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en the forces of "light" and "darkness (so-called) that took place long before man was created, before even the cosmos as we know it existed. it is described fully in the enuma elish and in the bastardised version found in the necronomicon, and involved the ancient ones, led by the serpent mummu-tiamat and her male counterpart absu, against the elder gods (called such in the n) led by the warrior marduk, son of the sea god enki, lord of magicians of this side, or what could be called "white magicians- although close examination of the myths of ancient times makes one pause before attempting to judge which of the two warring factions was "good" or "evil. marduk won this battle- in much the same way that later st. george and st. michael would defeat the serpent again- the cosmos was created

of an entity we might call the :author of all evil, the devil or satan, as evident in the sumerian creation epic and the rumoured existences of the cult of set of the egyptians, the more pressing concern was usually the exorcism of tiamat, she exists, somehow, just as the abyss exists and is perhaps indispensable to human life if we think of her as typifying the female quality of energy. although marduk was responsible for halving the monster from the sea, the sumerian tradition has it that the monster is not dead, but dreaming, asleep below the surface of the earth, strong, potent, dangerous, and very real. her powers can be tapped by the knowledgeable "who are skilful to rouse leviathan" although the christian religion has gone to great lengths to prove that the devil is inferior to god

to great lengths to prove that the devil is inferior to god and exists solely for his purpose, as the tempter of man- surely a dubious raison d'etre- the sumerian tradition acknowledges that the person of "evil" is actually the oldest, most ancient of the gods. whereas christianity states that lucifer was a rebel in heaven, and fell from god's grace to ignominy below, the original story was that marduk was the rebel, and severed the body of the ancient of ancient ones to create the cosmos in other words, the precise reverse of the judeo-christian dogma. the elder gods evidently possessed a certain wisdom that was not held by their parents, yet their parents held the power, the primal strength, the first magick, that the elder ones tapped to their own advantage, for they were begotten of h

hor compiled the ms. thus, for the first time, this much-rumoured exorcism is available in full and in english. after this, the "book of calling" needs little explanation. it is the grimoire of the necronomicon, containing the formulae of ritual conjuration, as well as the seals and diagrams to accompany the rites. it is followed by "the book of fifty names" being fifty separate powers of the god marduk, defeater of chaos. this is interesting, in that the names seem to come from the enuma elish, in which the elder gods confer these fifty names upon marduk as titles, in their appreciation of his routing of evil. a sigil is given for each of the names, and a word of power for most of them. then appears the centrepiece of the book, the magan text. the word magan may mean the land of the magan

ous with the place of death- as the sun 'died' in the west. hence, it is a bit confusing as to what magan is really supposed to mean in this text, but in context the "place of death" explanation seems quite valid. the magan text is nothing more than an incomplete and free-form version of the creation epic of sumer, along with inanna's descent into the underworld, and many glosses. we are told how marduk slays tiamat- after much the same fashion that the chief of police of amity slays the great white shark in benchley's novel jaws, blowing an evil wind (the oxygen tank) into her mouth and sending in an arrow (bullet) in after it to explode her. surely, the two or three most box-office successful films of the past few years, jaws, the exoricst and, perhaps, the godfather, are an indication t

with chthonic forces, is described as "notorious, and linked to the strange fate that befell the protagonist, edward derby) supplementary material to 777 the chart that follows is based on research presently available to the editor with regard to sumerian and assyro-babylonian religions. entries in parentheses refer to the state of correspondences before the advert of the elder gods, the race of marduk; that is, it reflects the nature of the cosmos before the fall of marduk from heaven (names of zodiacal constellations are after budge's renderings) table vii [a.c] table xxv [s] 0. anu (tiamat) 1. sphere of the primum mobile enlil (absu) 2. sphere of the zodiac or fixed stars enki; lumashi (igigi) 3. sphere of saturn adar 4. sphere of jupiter marduk 5. sphere of mars nergal 6. sphere of th

ound, go, arise and go far away! your wickedness may rise to heaven like unto smoke! arise and leave my body! from my body, depart in shame! from my body flee! turn away from my body! go away from my body! do not return to my body! do no come near my body! do not approach my body! do not throng around my body! be commanded by shammash the mighty! be commanded by enki, lord of all! be commanded by marduk, the great magician of the gods! be commanded by the god of fire, your destroyer! may you be held back from my body "another binding of the sorcerers" ssalmani-ia ana pagri tapqida duppira ssalmani-ia ana pagri taxira duppira ssalmani-ia iti pagri tushni-illa duppira ssalmani ini ishdi pagri tushni-illa duppira ssalmani-ia qimax pagri taqbira duppira ssalmani-ia ana qulqullati tapqida duppi

