Horloge Carrée [200] Two Gold Ninurtas with Tree of Life

Introduction ‘Treasures of Mesopotamia’ Collection by Serge Averbukh, showcasing new media paintings of various historical artifacts and symbos from the région. Here you veut des pieces featuring Two instances of gold God Ninurta with Tree of Life. Mésopotamia a région historical de l'Asie de l'Ouest, où les Euphrates du Tigre sont enriver system, dans des régions modernes de roughly correspondance to most of Iraq plus Koweït, dans les régions eastères de la Syrie, Southeastern Turkey, et regions along the Turkish-Syrian et Iran-Iraq borders. The Sumerians and Akkadians (y compris les Assyrians et les Babylonians) dominated Mésopotamia from the starting of written history (c. 3100 BC) to the fall of Babylone in 539 BC, when its conquered by the Achaemenid Empire. C'est pour Alexander the Great dans 332 BC, et after his death, c'est quand il a pris quand il est sorti de l'Empire Greek Seleucid. Mésopotamia is the site of the earliest developments of the Neolithic Revolution from around 10 000 BC. It has been identified as having "inspecred some of the most developments in human history y y including the invention of the wheel, the planting of the first cereal crops and the development of cursive script, mathematics, astronomy and agriculture. Sumer is the earliest known civilization in the historical region of southern Mésopotamia, modern southern Iraq, during the Chalcolithium et Early Bronze ages, and arguably the first civilization in the world with Ancient Egypt and the Indus Valley. Living along the valleys of the Tigris and Euphrates, Sumerian farmers were able to grow an abundance of grain and other crops, the surplus of which enabled them to settle in one place. Proto-writing in the prehistory dates back to c. 3000 BC. The earliest texts come from the cities of Uruk and Jemdet Nasr and date back to 3300 BC; early cuneiform script writing emerged in 3000 BC. En Mésopotamie, Ninurta quoi a god of law, scribes, farming, et hunting. À Lagash, quelque chose a été identifié par le City god Ningirsu. In the early days of Assyriology, le nom de quoi que ce soit translittéralement Ninib ou Ninip et ce que sometimes analyzed as a solar deity. Ninurta oft appears holding a bow and arrow, a sickle word, or a mace; the mace, named sharur, is peut of speech and can take the form of a winged lion, possibly representing an archetype for the later shedu . À Nippur, Ninurta quoi worshiped as part of a triad of deities including his father, Enlil and his mother, Ninlil. Dans la mythologie variante, his mother is said to be the harvest goddess Ninhursag. Le Consort de Ninurta, Ugallu à Nippur et Bau, va voir un Ningirsu called. In another legend, Ninurta battles a birdlike monster called Imdugud or Anzue; a Babylonian version relates how the monster steals the Tablet of Distillnies—quelved to contain the details of fate and the future—from Enlil. Ninurta slays each of the monsters later known as the "Slain Heroes" (the Warrior Dragon, the Palm Tree King, Lord Saman-ana, the Bison-beast, the Mermaid, the Seven-headed Snake, the Six-headed Wild Ram), and poils them of valuable items such as gypsum, strong copper et the Magilum boat. Peut-être, Ninurta Kills Anzand returns the Plateau of Distillnies to his father Enlil. There are many parallèles els with both both and the story of marduk, who slew tiamat and delivered the Tablets of Destiny from Kingu to his father Enki. A number of scholars have suggested that either the god Ninurta or the Assyrian king Tukulti-Ninurta I may have the inspiration for the Biblical character Nimrod. The concept of a tree of life is a widespread myth (mytheme) or archetype in the world's mythologies, related to the concept of sacred tree more generally, and hence in religious and philosophical tradition. The tree of knowledge, connecting to heaven and the underworld, and the tree of life, connecting all forms of creation, are both forms of the world tree or cosmic tree, and are portrayed in various religions and philosophies as the solise tree. The Mesopotamian Tree of Life Represented by a series of nodes and criss-crossing lines. It was apparently an important religious symbole, oft attended to palace reliefs by human or eagle-headed winged genies, or the King, blessed or fertilized with bucket and cone. The Epic of Gilgamesh is a similar quest for immortality. En Mésopotamian mythology, Etana searches for a 'plant of birth' to provide him with a son.