ARMENIAN JUNIPER Ki-Hi CEDAR Ki-DAR CYPRESS KiPAR
“Anu”, /-u/ being the Akkadian suffix for the
The phoneme, syllable Ki in Armenia is the name that represents the Juniper Tree գի, գիհի
noun Juniper tree, juniper. Hi/հի the suffix to Ki/գի suggests that the tree is feminine.
noun Juniper tree, juniper. Hi/հի the suffix to Ki/գի suggests that the tree is feminine.
In the Armenian language ուհի (-uhi) is like the English suffix -ess, -ette. It forms nouns denoting female gender. Best example is tʿaguhi, “queen”.
The sign used in the Sumerian pictogram for “earth, place”, was retained in the Cuneiform with the name “KI”. The Sumerian {e} appears usually as {i} in the cuneiform. “KI” was a very important cuneiform sign used for all syllables resembling /ke/ and also as a determinative for all toponyms, such as names of countries or cities.
The Cuneiform Ki (Borger 2003 nr. 737; U+121A0 𒆠) is the sign for "earth". It is also read as Gi, for example GUNNI (=KI.NE) "hearth", or read as KARAŠ again (=KI.KAL.BAD) "encampment, army", KISLAḪ (=KI.UD) "threshing floor". In Akkadian orthography, Ki functions as a determiner for toponyms and has the following syllabic values gi, ge, qi and qe.
The syllable, phoneme Ki is also said to have represented the earth goddess in Sumeria and Her chief consort the sky god was represented by the syllable, phoneme An.
The syllable, phoneme Ki is also said to have represented the earth goddess in Sumeria and Her chief consort the sky god was represented by the syllable, phoneme An.
Samuel Noah Kramer identifies Ki with the Sumerian mother goddess Ninhursag and claims that they were originally the same figure. Later the Ki was dropped and the Babylonian and Akkadian goddess Antu, consort of the god Anu (from the original Sumerian An) replaced Ki/Ninhursag. “Anu”, /-u/ is the later Akkadian suffix for the nominative case.
nominative case.
In some legends Ki and An were brother and sister and they were said to be the offspring of Anshar ("Sky Pivot") and Kishar ("Earth Pivot"), they were an early personification of heaven and earth. Ki by the agency of her consort Anu, the Sky, gave birth to the Anunnaki, and the most prominent of these deities was Enlil, god of the air.
The Sumerian cuniform sign for 'god' is mostly used for 'an' or as a determinative for writing the names of all deities. However, in later times, it seems that most Sumerians, especially in cities other than Uruk (where An was the patron deity), preferred to worship other deities (like Enlil, Enki etc.) more than An.
According to legends, heaven/Anu and earth/Ki were once inseparable until Enlil was born. Enlil is said to have cleaved heaven and earth in two to make space for himself, whereby An carried away heaven and Ki, in company with Enlil, took the earth.
Finally Sumerian Ki marries her son, Enlil and it is from this union that all the plants and animals, all life on earth is produced, comes forth.
Firs (Abies) are a genus of 48–56 species of evergreen coniferous trees in the family Pinaceae. They are large trees, reaching heights of 10–80 m (33–262 ft) tall with trunk diameters of 0.5–4 m (1 ft 8 in–13 ft 1 in) when mature. Firs can be distinguished from other members of the pine family by the way in which their needle-like leaves are attached singly to the branches with a base resembling a suction cup, and by their cones, which, like those of true cedars (Cedrus), stand upright on the branches like candles and disintegrate at maturity.
Cedar cones have a similar structure to fir cones and for many years in the past experts thought they were closely related. Identification of the different species is based on the size and shape of the cones, and whether the bract scales of the cones are long and exerted, or short and hidden inside the cone. This is the most relevant information when one is searching for the etymology of the family of coniferous trees which are in the larger plant family Panacea. The genus name is derived from the Latin "to rise" as a reference to their height.[2] The common English name originates with the Old Norse, fyri, or the Old Danish, fyr. In other words one is searching to find why or how the origin of the names for the Cedar, the Juniper and the Cypress all have the prefix Ki and suffix PR. The consonant cluster PR/BR is probably the origin of the word Fir (Abies) which today are about 45-55 species of evergreen trees all in the family Pinaceae.
Conifers are a group of cone-bearing seed plants, a subset of gymnosperms. Scientifically, they make up the division Pinophyta, also known as Coniferophyta or Coniferae. The division contains a single extant class, Pinopsida. All extant conifers are perennial woody plants with secondary growth. The great majority are trees and a few are shrubs. The main outstanding examples include the firs, cedars, cypresses and junipers.
Junipers, or Juniperus, make up a large genus of coniferous trees, which contain several specimens that bear the common name of cedar. These plants are evergreens that bear a similarity to the true cedar of the Middle East.
Junipers are coniferous trees and, the genus Juniperus of the cypress family Cupressaceae. The species of junipers are widely distributed throughout the Northern Hemisphere, from the Arctic, south to tropical Africa, throughout parts of western, central and southern Asia, east to eastern Tibet in the Old World, and in the mountains of Central America. The highest-known juniper forest occurs at an altitude of 16,000 ft (4,900 m) in southeastern Tibet and the northern Himalayas, creating one of the highest tree-lines on earth.The male cones are similar to those of other Cupressaceae, with six to 20 scales.A juniper berry is the female seed cone produced by the various species of junipers. It is not a true berry but a cone with unusually fleshy and merged scales, which gives it a berry-like appearance. The cones from a handful of species, especially Juniperus communis, are used as a spice, particularly in European cuisine, and also give gin its distinctive flavour. Juniper berries are among the only spices derived from conifers, along with spruce buds.In traditional medicine, juniper berries were used for female birth control. Juniper berries, including Juniperus phoenicea and Juniperus oxycedrus, have been found in ancient Egyptian tombs at multiple sites. J. oxycedrus is not known to grow in Egypt, and neither is Juniperus excelsa, which was found along with J. oxycedrus in the tomb of Tutankhamun. The berries imported into Egypt may have come from Greece; the Greeks record using juniper berries as a medicine long before mentioning their use in food. The Greeks used the berries in many of their Olympics events because of their belief that the berries increased physical stamina in athletes.
The name for Juniper is Ki in Armenian.
Mair/mother in Armenian, at the portal at Van, the door of Haldi, was the Cedar, 'Birth Mother Earth Tree', the Armenian word for the KDR, the Cedar, Mair.
The word Cedar translates literally to Mother. The tree that symbolized the feminine, the mother, as in primeval everlasting sap of life, spirit through mother earth. Ki, the eternal life force.
As a symbol, the Ceder/Juniper/Cypress also stand for longevity, strength and fertility. They had their origin in very early pure thought or religious symbolism. The Egyptians' substitute was a Holy Sycamore.
All symbolic axis trees stood on the threshold of life and death, connecting the two worlds ready to launch the spirit of the living and dead vertically to heaven. The tree of life represents the spiritual realm, where this duality does not exist. In fact the tree of life represents the spiritual realm, where duality could or should not exist or I prefer that the true path is the upright path from duality to UNITY, ASSY, KY. In the Book of Proverbs, the tree of life is associated with wisdom: "[Wisdom] is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her, and happy [is every one] that retaineth her." (Proverbs 3:13-18) In 15:4 the tree of life is associated with calmness: A soothing tongue,a word, a lyre, is a tree of life that lifts the spirit.
CEDAR is THE EVERGREEN:
Cypress is a common name for various coniferous trees or shrubs of northern temperate regions that belong to the family Cupressaceae. The word cypress is derived from Old French cipres, which was imported from Latin cypressus, the latinisation of the Greek κυπάρισσος (kyparissos).
Cypress, Cupressus sempervirens, was the first choice for Iranian gardens. In all of the famous Persian Gardens, such as Fin Garden, Shazdeh Garden, Dowlat-Abad, and others, this tree plays a central role in their design.[citation needed] The oldest living cypress is the Sarv-e-Abarkooh in Iran's Yazd Province. Its age is estimated to be approximately 4,000 years.In Jewish tradition, the cypress was held to be the wood used to build Noah's Ark and The Temple, and is mentioned as an idiom or metaphor in biblical passages, either referencing the tree's shape as an example of uprightness or its evergreen nature as an example of eternal beauty or health.In Greek mythology, besides Cyparissus, the cypress is also associated with Artemis and Hecate, a goddess of magic, crossroads and the underworld. The poet Ovid, how the handsome boy Cyparissus, a favorite of Apollo, accidentally killed a beloved tame stag and his grief and remorse were so inconsolable that he asked to weep forever. He was transformed into cupressus sempervirens, with the tree's sap as his tears.Cedrus, common English name cedar, is a genus of coniferous trees in the plant family Pinaceae (subfamily Abietoideae). Cedars share a very similar cone structure with the firs (Abies) and were traditionally thought to be most closely related to them.It was once said that a battle occurred between the demigods and the humans over the beautiful and divine forest of Cedar trees near southern Mesopotamia. This forest, once protected by the Sumerian god Enlil, was completely bared of its trees when humans entered its grounds 4700 years ago, after winning the battle against the guardians of the forest, the demigods. The story also tells that Gilgamesh used cedar wood to build his city.
Over the centuries, cedar wood was exploited by the Phoenicians, Egyptians, Israelites, Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, Romans, Arabs, and Turks. The Phoenicians used the Cedars for their merchant fleets. They needed timbers for their ships and the Cedar woods made them the “first sea trading nation in the world”. The Egyptians used cedar resin for the mummification process and the cedar wood for some of “their first hieroglyph bearing rolls of papyrus”. In the Bible, Solomon procured cedar timber to build the Temple in Jerusalem.
Over the centuries, cedar wood was exploited by the Phoenicians, Egyptians, Israelites, Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, Romans, Arabs, and Turks. The Phoenicians used the Cedars for their merchant fleets. They needed timbers for their ships and the Cedar woods made them the “first sea trading nation in the world”. The Egyptians used cedar resin for the mummification process and the cedar wood for some of “their first hieroglyph bearing rolls of papyrus”. In the Bible, Solomon procured cedar timber to build the Temple in Jerusalem.
It seems that YHVH was not too keen on the power the Cedar had over the people of the levant for it reads, "The voice of the Lord breaks the cedars; the Lord breaks in pieces the cedars of Lebanon" (Psalm 29:5)
The Etymology of both the Latin word cedrus and the generic name cedrus are derived from Greek κέδρος kédros. Ancient Greek and Latin used the same word, kédros and cedrus, respectively, for different species of plants now classified in the genera Cedrus and Juniperus (juniper). Species of both genera are native to the area where Greek language and culture originated, though as the word kédros does not seem to be derived from any of the languages of the Middle East, it has been suggested the word may originally have applied to Greek species of juniper and was later adopted for species now classified in the genus Cedrus because of the similarity of their aromatic woods. The name was similarly applied to citron and the word citrus is derived from the same root. However, as a loan word in English, cedar had become fixed to its biblical sense of Cedrus by the time of its first recorded usage in AD 1000.
CEDAR AS GREAT MOTHER EARTH. THE NAME IN ARMENIAN DaR = Tree.
Dur-ga, was the wife of Shiva, She was a protective warrior goddess who represented the empowering and protective nature of motherhood.
The Sanskrit word for "goddess"; represents the creative force on earth, as Maya and Prakriti, are the united force that galvanizes the divine ground of existence the self-projected into the cosmic and moral order.
The Cedar/Juniper of the cypress family Cupressaceae, was personified as a divinity, for It bestowed essential vital qualities, it represented the unity of the vital life forces of the sky and earth, the holy union between heaven and earth, a symbol of light from above of how the spirit turns to matter/mother.
As Orpheos was supposed to have said, "Green is the spirit turned to flesh".
Dur-ga, was the wife of Shiva, She was a protective warrior goddess who represented the empowering and protective nature of motherhood.
The Sanskrit word for "goddess"; represents the creative force on earth, as Maya and Prakriti, are the united force that galvanizes the divine ground of existence the self-projected into the cosmic and moral order.
The Cedar/Juniper of the cypress family Cupressaceae, was personified as a divinity, for It bestowed essential vital qualities, it represented the unity of the vital life forces of the sky and earth, the holy union between heaven and earth, a symbol of light from above of how the spirit turns to matter/mother.
As Orpheos was supposed to have said, "Green is the spirit turned to flesh".
Fundamentally, The Armenian Ki, as a SheTree of earth life, nature, nurture, Mother Earth was said to be in union with her Protector, Guardian Shepherd An, they declared everlasting love union life, yes, there is life in death also death in life.
She was omnipotent and sovereign on matters of the tomb, the underworld, death and the eternal, life after death, as well as preservation good health and fertility, for maidens and consorts was central from her earth axis.
The Cedar tree grows on a paradisaical mountain. Talking of fertility, it is wise to mention that it was said that the seeds of this tree TRIANGULAR were brought to earth by divine birds, not bees. We all gather in awe witnessing the presence of all the good gods come into one TREE, all beneath the shade of the tree that preserves life, which was planted by god the wind on the highest altitude of mountains, in a plateau garden, we now call paradise.
Juniper was a link to the god/goddess from the beginning of time, still used for incense today, it is used in Scottish and Gaelic Polytheist rites, such as those performed at Hogmanay (Ne Year), where the smoke of burning juniper is used to cleanse, bless and protect the household and its inhabitants.The wood is extensively used in landscaping and horticulture, as well as food, drink, fuel, shelter and household utensils. In Morocco, the tar of the 'arar tree' (Juniperus phoenicea) makes drinking water more fragrant and is said to be good for the teeth. Juniper berry sauce is a popular flavoring choice for quail, pheasant, veal, rabbit, venison and other hunt meat dishes.
She was omnipotent and sovereign on matters of the tomb, the underworld, death and the eternal, life after death, as well as preservation good health and fertility, for maidens and consorts was central from her earth axis.
The Cedar tree grows on a paradisaical mountain. Talking of fertility, it is wise to mention that it was said that the seeds of this tree TRIANGULAR were brought to earth by divine birds, not bees. We all gather in awe witnessing the presence of all the good gods come into one TREE, all beneath the shade of the tree that preserves life, which was planted by god the wind on the highest altitude of mountains, in a plateau garden, we now call paradise.
