Sylvia Rose
Ancient Elam - Middle Elamite Period
The middle Elamite period lasts c. 1500 - 1000 BCE. It's marked by the c. 1500 BCE rise of the Anshanite dynasties. Read: Cult of the...
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Sylvia Rose
Jan 225 min read
Inara & the Dragon - Purulliya Festival
Inara is the goddess of wild animals, hills and forests in Hittite mythology. The Purulliya Festival of spring comes from an older Hatti...
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Sylvia Rose
Jan 193 min read
Tarhunna (Tarḫunna) Storm God of the Hittites
Tarhunna (Tarḫunna) is the Storm and Weather God of the Hittites, a warrior people who occupy much of Anatolia in the Bronze Age....
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Sylvia Rose
Jan 183 min read
A Myth of Hahhima, Frost Demon God
Ḫaḫḫima (Hahhima) is a dreaded frost demon god of the ancient Hittites. His realm is a frozen wasteland. He spreads bitter cold and...
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Sylvia Rose
Jan 185 min read
Hahhima - Deadly Hittite Frost Demon
When the Sun disappears, the frost demon Hahhima holds the land in his icy grip. An entity of cold and numbness, Hahhima has an arsenal...
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Sylvia Rose
Jan 174 min read
Yazilikaya: Sacred Site of the Hittites
Yazılıkaya comes from the Turkish for inscribed rock. The sacred site is beside the city of Hattusa, the Hittite Bronze Age capital until...
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Sylvia Rose
Jan 173 min read
Hashamili - Metal Work & Smith God
Hashamili (Ḫašamili, Ḫašameli) is the Hittite god of metal workers and metallurgists, metal working, smiths and smithing. He's also a...
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Sylvia Rose
Jan 165 min read
The Shekelesh - Bronze Age Mysteries
Mercenaries, pirates, fugitives and thieves, what better place to plunder than the sunny eastern Mediterranean? With cunning coves and...
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Sylvia Rose
Jan 163 min read
Lukka: Bronze Age Warrior Sea People
The Bronze Age Lukka (Lugga) people occupy part of the glimmering Turquoise Coast in southern Turkey by the 3rd millennium BCE. Tribal...
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Sylvia Rose
Jan 142 min read
Urash (Uraš) Primal Queen of the Gods
Urash (Uraš) is the wife of Anu, the oldest god. A personification of the Earth, she is Yin to the Yang Sky God. Although Anu has other...
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Sylvia Rose
Jan 146 min read
Uluburun - Bronze Age Shipwreck
The Uluburun shipwreck is among the amazing discoveries from the Bronze Age. Near Uluburun (Grand Cape) in Mediterranean Anatolia...
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Sylvia Rose
Jan 133 min read
Cilicia (Kazziwatna) - Bounty & Booty
Cilicia (Kazziwatna) in today's southern Turkey is a busy place in the ancient Bronze Age. The land is bountiful, the climate sublime,...
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Sylvia Rose
Jan 123 min read
Byblos Vibrant Port City: the Egyptians
In 1938 BCE, the ancient port city of Byblos in the Levant is once more commandeered by the Egyptians. The region is an Egyptian ally...
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Sylvia Rose
Jan 123 min read
Erra - Plague Demon of Mesopotamia
Erra (Irra) is a powerful plague demon, bringing sickness, blight, mental chaos and political confusion. Mortal pain, suffering, madness,...
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Sylvia Rose
Jan 113 min read
Ugallu - Lion Headed Storm Demon
Ugallu means big weather beast or big storm. In ancient Mesopotamia Ugallu is a masculine entity with deific and demonic connections. He...
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Sylvia Rose
Jan 104 min read
Byblos, Vibrant Port City - Bronze Age
A fascinating center of commerce in the Bronze Age, Byblos has been sporadically inhabited since c. 8800 BCE and continuously since 5000...
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Sylvia Rose
Jan 103 min read
Sherden Sea Peoples in Ancient Egypt
While the mysterious Sea Peoples ransack the Mediterranean c. 1200, they give little sign of their identity and seem to appear out of...
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Sylvia Rose
Jan 94 min read
Eileithyia: Birth Goddess of Ancient Greece
Eileithyia (Ilithyia) is an ancient Greek goddess of birth, the process of childbirth and midwifery. She can be one goddess, or several....
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Sylvia Rose
Jan 95 min read
Terramare Culture - Bronze Age Italy
The Terramare (Terramara) culture of Bronze Age Italy develops in the fertile black earth of the Po Valley c. 1700 - 1150 BCE. The term...
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Sylvia Rose
Jan 82 min read
Cassiterite - Tin Source of Ancients
Best known as an ore of the soft metal tin, cassiterite (SnO2) has an elemental magic all its own. Cassiterite occurs in igneous rocks...
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