beyond the wanderers of the wastes. let all who read this book be warned thereby that the habitation of men are seen and surveyed by that ancient race of gods and demons from a time before time, and that they seek revenge for that forgotten battle that took place somewhere in the cosmos and rent the worlds in the days before the creation of man, when the elder gods walked the spaces, the race of marduk, as he is known to the chaldeans, and of enki our master, the lord of magicians. know, then, that i have trod all the zones of the gods, and also the places of the azonei, and have descended unto the foul places of death and eternal thirst, which may be reached through the gate of ganzir, which was built in ur, in the days before babylon was. know, too, that i have spoken with all manner of

e arzir, and passed into the forbidden realms of the foul igigi. i have raised demons, and the dead. i have summoned the ghosts of my ancestors to real and visible appearance on the tops of temples built to reach the stars, and built to touch the nethermost cavities of hades. i have wrestled with the black magician, azag-thoth, in vain, and fled to the earth by calling upon inanna and her brother marduk, lord of the double-headed axe. i have raised armies against the lands of the east, by summoning the hordes of fiends i have made subject unto me, and so doing found ngaa, the god of the heathens, who breathes flame and roars like a thousand thunders. i have found fear. i have found the gate that leads to the outside, by which the ancient ones, who ever seek entrance to our world, keep eter

n the heavens. it is best done at night, far from the habitations of men and of animals, where you cannot be seen or heard. it must be wrapped first in heavy cloth, then in fine silk, and hid safe away until such times as it is needed. but to take not to use this seal hastily, for it is a sharp sword. the number of nergal is eight and this is his seal: the god of jupiter is the lord of magicians, marduk kurios of the double-headed axe. marduk was born of our father, enki, to do battle against the forces of the ancient ones, and he won a powerful fight, subduing the armies of evil and putting the queen of the ancient ones beneath his foot. that serpent is dead, but dreams. marduk was bestowed fifty names and powers by the council of the elder gods, which powers he retains to this day. his c

te is the sixth that you will come upon as you follow the rituals that follow. his step on the ladder of lights in purple. this is his seal, which you must engrave on a plate of tin or of brass, when jupiter is strong in the heavens, while making special invocation to enki our master. this shall be wrought as the others, and wrapped in pure silk and lain away until the time for its use. know that marduk appears as a mighty warrior with a long beard and a flaming disk in his hands. he carries a bow and a quiver of arrows, and treads about the heavens keeping the watch. take care to summon his assistance in only the most terrible of circumstances, for his might is powerful and his anger fierce. when thou hast need of the power of the star jupiter, call instead one of the appropriate powers l

disk in his hands. he carries a bow and a quiver of arrows, and treads about the heavens keeping the watch. take care to summon his assistance in only the most terrible of circumstances, for his might is powerful and his anger fierce. when thou hast need of the power of the star jupiter, call instead one of the appropriate powers listed within these pages, and they will surely come. the number of marduk is ten and this is his seal: the god of saturn is ninib called adar, the lord of hunters and of strength. he appears with a crown of horns and a long sword, wearing a lion's skin. he is the final zonei before the terrible igigi. his colour is the darkest black. his essence is to be found in lead, in the burnt embers of the fire, and in things of death and of antiquity. the horns of a stag a

elling, or especially appropriate to the star where thou wouldst desire entrance, after the fashion of thy country. the seven gates here follow: this is the first gate the gate of nanna, called sin: this is the second gate, of nebo: this is the third gate, of inanna called ishtar: this is the fourth gate, of shammash, called uddu: this is the fifth gate, of nergal: this is the sixth gate, of lord marduk: this is the seventh gate, of ninib, called adar: and the ritual of the walking must follow the formulae herein described: first, thou must observe the moon of purification. in this time, thou mayest not eat meat for the space of seven days preceding the last day of the moon, and for the space of three days preceding the last dat of the moon thou mayest not eat anything whatsoever, save to

ascended to the limit of the ladder of lights, thou wilt have knowledge and power over the spheres, and wilt be able to summon them thereby in times of need. this will not give thee power over the absu, however, this power being obtained differently by the ritual of descent. this ritual thou wilt undertake in the fifteenth day after the thirteenth of the month when thou hast summoned the gate of marduk to open. for marduk slew the fiends, and inanna, the goddess of the fifteen, conquered the netherworld, where some of theirs still dwell. this is a most perilous rite, and may be undertaken by any man who as the formulae, whether he has passes the previous gates or not, save that it is best advised to have passed through marduk gate before venturing forth into the pit. for this reason, few

