Tread: Very interesting: A drawing of a relief from the great staircase from the Luwian city of Carchemish. It depicts the storm god Tarhunt, holding an axe and vajra (lightning trident), leading the earth goddess Kubaba, holding grain and poppies...🙂 Sounds familiar?
The drawing is from this great article: "Building Inscriptions of Carchemish: The Long Wall of Sculpture and Great Staircase" by J. D. Hawkins
jstor.org/stable/3642555
So why is this drawing interesting?
Check this thread about Demeter from yesterday
The grain goddess follows the storm god...Because in the area where Carchemish (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carchemish) is located, without rain, the land ends up looking like this...No grains (or poppies)...
This is the climatic year in the area of Carchemish. You can see that the year is clearly divided into hot/dry half and and cool/wet half...
The hottest and driest part of the year is the end of Jul beginning of Aug. Leo...The time of death...Ruled by the god of death...Another name for the destructive burning sun.
oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2020/06/oldest…
The hottest, driest part of the year is marked by the lion animal calendar marker...Leo...The reason for this is that this is when the Eurasian lions main mating season starts...
Which is why Nergal, the deified destructive burning sun, was depicted as a lion oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2021/05/winged…
This is the reason why in Carchemish we also find this relief depicting the above mentioned storm god killing a lion. The image is from this great article "Carchemish ša kišad puratti" by Irene J. Winter jstor.org/stable/3642708…
The other guy helping the storm god is probably the local king, not another god...The role which later became the main role of local kings, who were "(storm) god's incarnation on earth"
That was two coffee spoons...🙂
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