The origin of the sun god in Semitic languages

The year 2014 will be remembered for its mild winter and the warm sun glow which is so bizarre in a cold country like Poland. Because of the unusual weather pattern, I made one of the greatest discoveries regarding Semitic languages. I discovered the origin of the word sun in Akkadian, the oldest written Semitic language.

Like any great discovery the meaning of the word sun came about by accident. I was reading the myth of Gilgamesh and the name of the sun in Akkadian came up.

Akkadian is a Semitic tongue which uses the genitive to describe an important mythological figure. So the name of the sun in Akkadian šamaš can be chopped into ša-maš where the participle ša- means [of] and the name sun is an adjective noun.

Of course during the historical process the particle ša- was agglutinated with the older noun maš [twin] in Sumerian and Akkadian.

ša-ma-aš

Utu = Šamaš (the sun god) Sumerian [^dUD] (Dingir [god]) UD [sun]

Proto-Semitic: *ma/it_-

Afro-asiatic etymology: Afro-asiatic etymology

Meaning: 'child' 1, 'twin' 2, 'man, husband, male, grown-up' 3

Akkadian: māšu 2

Ugaritic: mt_ 1 ('infante, niño pequeño' DLU 309)

Argobba: mis 'husband'

Harari: miš 'fellow'

East Ethiopic: miš 'husband, male'

Gurage: miss 'man, husband, male, grown-up'

Proto-Afro-Asiatic: *ma/ič-

Meaning: child, small boy

Semitic: *ma/it_- 'child' 1, 'twin' 2, 'man, husband, male, grown-up' 3

Egyptian: ms 'child' (pyr)

Central Chadic: *mwaS- 'give birth'

East Chadic: *mič- 'small boy' 1, 'child' 2, 'son' 3

Then I found out the origin of the name sun in Sumerian; it actually derived from a Semitic verb meaning to become dark, recording the sunset:

Proto-Semitic: *ʕVṭVʔ-

Afro-asiatic etymology: Afro-asiatic etymology

Meaning: 'be dark'

Akkadian: eṭû

Proto-Semitic: *ḫadar-

Afro-asiatic etymology: Afro-asiatic etymology

Meaning: 'be dark' 1, 'darkness' 2

Arabic: ḫadar- 2

Notes: Cf. Hss ḥedōr 'put up a sunshade', Mhr ḥedōr id., Jib ḫodor id.

The name of the sun Šamaš was shrunk into the syllable šuš [red, sunset] in the secret language. The scribe created the expression: [ud šuš] = sun set, where the name Šamaš became Šumuš = Šuš for the effect of vowel harmony [ud šuš] This great argument proves that Sumerian people have never existed in reality. There have never been any Sumerians in Babylon. The Sumerian language is a secret language, the medium between mortals and the gods. So Akkadian scribes turned a Semitic verb into a Sumerian noun and a Semitic noun into a Sumerian verb- adjective.

šu₄

su [RED].

šu [BASKET] (^ĝeššu₄).

šu [TOTALITY].

šuš (šu₄)

šuš [COVER].

šuš [SIXTH].

It is very important to understand that the name twin in Semitic languages is a pure Akkadian invention. In fact its name derived from the name day, the end of the day, or the sunset.

Akkadian

u₄-mi-ša-am [day] > Akkadian: māšu [twin]

This great secret has never been revealed before. All other Afro Asiatic languages have derived from Akkadian-Sumerian idiom. The written tablets have held up very tight to these secrets while the vernacular tongues had no clue of the Sumerian mysteries. So the Egyptian tongue in particular is a victim of Sumerian secrets.

It seems that the Egyptian script is a misunderstanding of Sumerian tablets, a great blunder so to speak.

The name twin referred to the twin peaks in the Lebanon range of mountains. It was a secret location of the sun god. Other Afro Asiatic tongues had no reading of this important piece of information. To them māšu [twin] and Ša-maš [of the twin] have no correlation.

On a personal note, the New Year's Eve 2014 was very boring. Drinking wine, beer and all other poisons to fight the boredom was the best one can do in winter. You have to live in a barren world in order to see the light of the Akkadian sun.

