Sylvia Rose
Greenstone, Scribes & Cylinder Seals
Cylinder seals are popular throughout ancient Mesopotamia and related lands. Sometimes called roller stamps, they're tiny, usually around...
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Sylvia Rose
Feb 74 min read
Isimud: Two-Faced Sukkal of Enki
Isimud (Isimu) is the sukkal or divine attendant of Enki (Ea) primordial god of water, music, wisdom, creators and creation. Isimud is...
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Sylvia Rose
Feb 65 min read
Gala Priests: Clergy of Goddess Inanna
Gala are a special division of priests and priestesses who serve the goddess Queen of Heaven Inanna (Ishtar, Shaushka). Also called...
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Sylvia Rose
Feb 65 min read
Sacred Music of Ancient Mesopotamia
Music in ancient Mesopotamia is important to religious rites and secular entertainments. In religion, the goddess Ninigizibara relates to...
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Sylvia Rose
Feb 55 min read
Ningizibara: Sumerian Balaĝ Music Goddess
Ningizibara (Igizibara, Ningizippara) is a Mesopotamian goddess associated with the balaĝ musical instrument. She can manifest as the...
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Sylvia Rose
Feb 43 min read
Dream Interpretation (Oneiromancy) - Ancient Egypt
Dreaming is an important part of ancient Egyptian spirituality. Dreams and dream interpretation play a role in almost all cultures. In...
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Sylvia Rose
Feb 43 min read
Natron - Ancient Embalming & Household Salts
From personal hygiene to embalming the dead, ancient Egypt has many uses for natron. It's a naturally forming desert salt easy to harvest...
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Sylvia Rose
Feb 47 min read
Khet, the Body: Death Rites of Ancient Egypt
Khet represents the physical body and is considered part of the soul in ancient Egypt. The soul is made of eight parts. Together they...
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Sylvia Rose
Feb 33 min read
Mamu - Sumerian Goddess of Dreams
Mamu (Mamud) is a goddess of dreams in ancient Mesopotamia. Daughter of dawn goddess Aya and sun god Shamash (Utu), she may be called the...
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Sylvia Rose
Feb 25 min read
Butter - Food of Peasants & Barbarians
Earliest evidence of butter dates back to c. 8000 BCE. The first butter comes from the milk of cattle, sheep, goats and yaks. The ancient...
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Sylvia Rose
Jan 313 min read
Early Sun Mythology: Mid European
In the early centuries CE the Imperial Romans occupy almost every part of Europe except Germania, though they keep trying. They also...
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Sylvia Rose
Jan 313 min read
Sonne - Sun Goddess of Germania
Sun worship is a prehistoric nature religion. An organized cult and mythology appear in Egypt c. 1400 BCE. Worship of the Sun as a...
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Sylvia Rose
Jan 303 min read
Sun Goddess & Moon God in Myth
Gods worshipped by prehistoric and Bronze Age cultures are found in Proto-Indo-European Sun Goddess *Seh₂ul and Moon God *Meh₁not. They...
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Sylvia Rose
Jan 303 min read
Linen, Hemp & Cotton - Fabrics of Ancient Egypt
Linen from the flax plant is the most popular textile in ancient Egypt, used in everyday clothing, bedding and funerary shrouds. Hemp is...
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Sylvia Rose
Jan 293 min read
Aruna, Hittite God of the Sea
Aruna is the God of the Sea worshiped by the Hittites (c. 1600 - 1187 BCE). At their greatest range under King Šuppiluliuma I, the...
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Sylvia Rose
Jan 294 min read
Isuwa - Bronze Age Hittite Foes
Isuwa is a Bronze Age Hittite kingdom founded by the Hurrians. Also called Išuwa or Ishuwa, it's one of the many states or kingdoms...
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Sylvia Rose
Jan 287 min read
Hayasa-Azzi - Hittite Bronze Age Foes
Hayasa-Azzi is a confederation of states in Bronze Age Anatolia from the Pontic regions at the Black Sea to the Armenian highlands....
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Sylvia Rose
Jan 287 min read
Hattusilis III - Great Hittite Kings
The youngest of four sons, Hattusilis (Hattusili) doesn't expect to take the throne. In fact he's not expected to live. Read: Cult of the...
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Sylvia Rose
Jan 274 min read
Purulli: Hittite New Year & Spring Fest
Purulli is a spring festival acquired by the Hittites from the Hatti, previous occupants of the Anatolian lands. It also celebrates the...
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Sylvia Rose
Jan 264 min read
Nerik: Ancient Life in the Kaska Zone
Nerik is one of the northernmost cities established by the Bronze Age Hittites in Anatolia (Turkey). Surrounded by unforgiving landscapes...
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