rned one who resideth there and giveth all manner of wisdom regarding the operations of necromancy, and of the spells that hasten unto death. only when thou hast shown thy power over the maskim and the rabishu, mayest thou venture forth to the land of the igigi, and for that reason was this covenant made, that none shall safely walk through the sunken valleys of the dead before having ascended to marduk, nor shall they breach the gates that lie beyond adar until they have seen the signs of the mad god and felt the fury of the hellish queen. and against the ancient ones, there is only defence. only a madman, indeed, such as i am called, can hope to have power over them that dwell in the outer spaces, for their power is unknown, and the number of the hordes uncounted, and each day they breed

n! gate of the god of war, swing wide! gate of the god of victory got in battle, open to me! gate of the lord of protection, open! gate of the lord of the arra and the agga, open! by the name which i was given on the sphere of shammash, i ask thee, open! ia nergal-ya! ia zi annga kanpa! ia nnga! ia nngr-ya! ia! nngya! ia zi dingir neenya kanpa! ia kantalamakkya tarra! kanpa! the invocation of the marduk gate spirit of the great planet, remember! marduk, god of victory over the dark angels, remember! marduk, lord of all the lands, remember! marduk, son of enki, master of magicians, remember! marduk, vanquisher of the ancient ones, remember! marduk, who gives the stars their powers, remember! marduk, who assigns the wanderers their places, remember! lord of the worlds, and of the spaces betw

their powers, remember! marduk, who assigns the wanderers their places, remember! lord of the worlds, and of the spaces between, remember! first among the astral gods, hearken and remember! in the name of the covenant sworn between thee and the race of men i call to thee! hearken and remember! from the gate of the mighty nergal, the sphere of the red planet, i call to thee! hearken and remember! marduk, lord of the fifty powers, open thy gates to me! marduk, god of fifty names, open thy gates to thy servant! by the name which i was given on the sphere of nergal, i call to thee to open! gate of the great god, open! gate of the god of the double-headed axe, open! gate of the lord of the world between the worlds, open! gate of the conqueror of the monsters from the sea, open! gate of the gol

ib, knower of the secrets of all things, remember! ninib, knower of the ways of the ancient ones, remember! ninib, horned one of silence, remember! ninib, watcher of the ways of the igigi, remember! ninib, knower of the pathways of the dead, remember! in the name of the covenant sworn between thee and the race of men, i call to thee! hearken and remember! from the mighty gate of the lord of gods, marduk, sphere of the great planet, i call to thee! hearken and remember! ninib, dark wandered of the forgotten lands, hearken and remember! ninib, gatekeeper of the astral gods, open thy gate to me! ninib, master of the chase and the long journey, open thy gate to me! gate of the double-horned elder god, open! gate of the last city of the skies, open! gate of the secret of all time, open! gate of

thy gate to me! ninib, master of the chase and the long journey, open thy gate to me! gate of the double-horned elder god, open! gate of the last city of the skies, open! gate of the secret of all time, open! gate of the master of magickal power, open! gate of the lord of all sorcery, open! gate of the vanquisher of all evil spells, hearken and open! by the name which i was given on the sphere of marduk, master of magicians, i call thee to open! ia duk! ia andarra! ia zi battu ba allu! ballagu bel dirrigu baagga ka kanpa! bel zi exa exa! azzagbat! bazzagbarroniosh! zelig! the conjuration of the fire god spirit of the fire, remember! gibil, spirit of the fire, remember! girra, spirit of the flames, remember! o god of fire, mighty son of anu, most terrifying among thy brothers, rise! o god o

se! o god of the furnace, god of destruction, remember! rise up, o god of fire, gibil in thy majesty, and devour my enemies! rise up, o god of fire, girra in thy power, and burn the sorcerers who persecute me! gibil gashru umana yanduru tushte yesh shir illani u ma yalki! gishbar ia zi ia ia zi dingir girra kanpa! rise up, son of the flaming disk of anu! rise up, offspring of the golden weapon of marduk! it is not i, but enki, master of the magicians, who summons thee! it is not i, but marduk, slayer of the serpent, who calls thee here now! burn the evil and the evildoer! burn the sorcerer and the sorceress! singe them! burn them! destroy them! consume their powers! carry them away! rise up, gishbar ba gibbil ba girra zi aga kanpa! spirit of the god of fire, thou art conjured! kakkammanunu

graved thereupon, at hand, for he will inhabit such at the time of the calling of the watcher and will depart when he is given license to depart. the watcher comes from a race different from that of men and yet different from that of the gods, and it is said that he was with kingu and his hordes at the time of the war between the worlds, but was dissatisfied and did cleave unto the armies of lord marduk. wherefore it is wise to conjure it in the names of the three great watchers who existed before the confrontation from whose borne the watcher and his race ultimately derive, and those three are anu, enlil, and master enki of the magick waters. and for this reason they are sometimes called the three watchers, mass ssarati and the watcher mass ssaratu, or kia mass ssaratu. and the watcher ap