The etymology of the name sun in Sumerian is not fantasy. It has actually been recorded and documented by Sumerian scribes. The bitter truth has been staring us right in the face but modern scholars have been wearing blindfolds all along. I can even refer the concrete tablet, its name and number: Old Babylonian Lexical MSL 09, 124-137

Meaning: 'sun' 1, 'sun-heat' 2

Akkadian: šamšu 1

Hebrew: šemeš 1

Syrian Aramaic: šemš- 1

Arabic: šams- 1

Epigraphic South Arabian: šmŝ 1

Tigre: šämš 1

Soqotri: šam

Notes: Partial reduplication and dissimilation from *śamś-

The modern science of etymology relies not only on linguistic data but also on archaeology, mythology and history in order to make sure that the results are not assumptions but solid and unshakable arguments that can't be rejected. Carbon dating can reflect the exact date of the origin of the tablets. Archaeology can secure the exact location of the sunset and the meaning of the sun god. History can prove the people who invented the Sumerian script were Semitic and Sumerian was a trick language, their ancient secret code.

Akkadian ša-ma-aš

Shamash was believed to be all-knowing and all-seeing, and in many seals he is seen standing between two large doors. According to the Epic of Gilgamesh, these doors are between Mount Mashu and the garden of the gods, and are the eastern doors to heaven. 

Akkadian Māšu

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Mashu, as described in the Epic of Gilgamesh of Mesopotamian mythology, is a great cedar mountain through which the hero-king Gilgamesh passes via a tunnel on his journey to Dilmun after leaving the Cedar Forest, a forest of ten thousand leagues span. The corresponding location in reality has been the topic of speculation, as no confirming evidence has been found. Aaron Shaffer confirmed the reading of the mountain in Sumerian as "Kur Lib-na-nu" through collation of different sources of the Gilgamesh myth. Jeffrey H. Tigay also suggests that in the earlier Akkadian version it is "explicitly located in the north west, in or near Lebanon".

One theory is that the only location suitable for being called a "cedar land" was the great forest covering Lebanon and western parts of Syria and, in consequence, "Mashu" is the whole of the parallel Lebanon and Anti-Lebanon ranges, with the narrow gap between these mountains constituting the tunnel. The word "Mashu" itself may translate as "two mountains", from the Babylonian for twins. The "twins", in Semitic mythology, were also often seen as two mountains, one at the eastern edge of the world (in the lower Zagros), the other at the western edge of the world (in the Taurus), and one of these seem to have had an Iranian location. Mashu, today, is a village in the Elburz mountains of Iran. Siduri, the Alewife [a wise female divinity associated with fermentation (specifically beer and wine)], lived on the shore, associated with "the Waters of Death" that Gilgamesh had to cross to reach Utnapishtim, the far-away.

Siduri is a character in the Epic of Gilgamesh. She is an "alewife", a wise female divinity associated with fermentation. In the Old Babylonian version of the Epic, she attempts to dissuade Gilgamesh in his quest for immortality, urging him to be content with the simple pleasures of life (Gilgamesh, whither are you wandering? Life, which you look for, you will never find. For when the gods created man, they let death be his share, and life withheld in their own hands. Gilgamesh, fill your belly. Day and night make merry. Let days be full of joy, dance and make music day and night. And wear fresh clothes. And wash your head and bathe. Look at the child that is holding your hand, and let your wife delight in your embrace. These things alone are the concern of men.) Siduri's advice was recorded in the Old Babylonian version of Tablet X referred to as the Meissner fragment.

Several scholars suggest direct borrowing of Siduri's advice by the author of Ecclesiastes. The advice given by Siduri has been seen as the first expression of the concept of Carpe diem although some scholars see it urging Gilgamesh to abandon his mourning, "reversing the liminal rituals of mourning and returning to the normal and normative behaviors of Mesopotamian society."

