Ashurism

03/21/2026

Happy Assyrian New Year and start of Akito festival 6776.

04/23/2025

في قلب حضارة بلاد الرافدين برز اللامَاسو (الثور المجنح) كقوة أسطورية تجمع بين عناصر ثلاثة: رأس إنسان يرمز إلى الحكمة والعقل، وجسم ثور يعبر عن الصلابة والقوة، وأجنحة نسر تدلّ على السمو والسرعة. نُقشت هذه الكائنات الضخمة غالبًا من حجر الكلس، وكان يُوضع كل منها عند مداخل القصور والمعابد الملكية كحارس روحاني يردّ الأرواح الشريرة ويحفظ سلام المبنى وساكنيه
موقع تاريخ العراق الإلكتروني www.iraqhistory.org
the Lamassu (the winged bull) emerged as a mythical force combining three elements: the head of a human symbolizing wisdom and intellect, the body of a bull representing strength and resilience, and the wings of an eagle signifying majesty and swiftness. These massive figures were often carved from limestone and placed at the entrances of royal palaces and temples as spiritual guardians to ward off evil spirits and safeguard the peace of the building and its inhabitants.

05/14/2023

02/20/2021

Assyrian theogony was the result of a process of evolution. For this reason, there are different traditions that explain cosmogonic conception with different pantheons.

https://musa-caliope.blogspot.com/2012/10/teogonia-sumerio-acadia.html?fbclid=IwAR04fSttfALrsIJKOMv-5pXxQ6QerIbcwpXKvwswWr1_kgk4jwwf_kyHQkM

La teogonía de sumerios y acadios fue el resultado de un proceso de evolución. Por esta razón, existen diferentes tradiciones que explican la concepción cosmogónica con distintos panteones.

12/24/2019

The seven tablets of " Enuma Elish " , the epic of creation.

The Enuma Elish (Enûma Eliš) is the Babylonian creation myth that describes the great hero Marduk's battle with the great primordial dragon Tiamat and her ar...

12/24/2019

Why is Mesopotamia considered the "cradle of civilization"? Sal explains the history of the early empires on the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. Practice this y...

11/20/2019

This image is from Simo Parpola’s paper on the Assyrian Tree of Life. The Solar Winged Disc is a Sacred symbol that includes the wings and tail of Eagle. This paper argues that every mystical tradition from Egypt to Greece and the Abrahamic faiths all appropriated the Assyrian Tree of Life symbology and sacred geometry.

05/10/2019

Introduction to Monotheism,

Monotheism, introduction

05/02/2019

John Hajjar
April 28 at 12:29 PM ·
God's Country!

I was going through some Cuneiform Akkadian/Assyrian words, and something attracted my attention.

The name that Assyrians gave to the lands followed a certain standard, which was as follows:

Mat + the name of a certain people + Ki

* The ideogram of "Mat" meant Nation
* The ideogram "Ki" meant Land
* The name of the people, was in the plural tense, and their plural ended with "i" (similar to Syriac/Modern-Assyrian which ends with "e"), so "Kalbu" (Dog) in singular, would become "Kalbi" in plural, (similar to Kalbo/Kalba which becomes Kalbe).

Notice that Mat-Hatti-Ki, Mat-Mitanni-Ki, etc. meaning Land of Hittites, Land of Mitannis, (where Hatti & Mitanni are in the plural tense), but when it comes to Assyria, it is Mat-ilu-Ashur-Ki, (where Ashur is in the singular), and also preceded with the ideogram "ilu", indicating that what follows is the name of "God".

In other words Assyria was not called "Mat Ashurai Ki", (i.e. Land of Assyrians), but instead it was called "Mat ilu Ashur Ki" or "Land of God" (God's Country, or God's Land), or "God's Nation" and that is where the concept of the "Chosen People" came from.

Further more, looking at the titles of Ashur and Assyrian kings, we notice that the King was titled "Shar Kibrat irbitti" (King of the Four Corners), "Shar Kashshaati" (King of the Whole World/Universe), and since the Assyrian king was representing God, with his title "ishakku ilu Ashur" (Vice Regent of Ashur), (a parallel Arabic expression about the Caliphs was "Zil Allah 3ala Al-Ard" [meaning the Shadow of God on Earth]), so the Assyrian king's title was a reflection of God's domain, which is the four corners of the earth and the whole universe. So "Mat ilu Ashur Ki" was not limited to the territory that the Assyrian king controls, but goes beyond it to cover the whole earth, and the whole universe. And that is what God's Country or God's Nation meant. It transcends our earth and goes beyond that to a limitless universe!