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acrificed: his bodily parts then become the many components of the universe, including gods, man and animals. in saharan africa the world was originally made out of the numerous segments of the sacrificed cosmic serpent minia, god s first creation an event remembered in animal sacrifice in the region to this day. there is a similar cosmic drama in an assyro-babylonian myth when the celestial king marduk slaughters the serpent tiamat, the feminine principle of chaos, and divides her enormous corpse: from one half marduk constructs the vault of heaven, from the other the solid earth .2 the story of panku also introduces one of the most important concepts in chinese thought: yin and yang. authors martin palmer and zhao xiaomin of the international consultancy on religion, education, and cultu

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and ishtar the female. from ishkur and ishtar, we get the new age myth of the "ashtar command. many new agers claim this is a force of extraterrestrial "saviours" who are preparing to take the chosen ones off the planet when the brown stuff hits the spinning propeller. a sort of jesus with a spaceship. other front-line figures in this next generation of anunnaki leaders after the deluge included marduk, son of enki, the tablets say. marduk was the god of babylon. the ancient texts, tablets, and legends describe how these gods embarked on a battle for power that brought the world to its knees. some of these conflicts, with humanity used as battle-fodder, are featured in the old testament. one defining event described in the tablets involved the anunnaki "god" known as sin. the name comes f

devastation of sodom and gomorrah describe how "god" decided to destroy these cities and warned his friends to get out. what a coincidence, then, that the sumerian tablets explain in detail how the anunnaki leadership (god= gods again, led by 104 children of the matrix enlil and some of his offspring, decided to destroy those locations in yet another internal war, this time with the one known as marduk, the son of enlil's halfbrother and great rival enki. still today it is the enlil and enki factions of the anunnaki that most divide the illuminati and create the ongoing conflict. there is an enormous and unnatural scar in the landscape of the sinai (sin-ai) peninsula, which covers an area of 112 square miles. blackened stones (blackened only on the surface) can be found over a large secti

arly 206 children of th matrix showing that the christian religion is but a modification of oriental sun worship, attributed to zoroaster. the christians read the same letters 'ihs' in the greek text as 'jes' and the roman christian priesthood added the terminus 'us" here are some of the other pre-christian deities of whom the "jesus" story was told: apollo, hercules, and zeus of greece; adad and marduk of assyria; buddha sakia and indra of india and tibet; salivahana of southern india and bermuda; osiris and horus of egypt; odin, balder, and frey of scandinavia; crite of chaldea; zoroaster of persia; baal (bel) and taut of phoenicia; bali of afghanistan; jao of nepal; wittoba of bilingonese; xamolxis of thrace; zoar of the bonzes; chu chulainn of ireland; deva tat, codom, and sammonocadam

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ome competition there. this wasalso said of the earlier nimrod, khrishna, buddha, ormuzd, osiris, aeacus and others.jesus is the alpha and omega, the first and the last. so was khrishna, buddha, lao-kiun, bacchus, zeus and others. jesus is claimed to have performed miracles such ashealing the sick and raising people from the dead. so did khrishna, buddha, zoroaster,bochia, horus, osiris, serapis, marduk, bacchus, hermes and others. jesus was bornof royal blood. so was buddha, rama, fo-hi, horus, hercules, bacchus, perseus andothers. jesus was born to a virgin. so was khrishna, buddha, lao-kiun or tsze,confusius, horus, ra, zoroaster, prometheus, perseus, apollo, mercury, baldur,quetzalcoatl and far too many others to mention. jesus will, we are told, be bornagain. the sky is going to be ra

e channellings said.11 inexcess of 500 million years ago the aldebaran sun began to expand so creating atremendous increase in heat. the lower races were evacuated and taken to otherinhabitable planets. then the aryan light god people began to colonise earth-likeplanets after theirs became uninhabitable. in our solar system it was said that they first247occupied the planet, mallona, also known as marduk, mardek, and by the russiansand romans, phaeton, which, they said, existed between mars and jupiter in what isnow the asteroid belt. this corresponds with the sumerian accounts of the planet,tiamat. the vril society believed that later this race of blond-haired, blue-eyedaldebarans, colonised mars before landing on the earth and starting the sumeriancivilisation. the vril channellers said t

ensto pay homage to the new head of his church and he kissed her right hand. then hesaid:the lord almighty. establish your throne in righteousness, that it may stand forevermore, like as the sun before him, and as a faithful witness in heaven.7this is almost a repeat of the words used in gods covenant with david in the oldtestament.8 the lord almighty was formerly el shaddai or ishkur, the son of marduk,who is claimed to have been the son of the anunnaki scientist, enki, the guy who,according to the sumerian texts as translated by zecharia sitchin, was the one whocreated the human-anunnaki hybrids with ninkharsag. the windsors are of abrotherhood-black nobility bloodline and the queen was crowned in a brotherhoodceremony inside a brotherhood temple. this will make sense of what you are abo

