Prehistoric Paleolithic and Neolithic Mythology (10,500 BC to 3,000 BC)

Bear myths and cults

Bull and the Goddess
Bulls
Catal Hüytik in Anatolia
Cows
Grave mythology

Paleolithic:
The Sacrifice of a Maiden
A Serpent in a Tree
Quartz, Jasper, Bone Plates, and Tools (supplies for survival in the “Otherworld”)
Red Ochre as a ceremonial approach to Death
Bodies buried in fetal or sleeping positions (death as sleep leading to a new birth)
Myth of the Afterlife
Bear Sanctuaries in Caves
Bear skulls are set into altar niches
Worshipping of animal spirits
Willing participation of Animals in the Life-giving process of Killing and Eating
Bear cults among the Ainu and the Cherokee
Cave Temples
Goddess-based religion using figurines depicting females with exaggerated breasts, buttocks, and stomachs,
as well as stylised vulva
Animist focus for a hunting society
Ceremonial dance involving the hunters and the hunted
Ritual process through which the animals agree to be sacrificed
Antlered dancing shaman/sorcerer
Bear's skull covered by the remains of a bear's pelt as an altar in front of a large model of a bear
Totem spirit or animal master (such as the bear) as object of a sacramental hunt
Female depictions occur in dwelling areas
Women own the dwellings
Women's generative mysteries – cycles, moon, birth-giving powers
Menstruation, pregnancy, lactation, birth
The figurine of “Venus” stands naked, her great maternal breasts
reaching almost to a pronounced belly on which her left hand rests,
calling attention to the navel and pubic triangle below
Her right hand holds up a symbolic object – an animal horn or crescent moon
Figurines are made of stone, bone, or antlers.
Ritual hunting depictions occur beneath the earth, available for ritual purposes only
Underground places where men perform secret ritual ceremonies
associated with a particular totem animal
Contain altars and ritual objects that represent the inner earth, the womb of the Great Mother
Ritualistic burial practices
Neolithic:
Hunting and Gathering
Some Agriculture
Food Storage – Grains
Animal Domestication – Sheep
Complex Permanent Settlements that were interactive and integrative
Civil and Religious Law and Ritual
Farming, Weaponry, Metal Tools
Pottery, Weaving, Bricks
Walled cities to delineate boundaries and protect against invaders
Organised religion with temples and ziggurats, a priestly caste, and highly developed mythology
Sexuality as a Metaphor for Fertility in connection with birth-giving females
Polytheism
Sexually active Deities in the form of a Bull or Goat
Sacrificed and Resurrected Bull God – Presided over by a Great Goddess with a Cow's Head
Earth Mother as Earth Goddess
Male as Seed or Seed Bearer
Enthroned Goddesses
Earth-based Rites and Mythology
Earth-centred Queen
Great Mother and related issues of planting, birth giving, and feminine/lunar cycles
Bird Goddess with beak, wings, and large buttocks
Snake Goddess with horns, linked with crescent moon and lunar cycles
Both Birds and Snakes are associated with Water and Air, and sometimes combined in the same Deity
as having a bird-like face and snake-like lower body (or bare-breasted, holding snakes)
