level

mentioned on Gudea Cylindres 562-577

deity (deduced)

7^th

"moonlight"

Moon-god Su-en

6^th

"day"

Sun-god Ud

5^th

"blue sky"

Sky-god An

4^th

"panther embracing a fierce lion"

goddess In-anna

3^rd

"Anzud bird enveloping its fledging with its wings"

god Nin-girsu

2^nd

"topped-off jar"

?

1^st

"string"

?

wall / stage

color

planet

1^st

white

Venus

2^nd

black

Saturn

3^rd

purple

Mars

4^th

blue

Mercury

5^th

orange

Jupiter

6^th

gold

Sun

7^th

silver

Moon

gate

metal

nature of metal

planet-deity

1^st

lead

"slowness"

Kronos

2^nd

tin

"softness"

Aphrodite

3^rd

bronze

"firm"

Zeus

4^th

iron

"money" {Spartan iron money (IMS); but "Seneca speaks of leather money used by the Spartans." (S, p. 302)}

Hermes

5^th

"mixture"

"varied"

Ares

6^th

silver

Selene

7^th

gold

Helios

{Mithraic "bronze" ought perhaps to be "copper", which readily conducteth the electricity of the thunderbolt of Zeus}

p. 14 In-anna requaested of the male deities that they not allow their "precious metal be alloyed there in ... the underworld."

{Inamuch as this alloying may allude to the Mithraic "mixture" of metals in Ares, therefore In-anna as Aphrodite committed (according to the Iliad) adultery (similar to illegitimate alloying) with Ares, so that

the imprisonment of Dumuzi as surrogate for her may refer to

the netting of Ares (GM 18.b).

(p. 15, citing Lapinkivi 2004, 190) the assistance (enabling her to escape) rendered to the trapped In-anna by En-ki.

Poseidon managed to obtain the release of (GM 18.c) Aphrodite.

p.

day

Manda<

Akkadian

planet

11

1^st

S^AMiS^

S^AMaS^

Sun

12

2^nd

SiN

Su-eN

Moon

3^rd

NiRiG

NerGal

Mars

4^th

NBU

NaBU^

Mercury

5^th

BiL

BeL

Jupiter

6^th

LiBAT

DiLBAT

Venus

7^th

KIwAN

KaJJamANu

Saturn

#

grade

planet

1^st

Corax (‘Raven’)

Mercury

2^nd

Nymphus (‘Male-bride’)

Venus

3^rd

Miles (‘Soldier’)

Mars

4^th

Leo (‘Lion’)

Jupiter

5^th

Perses (‘Persian’)

Moon

6^th

Heliodromus (Sun-runner’)

Sun

7^th

Pater (‘Father’)

Saturn

{"Mithras was born in a petra or grotto-shrine." (WRZ)}

{So likewise was Iesous Khristos (WRZ, fn. 5).}

p. 13 According to Porphyrios, ""... the Persians, as mystagogues, initiate the mystes by teaching him the downward way of the souls and their way back, and calling the place a grotto" (De antro nympharum 6). ...

{This Magian explication of the divine grotto may be derived from the similar Daoist scheme of the divine grotto.}

Calling the visible world a grotto was most probably influenced by Plato’s allegory of the Cave (Rep. 6-7)." {There are various Zaratustrian grotto-temples. At Pir e-Sabz, "The actual temple of Chak Chak is a man-made grotto sheltered by two large bronze doors." (ZChCh)} {Zaratustra "retired to a circular cave or grotto ... . ... Here ... the four ages of the world were represented by to many globes of gold, silver, brass and iron." (SZ, p. 46, citing Oliver, History of Initiation, p. 9)}

{Surely it is directly from the Magian scheme that the Platonic allegory of the Cave is borrowed; just as the Platonic theory of divine Ideas (Archetypes) is borrowed from Magian praecedents – "living beings have a model or prototype (Avestan ratu) in the world of thought, a category of entities reminiscent of the Platonic ideas." (IZ, p. 15) "Etymologically ... related to Old Indic rtu ... "right moment." (ibid., fn. 4)}

p. 10

"the colours of the ziggurat’s levels correspond to the seven garments or powers of the goddess [In-anna / Is^tar], which she removes during her descent to the netherworld and subsequently puts on again during her ascent (Lapinkivi 2004, 146-147)."

p. 14

In-anna "goes to the Netherworld ... dressed in her royal garments, holding the seven divine powers (me in Sumerian) in her hand. At each of the seven gates of the Netherworld, Inanna is stripped of her garments, equated with the seven divine powers, from top to bottom. ... When she arrives as her sister’s, Eres^kigal’s throne, she is completely naked (Lapinkivi 2004, 189-90)."

p. 14, fn. 19

"in the later Greek ... magical papyri ... Eres^kigal occurs still only on the texts of the imperial era ... (see Burkert 1992, 68)." {I.e., Eres^-ki-gal was worshipped in Aiguptos only during the same era as that wherein Mitra was worshipped in Europe.}

p. 15

"Finally she [Eres^-ki-gal] allows his [Dumu-zi’s] sister Ges^tinanna to release him by taking by taking his place after six months". {because Dumu-zi = Ares, therefore the sister of Dumu-zi must be Eris, who is "twin-sister" (GM 12.c) of Ares.}

p. 16

As described in the left part of the Ginza, " "a soul" makes its upward journey through the heavenly spheres and their watch-houses (mat.arta), each ruled by a planetary spirit. ...

p. 17

After entering the seventh level, we can find a clothing metaphor ... as well".