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n this body, this temple which i have prepared. come forth, abaddon, and manifest thyself. come forth, abaddon, and manifest thyself. open wide thy gate that i may cross. open wide thy gate that i may ascend the planetary spheres. come forth, abaddon, and manifest thyself. come forth, abaddon, and manifest thyself (drink from chalice, then say) i have crossed the martial sphere. the jovial sphere marduk, i invoke thee. marduk, i summon thee. marduk, i conjure thee. come forth, marduk, and manifest thyself within this body, this temple which i have prepared. come forth, marduk, and manifest thyself. come forth, marduk, and manifest thyself. open wide thy gate that i may cross. open wide thy gate that i may ascend the planetary spheres. come forth, marduk, and manifest thyself. come forth, m

that i may cross. open wide thy gate that i may ascend the planetary spheres. come forth, cronus, and manifest thyself. come forth, cronus, and manifest thyself (drink from chalice, then say) i have crossed the sanguine sphere. planetary demonic spirits once the magician has crossed the planetary spheres, he may wish to invoke demonic spirits associated with each of these spheres. the 50 names of marduk, listed in the necronomicon and refered to in sumerian and babylonian mythology, are an example of spirits associated with the jovial sphere. i have invoked these spirits using the formula given in this book. the first name is marduk the lord of lords, master of magicians. his name should not be called except when no other will do, and it is the most terrible responsibility to do so. the wo

s in their caves, behind the gates. possesses the arra star. this is his seal: the fourth name is barashakushu worker of miracles. the kindest of the fifty, and the most beneficent. the word used at his calling is baalduru. this is his seal: the fifth name is luggaldimmerankia put order into chaos. made the waters aright. commander of legions of wind demons who fought the ancient tiamat alongside marduk kurios. the word used at his calling is banutukku. this is his seal: the sixth name is nariluggaldimmerankia the watcher of the igigi and the annunaki, sub-commander of the wind demons. he will put to flight any maskim who haunt thee, and is the foe of the rabisu. none may pass into the world above or the world below without his knowledge. his word is banrabishu. his seal is thus: the seven

hines light in the darkened areas, forcing what lives there to give good accounting of its existence and its knowledge. giveth excellent counsel in all things. his word is barrmaratu and the seal which thou engrave is thus: the twelfth name is asarualimmunna this is the power that presideth over armour of all kinds and is excellently knowledgeable in military matters, being of the advance army of marduk at that battle. he can provide an army with its entire weaponry in three days. his word is banatatu and the seal is thus: the thirteenth name is tutu silences the weeping and gives joy to the end and ill at heart. a most beneficent name, and protector of the household, his word is dirrigugim and his seal is this: the fourteenth name is ziukkinna giveth excellent knowledge concerning the mov

knower of the secrets of the earth. his word is giggimaganpa and his seal is this: the sixteenth name is agaku this power can give life to what is already dead, but for a short time only. he is the lord of the amulet and the talisman. his word is mashgarzanna and his seal is this: the seventeenth name is tuku lord of baneful magick, vanquisher of the ancient ones by magick, giver of the spell to marduk kuros, a most fierce enemy. his word is mashshammashti and his seal follows: the eighteenth name is shazu knows the thoughts of those at a distance, as well as those in the vicinity. nothing is buried in the ground, or thrown into the water, but this power is aware. his word is mashshananna and his seal is this: the nineteenth name is zisi reconciler of enemies, silencer of arguments, betwe

or casuseth great storms and thunders, the like may destroy armies and cities and crops. his word is mashshayegurra and his seal is: the thirty-third name is zulum knows where to plant and when to plant. giveth excellent counsel in all manner of business and commerce. protects a man from evil tradesmen. his word is abbabaal and his seal is this: the thirty-fourth name is mummu the power given to marduk to fashion the universe from the flesh of tiamat. giveth wisdom concerning the condition of the life before the creation, and the nature of the structures of the four pillars whereupon the heavens rest. his word is alalalabaaal and the seal is: the thirty-fifth name is zulummar giveth tremendous strength, as of ten men, to one man. lifted the part of tiamat that was to become the sky from t