In the standard version of the Epic, Siduri's role is somewhat less important. The above quotation is omitted, and it is left to the flood hero Utanapishtim (the Mesopotamian precursor of Noah) to discuss issues of life and death. Siduri, nonetheless, has a long conversation with Gilgamesh, who boasts of his exploits and is forced to explain why his appearance is so haggard. When he asks for help in finding Utnapishtim, Siduri explains the difficulties of the journey but directs him to Urshanabi, the ferryman, who may be able to help him cross the subterranean ocean and the ominous "waters of death".

Siduri has been compared to the Odyssey's Circe. Like Odysseus, Gilgamesh gets directions on how to reach his destination from a divine helper. In this case she is the goddess Siduri, who, like Circe, dwells by the sea at the ends of the earth. Her home is also associated with the sun: Gilgamesh reaches Siduri's house by passing through a tunnel underneath Mt. Mashu, the high mountain from which the sun comes into the sky. West argues that the similarity of Odysseus's and Gilgamesh's journeys to the edges of the earth are the result of the influence of the Gilgamesh epic upon the Odyssey.

Siduri's name means "young woman" in Hurrian, and may be an epithet of Ishtar. Siduri is considered to be a religious figure/prophet by some.

There is no doubt that the name ša-ma-aš in Akkadian means of the twin doors, the opened portal between the world of the living and of the dead, the peak of the sunrise and the peak of sunset. It is a religious and philosophical idiom, a Sumerian secret.

mašal

[Science → Mathematics]

 : to equal , to be(come) equal , to smoothen

Cf. mašālu, muššulu, muššultu, mušlu, mašalu (D), mašal, mašalu

See also : marāqu, sapnu, sapānu

Comparison with other Semitic languages :

Hebrew : mašal «example»

The word Muslim has actually derived from old Akkadian and it means to be equal. This name comes from the day when all Muslims become equal before the sun god. It was a custom much older than the monotheistic religion. The phrase the sun is great was later transformed into god is great. The idea of equality is a revolutionary idea. The upper classes, the rich, the aristocracy did not like this idea at all. But it is the sun that shines equally to everybody. This philosophical argument was used by the poor to embrace the sun god as the only god. That is why a single god became great to the Bedouins in the desert. The idea of monotheism was officially accepted temporarily in Egypt. It was a single monarch who dared to challenge the old system where many gods were worshipped and the most important god was the moon god since Semitic people initially had based their calendar on the moon cycle. This revolutionary idea of the importance of the sun gave rise to the solar calendar. But it comes out that the idea of a dominant god above other gods was born actually in Lebanon. The solar calendar was initially invented in Sumer and Lebanon was the outpost of the Babylonian empire. Monotheism became the religion of the underdog, the poor. The intellectuals or mathematicians who were basically middleclass invented Sumerian as a secret code. Sumerian remained dormant for almost 1200 years before exploding into a full language under the Akkadian empire. Mathematicians divided the year into days, months, hours, minutes and seconds. They realized that the year has 4 great cycles, there were two days of the year when the day was the shortest and two days when the daytime and night time were equal. These days are the winter and summer solstices and the spring and autumn equinoxes. These primitive linguists went that far as to divide Semitic words into syllables and phonemes and create from scratch Sumerian on the basis of the Semitic religious system.

mušlu

similar , like , equal , akin *

See also : mašal, mašālu

Sumerian

MAŠ

ba₇

ba [HALF].

maš (maša mas)

maš [BORDER].

maš [GOAT].

maš [INTEREST].

maš [PLANT] (^ĝešmaš).

maš [PURE].

maš [TILE] (^dugmaš).

maš [TREE] (^ĝešmaš).

maš [TWIN].

sa₉

sa [HALF].

zipah

zipah [UNIT].

Akkadian workshop:

Also: baš, ma₇, maś, maş, naš, til₉, waš.