Juniper was a link to the god/goddess from the beginning of time, still used for incense today, it is used in Scottish and Gaelic Polytheist rites, such as those performed at Hogmanay (Ne Year), where the smoke of burning juniper is used to cleanse, bless and protect the household and its inhabitants.The wood is extensively used in landscaping and horticulture, as well as food, drink, fuel, shelter and household utensils. In Morocco, the tar of the 'arar tree' (Juniperus phoenicea) makes drinking water more fragrant and is said to be good for the teeth. Juniper berry sauce is a popular flavoring choice for quail, pheasant, veal, rabbit, venison and other hunt meat dishes.
Mair/mother in Armenian, at the portal at Van, the door of Haldi, was the Cedar, 'Birth Mother Earth Tree', the Armenian word for the KDR, the Cedar, Mair.
The word Cedar translates literally to Mother. The tree that symbolized the feminine, the mother, as in primeval everlasting sap of life, spirit through mother earth. Ki, the eternal life force.
As a symbol, the Ceder/Juniper/Cypress also stand for longevity, strength and fertility. They had their origin in very early pure thought or religious symbolism. The Egyptians' substitute was a Holy Sycamore.
All symbolic axis trees stood on the threshold of life and death, connecting the two worlds ready to launch the spirit of the living and dead vertically to heaven. The tree of life represents the spiritual realm, where this duality does not exist. In fact the tree of life represents the spiritual realm, where duality could or should not exist or I prefer that the true path is the upright path from duality to UNITY, ASSY, KY. In the Book of Proverbs, the tree of life is associated with wisdom: "[Wisdom] is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her, and happy [is every one] that retaineth her." (Proverbs 3:13-18) In 15:4 the tree of life is associated with calmness: A soothing tongue,a word, a lyre, is a tree of life that lifts the spirit.
CEDAR is THE EVERGREEN:
Consider the origin of the name - Khidr or (Arabic: الخضر al-Khiḍr; also transcribed as al Kha-dir, Khader/Khadr, Khidr. Khider is a figure described in the Quran as a righteous servant of God, possessing great wisdom or mystic knowledge. In various Islamic and non-Islamic traditions, Khider is described as a messenger, prophet, wali. Amazingly ai-Khider has been syncretized over time with various other figures including but not limited to Vishnu in India, Sorūsh in Iran, Saint Sarkis the Warrior, Saint George in Asia Minor and the Levant, and John the Baptist in Armenia. Present etymology suggests, because of the linguistic similarities and shared etymology between the name "al-khidr" and the Arabic word for green ("al-akhdar" or "al-khadra", and the fact that the name "al-khidr" shares exactly the same triliteral root as the word "al-khadra" - a root found in multiple Semitic languages meaning "green" or "verdant", the meaning of the name has traditionally usually been taken colloquially and academically to be "the Green One" or "the Verdant One."
Orpheus speaking of light, spirit, god said Green is the color made flesh.
Etymology of Bear a verb bear has very deep, tenacious roots. It was beran in Old English, and this in turn was a development from an Indo-European root which already had the dual meanings of 'carry' and 'give birth'. Old English beran "to carry, bring; bring forth, give birth to, produce; to endure without resistance; to support, hold up, sustain; to wear" (class IV strong verb; past tense bær, past participle boren), from Proto-Germanic *beranan (source also of Old Saxon beran, Old Frisian bera "bear, give birth," Middle Dutch beren "carry a child," Old High German beran, German gebären, Old Norse bera "carry, bring, bear, endure; give birth," Gothic bairan "to carry, bear, give birth to"), from PIE root *bher- (1) "carry a burden, bring," also "give birth" (though only English and German strongly retain this sense, and Russian has beremennaya "pregnant").
Orpheus speaking of light, spirit, god said Green is the color made flesh.
Noah's Ark was made of cedar.
DSAR: The etymology of Armenian Dar for tree and as a root for upright is as in *dreu-, Proto-Indo-European root meaning "be firm, solid, steadfast," with specialized senses "wood," "tree" and derivatives referring to objects made of wood. It forms all or part of: betroth; Dante; dendrite; dendro-; dendrochronology; dour; Druid; drupe; dryad; dura mater; durable; durance; duration; duress; during; durum; endure; hamadryad; indurate; obdurate; perdurable; philodendron; rhododendron; shelter; tar (n.1) "viscous liquid;" tray; tree; trig (adj.) "smart, trim;" trim; troth; trough; trow; truce; true; trust; truth; tryst.
It is the hypothetical source of/evidence for its existence is provided by: Sanskrit dru "tree, wood," daru "wood, log, timber;" Greek drys "oak," drymos "copse, thicket," doru "beam, shaft of a spear;" Old Church Slavonic drievo "tree, wood," Serbian drvo "tree," drva "wood," Russian drevo "tree, wood," Czech drva, Polish drwa "wood;" Lithuanian drūtas "firm," derva "pine, wood;" Welsh drud, Old Irish dron "strong," Welsh derw "true," Old Irish derb "sure," Old Irish daur, Welsh derwen "oak;" Albanian drusk "oak;" Old English treo, treow "tree," triewe "faithful, trustworthy, honest.
It is the hypothetical source of/evidence for its existence is provided by: Sanskrit dru "tree, wood," daru "wood, log, timber;" Greek drys "oak," drymos "copse, thicket," doru "beam, shaft of a spear;" Old Church Slavonic drievo "tree, wood," Serbian drvo "tree," drva "wood," Russian drevo "tree, wood," Czech drva, Polish drwa "wood;" Lithuanian drūtas "firm," derva "pine, wood;" Welsh drud, Old Irish dron "strong," Welsh derw "true," Old Irish derb "sure," Old Irish daur, Welsh derwen "oak;" Albanian drusk "oak;" Old English treo, treow "tree," triewe "faithful, trustworthy, honest.
Etymology Berry (source also of Old Norse ber, Middle Dutch bere, German Beere "berry;" Old Saxon winberi, Gothic weinabasi "grape"), which is of unknown origin.
JUNIPER FROM KNPR, CYPRESS FROM KPR CEDER FROM KDR.
Starting with the etymology of the Juniper, the KNPR.
The names of juniper in several European languages, especially Romance languages, derive from the same name Juniper Besides English juniper, we have Dutch jeneveres, Italian ginepro, Spanish genebro (Old Spanish ginebro), Provençal genèbre, Romanian ienupăr and even Hebrew juniper [ג’וניפר]. In English, the French loan juniper supplanted the Old English name of that plant, cwicbēam life-tree (modern quickbeam), which was also used for rowan (mountain ash, Sorbus aucupar.)
The K, Ki, represents the evergreen, everlasting spirit of life on earth and is common to all three trees. DR means TREE in Proto Armenian and PIE, thus KiDaR originally translated simply to Ki TREE. K-D-R represented The Everlasting Green Spirit of Life on Earth. The Sumerian Ki united with An. KN therfore represented the union between heaven and earth, KN on the vertical. BR/PR signifies, birth death and rebirth, 'time' an in A-Z, the vector of life, original Alfa-Omega BR/PR, the BEARER of the flow of life.
Gi-AN-KI, GIANK in Armenian means LIFE, Gi=EARTH, AN-K the union of heaven and earth, the cause of LIFE. The Egyptian Ankh is the same concept same phonetic as Sumerian AnKi.
The Juniper was the tree of Life and Death. The Juniper Tree, is an apothecary which translates to (a grace from god,) for humanity, the community, an apothecary especially for the life bearers, pregnant mothers, both prenatal and postnatal. In fact the Juniper offers so many medicines to humans, that it could be said to be, a one stop apothecary. The use of juniper berries as a female contraceptive is well known. Nicholas Culpeper also recommended the ripened berries to help to speed childbirth. From the sacred juice of its fruit, the berry/cone SHE Armenian KiHi made into a drink, that has the power to abort life.
Gi-AN-KI, GIANK in Armenian means LIFE, Gi=EARTH, AN-K the union of heaven and earth, the cause of LIFE. The Egyptian Ankh is the same concept same phonetic as Sumerian AnKi.
The Juniper was the tree of Life and Death. The Juniper Tree, is an apothecary which translates to (a grace from god,) for humanity, the community, an apothecary especially for the life bearers, pregnant mothers, both prenatal and postnatal. In fact the Juniper offers so many medicines to humans, that it could be said to be, a one stop apothecary. The use of juniper berries as a female contraceptive is well known. Nicholas Culpeper also recommended the ripened berries to help to speed childbirth. From the sacred juice of its fruit, the berry/cone SHE Armenian KiHi made into a drink, that has the power to abort life.
Ki-Bar Is the etymological origin of the word Cypress
Ki-NI-Bar is the etymological origin of the word Juniper
Ki-Dar is the etymological origin of the word Cedar.
Ki-Dar is the etymological origin of the word Cedar.
Budukh or Budugh (Будад мез, Budad mez) is a Samur language of the Northeast Caucasian language family spoken in parts of the Quba Rayon of Azerbaijan. It is spoken by about 200 of approximately 1,000 ethnic Budukhs. Budukh is a severely endangered language, and classified as such by UNESCO's Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger.In the Budukh language the word дар • (dar) a noun meaning tree is guessed to have possibly its etymology from Persian دار when it is obvious that it comes from Armenian, Budugh's next door neighbour. It is not cognate or borrowed from Armenian դար (dar, “high place, precipice”) but from ծառ pronounced Dsar a noun for Tree.
The above monolog one hopes established the foundation on which I wish to put forward my thesis, or my hypothesis that the Armenian "Tree of Life" the Armenians call the Ki, or KiHi is the prefix to the Juniper Tree (for the rest of the Indo-European speaking groups,) as well as the Cypress and the Cedar. All three life/death trees of the levant.
I posit that the Sumerian choice for the word Ki to represent their idea of an Earth Pivot or one might say their Axis Mundi (Ki was also an earth goddess in later Sumerian religion, she was the chief consort of the sky god An. In some legends Ki and An were brother and sister, being the offspring of An-shar ("Sky Pivot") and Ki-shar ("Earth Pivot"), earlier personifications of heaven and earth.) It is very relevant that Ki gave birth to Anunnaki. According to legends, heaven and earth were once inseparable until Enlil was born; Enlil cleaved heaven and earth in two. An carried away heaven. Ki, in company with Enlil, took the earth. Ki marries her son, Enlil, and from this union all the plant and animal life on earth is produced. However the vertical line continued, continues to show that the two still interact. This vertical line was and still is in the minds eye the evergreen eternal fir trees, namely the Ki-Na-Pa-Re, the Ki-Pa-Re and the Ki-Da -Re.The Ki was the original tree on the Mesa of Armenia, in a par-dez, a garden/paradise, originally on the top of the highest peaks of the Caucuses
IN ARMENIAN JUNIPER TREE is Ki WHICH STANDS FOR LIFE & DEATH.
IN ARMENIAN the name of the CEDAR TREE is Mair which translates to Mother.MAIR/MOTHER IS FOR THE CEDAR/KI-DAR.
The Divine Mother was seen as that creative force in nature that bears all life and nurtures everything. If we are spiritual in life, we owe it to the grace of our Divine Mother. The active agent, the quintessence. Queen of Heaven, Annassa In Cyprus, was in Akkad, after the fall of Sumer, worshiped as Ishtar, the Is=love union, tar=tree. Inanna in earliest Sumerian cuneiform, Inanna's name is derived from Nin-anna "Queen of Heaven" in the 3rd millennium BC.
She represented the idea of a "Heavenly Earth Mother" emphasizing the divine feminine aspects of a Goddess, a unified thus unifying being of feminine characteristics. This fundamental unified, unifying concept of paradise has faded from our memory.
The world tree is a motif present in several religions and mythologies, particularly early Indo-European religions. The world tree is represented as a colossal tree which supports the heavens, thereby connecting the heavens, the terrestrial world, and, through its roots, the underworld. It would also be strongly connected to the motif of the tree of life.
Medieval Greek folk traditions and more recent folklore claim that the tree that holds the Earth is being sawed by Kallikantzaroi (commonly translated as goblins).
The Ki tree is also represented as a PRESERVING PROTECTIVE BIRTH/DEATH TREE.
Ki/Juniper with its fragrant wood, moist needles and plump blue berries is said to have the protective power to ward off evil, dispelling negative energies, entities and illnesses. As such, Juniper is often used as an incense to fumigate spaces and purify the air within them. It is also considered a guardian of the threshold between this world and the next, and is used in rites of passage, shamanic journeys and for communing with the spirit of nature.
Names of juniper besides English are found in several European languages, especially Romance languages, all derive from that name juniper, we have Dutch jeneverbes, Italian ginepro, Spanish enebro (Old Spanish ginebro), Provençal genèbre, Romanian ienupăr and even Hebrew juniper [ג’וניפר].
Juniperus excelsa, commonly called the Greek juniper, is a juniper found throughout the eastern Mediterranean, from northeastern Greece and southern Bulgaria across Turkey to Syria and Lebanon, and the Caucasus mountains.
A subspecies, J. excelsa subsp. polycarpos, known as the Persian juniper, occurs in the Alborz and other mountains of Iran east to northwestern Pakistan
CEDAR TREE THE KDR ARMENIAN MAIR/MOTHER
EARTH MOTHER A SACRED TREE
The world tree is a motif present in many religions and mythologies, particularly early Indo-European religions. The world tree is represented as a colossal tree which supports the heavens, thereby connecting the heavens, the terrestrial world, and, through its roots, the underworld. It would also be strongly connected to the motif of the tree of life.
Cedar mythology was ancient long before the Bible was written. Cedrus has four primary species and was associated with a Goddess in each species' native location, either as consort of the God, or personified as itself female, or as a uniting connector between the Earthmother and the Male God.
Long before the Cedar of Lebanon was introduced to European gardens (in the late 1700s) it was already legendary; proverbial. It is the most impressive tree mentioned in the Bible, veritably personified as a monarch [2 Kings 14:9], akin to giant people [Amos 2:9], to whom even God sings praises of honor [Ezek 27:5].