s the essence of all spirits, of the dead and the unborn, and the starry and the earthly, and the spirits of the air and the spirits of the wind as well. which things he may tell thee, and thou wilt grow in wisdom. his word is zidur and his seal is thus: the forty-third name is irkingu this is the power that laid capture to the commander of the forces of the ancient ones, kingu mighty demon, that marduk might lay hold of him and, with its blood, create the race of men and seal the covenant. his word is barerimu and his seal is this: the forty-fourth name is kinma judge and lord of the gods, at whose name they quake in fear. that the gods may not err, this power was given to oversee their activities, should they be lawful and within the nature of the covenant, for the gods are forgetful, an

the skies with his brightness, even in the darkest hour of the night. his word is kakodammu and his seal is this: the forty-eighth name is asharru knower of the treacherous ways. gives intelligence of the future and also of things past. put the gods in their courses, and determined their cycles. his word is baxtandabal and this is his seal: the forty-ninth name is nebiru the spirit of the gate of marduk, manages all things in their ways, and moves the crossings of the stars after the fashion known to the chaldeans. his word is dirgirgiri and his seal is this: the fiftieth name is ninnuam this is the power of marduk as lord of all that is, judger of judgements, decider of decisions, he who determines the laws and the reigns of kings. he may not be called, save at the destruction of a city o

wn to the chaldeans. his word is dirgirgiri and his seal is this: the fiftieth name is ninnuam this is the power of marduk as lord of all that is, judger of judgements, decider of decisions, he who determines the laws and the reigns of kings. he may not be called, save at the destruction of a city or the death of a king. his word is gashdig and his seal is this: invocation for any of the names of marduk n, i invoke thee by the word of thy calling w. n, i summon thee by the word of thy calling w. n. i conjure thee by the word of thy calling w. come forth, n, and manifest thyself within this body, this temple, which i have prepared and set apart to the dark lord come forth, n, and manifest thyself. for i have crossed the gates of hell and have become the devil incarnate. come forth, n, and m

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n images; but when they personified the opposing powers they gave to them the shapes of noxious animals and reptiles, such as snakes and scorpions. as time went on, the moral ideas of good and right were attributed to the former, and evil and wickedness to the latter. the first personifications of light and darkness were horus and set, and in the combat--the prototype of the subsequent legends of marduk and tiamat, bel and the dragon, st. george and the dragon, and many others--which took place between them, the former was always the victor. but, though the deceased was identified with horus or ra, the victory which the god gained over set only benefited the spiritual body which dwelt in heaven, and did not preserve the natural body which lay in the tomb. the principal enemy of the natural

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ntioned so prominently in ancient mythological writings. both von daniken and sitchin had identified these gods as extraterrestrials. alford published the fruits of his initial research in 1996, when he self-published his first book, gods of the new millennium, that generally supported sitchin s hypothesis that earth had been visited in the past by a race of people from a planet (called nibiru or marduk) in this solar system as yet undetected by astronomers. these extraterrestrials, the anunnaki, came to earth some 445,000 years ago. they enslaved humans, whom they put to work mining gold. they then became the source of human civilization. the year after gods of the new millennium appeared, hodder and stoughton republished it and gave alford a three-book contract to write sequels, which th

rtain seasons. it was unlawful for a man to eat pork on the thirtieth of ab (july.august, the twenty-seventh of tisri, and other dates. fish, ox flesh, and bread were similarly forbidden on specific dates. a person s luck depended greatly on the observance of these rules. still, even if all the ceremonies were observed, one might still meet with ill fortune on unlucky days. on the festival day of marduk (merodach) a man must not change his clothes, nor put on white garments, nor offer up sacrifices. certain disaster would overcome a king if he drove out in a chariot, or a physician if he laid hands on the sick, or a priest who sat in judgment, for example. on lucky days good fortune was the heri- babylonia encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 138 tage of everyone. good fortun

lived there with his wife. gilgamesh was not permitted to land, and conversed with his immortal ancestor while sitting in his boat. the deities secured immortality by eating the food of life and drinking the water of life. astrology the ancient babylonians were credited with some of the first correct astronomical observations. they were also pioneers of astrology, which they attributed to the god marduk or bel, said to have created the sun, moon, stars, and five planets. they knew that the length of the solar year was approximately 365.4 days and had divided the period of 24 hours into 12 beru (double hours) in accordance with the divisions of the equator, each of which was divided into 60 minutes, and each minute into 60 seconds. such data were recorded on clay tablets in the library of t