Zigzag design of the Snake is present on pottery,
signifying water and lightning, and river sources deep within the earth
Snakes bring the knowledge of the under-earth to the world above
White Lady (Death Goddess) who in death takes the living back to earth as part of life's regenerative process,
reflecting the lunar cycle of waxing, full, waning, and new
Death Goddess is sometimes depicted as a nude lying stiffly with legs closed and arms close to the sides
as if laid out for burial, but with a clearly defined and stylised triangular pubic area
signifying that life with follow death
Death Goddess may also take the form of the Owl as harbinger of death, complete with breasts, navel,
and prominent vulva (through which the dead may be reborn)
The Great Enthroned Pregnant Goddess of Regeneration and Procreation as the Ancestor of the Grain Mother
with sprouting plants emerging from her vulva
Birth giver Goddess, pregnancy is evident and birth passage is exaggerated with stripes on her back that
signify the nine months of gestation
The Great Goddess is represented in great stone architecture as expressions of the pregnant Earth Goddess
Goddess represented in tombs where the centre of the structure represents the uterus,
suggesting a myth of rebirth
Ithyphallic shaman Animal Master as companion to the Goddess of Fertility
Young to represent the renewal of life
Old and sad to indicate the end of year and/or the end of life
Referred to as “Year Spirits” or “Year Gods”
Seasonally based mythology of sacrifice, death, and renewal; typically the cult of the sacrificial bull God
Typified by Inanna's descent to the underworld, and her revivification, and her lover/brother Dumuzi
who is chosen to take her place part of the year as a kind of ransom seed for Inanna's revivification.
Inanna says: “He shaped my loins with his fair hands, The shepherd Dumuzi filled my lap with
cream and milk, … He watered my womb”.
Sumerian (taken forward) – (Utu is a God, Uttu is a Goddess):
Sun – God Utu – Truth, Salvation, Justice, Law
symbols: mace, saw, sun rays from shoulders, sun disk
parents: Na-an-na and Nin-gal (Great Lady)
siblings: I-na-an-na (twin), Ishkur, Ereshkigal
Moon – God Na-an-na (Nanna) – Lord of Wisdom (En-zu)
symbols: bull, crescent
parents: En-lil and Nin-lil
children: Utu, I-na-an-na
planet Venus – Goddess I-na-an-na – Queen/Lady of Heaven (Nin-an-ak)
Goddess of Love, Beauty, Knowledge, Wisdom, War, Combat, Sexual Desire, Fertility, Lust
symbols: sky, clouds, wars, birth, skin
parents: Na-an-na and Nin-gal
siblings: Utu, Ishkur, Ereshkigal
children: Lulal, Shara
planet Mercury – God En-ki – Lord of Earth/Mound
God of Creation, Intelligence, Crafts, Water, Seawater, Lakewater, Fertility, Semen, Magic, Mischief
symbols: goat, fish, goat-fish chimera
parents: An and Nammu
children: Ninsar, Ninkurra, Uttu, Nin-ti (Eve)
planet Mars – God Simud – War
planet Jupiter – planet Nibiru (Neberu) – described as “bright sun-like star” – Mulu Babber
planet Saturn – God An (Anu – sky, heaven) – Sky Father, King of the Gods, Lord of the Constellations
parents: Anshar and Kishar
symbol: royal tiara
children: En-ki, Nikikurga, Nidaba, En-lil, Baba