YAYWEH JEALOUS
The record states that Yahweh rises against the Cedar [Isa 2:13; 37:24; etc].
Yahweh regards the Cedar as one of those Other Gods of which He confesses jealousy in the Decalog.
ERETZ EARTH MOTHER The usual Hebrew word for cedar, erez, is of mysterious origin, possibly derived from Arabic which probably means "Mighty," Ezek 27:24. It is a synonym for El, the consort of the Goddess Asherah of the sea; head of an extensive Semitic pantheon. El's name was co-opted as a name of Yahweh. Every member of Israel was destined to share the traits of happiness and mightiness of the Cedars of Lebanon [Nm 24:6]. It is my understanding that Erez is homonymous with Eretz, at root, normatively is "Earth", but a feminine Earth, the word literally, esoterically, means "Earthmother" which sense is often preserved in the Torah, personifying the Earth as a motherly figure, alternately by the names Eretz Adamah (Red Earthmother) who gave birth to Adam.
ARTEMIS KALI APHRODITE ROOT OF WISDOM
In Anatolia (Turkey) the Cedar of Lebanon was associated with a particularly violent form of Artemis. In the Himalayas the Deodor Cedar was associated with the equally violent Kali Durga, called the Root of the Tree of the Universe of Wisdom. And the Cyprus Cedar, from the island of Cyprus, was identified with Aphrodite Urania who killed or castrated her lovers & was much more like the violent Artemis & Kali than the Goddess of Love we today associate with the name Aphrodite.
GILGAMESH& THE GREAT MOTHER
The Cedar of Lebanon also figures in an early episode of the oldest of religious tales, The Epic of Gilgamesh. Gilgamesh encountered a horrifying monster amidst the cedars. He was protected from this beast by the Sun-god Shamash (for whom the biblical Samson is named) & by his mother's amulet (as Samson's power resulted mainly from his mother's instruction). When Gilgamesh destroyed the monster he believed himself ready to become the husband of the Great Mother, Ishtar Inanna, though Ishtar didn't quite agree. with that he meets thereafter a Wine-goddess.
LEBANON/LEBNAH FULL MOON
The name of Lebanon is the same as the semitic Moon-goddess Lebanah, "She That Is White." It is no coincidence that the word for Cedar, Erez, is nearly homonymous with Hebrew words meaning heat, or sun, so that we also find the Cedar associated with Sun-gods & weather-gods throughout the biblical world. In ancient Egypt the ceremonial barge of the god Amon-Re was made of cedars, & an ancient record states specifically that the cedar wood came from Lebanon. The idea of a Moon-goddess connected with a Sun-god via the highest cedar is not merely suggestive of Artemis & Apollo, Anath & Baal, Delilah & Samson, David & Bathsheba, but is still of signal importance in medieval & modern Kabbalah. The sephirotic emanation of god known as Tiphereth (Beauty) dwells at the center of the Sephiroth Tree & is the sephirah most closely identified with Yahweh. Tiphereth is united weekly on the Sabbath with the lowermost or most earthly sephirah, Malkhuth the Lower Shekhinah or female emanation of God. Tiphereth & Malkhuth are united weekly in cunubial bliss [Zohar II:2b, 3a, 51b] which is why the Sabbath is the day kabbalists regard most erotic & fertile. Malkhuth means "Kingdom" & represents Israel as the Bride of God; the word is a very close pun for "Queen," Malka, the Queen of Heaven whom the women of Israel spoke of to Jeremiah is by later kabbalists considered to be one & the same with the Divine Shekhinah (though of course in Jeremiah's day it meant Anath, who was Yahweh's bride at Bethel, & remained so among the Jews of Elephantine well into the Christian era).
According to the kabbalistic understanding, it was Tiphereth who called out from Mount Sinai to the Shekhinah, "Come with me from Lebanon, my bride, come with me from Lebanon" [Song 4:8], while in the same erotic Song, Solomon identifies Lebanah (the Moon) as the ideal of feminine beauty [6:10].
Isaiah uses the name Lebanah when personifying the Moon as confounded by God [Isa 2:23], & again in the allegory of a heavenly future where Lebanah will be made to be as bright as the Sun, & the Sun made seven times as bright. A nearly feminist Jewish myth, founded upon Isaiah 30:26, recounts how Queen Lebanah, made on the fourth day of creation (one day after the Cedars were brought forth), was originally the equal of King Sun (Shemesh). But she sought to rule the sky, & to rule the Sun, thus God punished her, making the Sun master. Such Goddess usurpation myths occurred wherever goddess culture was supplanted by a preference for Her consort. The nostalgic myth further asserts that Israel's Golden Age, under Solomon, was the only time when the Sun & Moon regained their former equal brightness, when the Father & the Mother were in perfect accord receiving equal honors.
In Kabbalah, the clearly non-monotheistic biblical verses that incite such myths are explained by making the Many Emanations of God our limited way of comprehending aspects of a One too vast for humanity to perceive in the entirety; & that is also why God has so many names that are plural, as is the case with Elohim ("gods") & Adonai ("Adonises"), or which are feminine plurals, as with Sabaoth or otherwise feminine like the preferred Aramaic name Shekhinah, God being thus simultaneously Earthmother. In ancient times it probably was just understood as a pantheon, period, though the notion of the process of emanation is very old in Sanskrit literature & not necessarily unknown to very ancient Semitic peoples.
Other biblical lore asserts that Joshua anointed a book of prophesies with cedar oil;
The throne of Nimrod/NOAH was carved of a great cedar, later becoming the throne of Solomon;
a cedar grew from Jacob's grave; &
Noah's Ark was made of cedar.
Jehoiachin believed that to "nest among cedars" would protect him against harsh judgement.
Psalm 92:12 says that because the Cedars of Lebanon were the most upright of trees, they symbolize all of Israel as the most upright of nations. This is why Ezekiel 17:22-23 speaks of God moving the Israelites into the promised land as though He had plucked cedars from the mountains to transplant them elsewhere.
A GATE
Expanding on Psalm 104:16 which notes that God personally planted the first Cedars of Lebanon, & the "Cedar Gate" mythology cited above, midrash asserts God brought forth the Cedars on the third day of Creation. Those first cedars still stand, forming a living barrier between our world & that of Paradise; or, the walls of Paradise are made of glass & shingled with cedar planks; or the cedars God made on the third day were in a troubled time transplanted in Paradise, where they grew to such extravagant height their former enormity was by comparison the size of the legs of locusts.
ASHERAH GROVES
Psalm 29 was originally a hymn to Baal Hadad. Descriptions of Yahweh as master of the sea, his appearance on a mountain in the midst of storm, & his temple made of Cedar are repeated from Ugaritic descriptions of Baal. In the Poem of Baal, which actually stars his sister Anath, the Artemis-like Huntress Goddess built Her brother a temple out of cedar because the other gods made fun of Baal for being the only god who had no house. This may allude to his worship having formerly been exclusively out of doors in the sacred groves of his mother Asherah Who skims the surface of the Sea. Since the wood of the ships were made of Cedar.
She represented the idea of a "Heavenly Earth Mother" emphasizing the divine feminine aspects of a Goddess, a unified thus unifying being of feminine characteristics. This fundamental unified, unifying concept of paradise has faded from our memory.
Medieval Greek folk traditions and more recent folklore claim that the tree that holds the Earth is being sawed by Kallikantzaroi (commonly translated as goblins).
THE JUNIPER TREE AND BERRY, are referred to as the metaphysical DEVA TREE. A Deva or Devi is from Sanskrit and it means "heavenly, divine, anything of excellence".
The 'Ki' and or KiHi is the original name for the Tree of Life or the Cosmic Tree of Armenia. It is pronounced KEY. Written in Armenian as follows գի, գիհի, noun Juniper tree, juniper.
KI-HI is an Armenian word with its root Ki from Sumerian, as is HO-KI which in Armenian is հոգի, a noun for soul, spirit, ghost; person; the Holy Ghost; life, fiend, a goblin, an individual. With the Ho prefix or the Hi suffix with the root Ki which in Sumerian represented the vertical axis marking the earth, pointing to the heavens, the N, the idea of the Juniper tree as the KN the etymology of both Armenian words HoKi and KiHi reveal themselves. For with the introduction of the H which represented the LIVING SPIRIT OR SOUL one has indicated the meaning that the TREE, The EARTH AXIS BEARS, BR in union with the Armenian phoneme Ho, letter H, representing the Breath of Life, the living spirit the idea of the TREE OF LIFE.
The Cypriot 'Kyparisi' the K*BR tree, or rather the Apollonian Tree of eternal lament, that gave its name to the Cypress is also known in Hindi as the DiVa, A DIVINE ETERNAL LIFE BEARER.The 'Ki' and or KiHi is the original name for the Tree of Life or the Cosmic Tree of Armenia. It is pronounced KEY. Written in Armenian as follows գի, գիհի, noun Juniper tree, juniper.
KI-HI is an Armenian word with its root Ki from Sumerian, as is HO-KI which in Armenian is հոգի, a noun for soul, spirit, ghost; person; the Holy Ghost; life, fiend, a goblin, an individual. With the Ho prefix or the Hi suffix with the root Ki which in Sumerian represented the vertical axis marking the earth, pointing to the heavens, the N, the idea of the Juniper tree as the KN the etymology of both Armenian words HoKi and KiHi reveal themselves. For with the introduction of the H which represented the LIVING SPIRIT OR SOUL one has indicated the meaning that the TREE, The EARTH AXIS BEARS, BR in union with the Armenian phoneme Ho, letter H, representing the Breath of Life, the living spirit the idea of the TREE OF LIFE.
The Ki tree is also represented as a PRESERVING PROTECTIVE BIRTH/DEATH TREE.
Ki/Juniper with its fragrant wood, moist needles and plump blue berries is said to have the protective power to ward off evil, dispelling negative energies, entities and illnesses. As such, Juniper is often used as an incense to fumigate spaces and purify the air within them. It is also considered a guardian of the threshold between this world and the next, and is used in rites of passage, shamanic journeys and for communing with the spirit of nature.
Names of juniper besides English are found in several European languages, especially Romance languages, all derive from that name juniper, we have Dutch jeneverbes, Italian ginepro, Spanish enebro (Old Spanish ginebro), Provençal genèbre, Romanian ienupăr and even Hebrew juniper [ג’וניפר].
In English, the French loan juniper supplanted the Old English name of that plant, cwicbēam life-tree (modern quickbeam), which was also used for rowan (mountain ash, Sorbus aucupar.)
Junipers are coniferous plants in the genus Juniperus /dʒuːˈnɪpərəs/ of the cypress family Cupressaceae.Juniperus excelsa, commonly called the Greek juniper, is a juniper found throughout the eastern Mediterranean, from northeastern Greece and southern Bulgaria across Turkey to Syria and Lebanon, and the Caucasus mountains.
A subspecies, J. excelsa subsp. polycarpos, known as the Persian juniper, occurs in the Alborz and other mountains of Iran east to northwestern Pakistan
The world tree is a motif present in many religions and mythologies, particularly early Indo-European religions. The world tree is represented as a colossal tree which supports the heavens, thereby connecting the heavens, the terrestrial world, and, through its roots, the underworld. It would also be strongly connected to the motif of the tree of life.
Cedar mythology was ancient long before the Bible was written. Cedrus has four primary species and was associated with a Goddess in each species' native location, either as consort of the God, or personified as itself female, or as a uniting connector between the Earth Mother and the Male God.
There seems to be a confusion as to what the first or original consonant was or should for the Juniper, Tree Of Life as well as the Ceder the Mother Tree Of Life and the Cypress the Tree of life and death, all three eternal. Was it the K, the G, the J or the Y ) In the Indo-European languages the overwhelming majority agree on the consonant G for the Juniper, the C for the Cyprus and the C for the Cedar.
We know that from the beginning of the split from Sumerian the K and the G were confused for the K represented the Axis on Earth and the G represented the Earth, sometimes as Mother Earth.
I would posit that the K Consonant and or the Ki/Ky phoneme syllable with the original Sumerian meaning is the correct choice for in all three cases the Juniper ,the Cypress and the Cedar all eastern Mediterranean evergreens used the Sumerian language and logos from its conception up to the arrival of the Alphabet.
The following consonants for Juniper are NPR, for the Cypress tri-literal PR and for the Cedar DR. Thus we have J/G/KNPR and C/KPR and C/KDR.
The Fir or BR/PR is the birth tree, in Armenian the Ki the Juniper is the birth tree. Etymology of Juni tree, Yoni, Uni, Oni, One. One begins with the Circle and or the cycle represents the all, the whole, first the Arch-symbol of Life.
The etymology given today regarding the noun CEDAR is limited, it goes no further than Greek.
Ancient Greek and Latin used the same word, kédros and cedrus, respectively, for species now classified in the genera Cedrus (Cedar) and Juniperus (juniper). Wikipedia also tells us that the Juniper and Cedar are coniferous, cone bearing trees of the family Cupressaceae, that is especially of the genera Juniperus, Cupressus.
Wikipedia goes on to say that the species of both genera are native to the areas where PIE/Greek language and culture originated.
It has been suggested, that the Greek word Kedros may originally have also applied to the junipers and only later was classified in the genus Cedrus.
Cedar mythology was ancient long before the Bible was written. Cedrus has four primary species and was associated with a Goddess in each species' native location, either as consort of the God, or personified as itself female, or as a uniting connector between the Earth Mother and the Male God.
We know that from the beginning of the split from Sumerian the K and the G were confused for the K represented the Axis on Earth and the G represented the Earth, sometimes as Mother Earth.
I would posit that the K Consonant and or the Ki/Ky phoneme syllable with the original Sumerian meaning is the correct choice for in all three cases the Juniper ,the Cypress and the Cedar all eastern Mediterranean evergreens used the Sumerian language and logos from its conception up to the arrival of the Alphabet.
The following consonants for Juniper are NPR, for the Cypress tri-literal PR and for the Cedar DR. Thus we have J/G/KNPR and C/KPR and C/KDR.