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gs making frequent inquiries about the future through these priestly castes: in a tablet of sippar, we find treated the royal sennachrib seeking through the baru the causes of his father s violent death. the asipu were exorcists, who removed taboos and laid ghosts. an asipu s functions are set forth in the following incantatory poem [the man] of ea am i [the man] of damkina am i, the messenger of marduk am i, my spell is the spell of ea, my incantation is the incantation of marduk, the circle of ea is in my hand, the tamarisk, the powerful weapon of anu, in my hand i hold, the date-spathe, mighty in decision, in my hand i hold. he that stilleth all to rest, that pacifieth all, by whose incantation everything is at peace, he is the great lord ea, stilling all to rest, and pacifying all, by

y pure spell to mine, add thy pure voice to mine, vouchsafe (to me) pure words, make fortunate the utterances of my mouth, ordain that my decisions be happy, let me be blessed where er i tread, let the man whom i [now] touch be blessed. before me may lucky thoughts be spoken. after me may a lucky finger be pointed. oh that thou wert my guardian genius, and my guardian spirit! o god that blesseth, marduk, let me be blessed, where er my path may be! thy power shall god and man proclaim; this man shall do thy service, and i too, the magician thy slave. unto the house on entering. samas is before me, sin [is] behind [me, nergal [is] at (my) right hand, ninib [is] at my left hand; when i draw near unto the sick man, when i lay my hand on the head of the sick man, may a kindly spirit, a kindly g

et name of a god that, when discovered, gave the speaker complete power over him by its mere utterance. knowing the name or description of the person or demon against whom the magician directed his charm was also essential to success. drugs were originally ascribed the power vouchsafed by the gods for the welfare of mankind and were supposed to aid greatly in exorcism. in assyrian sorcery, ea and marduk were the most powerful gods, marduk being an intermediary between human beings and their father, ea; indeed the legend of marduk going to his father for advice was commonly repeated in incantations. when working magic against an individual it was necessary to have something belonging to him or her.clippings of hair, or fingernails if possible. the possessed person was usually washed, the pr

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it a coincidence that uaana, in the mayan language, means he who has his residence in water ?27 let us also consider tiamat, the sumerian goddess of the oceans and of the forces of primitive chaos, always shown as a ravening monster. in mesopotamian tradition, tiamat turned against the other deities and unleashed a holocaust of destruction before she was eventually destroyed by the celestial hero marduk: she opened her mouth, tiamat, to swallow him. he drove in the evil wind so that she could not close her lips. the terrible winds filled her belly. her heart was seized, she held her mouth wide open, he let fly an arrow, it pierced her belly, her inner parts he clove, he split her heart, he rendered her powerless and destroyed her life, he felled her body and stood upright on it.28 how do y

, tiamat, to swallow him. he drove in the evil wind so that she could not close her lips. the terrible winds filled her belly. her heart was seized, she held her mouth wide open, he let fly an arrow, it pierced her belly, her inner parts he clove, he split her heart, he rendered her powerless and destroyed her life, he felled her body and stood upright on it.28 how do you follow an act like that? marduk could. contemplating his adversary s monstrous corpse, he conceived works of art ,29 and a great plan of world creation began to take shape in his mind. his first move was to split tiamat s skull and cut her arteries. then he broke her into two parts like a dried fish, using one half to roof the heavens and the other to surface the earth. from her breasts he made mountains, from her spittle

to roof the heavens and the other to surface the earth. from her breasts he made mountains, from her spittle, clouds, and he directed the rivers tigris and euphrates to flow from her eyes.30 a strange and violent legend, and a very old one. the ancient civilizations of central america had their own version of this story. here quetzalcoatl, in his incarnation as the creator deity, took the role of marduk while the part of tiamat was played by cipactli, the great earth monster. quetzalcoatl seized cipactli s limbs as she swam in the primeval waters and wrenched her body in half, one part forming the sky and the other the earth. from her hair and skin he created grass, flowers and herbs; from her eyes, wells and springs; from her shoulders, 25 stephanie dalley, myths from mesopotamia, oxford

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ects by making knots in ropes, over which they whisper incantations; and the women are called sait, and work the same kind of magic as the apes. the object which each member of these three groups holds with both hands above his, or her, head is probably a net and, as m. lef bure has pointed out, it is actually so represented in the tomb of rameses vi. in the babylonian legend of the fight between marduk and tiamat, the great she-monster of the deep, the god is made to provide himself with a net with which to entangle her feet. in the book of the dead (chapter cliii. b) we read of the net anqet, and in the vignette we see three apes working it, and securing the fish which are caught inside it. as apep was a monster of the deep, to make use of nets in his capture was a wise decision on the p

