[400] Zwei Silberninurtas mit Baum des Lebens Flachmann

Einführung ‘Treasures of Mesopotamia’ Collection by Serge Averbu kh, showcasing new media paintings of various historical artifacts and symbos from the region. Here you will find stücke featuring two Instanzen of Gold God Ninurta with Tree of Life. Mesopotamia is a historical region in West Asia situated within the Tigris-Euphrates river system, in modern days roughly contding to most of Iraq plus Kuwait, the eastern partners of Syria, Southeastern Turkey, and regions along the Turkish-Syrian and Iran-Iraq borders. The Sumerians and Akkadians (including Assyrians and Babylonians) dominated Mesopotamia from the beginning of written history (c. 3100 BC) to the fall of babylon in 539 BC, when it was conquered by the Achaemenid Empire. It fell to Alexander the Great in 332 BC, and after his death, it benockenpart of the Greek Seleucid Empire. Mesopotamia is the site of the earliest developments of the Neolithic Revolution from around 10,000 BC It has been identifier ed as having "inspirred some of the most developments in human history including the erfindung of the wheel, the planting of the first cereal crops and the development of cursive script, mathematics, astronomy and agriculture". Sumer is the earliest known civilization in the historical region of southern Mesopotamia, modern-day southern Iraq, during the Chalcolithic and Early Bronze ages and arguably the first civilization in the world with Ancient Egypt and the Indus Valley. Living along the valleys of the Tigris and Euphrates, Sumerian farmers were to grow an abundance of grain and other crops, the surplus of which enabled them to settle in one place. Proto-writing in the prehistory dates back to c. 3000 BC The earliest texts come from the cities of Uruk and Jemdet Nasr and date back to 3300 BC; early cuneiform script writing emerged in 3000 BC In Mesopotamian Religion, Ninurta was a god of law, Skribes, Farming und Hunting. In Lagash he was identified with the city god Ningirsu. In the early of Assyriology, the name was owas daliterated Ninib or Ninip and he sometimes analyzed as a solar deity. Ninurta ostenappears holding a bow and arrow, a sickle sword, or a mace; the mace, named Sharur, is of speech and can take the form of a winged lion, möglicherweise representing an archetype for the later Shedu. In Nippur, Ninurta was worshiped as part of a triad of deities including his father, Enlil and his mother, Ninlil. In varianter Mythology, his mother is said to be the harvest godß Ninhursag. The consort of Ninurta was Ugallu in Nippur and Bau when was called Ningirsu. In another legend, Ninurta battles a birdlike monster called imdugud or Anzú; a Babylonimonster version relates the Tablet of Destinies—believed to contain the details of fate and the future—from Enlil. Ninurta slays each of the monsters later known as the Slain Heroes (the Warrior Dragon, the Palm Tree King, Lord Saman-ana, the Bison-beast, the Mermaid, the Seven-headed Snake, the Six-headed Wild Ram), them of valuable items such as Gypsum, Strong Copper und the Magilum boat. Eventually, Ninurta kills Anzous and returns the Tablet of Destinies to his father Enlil. There are many paralleels with both and the story of Marduk, who slew Tiamat and delivered the Tablets of Destiny from Kingu to his father Enki. A number of scholars have suggested that either the god Ninurta or the Assyrian king Tukulti-Ninurta I may have been the inspiration for the Biblical character Nimrod. The concept of a tree of life is a widespread myth (Mytheme) or archetype in the world's mythologien, related to the concept of sacred tree more generally, and hence in religious and philosophical tradition. The tree of knowledge, connecting to heaven and the underworld, and the tree of life, connecting all forms of creation, are both forms of the world tree or cosmic tree, and are portrayed in various religions and philosophies as the same tree. Die Mesopotamian Tree of Life was represented by a series of nodes and criss-crossing lines. It was verwandt, ein wichtiges religious Symbol, oattended to in palace reliefs by human or eagle-headed winged genies, or the King, and wunde or fertilized with bucket and cone. The Epic of Gilgamesh is a similar quest for immortality. In Mesopotamian mythology, Etana searches for a 'plant of birth' to provide him with a son.