The Fir or BR/PR is the birth tree, in Armenian the Ki the Juniper is the birth tree. Etymology of Juni tree, Yoni, Uni, Oni, One. One begins with the Circle and or the cycle represents the all, the whole, first the Arch-symbol of Life.
The etymology given today regarding the noun CEDAR is limited, it goes no further than Greek.
Ancient Greek and Latin used the same word, kédros and cedrus, respectively, for species now classified in the genera Cedrus (Cedar) and Juniperus (juniper). Wikipedia also tells us that the Juniper and Cedar are coniferous, cone bearing trees of the family Cupressaceae, that is especially of the genera Juniperus, Cupressus.
Wikipedia goes on to say that the species of both genera are native to the areas where PIE/Greek language and culture originated.
It has been suggested, that the Greek word Kedros may originally have also applied to the junipers and only later was classified in the genus Cedrus.
ASTGHIK AN ANCIENT GODDESS OF ARMENIA TRANSLATES TO 'GUIDING STAR' IS ALSO KNOWN AS THE 'LADY OF THE JUNIPER'.
Ki IN ARMENIAN is the JUNIPER TREE.
Ki IN ARMENIAN is the JUNIPER TREE.
In Sumerian mythology Ki is the earth goddess. In Akkadian orthography Gi has the syllabic values gi,ge,qi,qe (for toponyms only). Some scholars identify her with Ninhursag (lady of the mountains), the earth and fertility mother goddess, who had the surnames Nintu (lady of birth), Mamma, and Aruru.
The Vartavar festival devoted to Astghik that had once been celebrated in mid July was transformed into the Christian holiday of the Transfiguration of Christ, and is still celebrated by the Armenians. As in pre-Christian times, on the day of this fest the people release doves and sprinkle water on each other with wishes of health and good luck.
Astghik was originally the goddess creator of heaven and earth, and later with her demotion to maiden, Aramazd, became creator (as all sun cults rising to power, began to be worshiped sun god personifications) and Anahit that had been worshiped as Great Lady and Mother Deity (the moon being worshiped as her personification), she forms a trinity in the pantheon of Armenian deities. In the period of Hellenistic influence, Astghik became similar to the Greek Aphrodite and the Mesopotamian Ishtar.
The Vartavar festival devoted to Astghik that had once been celebrated in mid July was transformed into the Christian holiday of the Transfiguration of Christ, and is still celebrated by the Armenians. As in pre-Christian times, on the day of this fest the people release doves and sprinkle water on each other with wishes of health and good luck.
Astghik was originally the goddess creator of heaven and earth, and later with her demotion to maiden, Aramazd, became creator (as all sun cults rising to power, began to be worshiped sun god personifications) and Anahit that had been worshiped as Great Lady and Mother Deity (the moon being worshiped as her personification), she forms a trinity in the pantheon of Armenian deities. In the period of Hellenistic influence, Astghik became similar to the Greek Aphrodite and the Mesopotamian Ishtar.
Her name is the diminutive of Armenian աստղ astɫ, meaning "star", and all star goddesses were originally called Night goddesses including the morning and evening star (Venus) which from Proto-Indo-European *h₂stḗr is cognate to Sanskrit stṛ, Avestan star, Pahlavi star, Persian sitará, Pashto storai, Greek ἀστήρ etc.
Her principal seat was in Ashtishat (Taron), located to the North from Mush, where her chamber was dedicated to the name of Vahagn, the personification of a sun-god, her lover or husband according to popular tales, and had been named "Vahagn's bedroom". A FOUR POSTER, CABIRIUM.
It is a common motif in various world theologies, mythologies, and philosophies. In ancient Armenia, the Tree of Life (Կենաց Ծառ) continued over time as a religious symbol and was also drawn on walls of fortresses and carved on the armour of warriors. According to ancient Armenians the center of the Universe is located at the crown of the tree or the column, which is the closest to the sky which is the highest surviving tree in our atmosphere. In the poems and riddles, the Armenian Tree of Life, is he tree mostly symbolizes the celestial with the other phenomena (Dawn, Sun, Stars, and Heavens). Also celebrated are different units of Astronomic time, Constellations (years, months, weeks, days, and seasons), and in most recent of time the Tree represented the people, Jerusalem, the apostles and Jesus Christ.
Few images link the realms of Earth and heaven as simply or elegantly as that of a towering tree, one rooted in the mortal world yet aspiring upwards toward the firmament. The figure of a “tree of life” has long played a role in art and myth across the globe, from the vital tree at the heart of the Garden of Eden to the Bodhi Tree under which Siddhartha Gautama is said to have attained enlightenment to the ash tree bridging the nine worlds of Norse cosmology.
Armenia’s engagement with the tree of life motif runs especially deep, says Abrahamian, dating back to unrecorded time prior to the dawn of Christianity. As Armenian symbolic anthropologist Levon Abrahamian explains, sigils on ancient figurines illustrate that people from the region revered the image of the tree long before the crystallization of a coherent Armenian national identity. Even humble kitchenware speaks to the enduring importance of the tree of life in the Armenian household. “Vessels used in the kitchen for keeping oil or other products often have a primitive tree design," symbolizing life-giving properties of the Juniper tree.
Abrahamian says. The iconography “can be traced back as far as Armenian culture can be identified,” he asserts—“some three thousand years.” I assert some five thousand years, for we have a language that defines the culture that can be traced back to the middle of the third millennium.
The WORD Ki represented the World Axis, Ground Zero, in Sumeria.
THE WORD KI IN ARMENIAN refers to the JUNIPER and ASTGHIK was known as the LADY OF THE JUNIPER as well as the GUIDING STAR (the planet Venus).
R represents the eternal cycle
T represents the fixed, the vertical and horizontal
B represents the break through a beginning
D represents the fifth element, wood
R in time in space is often represented by the Sun.
THE EARLIEST SUMERIAN Ki signified all existence, EARTH LIFE, the Sumerian eN signified highest HEAV-eN.
Her principal seat was in Ashtishat (Taron), located to the North from Mush, where her chamber was dedicated to the name of Vahagn, the personification of a sun-god, her lover or husband according to popular tales, and had been named "Vahagn's bedroom". A FOUR POSTER, CABIRIUM.
It is a common motif in various world theologies, mythologies, and philosophies. In ancient Armenia, the Tree of Life (Կենաց Ծառ) continued over time as a religious symbol and was also drawn on walls of fortresses and carved on the armour of warriors. According to ancient Armenians the center of the Universe is located at the crown of the tree or the column, which is the closest to the sky which is the highest surviving tree in our atmosphere. In the poems and riddles, the Armenian Tree of Life, is he tree mostly symbolizes the celestial with the other phenomena (Dawn, Sun, Stars, and Heavens). Also celebrated are different units of Astronomic time, Constellations (years, months, weeks, days, and seasons), and in most recent of time the Tree represented the people, Jerusalem, the apostles and Jesus Christ.
Few images link the realms of Earth and heaven as simply or elegantly as that of a towering tree, one rooted in the mortal world yet aspiring upwards toward the firmament. The figure of a “tree of life” has long played a role in art and myth across the globe, from the vital tree at the heart of the Garden of Eden to the Bodhi Tree under which Siddhartha Gautama is said to have attained enlightenment to the ash tree bridging the nine worlds of Norse cosmology.
Armenia’s engagement with the tree of life motif runs especially deep, says Abrahamian, dating back to unrecorded time prior to the dawn of Christianity. As Armenian symbolic anthropologist Levon Abrahamian explains, sigils on ancient figurines illustrate that people from the region revered the image of the tree long before the crystallization of a coherent Armenian national identity. Even humble kitchenware speaks to the enduring importance of the tree of life in the Armenian household. “Vessels used in the kitchen for keeping oil or other products often have a primitive tree design," symbolizing life-giving properties of the Juniper tree.
Abrahamian says. The iconography “can be traced back as far as Armenian culture can be identified,” he asserts—“some three thousand years.” I assert some five thousand years, for we have a language that defines the culture that can be traced back to the middle of the third millennium.
The WORD Ki represented the World Axis, Ground Zero, in Sumeria.
THE WORD KI IN ARMENIAN refers to the JUNIPER and ASTGHIK was known as the LADY OF THE JUNIPER as well as the GUIDING STAR (the planet Venus).
ASDGHIG, the Armenian Lady of the Juniperus excelsa, commonly called the Greek juniper.
The juniper is found throughout the eastern Mediterranean, from northeastern Greece and southern Bulgaria across Turkey to Syria and Lebanon, and the heights of Armenian Highlands, the Caucasus mountains.
A subspecies, J. excelsa subsp. polycarpos, known also as the Persian juniper, occurs in the Alborz and other mountains of Armenia Caucasian Iran and all the way east to northwestern Pakistan.
Other temples and places of worship of Astghik had been located in various towns and villages, such as the mountain of Palaty (to the South-West from Lake Van), in Artamet (12 km from Van), etc.
The unique monuments of prehistoric Armenia, "višap" vishaps (Arm. višap 'serpent, dragon', derived from Sanskrit "visharp" oror "dragon stones", spread in many provinces of historical Armenia – Gegharkunik, Aragatsotn, Javakhk, Tayk, etc., and are another manifestation of her worship.
Vartavar’s history dates back to pagan times. The ancient festival is traditionally associated with the goddess Astghik, who was the goddess of water, beauty, love and fertility. The festivities associated with this religious observance of Astghik were named “Vartavar” because Armenians offered her roses as a celebration (“vart” means “rose” in and “var” mean “rise”), this is why it was celebrated in the harvest time. The word Vartavar has two meanings: “the flaming of the rose and “to sprinkle with water.
Vartavar is currently celebrated about 98 days (14 Sundays) after Easter. During the day of Vardevar, people from a wide array of ages are allowed to douse strangers with water. It is common to see people pouring buckets of water from balconies on the unsuspecting walking below them. The festival is very popular among children as it is one day where they can get away with pulling pranks. Even young wives enjoy drenching their husbands and mothers-in-law. It is also a means of refreshment on the usually hot and dry summer days of July.
According to one legend, the goddess Astghik spread love through the Armenian land by sprinkling rosy water. Since Vartavar has its roots in pre-Christian times, one of the best places to observe it is near the only left pagan temple in Armenia, in Garni, where it feels a lot more authentic. According to another legend, Vahakn, Astghik’s beloved, was once injured in a struggle with evil. She rushed barefoot to his aid but on the way hurt her feet while treading over the roses, her blood turning them red. This is how red roses came into being: the flower of love was born. She had her temple, where young and old alike would go on pilgrimage to praise her, sing songs, and offer bouquets of flowers and other gifts.
Vartavar’s history dates back to pagan times. The ancient festival is traditionally associated with the goddess Astghik, who was the goddess of water, beauty, love and fertility. The festivities associated with this religious observance of Astghik were named “Vartavar” because Armenians offered her roses as a celebration (“vart” means “rose” in and “var” mean “rise”), this is why it was celebrated in the harvest time. The word Vartavar has two meanings: “the flaming of the rose and “to sprinkle with water.
A subspecies, J. excelsa subsp. polycarpos, known also as the Persian juniper, occurs in the Alborz and other mountains of Armenia Caucasian Iran and all the way east to northwestern Pakistan.
Other temples and places of worship of Astghik had been located in various towns and villages, such as the mountain of Palaty (to the South-West from Lake Van), in Artamet (12 km from Van), etc.
The unique monuments of prehistoric Armenia, "višap" vishaps (Arm. višap 'serpent, dragon', derived from Sanskrit "visharp" oror "dragon stones", spread in many provinces of historical Armenia – Gegharkunik, Aragatsotn, Javakhk, Tayk, etc., and are another manifestation of her worship.
Vartavar’s history dates back to pagan times. The ancient festival is traditionally associated with the goddess Astghik, who was the goddess of water, beauty, love and fertility. The festivities associated with this religious observance of Astghik were named “Vartavar” because Armenians offered her roses as a celebration (“vart” means “rose” in and “var” mean “rise”), this is why it was celebrated in the harvest time. The word Vartavar has two meanings: “the flaming of the rose and “to sprinkle with water.
Vartavar is currently celebrated about 98 days (14 Sundays) after Easter. During the day of Vardevar, people from a wide array of ages are allowed to douse strangers with water. It is common to see people pouring buckets of water from balconies on the unsuspecting walking below them. The festival is very popular among children as it is one day where they can get away with pulling pranks. Even young wives enjoy drenching their husbands and mothers-in-law. It is also a means of refreshment on the usually hot and dry summer days of July.
According to one legend, the goddess Astghik spread love through the Armenian land by sprinkling rosy water. Since Vartavar has its roots in pre-Christian times, one of the best places to observe it is near the only left pagan temple in Armenia, in Garni, where it feels a lot more authentic. According to another legend, Vahakn, Astghik’s beloved, was once injured in a struggle with evil. She rushed barefoot to his aid but on the way hurt her feet while treading over the roses, her blood turning them red. This is how red roses came into being: the flower of love was born. She had her temple, where young and old alike would go on pilgrimage to praise her, sing songs, and offer bouquets of flowers and other gifts.
Vartavar’s history dates back to pagan times. The ancient festival is traditionally associated with the goddess Astghik, who was the goddess of water, beauty, love and fertility. The festivities associated with this religious observance of Astghik were named “Vartavar” because Armenians offered her roses as a celebration (“vart” means “rose” in and “var” mean “rise”), this is why it was celebrated in the harvest time. The word Vartavar has two meanings: “the flaming of the rose and “to sprinkle with water.
The letter K originally laid flat on its back like an arrow head striking a horizontal line.
The earth axis the striking point K on the Earth.
The earth axis the striking point K on the Earth.
The tree is a symbol common to all traditional forms. It is represented under varied appearances because of its double nature. The trunk links the roots plunging into the earth to the top rising vertically through the air; it depicts the vertical link, the Axis between Earth and Heaven. The lateral branches represent the division, the separation in comparison with the common trunk.
