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November 19, 2025 at 8:22 AM
reshephling
this paper is good overall, but i don't really think this is true? she's the most major ally of baal through the yam section if the narrative (in which anat does next to nothing) and she has a solo myth (poorly preserved, but still). that's actually more than shapash or yarikh
November 18, 2025 at 11:58 PM
this paper is good overall, but i don't really think this is true? she's the most major ally of baal through the yam section if the narrative (in which anat does next to nothing) and she has a solo myth (poorly preserved, but still). that's actually more than shapash or yarikh
seems it's not a mistransaltion - the hittite viceroy really called shapash "lady shimige" in a letter to niqmaddu of ugarit (not sure which one of the niqmaddus, though)
November 18, 2025 at 6:04 PM
seems it's not a mistransaltion - the hittite viceroy really called shapash "lady shimige" in a letter to niqmaddu of ugarit (not sure which one of the niqmaddus, though)
also ok does the search for female Shamash only go back to Roberts' The Earliest Semitic Pantheon from the 1970s? neither Krebernik nor Westenholz - who were my introduction to this idea - cite a specific source, and Woods (who questions this, imo rightfully) only brings up Roberts
November 17, 2025 at 12:06 AM
also ok does the search for female Shamash only go back to Roberts' The Earliest Semitic Pantheon from the 1970s? neither Krebernik nor Westenholz - who were my introduction to this idea - cite a specific source, and Woods (who questions this, imo rightfully) only brings up Roberts
I've also been reading Sarolta A. Takacs' Isis and Sarapis in the Roman World for the sake of an upcoming article. it holds up very well
November 17, 2025 at 12:03 AM
I've also been reading Sarolta A. Takacs' Isis and Sarapis in the Roman World for the sake of an upcoming article. it holds up very well
the proposal that in the baal cycle shapash acts on own accord as a voice of reason rather than only as a bearer of el's messages is interesting though i feel like this matches a modern penchant for more elaborate character dynamics more than what a bronze age audience would've expected
November 16, 2025 at 11:56 PM
the proposal that in the baal cycle shapash acts on own accord as a voice of reason rather than only as a bearer of el's messages is interesting though i feel like this matches a modern penchant for more elaborate character dynamics more than what a bronze age audience would've expected
of course, i think a problem is, in the first place, that anat is often treated as just ugaritic (or worse yet, abstractly "canaanite" deity), and that she's treated in isolation, with ashtart - who engages in the exact same pursuits - often dismissed or subsumed under her
November 16, 2025 at 11:23 PM
of course, i think a problem is, in the first place, that anat is often treated as just ugaritic (or worse yet, abstractly "canaanite" deity), and that she's treated in isolation, with ashtart - who engages in the exact same pursuits - often dismissed or subsumed under her
i know i talked multiple times about day's puzzling comments on the phoenician bilingual from cyprus with anat and athena and about her own invented interpretatio graeca of anat but it keeps bugging me. i might have to just write a few k words about this next year
November 16, 2025 at 11:04 PM
i know i talked multiple times about day's puzzling comments on the phoenician bilingual from cyprus with anat and athena and about her own invented interpretatio graeca of anat but it keeps bugging me. i might have to just write a few k words about this next year
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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