Doug Holland to Atheist MemesEnglish • 4 months agoShamash is the one true god.imagemessage-square154arrow-up1722arrow-down131
arrow-up1691arrow-down1imageShamash is the one true god.Doug Holland to Atheist MemesEnglish • 4 months agomessage-square154
minus-square@fukurthumz420link8•4 months agofun fact: although shamash is a sun and light deity, he is also considered an underworld god, and serves the queen of the dead, erishkigal, as a judge in her court.
minus-square@fukurthumz420link6•4 months agoand shamhurish is the name for a mythical jinn king from pre islamic arabian folklore, who was also a judge.
fun fact: although shamash is a sun and light deity, he is also considered an underworld god, and serves the queen of the dead, erishkigal, as a judge in her court.
Shemesh is also the hebrew word for sun.
and shamhurish is the name for a mythical jinn king from pre islamic arabian folklore, who was also a judge.
Coool
Maybe Semitic languages are related?
it goes all the way back to proto-indo-european.