The lateral branches figure duality coming out of the common trunk that unites them. The tree gathers at once unity through its vertical trunk and duality through its horizontal branches. This double nature can be found in various trees proper or common to different traditional forms. The first tree in the first garden, at the highest point on the mountain at the center of paradise. I posit that it was the Ki TREE in the Caucasus and Tauros Mountains which became the Cedar, Ki-dar (Ki-tree) in the Lebanon and Ki-Bar (Ki- eternal) the Cypress and Cyprus. KEY] is the phoneme graphically or symbolically represented. A back to back K which is the coded symbol of UNITY in the Cypriot syllabic. This is a representation of a metaphysical concepr of ultimate UNITY between life and death eternal.
The CYPRESS and The CEDAR ARE PREDATED by the ARMENIAN word KI which is the phoneme and Q is the Armenian graphic representation of the JUNIPER, the TREE EVERLASTING EVERGREEN WITH THE SPIRIT WITHIN TO HELP BIRTH OR BLOCK IT. THE TREE OF LIFE PACKED WITH KNOWLEDGE, THE TREE OF SALVATION BETWEEN LIFE AND DEATH LATER REPLACED BY THE CHURCH-KI-Re-Ki, built by the Ki tree. In Turkish BR is ONE and iK-Ki is Two.
The lateral branches figure duality coming out of the common trunk that unites them. The tree gathers at once unity through its vertical trunk and duality through its horizontal branches. This double nature can be found in various trees proper or common to different traditional forms. The first tree in the first garden, at the highest point on the mountain at the center of paradise. I posit that it was the Ki TREE in the Caucasus and Tauros Mountains which became the Cedar, Ki-dar (Ki-tree) in the Lebanon and Ki-Bar (Ki- eternal) the Cypress and Cyprus. KEY] is the phoneme graphically or symbolically represented. A back to back K which is the coded symbol of UNITY in the Cypriot syllabic. This is a representation of a metaphysical concepr of ultimate UNITY between life and death eternal.
The CYPRESS and The CEDAR ARE PREDATED by the ARMENIAN word KI which is the phoneme and Q is the Armenian graphic representation of the JUNIPER, the TREE EVERLASTING EVERGREEN WITH THE SPIRIT WITHIN TO HELP BIRTH OR BLOCK IT. THE TREE OF LIFE PACKED WITH KNOWLEDGE, THE TREE OF SALVATION BETWEEN LIFE AND DEATH LATER REPLACED BY THE CHURCH-KI-Re-Ki, built by the Ki tree. In Turkish BR is ONE and iK-Ki is Two.
As is Apollonian Tree the K*BR the Cypriot 'Cyparisi' a tri-literal, this tree in Hindi again is a DiVa, A DIVINE ETERNAL LIFE BEARER.
R represents the eternal cycle
T represents the fixed, the vertical and horizontal
B represents the break through a beginning
D represents the fifth element, wood
R in time in space is often represented by the Sun.
N represents the heavens
K represents the axis mundi
G represents the earth
M represents the mother
KN, Earth Axis and Heaven Axis
GN, Below and Above, Earth and Sky
R, RADIATION, ETERNAL GENERATION the sun.
KN, Earth Axis and Heaven Axis
GN, Below and Above, Earth and Sky
R, RADIATION, ETERNAL GENERATION the sun.
BR, united signify, B, a break through into space and the R, signifies eternal time in space.
G*N*P*R is the Juniper the QUEEN TREE
K*P*R is the Cypress an evergreen, where K signifies an abode of god on earth, and the B*R, as above mentioned signifies the external existence in earth, air, light and heat, the Cycle.
K*P*R is the root of the word CYPRESS/CYPRUS and it translates to 'Earth Born Life eternal'.
G*N*P*R is the Juniper the QUEEN TREE
K*P*R is the Cypress an evergreen, where K signifies an abode of god on earth, and the B*R, as above mentioned signifies the external existence in earth, air, light and heat, the Cycle.
K*P*R is the root of the word CYPRESS/CYPRUS and it translates to 'Earth Born Life eternal'.
The idea is to express the ontological process of existence. As in the Egyptian Scarab the KHEPR, which is the logos representing the governing principle, the GOVERNOR, TRANSFORMATIONS.
B*R 'THE BEARER' of the ETERNAL UNIVERSAL LIFE.
In Armenian Ki is the given name for Juniper and M*R for MiRe, meaning Mother is the name given to the Cedar tree.
B*R 'THE BEARER' of the ETERNAL UNIVERSAL LIFE.
In Armenian Ki is the given name for Juniper and M*R for MiRe, meaning Mother is the name given to the Cedar tree.
THE EARLIEST SUMERIAN Ki signified all existence, EARTH LIFE, the Sumerian eN signified highest HEAV-eN.
The tetra-gram *K*N*P*R and *J*N*PR signify a fusion, a union, the PR/BR signify the bearer of the life force on earth and in Heaven, the K is the axis the G is earth, the fixed point on earth and the earth. The N is the divine, the heaven, the sky, the light are all generated from N bearing the active generative phenomena from the above. In the Egyptian the ABOVE is FEMININE and in Sumeria N is Masculine. G*N, K*N and J*N are feminine, however be aware that J*P*T as in Yapath, JuPeter and K*B as in KeB, GeB, Gebal, G*B*L are masculine.
K/Q/Ki as in the K+BR, K+NPR the K, the Ki phoneme signifies a earth axis, in the Armenian and Greek it signifies a TREE, in both cases it is an Axis Mundi, a point of fusion between earth and Heaven. Representing Life eternal. In both words the PR, is the 'LIFE BEARER.'
The CEDAR, again the K in K*DR signifies the same as in the KBR and KNPR, where the D is substituted for the B. the D is the fifth element the WOOD as LIFE. THE TREE AS SYMBOL OF AN ABODE OF GOD IS FEMININE, A QUEEN.
K/Q/Ki as in the K+BR, K+NPR the K, the Ki phoneme signifies a earth axis, in the Armenian and Greek it signifies a TREE, in both cases it is an Axis Mundi, a point of fusion between earth and Heaven. Representing Life eternal. In both words the PR, is the 'LIFE BEARER.'
The CEDAR, again the K in K*DR signifies the same as in the KBR and KNPR, where the D is substituted for the B. the D is the fifth element the WOOD as LIFE. THE TREE AS SYMBOL OF AN ABODE OF GOD IS FEMININE, A QUEEN.
KI*HI in ARMENIAN like K*N is also the CONE, for the CONE is the TRUE FIRST SYMBOL OF A BEARER OF THE SEED OF LIFE. JUNIPER A GYN*BEARER.
K*N/C*N/G*N A SUTURE OF HEAVEN AND EARTH UNITED ON EARTH, GROUND ZERO.
I BRING UP THE T*B*R*N K*L a TABERNACLE for it has the 'Tau' and the god eL the B*R*N*K*L because it is analogous to a cone bearing TREE. T=ORDER/JUSTICE, BR=SPACE TIME and NK=ANKH=UNION HEAVEN EARTH/LIFE ETERNAL.
The Germanic tree suffix , appears in several German plant names. At the bottom lies Proto-Indo–European deru with the basic meaning tree, particularly oak and the derived meaning strong, firm, reliable. This is a very prominent root, which hardly any Indo–European language is free of: Gothic triu tree, wood, Sanskrit darvi [दर्वि] wooden, Farsi dar [دار] wood, Greek drys [δρῦς] (Mycenaean drus [𐀉𐀬]) tree, oak, Old Irish daur oak, Russian derevo [дерево] tree, Latvian darva tar, furthermore Latin durus strong, robust, Lithuanian drūtas thick, strong and Old English trum strong, firm. Examples from Modern English include tree,tray, tar, true and trust.
THE GENERATIVE FACULTY JUN/GIN. In some Middle Eastern languages, cinnamon K*N, bears the name Chinese wood, where the latter element is represented by words of the deru kin, D*R*K*N, Hindi dal for darchini [दालचीनी], Armenian Darchin.
K*SS, cassia might derive from that root laurel. Ki*aSSi work in progress on this one but it suggests LIFE UNITED.
The Anzud bird is described in several of the ancient Sumerian tablets as a gigantic bird that lived in the mountains in ancient Sumer. It is described as being white and as having shark teeth, hunting for wild mountain bulls , cows and stags. It is here described as having a huge wingspan (as a birdnet stretched out across the sky) and as having gigantic eagle like claws with which it was able to capture and lift such large animals easily.
Most of the description of this amazing bird can be found in an ancient Sumerian text called ‘Lugalbanda and the Anzud bird’. Besides giving a very good description of the bird itself, it also tells us the story how Lugalbanda with patience and cleverness managed to tame and train such a bird after having come across one such chick lying in a nest in the mountains. Those of you who take interest in these stories should read and study it to get all the details, but I will here give you the most valid to Aratta location by showing what is written about the birds location. The Highest forests and nest made of Juniper.
"In the mountains where no cypresses grow, where no snake slithers, where no scorpion stings, the Anzud bird had set his nest and settled therein his young. It was made with wood from the juniper and the box trees. The bird had made the bright twigs into a bower."
Juniperus sabina Latin.
Sabinol is used for contracting the uterus and, therefore, to cause abortion, in the event of pregnancy (oxytocic properties). Iuveni-parus child bearer, obviously refers to the abortive action of the species Juniperus sabina. Also, the masculine Iupiter (generative case: Iovis).
The Ki Tree is an early coded example that represented the ONEALL, UNITY over Duality. HIEROS GAMOS.
K*N/C*N/G*N A SUTURE OF HEAVEN AND EARTH UNITED ON EARTH, GROUND ZERO.
I BRING UP THE T*B*R*N K*L a TABERNACLE for it has the 'Tau' and the god eL the B*R*N*K*L because it is analogous to a cone bearing TREE. T=ORDER/JUSTICE, BR=SPACE TIME and NK=ANKH=UNION HEAVEN EARTH/LIFE ETERNAL.
The Germanic tree suffix , appears in several German plant names. At the bottom lies Proto-Indo–European deru with the basic meaning tree, particularly oak and the derived meaning strong, firm, reliable. This is a very prominent root, which hardly any Indo–European language is free of: Gothic triu tree, wood, Sanskrit darvi [दर्वि] wooden, Farsi dar [دار] wood, Greek drys [δρῦς] (Mycenaean drus [𐀉𐀬]) tree, oak, Old Irish daur oak, Russian derevo [дерево] tree, Latvian darva tar, furthermore Latin durus strong, robust, Lithuanian drūtas thick, strong and Old English trum strong, firm. Examples from Modern English include tree,tray, tar, true and trust.
THE GENERATIVE FACULTY JUN/GIN. In some Middle Eastern languages, cinnamon K*N, bears the name Chinese wood, where the latter element is represented by words of the deru kin, D*R*K*N, Hindi dal for darchini [दालचीनी], Armenian Darchin.
K*SS, cassia might derive from that root laurel. Ki*aSSi work in progress on this one but it suggests LIFE UNITED.
The Anzud bird is described in several of the ancient Sumerian tablets as a gigantic bird that lived in the mountains in ancient Sumer. It is described as being white and as having shark teeth, hunting for wild mountain bulls , cows and stags. It is here described as having a huge wingspan (as a birdnet stretched out across the sky) and as having gigantic eagle like claws with which it was able to capture and lift such large animals easily.
Most of the description of this amazing bird can be found in an ancient Sumerian text called ‘Lugalbanda and the Anzud bird’. Besides giving a very good description of the bird itself, it also tells us the story how Lugalbanda with patience and cleverness managed to tame and train such a bird after having come across one such chick lying in a nest in the mountains. Those of you who take interest in these stories should read and study it to get all the details, but I will here give you the most valid to Aratta location by showing what is written about the birds location. The Highest forests and nest made of Juniper.
"In the mountains where no cypresses grow, where no snake slithers, where no scorpion stings, the Anzud bird had set his nest and settled therein his young. It was made with wood from the juniper and the box trees. The bird had made the bright twigs into a bower."
Juniperus sabina Latin.
Sabinol is used for contracting the uterus and, therefore, to cause abortion, in the event of pregnancy (oxytocic properties). Iuveni-parus child bearer, obviously refers to the abortive action of the species Juniperus sabina. Also, the masculine Iupiter (generative case: Iovis).
The Ki Tree is an early coded example that represented the ONEALL, UNITY over Duality. HIEROS GAMOS.
EARTH MOTHER A SACRED TREE
The world tree is a motif present in many religions and mythologies, particularly early Indo-European religions. The world tree is represented as a colossal tree which supports the heavens, thereby connecting the heavens, the terrestrial world, and, through its roots, the underworld. It would also be strongly connected to the motif of the tree of life.
Cedar mythology was ancient long before the Bible was written. Cedrus has four primary species and was associated with a Goddess in each species' native location, either as consort of the God, or personified as itself female, or as a uniting connector between the Earthmother and the Male God.
Long before the Cedar of Lebanon was introduced to European gardens (in the late 1700s) it was already legendary; proverbial. It is the most impressive tree mentioned in the Bible, veritably personified as a monarch [2 Kings 14:9], akin to giant people [Amos 2:9], to whom even God sings praises of honor [Ezek 27:5].
YAYWEH JEALOUS
The record states that Yahweh rises against the Cedar [Isa 2:13; 37:24; etc].
Yahweh regards the Cedar as one of those Other Gods of which He confesses jealousy in the Decalog.
ERETZ EARTH MOTHER The usual Hebrew word for cedar, erez, is of mysterious origin, possibly derived from Arabic which probably means "Mighty," Ezek 27:24. It is a synonym for El, the consort of the Goddess Asherah of the sea; head of an extensive Semitic pantheon. El's name was co-opted as a name of Yahweh. Every member of Israel was destined to share the traits of happiness and mightiness of the Cedars of Lebanon [Nm 24:6]. It is my understanding that Erez is homonymous with Eretz, at root, normatively is "Earth", but a feminine Earth, the word literally, esoterically, means "Earthmother" which sense is often preserved in the Torah, personifying the Earth as a motherly figure, alternately by the names Eretz Adamah (Red Earthmother) who gave birth to Adam.