Sumerian Akkadian planet Akkadian/Babylonian Godship [Sumerian]

Aku Sin Moon Sin/Suen [Na-an-na]
Bišebi Šamaš Sun Šamaš [Utu]
Dapinu Umun-sig-êa Jupiter Marduk/(Marutuk)/Amar-utu [Marutuk]
Zib/Zig Dele-bat Venus Ištar [I-na-an-na]
Lu-lim Lu-bat-sag-uš Saturn Ninib/Nirig/Ninip [Ninurta]
Bibbu Lubat-gud Mercury Nabu/Nebo [Nidaba/Nanibgal/Nisaba]
Simutu/Simud Muštabarru Mars Nergal/Nirgal/Nirgali [Gir-unug-gal]
Sumerian (taken backward through Akkadian and Babylonian filters):
Sun (Bišebi) – God Utu – Truth, Salvation, Justice, Law
symbols: mace, saw, sun rays from shoulders, sun disk
parents: Na-an-na and Nin-gal (Great Lady)
siblings: I-na-an-na (twin), Ishkur, Ereshkigal
Moon (Aku) – God Na-an-na (Nanna) – Lord of Wisdom (En-zu)
symbols: bull, crescent
parents: En-lil and Nin-lil
siblings: Gir-unug-gal and Nin-ib (Nin-urta)
children: Utu, I-na-an-na
planet Venus (Zib/Zig) – Goddess I-na-an-na – Queen/Lady of Heaven (Nin-an-ak)
Goddess of Love, Beauty, Knowledge, Wisdom, War, Combat, Sexual Desire, Fertility, Lust
symbols: sky, clouds, wars, birth, skin
parents: Na-an-na and Nin-gal
siblings: Utu, Ishkur, Ereshkigal
children: Lulal, Shara
planet Mercury (Bibbu) – Goddess Nidaba/Nanibgal/Nisaba – Scribe of the Deities, Chief Scribe of Nanshe
Goddess of Writing, Learning, the Harvest, Marking Regional Borders
symbols: horned tiara, ears of grain, crescent moon
parents: An and Urash
siblings: En-ki, Nikikurga, En-lil, Baba
child: Ninlil
planet Mars (Simutu/Simud) – God Gir-unug-gal – Lord of the Great Dwelling, Fighting Cock, Burner
God of War, Plague, Death, and Disease
parents: En-lil and Nin-lil
siblings: Na-an-na and Nin-ib (Nin-urta)
child: Ninazu
planet Jupiter (Dapinu) – God Amar-Utu (Marutuk) – Solar Calf (Bull Calf of the Sun God Utu)
God of Water, Vegetation, Judgement, Magic
parents: En-ki and Damkina
planet Saturn (Lu-lim) – God Nin-ib/Nin-ip (Nin-urta/Nin-gir-su) – Solar Deity
God of Hunting and War
symbols: Bow and Arrow, Sickle Sword, Mace
parents: En-lil and Nin-lil/Nin-hur-sag
siblings: Na-an-na and Gir-unug-gal
child: Ninsumun
The Precessional Epochs are as follows (from the Age of Leo before the last one):
Leo – 36,259 BC to 33,682 BC
Cancer – 33,682 BC to 32,434 BC
Gemini – 32,434 BC to 30,261 BC
Taurus – 30,261 BC to 27,613 BC
Aries – 27,613 BC to 25,867 BC – Old Age of Alchemy
Pisces – 25,867 BC to 23,180 BC
Aquarius – 23,180 BC to 21,483 BC
Capricornus – 21,483 BC to 19,465 BC
Sagittarius – 19,465 BC to 17,093 BC
Ophiuchus – 17,093 BC to 15,763 BC
Scorpius – 15,763 BC to 15,269 BC
Libra – 15,269 BC to 13,598 BC
Virgo – 13,598 BC to 10,471 BC
Leo – 10,471 BC to 7,894 BC
Cancer – 7,894 BC to 6,646 BC
Gemini – 6,646 BC to 4,473 BC
Taurus – 4,473 BC to 1,825 BC
Aries – 1,825 BC to 79 BC – True Age of Alchemy
Pisces – 79 BC to AD 2608
Aquarius – AD 2608 to AD 4305

The calendar of the True Yearly Zodiacal Progression – due to procession of equinoxes:
Sagittarius – 17 Dec to 20 Jan – Guardian – Fire – Jupiter+
Capricornus – 20 Jan to 16 Feb – Sage – Earth (Metal) – Saturn-
Aquarius – 16 Feb to 11 Mar – Supreme Guardian – Air (Wood) – Saturn+
Pisces – 11 Mar to 18 Apr – Prophet – Water – Jupiter-
Aries – 18 Apr to 13 May – General – Fire – Mars+
Taurus – 13 May to 21 Jun – Chief Executive – Earth (Metal) – Venus-
Gemini – 21 Jun to 20 Jul – Twin – Air (Wood) – Mercury+
Cancer – 20 Jul to 10 Aug – Holy Mother – Water – Moon-/+ (Lunar Monad)
Leo – 10 Aug to 16 Sep – Holy Leader – Fire – Sun+/- (Solar Monad)
Virgo – 16 Sep to 30 Oct – Empress – Earth (Metal) – Mercury-
Libra – 30 Oct to 23 Nov – Lord – Air (Wood) – Venus+
Scorpius – 23 Nov to 29 Nov – Chieftain – Water – Mars-
Ophiuchus – 29 Nov to 17 Dec – Master – Spirit (Earth) – Hieroglyphic Monad

Had 360 day year.

Base 60 number system.