john11
Cedar
16/10/2008 16:44
PART 1
About the word “SIN”.
The Greek word hamartia (ἁμαρτία) is usually translated as sin in the New Testament. In Classical Greek, it means “to miss the mark” or “to miss the target” which was also used in Old English archery
About the word “Cedar” referred to in the Christian Bible.
The Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh designates the cedar groves of Lebanon as the dwelling of the gods to where Gilgamesh ventured.
In the Epic of Gilgamesh, Gilgamesh is said to have ordered the building of the legendary walls of Uruk. An alternative version has Gilgamesh, towards the end of the story, boasting to Urshanabi, the ferryman, that the city’s walls were built by the Seven Sages. In historical times, Sargon of Akkad claimed to have destroyed these walls to prove his military power.
Fragments of an epic text found in Me-Turan (modern Tell Haddad) relate that Gilgamesh was buried under the waters of a river at the end of his life. The people of Uruk diverted the flow of the Euphrates River crossing Uruk for the purpose of burying the dead king within the riverbed. In April 2003, a German expedition discovered what is thought to be the entire city of Uruk—including the former bed of the Euphrates, the last resting place of its King Gilgamesh.
Despite the lack of direct evidence, most scholars do not object to consideration of Gilgamesh as a historical figure, particularly after inscriptions were found confirming the historical existence of other figures associated with him: kings Enmebaragesi and Aga of Kish. If Gilgamesh was a historical king, he probably reigned in about the 26th century BC. Some of the earliest Sumerian texts spell his name as Bilgames. Initial difficulties in reading cuneiform resulted in Gilgamesh making his re-entrance into world culture in 1891 as “Izdubar”.[2]
In most texts, Gilgamesh is written with the determinative for divine beings (DINGIR) – but there is no evidence for a contemporary cult, and the Sumerian Gilgamesh myths suggest the deification was a later development (unlike the case of the Akkadian god kings). With this deification, however, would have come an accretion of stories about him, some potentially derived from the real lives of other historical figures, in particular Gudea, the Second Dynasty ruler of Lagash (2144–2124 BC).[3]
Whether based on a historical prototype or not, Gilgamesh became a legendary protagonist in the Epic of Gilgamesh. The name Gilgamesh appears once in Greek, as “Gilgamos” (Γιλγαμος). The story is a variant of the Perseus myth: The King of Babylon determines by oracle that his grandson Gilgamos will kill him, and throws him out of a high tower. An eagle breaks his fall, and the infant is found and raised by a garde
Gilgamesh was the son of Lugalbanda and the fifth king of Uruk (Early Dynastic II, first dynasty of Uruk), ruling circa 2600 BC, according to the Sumerian king list. He became the central character in the Epic of Gilgamesh, one of the best known works of early literature, which says that his mother was Ninsun (whom some call Rimat Ninsun), a goddess. Gilgamesh is described as two-thirds god and one-third human.
According to the Tummal Inscription,[1] Gilgamesh, and eventually his son Urlugal, rebuilt the sanctuary of the goddess Ninlil, located in Tummal, a sacred quarter in her city Nippur. In Mesopotamian mythology, Gilgamesh is credited with having been a demigod of superhuman strength who built a great city wall to defend his people from external threats.
About Mesopotamia
The Sumerians practiced a polytheistic religion, with anthropomorphic gods or goddesses representing forces or presences in the world, in much the same way as later Greek mythology
This shows that the word “sin” is linked to something that is missing the point, but also linked to the mythologies of Mesopotamia, the Sumerians. And it is the Greek gods, who’s gods has got more or less the same “form” the gods of the Sumerian mythologies had, that I discussed in Father Sky etc.
So maybe, we have not sinned as in did something “wrong”, maybe we have just all these aeons been missing the point and been lead to understand it now, by the way science has developed. As if you look at the 2 Thirds god and 1 Third human, named Bilmesh (Gilgamesh), he reigned about 26 000BC. And 26 the number linked to Einstein and Global Warming. And he was buried under a river or in a river(bed). Where a river(bed) is linked to the flow of time.
The Tigris and Euphrates rivers, the landmarks surrounding Mesopotamia
Tigris
Pahlavi tigr means “arrow”, in the same family as Old Persian tigra- “pointed” (compare tigra-xauda), Modern Persian têz “sharp”.
Euphrates
Modern names for the Euphrates may have been derived by popular etymology from the Sumerian and Akkadian names, respectively Buranun and Pu-rat-tu. The former appears in an inscription from the 22nd century BC[citation needed] associated with King Gudea.
Etymologically, the name “Euphrates” is the Greek form of the original name, Phrat, which means “fertilizing” or “fruitful”.[1]
Alternatively, the second half of the word Euphrates may also derive from either the Persian Ferat or the Greek φέρω (pronounced [fero]), both of which mean “to carry” or “to bring forward”.
FINAL CONCLUSION
So what I have shown now is that from the two rivers as to where Mesopotamia lies, and taken into account that Mesopotamia is in Mythology linked to the Greek Mythologies, which I have already discussed in for instance the part about “Father Sky”, I have shown that the Greek meaning for the word “sin” is (as in the Beginning of this writing), “to miss the point”. And I believe in this case: The Point of Balance or [0;0].
But the borders of Mesopotamia are two rivers (and as I said, the riverbed is the symbol of the flow of time, as well as this godlike King that was buried according to Myths in a river(bed)) have got in Tigris, the meaning “arrow” or “sharp”. And if you shoot an arrow – in order to hit the target, you must hit The Point (or then, The Point of Balance in this case of “sin”, The Point [0;0]). So you must be “sharp” to do that.
But from the other border, we have the meaning (in the flow of time), “to carry” or “to bring forward”. So “bringing forward” regarding for the “arrow” (in the flow of time), the two riverbeds bordering the Old Mesopotamia to reach The Point, it takes a sharp skill to let that arrow hit The Point of Balance, namely The Point [0;0] in order to bring forward The Truth about “SIN”.
And most of the information was obtained from Wikipedia, I just took what I needed and put together some of this information to get to the final conclusion.
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