ARTEMIS KALI APHRODITE ROOT OF WISDOM
In Anatolia (Turkey) the Cedar of Lebanon was associated with a particularly violent form of Artemis. In the Himalayas the Deodor Cedar was associated with the equally violent Kali Durga, called the Root of the Tree of the Universe of Wisdom. And the Cyprus Cedar, from the island of Cyprus, was identified with Aphrodite Urania who killed or castrated her lovers & was much more like the violent Artemis & Kali than the Goddess of Love we today associate with the name Aphrodite.
GILGAMESH& THE GREAT MOTHER
The Cedar of Lebanon also figures in an early episode of the oldest of religious tales, The Epic of Gilgamesh. Gilgamesh encountered a horrifying monster amidst the cedars. He was protected from this beast by the Sun-god Shamash (for whom the biblical Samson is named) & by his mother's amulet (as Samson's power resulted mainly from his mother's instruction). When Gilgamesh destroyed the monster he believed himself ready to become the husband of the Great Mother, Ishtar Inanna, though Ishtar didn't quite agree. with that he meets thereafter a Wine-goddess.
LEBANON/LEBNAH FULL MOON
The name of Lebanon is the same as the semitic Moon-goddess Lebanah, "She That Is White." It is no coincidence that the word for Cedar, Erez, is nearly homonymous with Hebrew words meaning heat, or sun, so that we also find the Cedar associated with Sun-gods & weather-gods throughout the biblical world. In ancient Egypt the ceremonial barge of the god Amon-Re was made of cedars, & an ancient record states specifically that the cedar wood came from Lebanon. The idea of a Moon-goddess connected with a Sun-god via the highest cedar is not merely suggestive of Artemis & Apollo, Anath & Baal, Delilah & Samson, David & Bathsheba, but is still of signal importance in medieval & modern Kabbalah. The sephirotic emanation of god known as Tiphereth (Beauty) dwells at the center of the Sephiroth Tree & is the sephirah most closely identified with Yahweh. Tiphereth is united weekly on the Sabbath with the lowermost or most earthly sephirah, Malkhuth the Lower Shekhinah or female emanation of God. Tiphereth & Malkhuth are united weekly in cunubial bliss [Zohar II:2b, 3a, 51b] which is why the Sabbath is the day kabbalists regard most erotic & fertile. Malkhuth means "Kingdom" & represents Israel as the Bride of God; the word is a very close pun for "Queen," Malka, the Queen of Heaven whom the women of Israel spoke of to Jeremiah is by later kabbalists considered to be one & the same with the Divine Shekhinah (though of course in Jeremiah's day it meant Anath, who was Yahweh's bride at Bethel, & remained so among the Jews of Elephantine well into the Christian era).
According to the kabbalistic understanding, it was Tiphereth who called out from Mount Sinai to the Shekhinah, "Come with me from Lebanon, my bride, come with me from Lebanon" [Song 4:8], while in the same erotic Song, Solomon identifies Lebanah (the Moon) as the ideal of feminine beauty [6:10].
Isaiah uses the name Lebanah when personifying the Moon as confounded by God [Isa 2:23], & again in the allegory of a heavenly future where Lebanah will be made to be as bright as the Sun, & the Sun made seven times as bright. A nearly feminist Jewish myth, founded upon Isaiah 30:26, recounts how Queen Lebanah, made on the fourth day of creation (one day after the Cedars were brought forth), was originally the equal of King Sun (Shemesh). But she sought to rule the sky, & to rule the Sun, thus God punished her, making the Sun master. Such Goddess usurpation myths occurred wherever goddess culture was supplanted by a preference for Her consort. The nostalgic myth further asserts that Israel's Golden Age, under Solomon, was the only time when the Sun & Moon regained their former equal brightness, when the Father & the Mother were in perfect accord receiving equal honors.
In Kabbalah, the clearly non-monotheistic biblical verses that incite such myths are explained by making the Many Emanations of God our limited way of comprehending aspects of a One too vast for humanity to perceive in the entirety; & that is also why God has so many names that are plural, as is the case with Elohim ("gods") & Adonai ("Adonises"), or which are feminine plurals, as with Sabaoth or otherwise feminine like the preferred Aramaic name Shekhinah, God being thus simultaneously Earthmother. In ancient times it probably was just understood as a pantheon, period, though the notion of the process of emanation is very old in Sanskrit literature & not necessarily unknown to very ancient Semitic peoples.
Other biblical lore asserts that Joshua anointed a book of prophesies with cedar oil;
The throne of Nimrod/NOAH was carved of a great cedar, later becoming the throne of Solomon;
a cedar grew from Jacob's grave; &
Noah's Ark was made of cedar.
Jehoiachin believed that to "nest among cedars" would protect him against harsh judgement.
Psalm 92:12 says that because the Cedars of Lebanon were the most upright of trees, they symbolize all of Israel as the most upright of nations. This is why Ezekiel 17:22-23 speaks of God moving the Israelites into the promised land as though He had plucked cedars from the mountains to transplant them elsewhere.
A GATE
Expanding on Psalm 104:16 which notes that God personally planted the first Cedars of Lebanon, & the "Cedar Gate" mythology cited above, midrash asserts God brought forth the Cedars on the third day of Creation. Those first cedars still stand, forming a living barrier between our world & that of Paradise; or, the walls of Paradise are made of glass & shingled with cedar planks; or the cedars God made on the third day were in a troubled time transplanted in Paradise, where they grew to such extravagant height their former enormity was by comparison the size of the legs of locusts.
ASHERAH GROVES
Psalm 29 was originally a hymn to Baal Hadad. Descriptions of Yahweh as master of the sea, his appearance on a mountain in the midst of storm, & his temple made of Cedar are repeated from Ugaritic descriptions of Baal. In the Poem of Baal, which actually stars his sister Anath, the Artemis-like Huntress Goddess built Her brother a temple out of cedar because the other gods made fun of Baal for being the only god who had no house. This may allude to his worship having formerly been exclusively out of doors in the sacred groves of his mother Asherah Who skims the surface of the Sea. Since the wood of the ships were made of Cedar.
ASHERAH POLES Asherah poles which were set up in the oak groves were made of cedar, as the sacred oaks themselves could not be cut down, & cedar poles were resistant to rot. Yahweh, like Baal, was first worshipped in the open air in Asherah's groves. Abraham planted such a grove, possibly a tamarisk grove rather than oaks, but in midrash, & among many biblical scholars, the trees Abraham planted are called the Cedars of Beersheba [Gn 21:33] & he must have brought the seeds with him when he left Uruk in Mesopotamia. In that city the Cedar was a Mother Goddess who gave birth to the fertility god Ningishzida, a reflex of Dumuzi.
CEDAR TREE TO CEDAR HOUSE
Because Yahweh displaced Asherah's favorite son Baal Hadad, it was natural to suppose Yahweh's eventual Temple was, like Baal's, made of cedar [1 Chron 14:1; 22:4; etc]. David said to Nathan the prophet that it was unjust that he, David, should live in a house of cedar, while the Ark of the Covenant was covered only by a tent [17:1, 6]. This is David's sense that it was presumptuous that the sacred tree covered his head but not God's. This echoes the Poem of Baal when Baal Hadad is lamented as the only god who has no house. When Torah speaks of "Hiram's mother" involved in bringing the components of the Jerusalem Temple out of Tyre, the faint echo of feminine importance lingers from the earlier myth when the Goddess Anath herself built God's house, when the richest of Asherah's cult centers was in Tyre.
There are more myths still. Behemoth is a mighty land-animal grazing upon cedars, as cattle graze on grass, daily rendering bald another mountain in Lebanon. The Messiah dwells in Paradise upon a pallanquin made of cedar, lounging upon a purple seat (the cloth of which was woven by Eve) large enough for two, & Elijah sits with him.
That's just a sampling of lore sufficiently rich & complex that a large book could easily be written & called Legends of the Cedar of Lebanon.
CREATOR OF ETERNAL LIFE IN HEAVEN AND EARTH MOTHER OF ALL
An Earth Mother Goddess is a sovereign goddess who represented, or was a personification of nature and nurture. As Earth Mother of all creation and destruction, She embodied the arboreal cycles of Life on earth, in time and space, to reproduce bounty of the Earth through her powers of unity and fertility . When equated with the Earth or the natural world, She is referred to as Mother Earth or as the Earth Mother, a Heavenly Mother, or an Earth Mother in Heaven. A female counterpart of the Heavenly Father we pray to today. The origin, the first cause of Her fall from grace, was rape, "Original Sin". After Her humiliation and destruction, almost five thousand years ago, the Macho Male intellect in the name of God, has continued to rape and destroy her Her sacred sanctuaries, Groves/Gardens/Fountains/Hives, all constructs designed to reproduce, produce and preserve the LIFE FORCE which flows, like "Dark Water, through her WOMB.
She and Her obedient sons are persecuted, so typically even today.
Humanity has transferred supreme sovereignty from the HEAVENLY EARTH MOTHER (now trashed as the WHORE) to praying to a "Father in Heaven." as the MAIN MAN, GOD, THE WORD/VERB.
The Mother Goddess, or Great Goddess, in present world cultures, is worshiped by modern Wicca and others broadly known as Neopagans. She is considered sometimes identified as a Triple Goddess, who takes the form of Maiden, Mother, and Crone archetypes. She is described as Mother Earth, Mother Nature, or the Creatress of all life. She is associated or Her associate, male is the full moon andthe stars,her children. Her FLESH is the Earth, the waters her blood. and Her LIFE FORCE personified by a conical GREEN TREE. The Ki TREE, JUNIPER/CEDAR/CYPRESS family.
The Greek word γαῖα (transliterated as gaia) is a collateral form of γῆ (gē, Doric γᾶ ga, a word of uncertain origin. R. S. P. Beekes has suggested a Pre-Greek origin.
MEG in Armenian is ONE. I wonder if esoterically, the Armenian language preserves the idea of the PRIMORDIAL SOVEREIGNTY OF THE MOTHER EARTH as the ONE, THE ORIGIN of ALL from the ONE.
Follow this MG, in Mycenean Greek, Ma-ka (trans. as Ma-ga, "Mother Gaia") also contains the root ga-. The earliest written dated literal references to the term "Mother Earth". Ma-ka (transliterated as ma-ga), "Mother Gaia", were written in Linear B syllabic script (13th or 12th century BC). The nature earth goddesses such as Inanna/Ishtar show us that they figured the personification of the createrix or the Creatress of all life, the preserver, nurturer of all nature was female, the great mother deity, The first and last, the only' the ONEALL. MEG in Armenian.
Many different goddesses have represented motherhood in one way or another, and some have been associated with the birth of humanity as a whole, along with the universe and everything in it. Others have represented only the fertility of the earth.
Hindu worship of the divine Mother can be traced back to pre-vedic, prehistoric India and for me simplifies the basic concept absolutely.
In Hinduism, Dur-ga, which I translate as Tree Earth represents the empowering and protective sovereign nature of motherhood. From her forehead sprang Kali, who defeated Durga's enemy, Mahishasura. Kali (the feminine form of Kaala" i.e. "time") is the primordial energy as power of Time, literally, the "creator or doer or transformer in time"—her first manifestation. After a time, she manifests as "space", as Tara, TREE, from which point further creation of the material universe progresses.
CEDAR TREE TO CEDAR HOUSE
Because Yahweh displaced Asherah's favorite son Baal Hadad, it was natural to suppose Yahweh's eventual Temple was, like Baal's, made of cedar [1 Chron 14:1; 22:4; etc]. David said to Nathan the prophet that it was unjust that he, David, should live in a house of cedar, while the Ark of the Covenant was covered only by a tent [17:1, 6]. This is David's sense that it was presumptuous that the sacred tree covered his head but not God's. This echoes the Poem of Baal when Baal Hadad is lamented as the only god who has no house. When Torah speaks of "Hiram's mother" involved in bringing the components of the Jerusalem Temple out of Tyre, the faint echo of feminine importance lingers from the earlier myth when the Goddess Anath herself built God's house, when the richest of Asherah's cult centers was in Tyre.
There are more myths still. Behemoth is a mighty land-animal grazing upon cedars, as cattle graze on grass, daily rendering bald another mountain in Lebanon. The Messiah dwells in Paradise upon a pallanquin made of cedar, lounging upon a purple seat (the cloth of which was woven by Eve) large enough for two, & Elijah sits with him.
That's just a sampling of lore sufficiently rich & complex that a large book could easily be written & called Legends of the Cedar of Lebanon.
CREATOR OF ETERNAL LIFE IN HEAVEN AND EARTH MOTHER OF ALL
An Earth Mother Goddess is a sovereign goddess who represented, or was a personification of nature and nurture. As Earth Mother of all creation and destruction, She embodied the arboreal cycles of Life on earth, in time and space, to reproduce bounty of the Earth through her powers of unity and fertility . When equated with the Earth or the natural world, She is referred to as Mother Earth or as the Earth Mother, a Heavenly Mother, or an Earth Mother in Heaven. A female counterpart of the Heavenly Father we pray to today. The origin, the first cause of Her fall from grace, was rape, "Original Sin". After Her humiliation and destruction, almost five thousand years ago, the Macho Male intellect in the name of God, has continued to rape and destroy her Her sacred sanctuaries, Groves/Gardens/Fountains/Hives, all constructs designed to reproduce, produce and preserve the LIFE FORCE which flows, like "Dark Water, through her WOMB.
She and Her obedient sons are persecuted, so typically even today.
Humanity has transferred supreme sovereignty from the HEAVENLY EARTH MOTHER (now trashed as the WHORE) to praying to a "Father in Heaven." as the MAIN MAN, GOD, THE WORD/VERB.
The Mother Goddess, or Great Goddess, in present world cultures, is worshiped by modern Wicca and others broadly known as Neopagans. She is considered sometimes identified as a Triple Goddess, who takes the form of Maiden, Mother, and Crone archetypes. She is described as Mother Earth, Mother Nature, or the Creatress of all life. She is associated or Her associate, male is the full moon andthe stars,her children. Her FLESH is the Earth, the waters her blood. and Her LIFE FORCE personified by a conical GREEN TREE. The Ki TREE, JUNIPER/CEDAR/CYPRESS family.
