol)
i talked about this before but i feel it remains understudied the deities egyptians imported from the north - esp. Resheph and Anat - were more popular well to the northeast of Byblos as opposed to in areas they actually controlled where they are hardly attested
October 31, 2025 at 11:55 PM
i talked about this before but i feel it remains understudied the deities egyptians imported from the north - esp. Resheph and Anat - were more popular well to the northeast of Byblos as opposed to in areas they actually controlled where they are hardly attested
possible article topics for 2026:
-dissecting Ayali-Darshan's puzzling Yam paper (120% happening)
-Damu and medicine goddesses (120% happening)
-why i think referring to the Egyptian deity as "Astarte" should be reconsidered
-against calling emesal "women's tongue"
-dissecting Ayali-Darshan's puzzling Yam paper (120% happening)
-Damu and medicine goddesses (120% happening)
-why i think referring to the Egyptian deity as "Astarte" should be reconsidered
-against calling emesal "women's tongue"
October 31, 2025 at 11:49 PM
possible article topics for 2026:
-dissecting Ayali-Darshan's puzzling Yam paper (120% happening)
-Damu and medicine goddesses (120% happening)
-why i think referring to the Egyptian deity as "Astarte" should be reconsidered
-against calling emesal "women's tongue"
-dissecting Ayali-Darshan's puzzling Yam paper (120% happening)
-Damu and medicine goddesses (120% happening)
-why i think referring to the Egyptian deity as "Astarte" should be reconsidered
-against calling emesal "women's tongue"
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ハロウィンなので気に入ってる過去絵の純ヘカを共有
October 30, 2025 at 11:23 PM
ハロウィンなので気に入ってる過去絵の純ヘカを共有
pure vibes school of scholarship
October 28, 2025 at 9:16 PM
pure vibes school of scholarship
shapash appears in more ritual texts and esp. theophoric names than athirat and it's not even close, really weird to try to present the latter as more major
October 28, 2025 at 9:13 PM
shapash appears in more ritual texts and esp. theophoric names than athirat and it's not even close, really weird to try to present the latter as more major
workshopping a title for a 2026 Damu blog article. something like "he died, but he got better" or "they rebuilt him, they had the technology"
October 28, 2025 at 9:22 AM
workshopping a title for a 2026 Damu blog article. something like "he died, but he got better" or "they rebuilt him, they had the technology"
it's really hard to not conclude that the early efforts to make sure Ebla doesn't end up as Ugarit 2 were nothing short of heroic and are probably one of the key reasons why we're not stuck with monographs arguing Kura is actually El or something
October 28, 2025 at 8:58 AM
it's really hard to not conclude that the early efforts to make sure Ebla doesn't end up as Ugarit 2 were nothing short of heroic and are probably one of the key reasons why we're not stuck with monographs arguing Kura is actually El or something
the torment continues with "actually Anat is just a personified attribute of Baal" (an argument based on a single publication from 1969...) because clearly the fact she is attested since 1800 BCE-ish with own cult center doesn't matter much
October 28, 2025 at 8:56 AM
the torment continues with "actually Anat is just a personified attribute of Baal" (an argument based on a single publication from 1969...) because clearly the fact she is attested since 1800 BCE-ish with own cult center doesn't matter much
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i give up, what is even going on here.
October 26, 2025 at 4:55 PM
i give up, what is even going on here.
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two for one deal: goddess slurry AND bizarre ninisina downplaying
October 26, 2025 at 8:30 AM
two for one deal: goddess slurry AND bizarre ninisina downplaying
what's up with wyatt's need to minimize the number of deities, and on the level of those who even in literary texts (let alone cult) are clearly distinct from each other at that. he pushed yarikh = el at some point too
October 26, 2025 at 7:49 AM
what's up with wyatt's need to minimize the number of deities, and on the level of those who even in literary texts (let alone cult) are clearly distinct from each other at that. he pushed yarikh = el at some point too
there's a bunch of really weird self published creationists on academia dot edu who obsessively hate alfonso archi and are convinced that he personally convinced the syrian bureau of antiquities to destroy "biblical evidence" from ebla
October 25, 2025 at 3:28 PM
there's a bunch of really weird self published creationists on academia dot edu who obsessively hate alfonso archi and are convinced that he personally convinced the syrian bureau of antiquities to destroy "biblical evidence" from ebla
spoiler: the book doesn't answer the question because it just rehashes discussion about Ugarit, which, as the author even acknowledges, wasn't in Canaan. we do get the full repertoire of bible scholar smash hits including "sacred prostitution" though
October 25, 2025 at 3:21 PM
spoiler: the book doesn't answer the question because it just rehashes discussion about Ugarit, which, as the author even acknowledges, wasn't in Canaan. we do get the full repertoire of bible scholar smash hits including "sacred prostitution" though
i don't really have energy for wikipedia anymore tbh
October 22, 2025 at 10:08 PM
i don't really have energy for wikipedia anymore tbh