Robe of glory in Syriac theology : "Adam and eve are stripped of their "robes glory/light". In order to remedy the naked state ..., ... the Divinity himself "puts on Adam" {so as to put on the Old Man, instead of putting it off as in Epistle to the Ephesians 4:22} when he "puts on a body", and ... in ... Divinity’s descent into the Jordan ..., ... Christ deposits the "robe of glory/light" in the water, thus making it available to mankind for the second time to be put on in baptism." (citing Brock [1982]) {But, according to St. Ephrem, the fig-tree was withered (Gospel according to Matthew 21:21) because Adam & Eve were to continue going nude! (HP, p. 69)}

p. 20

Porphyrios (De Abstentia 1:31:3) declareth : "Let us ascend to the stadium naked and without a garment to contest the soul’s Olympic Games".

p. 21

According to "Vettius Valens (5.9), "no one is free; all are slaves of Destiny (Heimamene)" (Edmonds 2004, 291)."

According to Bardaisan (The Book of the Laws of Countries, cited in Drijvers 1966, p. 86), "the spirits undergo changes while descending to the soul, and the souls while descending to the bodies."

p. 22, fn. 27

According to Michael Syrus, Bardaisan taught that "Our Lord was clothed with the body of an angel, and Mary clothed a soul from the world of light, who enveloped himself in the form of a body. ... (Drijvers 1966, p. 189)."

attribute

deity

crown

Anu

throne

Enlil

weapons

Nergal

radiance

Ninurta

physical beauty

Belit-ili

planetary sphaire

attribute

Saturn

"reason and understanding, called logistikon and theoretikon"

Jupiter

"the power to act, called praktikon"

Mars

"a bold spirit or thymikon"

sun

"sense-perception and imagination, aisthetikon and phantastikon"

Venus

"the impulse of passion, epithymetikon"

Mercury

"the ability to speak and interpret, hermeneutikon"

moon

"the function of molding and increasing bodies, phytikon"

planet. sphaire

evil propensity

1^st

"the energy of increase and decrease"

2^nd

"evil machination"

3^rd

"the illusion of longing"

4^th

"the ruler’s arrogance"

5^th

"unholy presumption and daring recklessness"

6^th

"the evil impulses that come from wealth"

7^th

"the deceit that lies in ambush"

gate for __

is the __

ascent

sun

descent

moon

p. 37

Gilgames^ said : "I arrived one night at the mountain passes, I saw some lions". "Gilgames^ awoke ... : it was a dream ... of the moon". (Epic of Gilgames^, Tablet IX, pp. 8-14) {with this Sumerian dream about lunar lions, cf. the Nemean Lion (in a cave on mt. Tretos), which was either born from (GM 123.b), or created from sea-foam by (GM 123.c), the moon-goddess Selene} – in contrast to Gilgames^’s having thus been protected by the moon, "the dying Enkidu enters into a dialogue with S^amas^."

p. 38

Bar Hebraios in the Chronicon ecclesiasticum ... says that the Moon is the Mother of Life and the Sun is the Father of Life. The Moon receives from the Sun the ‘spirit of preservation’, which she sends into the world. (Drijvers 1966, 149)"

p. 39

"Clement relates [Strom. 5.49] that Orpheus called the moon Gorgonian because of its terrifying face ... . Plutarch too knows of this frightening face [Fac. 944bc], which terrifies souls coming out of incarnation ... (Edmonds 2004, 276)."

p. 40

"the Chaldaean doctrine followed the Middle Platonic view of the double soul : the upper part of the Soul that remained secluded from the Sensible World (Cosmos) became Hekate, whereas the lower part of the Soul that was involved with ... the matters of the material world became known as Physis. Physis was ... simply hylic, but because the dog-demons lived in her sublunar sphere, it was she that became their controller. ... (Lapinkivi 2004, 178)"

p. 68 "after the gods explained to Gilgames^ the fact he is going to die soon, the people of Uruk [/Unu/ (p. 69)] block the waters of the river Euphrates [id/KIB.NUN.NA/ (p. 69)] by constructing a dam. Then they build a royal palace on the drained riverbed for Gilgames^ ... . Most probably, after the burial ceremonies were held, the drained riverbed is flooded again".

{cf. Astika belief [as, in the Maha-bharata] that the souls of the dead reside in the river Ganga}

p. 70 "According to The Death of Gilgames^, the only person who could have zi eternally in the human world was Ziusudra" [/Zi-u’s-dili/ in the Sumerian text].

{/ZI/ = Skt. /JIva/ ‘life’ = ZIW (>iyyar)}

p. 69 "Enkidu descends to the underworld ... by passing through ... a deep hole situated in the city of Uruk. Enkidu also escapes the netherworld which had captured him, using the help of Utu who opens a hole to the underworld." [p. 37 Enkidu was protected from the wind-god En-lil (according to a text "which is preserved only in the Hittite translation") by S^amas^ the sun-god.]

The soul of "A man eaten by a lion seems to have all the injuries he received during the attack." {cf. "cursed is the man whom the lion eats" (Gospel according to Thomas, logion 7) -- the lion is (according to Platon : Republic 588E-589B -- GTh7) one of the 3 parts of the tripartite soul; another of the 3 parts is the "multiheaded", which is the dragon eaten by the lion, which is the part of the soul which (according to Nietzsche) therewith becometh a baby in order to be reborn (RM) : a theme echoing, perhaps, the riddle of the Sphinx}

"After the death of the body, i m somehow becomes the dead spirit g i d i m. ... a certain spoken formula liberates the ghost ... ready to depart to the netherworld."