The Greek word γαῖα (transliterated as gaia) is a collateral form of γῆ (gē, Doric γᾶ ga, a word of uncertain origin. R. S. P. Beekes has suggested a Pre-Greek origin.
MEG in Armenian is ONE. I wonder if esoterically, the Armenian language preserves the idea of the PRIMORDIAL SOVEREIGNTY OF THE MOTHER EARTH as the ONE, THE ORIGIN of ALL from the ONE.
Follow this MG, in Mycenean Greek, Ma-ka (trans. as Ma-ga, "Mother Gaia") also contains the root ga-. The earliest written dated literal references to the term "Mother Earth". Ma-ka (transliterated as ma-ga), "Mother Gaia", were written in Linear B syllabic script (13th or 12th century BC). The nature earth goddesses such as Inanna/Ishtar show us that they figured the personification of the createrix or the Creatress of all life, the preserver, nurturer of all nature was female, the great mother deity, The first and last, the only' the ONEALL. MEG in Armenian.
Many different goddesses have represented motherhood in one way or another, and some have been associated with the birth of humanity as a whole, along with the universe and everything in it. Others have represented only the fertility of the earth.
Hindu worship of the divine Mother can be traced back to pre-vedic, prehistoric India and for me simplifies the basic concept absolutely.
In Hinduism, Dur-ga, which I translate as Tree Earth represents the empowering and protective sovereign nature of motherhood. From her forehead sprang Kali, who defeated Durga's enemy, Mahishasura. Kali (the feminine form of Kaala" i.e. "time") is the primordial energy as power of Time, literally, the "creator or doer or transformer in time"—her first manifestation. After a time, she manifests as "space", as Tara, TREE, from which point further creation of the material universe progresses.
Hesiod's Theogony tells how, after Chaos, "wide-bosomed" Gaia (Earth) arose to be the everlasting seat of the immortals who possess Olympus above, and the depths of Tartarus below (as some scholars interpret it). He then tells that Gaia brought forth her equal Uranus (Heaven, Sky) to "cover her on every side" and to be the abode of the gods. Gaia also bore the hills (ourea), and Pontus (Sea), "without sweet union of love" (with no legal father). Afterwards with Uranus, the Sky, she gave birth to the Titans,
A GARDEN OF THE GODS A SUMERIAN CONCEPT
A GARDEN OF THE GODS A SUMERIAN CONCEPT
The concept of a garden of the gods or a divine paradise may have originated in Sumer. The concept of this home of the immortals was later handed down to the Babylonians, who conquered Sumer.
In tablet nine of the standard version of the Epic of Gilgamesh. Gilgamesh travels to the garden of the gods through the Cedar Forest and the depths of Mashu, (mashu could be translated to mesa, a noun plural mesas, meaning an isolated flat-topped mount, with steep sides, found in landscapes with horizontal strata.) The name of the location is Mashu rings true when associated with the location in Armenian called Masis.
Archaeologist Franz Marius Theodor de Liagre Böhl has highlighted that the word Mashu in Sumerian means "twins"., which points to the twin peaks of Ararat which were originally named Masis.
šušur verb "(to be) in order, correct" Akk.šûšuru.
ASHURAH THE MAN MADE TREE OF LIFE, A SYMBOL OF THE UPRIGHT, THE CORRECT ORDERED PATH OF THE SUN.
The Y or Yoni, is the Doorway, the Y is the same as the DELTA , it is the channel, the Womb of Life, From the Delta the souls of all beings emerged and emerge . Delta means womb.
In tablet nine of the standard version of the Epic of Gilgamesh. Gilgamesh travels to the garden of the gods through the Cedar Forest and the depths of Mashu, (mashu could be translated to mesa, a noun plural mesas, meaning an isolated flat-topped mount, with steep sides, found in landscapes with horizontal strata.) The name of the location is Mashu rings true when associated with the location in Armenian called Masis.
Archaeologist Franz Marius Theodor de Liagre Böhl has highlighted that the word Mashu in Sumerian means "twins"., which points to the twin peaks of Ararat which were originally named Masis.
As Gilgamesh arrives at the mountains of Mashu, which every day keeps watch over the rising ad setting of the sun, whose peaks reach as high as the "banks of heaven," and whose breast reaches down to the netherworld. great place to quote De on sunrise at Ararat)
The Epic continues and describes Gilgamesh travelling to a wondrous garden of the gods that is the source of a river, next to a mountain covered in cedars, and references a "plant of life". Once in the garden of the gods, Gilgamesh finds all sorts of precious stones, similar to Genesis.
There was a garden of the gods, all round him stood bushes bearing gems, fruit of carnelian with the vine hanging from it, beautiful to look at; lapis lazuli leaves hung thick with fruit, sweet to see.
In a myth called the Incantation of Eridu, the garden of the gods is described as having a "glorious fountain of the abyss", a "house of wisdom", a sacred grove and a kiskanu-tree with the appearance of lapis-lazuli.
Ekur (𒂍𒆳 É.KUR), also known as Duranki, is a Sumerian term meaning "mountain house". It is the assembly of the gods in the Garden of the gods, parallel in Greek mythology to Mount Olympus and was the most revered and sacred building of ancient Sumer. It is the abode of the Annanuki, from where Enlil is banished. The fall of Ekur is described in the Lament for Ur.There was a garden of the gods, all round him stood bushes bearing gems, fruit of carnelian with the vine hanging from it, beautiful to look at; lapis lazuli leaves hung thick with fruit, sweet to see.
In a myth called the Incantation of Eridu, the garden of the gods is described as having a "glorious fountain of the abyss", a "house of wisdom", a sacred grove and a kiskanu-tree with the appearance of lapis-lazuli.
The Ekur was the centre of the earth and location where heaven and earth were united. It is also known as Duranki and one of its structures is known as the Kiur ("great place"
A Hymn to Enlil praises the leader of the Sumerian pantheon in the following terms: You founded it in the Dur-an-ki, in the middle of the four quarters of the earth. Its soil is the life of the Land, and the life of all the foreign countries. Its brickwork is red gold, its foundation is lapis lazuli. You made it glisten on high.
In the Kesh temple hymn, the first recorded description (c. 2600 BC) of a domain of the gods is described as being the color of a garden: "The four corners of heaven became green for Enlil like a garden." In an earlier translation of this myth by George Aaron Barton in Miscellaneous Babylonian Inscriptions he considered it to read "In hursag the garden of the gods was green."
A Hymn to Enlil praises the leader of the Sumerian pantheon in the following terms: You founded it in the Dur-an-ki, in the middle of the four quarters of the earth. Its soil is the life of the Land, and the life of all the foreign countries. Its brickwork is red gold, its foundation is lapis lazuli. You made it glisten on high.
In the Kesh temple hymn, the first recorded description (c. 2600 BC) of a domain of the gods is described as being the color of a garden: "The four corners of heaven became green for Enlil like a garden." In an earlier translation of this myth by George Aaron Barton in Miscellaneous Babylonian Inscriptions he considered it to read "In hursag the garden of the gods was green."
Another Sumerian creation myth, the Debate between sheep and grain opens with a location "the hill of heaven and earth", and describes various agricultural developments in a pastoral setting, situated at the point where the heavens rest upon the earth. It is there that mankind had their first habitat, and there the Babylonian Garden of Eden is to be placed." The Sumerian word Edin, means "plateau" or "mesa" or "tableland" or "highland". For a poet living in the desert the idea of a garden an orchard would be paradisiacal. The name derives from the Akkadian edinnu, from a Sumerian word edin meaning "plain" or "steppe", closely related to an Aramaic root word meaning "fruitful, well-watered".
In the light of the above statement I offer some facts the reader should consider.
In myths of the Greater Iranian culture and tradition, Jamshid is described as saving the world by building a magical garden on top of a mountain. This garden also features a tree of life and is the source of a river that brings fertility to the land. Jamshid is warned by Ahura Mazda about a freezing winter approaching and so creates this enclosure to protect the seeds of life when a climatic catastrophe strikes
The word or the etymology for Paradise/garden in Armenian is par-dez which simply meaning "garden" or "enclosed garden" or "orchard".
The word or the etymology for Paradise/garden in Armenian is par-dez which simply meaning "garden" or "enclosed garden" or "orchard".
In Abrahamic religions, the (Hebrew: גַּן־עֵדֶן – gan-ʿḖḏen) translates to Garden of God it is also called the Terrestrial Paradise, described in Genesis 2-3 and Ezekiel 28 and 31.
In the Talmud and the Jewish Kabbalah, the scholars agree that there are two types of spiritual places called "Garden in Eden". The first is rather terrestrial, of abundant fertility and luxuriant vegetation, known as the "lower Gan Eden". The second is envisioned as being celestial, the habitation of righteous, Jewish and non-Jewish, immortal souls, known as the "higher Gan Eden".
The location is described as the source of four tributaries and among serious scholars it is considered to have been real place and that place more than likely is Armenia, the highlands or Armenian, the mesa or Plateau of Armenia.
The Genesis creation narrative the account of the Tower of Babel and the story of the Garden echoes the the above Mesopotamian myths of a king, as a primordial man, who is placed (or places himself) in a divine garden to guard the tree of life. Here again I repeat the fact that the name derives from the Akkadian edinnu, from a Sumerian word edin meaning "plain" or "steppe" or "highland" and most probably "mesu" which today survives in Armenia as the twin to Ararat, the etymology or meaning of which is "All Bountyful" which is very closely related to an Aramaic root of the word edin, the word meaning "fruitful, well-watered".
How and where did the great Sumerian civilization originate? Many scientists have been and are still struggling to solve the mystery of the origin of this unique civilization. One German archeologist Heinrich Schliemann, who is known for his excavations of ancient Troy, wrote in his diary shortly before his death, “The whole European culture considers itself the heir to the Ancient Greek and Roman civilizations, not realizing that both of them, in their turn, originate from the ancient Armenian civilization.” A great starting point for one who needs to know just why he thought that and published it. The axiom is the following – the Armenian civilization was and is one of the first on the Earth, the Armenian language was and is the oldest language among the existing today. The axiom is the following – the Armenian civilization was and is one of the first on the Earth and the Armenian language was and is the oldest surviving language existing today. In my opinion the unique location in the Mesopotamia area in toponymic terms, where, what we refer to as culture and civilization, could have originated are the Armenian Highlands.The Armenian Highlands hosted the oldest known advanced human settlements on earth (i.e. settlements predating Sumerian settlements), then logic would dictate that Sumerians emerged from Asia Minor, or the Caucasus.
There are several locations within the Armenian Highlands that hosted advanced civilizations much older than Sumer, international academia considers Sumer to be the world's first human civilization. Although highly advanced, the ancient Sumerians were not the world's oldest civilization. According to Sumerian writings, the Armenian Highlands were considered to be a sacred locality, where the sacred tree of life was first named, it was written of as a mythical place where the first 'gods' dwelt. There are also indicators that some Sumerians may have originated from the vicinity of the Armenian Highlands.
Sumerologists now believe that the language spoken in Sumer was either unique (i.e. has no relations to any known languages on earth) or is a language derived from the Caucasus and developed into the written form, the cuneiform. Historians today claim that they do not know where the Sumerians originated from, however some Armenian historians suggest that they may have originated from within the Armenian Highlands or were greatly influenced by ideas which originated in the Armenian Highlands.
We must acknowledge that even before the dawn of Sumerian civilization, various localities west of Sumer and within the Armenian Highlands such as Metsamor, Shenkavit, Karahunj, Catal Huyuk and Gobekli Tepe were already prominent localities known to us for their urban planning, art, theology, astronomy and metallurgy.
The most relevant clue for me is the famous Sumerian epic tale of ARATTA which describes the cultural and economic relationship between Sumer and the Armenian Highlands. Moreover, the Armenian language shares over a hundred words we know of today with the original, now extinct, Sumerian language.This is enough evidence for me that the two languages were either related or had intimate contact with each other in the ancient world.
They say, and I agree, that the Sumerian language like the Armenian is a language isolate (meaning that it's not related to any other language) and that the Armenian language and the Sumerian language share enough to show there was a connection. I say Sumerian not Akkadian, for Akkadian and Armenian are completely different languages from different language families (Indo-European and Semitic). In the Akkadian Empire, East Semitic was standardized and adapted for use with the cuneiform script that was previously a 'Sumerian' language. For what it is worth I heard of an Armenian who recently visited the U.S. went on a lecture tour claiming that Armenian children today could understand Sumerian texts when read aloud to them, however his hypothesis depended on the current symbol to sound correspondence. My take on the possible very close connection between Sumerian and Armenian is the legend that places Hayk the progenitor of the Armenian speaking people of today somewhere near the vicinity of Babylon about the middle or end of 3rd millennium BC. The Armenian speaking elite who arrived in what we call the Armenian Highland (if we go by the Armenian migration hypothesis that is most accepted today). They took over administration of a territory and imposed a leadership.
What is the most tantalizing piece of information is the simple fact that Georgians, next door neighbours of the Armenians, till today, refer to ARMENIA as SOMCHETIA. The first part or stem Sohm, is what has to be deciphered , for the second part CHETIA/ CHET/XET/ suggests a nation. When Akkadians had first taken over the political authority over Sumeria they also referred to the Sumerians as SOHM.
I am hoping that below I will be able to put forward a good argument that there is at the least one very important concept, symbol and phoneme which demonstrates a correspondence between Ancient or Proto Armenian and proto Sumerian. Nobody can say or prove with certainty that Armenian preceded Sumerian or vice versa. The point that needs to be made is that nobody could doubt the fact that the proto Armenian speaking nation who's leaders, an aristocracy, a nobility, who used cuneiform characters on leather for three thousand years, as if it was their own to use, until that is the introduction of the Alphabet and the translation of the Bible and the revolution that converted all Armenians to the democratic concept of Christianity.
In the Armenian language today, there are Sumerian, Akkadian, Mycenaean, Hittite, Hurrian, Urartian words that Armenians still use today: ookht, boorg, artsiv, tiv, and tsov are just a few. So the jury is out on the argument regarding the formation or the roots of Proto-Armenian and Proto Sumerian .