That is the reason why the Sumerian logogram for the twin is actually the precursor of the swastika, the ancient symbol of the sun god. But why did Semitic priests and mathematicians call the sun after the twin portals? Didn't they have an actual name for the sun already? Why change the language at all? It seems that Akkadian and all other Semitic tongues have been engineered by those mathematicians. They created the trilateral system, a very strict code where Semitic words were composed of three consonants. The trilateral base word was supposed to reflect the presence of the three main gods in the universe. The priests also dropped the ancient name for the sun and replaced it with a Sumerian name, a secret name. Those mathematician-linguists changed the language for their own benefit. Their argument was that if people called the sun by its real name this act would anger the gods and the sun would not rise up again. To address the gods by their real name would ruin the perfect balance of the cosmos itself. How can people communicate if they can't use their ancient language, the tongue of the caveman? There is one solution, Sumerian, the intermediary language between humans and the gods. That is why the writing system became mandatory. That is why we have a writing system at all. If it weren't for these magician-mathematician-priests we would still live in straw huts to this day and no invention would have ever been recorded. Humans are not designed to record data. Human brain is designed to invent personal experiences and erase collective experiences. Our individual ego suffers under the pressure of previous experiences. Natural selection dismisses the old version of the paternal memory in favour of a younger memory.

Eventually mud tablets became a real currency. Mud basically became gold, silver and later it even surpassed the precious metals in value. Mud tablets were used to bake bricks and those bricks were used to store large amounts of data.

To understand the impact this invention has had on human evolution we have to turn our eye towards the animal world. Bees and ants are special organisms. Just like humans they create their own empires and the only thing that binds together the working insects is the scent produced by the queen mother. The scent is a message send by the queen to members of the colony. Sumerian, the secret code was similarly used to unite into a single empire those people who spoke different tongues. The uniting element of these different people was religion, a sort of opium for the mind.

Twins are two elements, night and day so why is swastika or the logogram for twins a cross? That is a Sumerian riddle. The only days when night and day are equal are spring and autumn equinoxes which belong to four great cycles of the solar calendar. The two portals that sun passes are the summer and winter solstices. The sun dies in winter and is reborn again in spring and reaches its peak in summer to become old and weak (just like humans) in autumn. The reason why humans loved the moon calendar and rejected the sun calendar is that the sun calendar is too long, it is impossible to remember it while the moon calendar is easy and short. The sun calendar was the product of the written language while the moon calendar enjoyed popularity among the illiterate people that made 99.99% of mankind. Only few mathematicians enjoyed the benefits of the sun calendar and when the writing system became simplified the solar calendar gained the upper hand against the lunar calendar because it is much more complex than the moon calendar. It is more prestigious to worship the sun than the moon if you are a sophisticated person.

The first swastika was designed in Babylon. Then it spread out like wild fire across the continents even to the Americas. The Sumerian copy of the twin logogram had arrived in the American shores much earlier than the ship of Christopher Columbus and his crew. Christians monks were surprised when they discovered that the natives in the Americas revered the cross, the symbol of Christ (the Christian model of the sun god).

But why is the swastika full of water and fish? It is basically a whirl or eddy. The Sumerian myth specifically states that the sun portals are two mountain peaks. The solution to the riddle comes from the myth. The sun was supposed to cross the Waters of Death that every mortal had to go through. Other people and cultures borrowed the swastika from the Semites but they never fully understood the meaning of the secret logogram. Most people in the world had never heard of a writing system let alone an entire secret language. They embraced the Semitic code blindly just like a child accepts the word of father without questioning the meaning and the significance of the word.

But why waters of death not dunes of sand or sheets of ice or mountain walls or lakes of fire or what have you? The answer to this question is the aspect of the sun god Christ. The sun was seen walking over the water and never drown. Let us close our laptops, switch off our Ipads and put all the books in the closet. Finally let us cover all the mirrors. The ancient man had no mirror. The invention of the mirror in Babylon was a great invention was still a luxury to the poor. The only place where a man could see his face and the sun god walk over the water was the riverbank, a pool, a lake or the seashore. That is the reason why the moving liquid [wine and beer in the myth of Gilgamesh] was believed to carry the souls to the far away land of the dead. The reflection of the sun can survive after being sucked by an eddy. The sun was the only solution to immortality, the only true god to be trusted, the ultimate god.

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