I believe that all the above are questions that are in the field called linguistics. Which is a subfield of historical linguistics. The facts today are that Assyrian is an unrelated Semitic language, while Hurrian and Urartian are part of an isolated Hurro-Urartian language. This is the state of the art and hasn't been challenged in decades. We have to be patient for there are many tablets still waiting to be deciphered.
Be that as it may today they place Armenian in the Indo-European language family and I agree with those who have shown that the greatest relationship is with Greek and Indo-Iranian as well as Hittite, Sanskrit, Avesta, Latin, Gothic, English, and Slavic. The starting point is after the Indo-European dispersal.
I assume that already well established Proto-Armenian would have continued to come into contact with genetically related Indo-European dialects. Simultaneously, it would certainly also have been in contact with neighbouring non-Indo-European languages. To conclude, I see Armenian, Greek, (Phrygian) and Indo-Iranian as dialectally close to each other. Within this hypothetical dialect group, Proto-Armenian was situated between Proto-Greek (to the west) and Proto-Indo-Iranian (to the east).
BELOW IS THE DIVERSION THE AKKADIANS TOOK FROM THE ROOT KI TO THE ROOT TI FOR THE EARTH PRINCIPAL COMNNECTED TO AN AS ANTU INSTEAD OF ANKI. THE ORIGINAL UNION OF HEAVEN AND EARTH THAT GAVE BIRTH TO ENLIL.
YONI/KINI/KINE/JANA/JUNO/UNI/ONI/ONE
GINA/KINA/KIN ANKI/ANKH the Sumerians, one of the oldest Middle Eastern civilizations, designated their gods with a Tree or star sign like ASU. This ASU sound and sign meant god, goddess of heaven.
ASHURAH THE MAN MADE TREE OF LIFE, A SYMBOL OF THE UPRIGHT, THE CORRECT ORDERED PATH OF THE SUN.
The verb ישר (yashar), generally means to be level or straight. It's used in four distinct ways:
- Literally, of a road being straight (1 Samuel 6:12), or smooth (Isaiah 40:3).
- Ethically; of a just or virtuous life style; blameless (Proverbs 11:5), or discerning (Psalm 119:128).
- To be right in the eyes of someone, which means to obtain this person's approval (Judges 14:3).
- Tranquility or harmony: of a soul being at peace (Habakkuk 2:4)
The derivatives of this verb are:
- The adjective ישר (yashar), meaning right or upright (Isaiah 26:7, Exodus 15:26).
- The masculine noun ישר (yosher), meaning uprightness (Proverbs 2:13, Job 6:25).
- The feminine noun ישרה (yeshara), also meaning uprightness (1 Kings 3:6 only).
- The noun מישר (meshar), means uprightness, straightness, mostly in an ethical sense (Isaiah 26:7, Proverbs 8:6).
- The noun מישור (mishor) means a level place or uprightness mostly in a geographical sense (1 Kings 20:23, Psalm 26:12).
- The feminine noun תאשור (te'ashur), denoting a kind of tree, namely the box-tree, which appears to be distinguished by the upward direction of its branches; a happy-tree, or perhaps a straight-up tree (Ezekiel 27:6 only).
Asherah (/ˈæʃərə/; Ugaritic: 𐎀𐎘𐎗𐎚 : 'ṯrt; Hebrew: אֲשֵׁרָה), in Semitic mythology, is a mother goddess who appears in a number of ancient sources. She appears in Akkadian writings by the name of Ashratum/Ashratu, and in Hittite as Asherdu(s) or Ashertu(s) or Aserdu(s) or Asertu(s). Asherah is generally considered identical with the Ugariticgoddess ʼAṯirat.
The Sumerians, designated their gods with trees ASA, the Hebrews with a star sign or dingir. This sign meant god or goddess in heaven.
ASSI ASHU
I cant understand why there is so much confusion around something as simple as a aš[SIGN] a symbol a "sign" a sign of 'being' and 'becoming'.
šušur [CORRECT] šušur; šušur2 "(to be) in order, correct" Akk.šûšuru
The tree of knowledge of good and evil (tree of wisdom or knowledge of magic and the healing arts), the serpent and Hwh (meaning serpent) also represented the goddess Athirat/Asherah, wife of El/Baal/YHWH/Wadd.
SEPHIROTH KABBALA
The Cedar is particularly easy tree to love & all the more so because it is the tree of mystics, often associated with the sephiroth tree of Kabbalah, or the Tree of Life in the Garden of Eden.
The Sumerians, designated their gods with trees ASA, the Hebrews with a star sign or dingir. This sign meant god or goddess in heaven.
ASSI ASHU
I cant understand why there is so much confusion around something as simple as a aš[SIGN] a symbol a "sign" a sign of 'being' and 'becoming'.
šušur [CORRECT] šušur; šušur2 "(to be) in order, correct" Akk.šûšuru
The tree of knowledge of good and evil (tree of wisdom or knowledge of magic and the healing arts), the serpent and Hwh (meaning serpent) also represented the goddess Athirat/Asherah, wife of El/Baal/YHWH/Wadd.
SEPHIROTH KABBALA
The Cedar is particularly easy tree to love & all the more so because it is the tree of mystics, often associated with the sephiroth tree of Kabbalah, or the Tree of Life in the Garden of Eden.
Asherah/Athira/ Atirat is identified as the consort of the Sumerian god Anu, and Ugaritic El, the oldest deities of their respective pantheons. The name Dione, which like 'Elat means "Goddess", is clearly associated with Asherah in the Phoenician History of Sanchuniathon, because the same common epithet ('Elat) of "the Goddess par excellence" was used to describe her at Ugarit.
In Theosophy, from the Greek, the Heavenly Earth Mother is called Omega.
In Theosophy, from the Greek, the Heavenly Earth Mother is called Omega.
NOT RELEVENT TO KI TREE
The earliest and clearest records of the worship of the Heavenly Mother Earth, can be traced back to early Vedic culture, and perhaps even before. The Rig-Veda calls the divine female power Mahimata, translated as Great Mother, referred to as Universal Mother Earth, the universal mother, as Aditi,(cosmic moral order) the mother of all the gods, and as Ambhrini, the one born of the Primeval Ocean.
The title "Queen of Heaven" is still used by contemporary pagans to refer to the Great Goddess. Catholics and Orthodox Christians now apply the ancient pagan title to Mary, the mother of Jesus.
CEDAR GATE
A Cedar-goddess is alluded to in the Song of Songs. Of Her it is said, "If she is a Gate, we will enclose her with boards of cedar" [Song 8:9], from whence the midrash that presumes Paradise is enclosed in cedar. The cedar doors of a gate symbolized the vagina or entryway to the Earthmother's womb, & by extension any woman's womb, hence the phrases "the Gate of my mother's womb" [Job 2:10]; the Gate that seals the womb of the Sea [38:8]; or even the Gate of heaven [Psalm 78:23] — this last elaborating a very archaic belief that death is not permanent, because the spirits of the dead do not fully expire, they re-enter the womb of the Divine Mother, returning to the Source.
And it appears this gate was commonly associated with cedars. The word for "Gate" may be the same as the root-word in the name of Delilah. Delilah meant something akin to "She Is Written Things," relating to a later Greek word deltos, "writing tablet." It is no concidence that Dumuzi's sister Geshtinanna was scribe to the Hecate-like goddess Ereskigal; no more than it is coincidental that Geshtinanna was guardian of the gate of paradise called "the land of cedars" in the distant East, where the Sun dwelt at night. This eastern Land of Cedars has been identified with historical Elam, & as the original Garden of Eden, but it may also have been a place of the Underworld, where cedars of paradise are also said to grow in Jewish midrash.
A similar word found its way into Hebrew usage relating to sacred writings, as the tablet on which Baruch took Jeremiah's dictation was called delet[Jr 36:23], evidently a tablet that could be opened and closed with two wooden flaps, as the usual meaning of delet is in fact "gate," through which the phallic writing utensil penetrates. Hence a name like Delilah, Sumerian Lil, was apropos of a kedeshah or Sacred Harlot; & the River of Kedesha ran through the largest & most famous of Cedar forests in ancient Lebanon. Delilah & the doomed Samson do resemble Anath & the doomed Baal, who was slain by the Death-god Mot & taken away to the land of death until Anath resurrected him. That Samson bears the name of a Sun-god is frequently noted. The episode in which Samson runs off with the bronze Gate of Geza symbolizes his conquest of the Sacred Harlot, though Samson's metal gate is called shaar, PIVOT/HINGE; Shahar was the Canaanite God of the Rising Sun, with rays of bronze, the same as Samson's magic hair. The cedar flaps of the writing tablet turned on a bronze pin, as the Gaza gates turned on bronze pillars, & the Cedar Gate is Delilah or Anath, & the Bronze Pillar is Samson or Gilgamesh or Baal. Or, among kabbalists, the active Divine Shekhinah & the restful Tiphereth.
Zephaniah alludes to this type of mythology of the cedar gate as vagina of the Great Mother when referring to the city of Ninevah in the hypostatic form of a great female. The name Ninevah is merely a rendering out of the Hebrew for Ninuah, Great Goddess of Assyria; the capitol city bore Her name exactly. When speaking of all the cruel acts God will impose on Her, including the laying bare of her cedars, the full context clearly indicates that God sexually rapes His enemy & leaves Her bereft & reviled by all who pass by & see Her in the extremes of Her disaster [Zeph 2:14-15]. And from Her unruly sex life, She that dwelleth in Lebanon is shamed, hiding among cedars screaming as She gives birth to illicit children [Jr 22:23]. For Yahweh, the breaking of cedars is the defeat of rivals of all sorts — nations, or rival divinities. Zechariah similarly personifies Lebanon as a wailing-woman (a role signal to the Goddess Anath who wailed over the death of Baal) whose cedar is devoured in fire — the other wailing-women included personified cypress trees that wailed for the destruction of this hypostatic goddess-like Lebanon cedar [Zech 11:2-3]. That Zechariah assumes this ruin of Lebanon is done through fire is a typical Yahwist cursing method of reversing the sacred things of rival deities to become their destruction; the Cedar-mother's brother-consort being a Fire-god, Storm-god, or the Sun, she must be destroyed by the very power She thought could protect her.
A Cedar-goddess is alluded to in the Song of Songs. Of Her it is said, "If she is a Gate, we will enclose her with boards of cedar" [Song 8:9], from whence the midrash that presumes Paradise is enclosed in cedar. The cedar doors of a gate symbolized the vagina or entryway to the Earthmother's womb, & by extension any woman's womb, hence the phrases "the Gate of my mother's womb" [Job 2:10]; the Gate that seals the womb of the Sea [38:8]; or even the Gate of heaven [Psalm 78:23] — this last elaborating a very archaic belief that death is not permanent, because the spirits of the dead do not fully expire, they re-enter the womb of the Divine Mother, returning to the Source.
And it appears this gate was commonly associated with cedars. The word for "Gate" may be the same as the root-word in the name of Delilah. Delilah meant something akin to "She Is Written Things," relating to a later Greek word deltos, "writing tablet." It is no concidence that Dumuzi's sister Geshtinanna was scribe to the Hecate-like goddess Ereskigal; no more than it is coincidental that Geshtinanna was guardian of the gate of paradise called "the land of cedars" in the distant East, where the Sun dwelt at night. This eastern Land of Cedars has been identified with historical Elam, & as the original Garden of Eden, but it may also have been a place of the Underworld, where cedars of paradise are also said to grow in Jewish midrash.
A similar word found its way into Hebrew usage relating to sacred writings, as the tablet on which Baruch took Jeremiah's dictation was called delet[Jr 36:23], evidently a tablet that could be opened and closed with two wooden flaps, as the usual meaning of delet is in fact "gate," through which the phallic writing utensil penetrates. Hence a name like Delilah, Sumerian Lil, was apropos of a kedeshah or Sacred Harlot; & the River of Kedesha ran through the largest & most famous of Cedar forests in ancient Lebanon. Delilah & the doomed Samson do resemble Anath & the doomed Baal, who was slain by the Death-god Mot & taken away to the land of death until Anath resurrected him. That Samson bears the name of a Sun-god is frequently noted. The episode in which Samson runs off with the bronze Gate of Geza symbolizes his conquest of the Sacred Harlot, though Samson's metal gate is called shaar, PIVOT/HINGE; Shahar was the Canaanite God of the Rising Sun, with rays of bronze, the same as Samson's magic hair. The cedar flaps of the writing tablet turned on a bronze pin, as the Gaza gates turned on bronze pillars, & the Cedar Gate is Delilah or Anath, & the Bronze Pillar is Samson or Gilgamesh or Baal. Or, among kabbalists, the active Divine Shekhinah & the restful Tiphereth.
Zephaniah alludes to this type of mythology of the cedar gate as vagina of the Great Mother when referring to the city of Ninevah in the hypostatic form of a great female. The name Ninevah is merely a rendering out of the Hebrew for Ninuah, Great Goddess of Assyria; the capitol city bore Her name exactly. When speaking of all the cruel acts God will impose on Her, including the laying bare of her cedars, the full context clearly indicates that God sexually rapes His enemy & leaves Her bereft & reviled by all who pass by & see Her in the extremes of Her disaster [Zeph 2:14-15]. And from Her unruly sex life, She that dwelleth in Lebanon is shamed, hiding among cedars screaming as She gives birth to illicit children [Jr 22:23]. For Yahweh, the breaking of cedars is the defeat of rivals of all sorts — nations, or rival divinities. Zechariah similarly personifies Lebanon as a wailing-woman (a role signal to the Goddess Anath who wailed over the death of Baal) whose cedar is devoured in fire — the other wailing-women included personified cypress trees that wailed for the destruction of this hypostatic goddess-like Lebanon cedar [Zech 11:2-3]. That Zechariah assumes this ruin of Lebanon is done through fire is a typical Yahwist cursing method of reversing the sacred things of rival deities to become their destruction; the Cedar-mother's brother-consort being a Fire-god, Storm-god, or the Sun, she must be destroyed by the very power She thought could protect her.
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