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, and enki. the god of water and wisdom; less important were utu. the sun god, nanna. the moon god, inanna. the goddess of love and war, and ninhursag, the mother of gods (kramer 1977: 122.130; 146.152. the name and status of the main god depended on who had the power. in sumerian times, the greatest god was an, whose son was enki. in the old babylonian period, of course, the city god of babylon, marduk became the main god and was also to be son of enki and grandson of an. as an was more like a deus otiosus, marduk as an acting god started to be identified with the acting main god enlil, whose son, god of war ninurta was identified with marduk fs son, multifunctional nabu. the rise of the assyrian empire put the city god assur on the throne of the main god, but in the late babylonian 13 pe

k became the main god and was also to be son of enki and grandson of an. as an was more like a deus otiosus, marduk as an acting god started to be identified with the acting main god enlil, whose son, god of war ninurta was identified with marduk fs son, multifunctional nabu. the rise of the assyrian empire put the city god assur on the throne of the main god, but in the late babylonian 13 period marduk rised again. in local tradition, of course, both had the power all the time, but while marduk has been mentioned also in more distant regions, assur stayed a city and state god, never reaching the status of a planetary god. however, according to another interpretation the concept of assur developed to monoteism (parpola 1997: xxi. things are no clearer with the functions and identities of o

f doubt. with the rest, however, there are problems. for an estonian, the concept of stars as a heavenly writing. akkadian .i ir .ame or .i ir bur me. sounds quite homely. esarhaddon, a megalomanic assyrian king, said all the stars to be letters in which his name is written (rainer 1995: 9. subsequently, sumer akkad planet main portfolio of the god in akkadian tradition an anu god of heaven enlil marduk (b l) jupiter main god, god of air and earth enki ea god of waters and wisdom nanna sin moon moongod, god of fertility and prosperity utu .ama. sun sungod, god of justice inanna i.tar venus goddess of love and war (ninurta) nabu mercury god of wisdom and writing (savior, redeemer) ninurta ninurta saturn god of war and hunting? nergal mars god of plague, famine, war, and the underworld 15 we

nting? nergal mars god of plague, famine, war, and the underworld 15 we bring an excerpt of a list of witnesses from a pact between the same assyrian king and median king ramataia (672 bc, signs denoting the planets are translated as modern planet names: in the presence of the planets, jupiter, venus, saturn, mercury, mars, sirius, and in the presence of assur, anu, enlil, ea, sin, shamash, adad, marduk, nabu, nusku, urash, nergal, ninlil, ishtar of niniveh, ishtar of arbela i tar, by all the gods in [the cities of] assur, niniveh, kalah, arbela, kakzu, harran, by all the gods of assyria, by all the gods in babylon, borsippa, nippur, by the gods of sumer, all of them, by the gods of the lands, all of them; by the gods of heaven and earth (lindsay 1971: 42) planets are named first to stress

smic importance, glord of heaven and earth h. the extent of .ama. fs popularity can be observed from the great number of people named after him, from cylinder seals, and the considerable number of hymns and prayers dedicated to his honor. some of these hymns have a poetic structure imitating the movement of the planet (leick 148 .ama. started to lose his positions with the rise of state gods like marduk and assur. like the moon, the sun was often marked as d20, sometimes also without a determinative (neugebauer 1955. quite widespread is the form dutu, less often the syllabic variant d.a-ma. was used. in horoscopes, the sun is usually either 20 or dutu. here we have to bear in mind that utu is the same sign as ud, which denotes ebright f, eshining f, ewhite f, and, of course, ethe sun f. ut

gi..nu or dgi..nu11 (borger 1981:123. the name gi.-nu elamp f, elight f( etool f+ elight f, efire f, elamp f (halloran 1999) and is not connected with utu/.ama. the version gi.-nu is probably just phonetic, as nu11 means efire f while nu is eimage f. figure 7. common ways to write esun f in cuneiform: d20, dutu, d.a-ma. and dgi..nu. all these are still usually read .ama. 20 jupiter the name mul d marduk (g260. star of god marduk. confirms that jupiter was the star of marduk, who was, first of all, a god caring for the state and royalty, thus making jupiter the star connected to the king. though jupiter fs name mul damar.utu shows it as the star of the babylonian main god, it is clear that this relation appeared only after marduk fs theological rise during the rise of the babylonian state w

making jupiter the star connected to the king. though jupiter fs name mul damar.utu shows it as the star of the babylonian main god, it is clear that this relation appeared only after marduk fs theological rise during the rise of the babylonian state with the more this same name was used also for mercury (brown 2000: 57. it can be supposed that mullugal eking f also developed from the epithet of marduk, what in assyria was taken over by assur. in any case, this relation is so strong that brown characterises it as gtraditional/fundamental h (brown 2000: 63. as marduk was the babylonian main god, there started the tradition by which jupiter later became the main god both in greece and rome. but their clear relations cannot be compared to the tangle in mesopotamian planet names: e.g. on some

. in any case, this relation is so strong that brown characterises it as gtraditional/fundamental h (brown 2000: 63. as marduk was the babylonian main god, there started the tradition by which jupiter later became the main god both in greece and rome. but their clear relations cannot be compared to the tangle in mesopotamian planet names: e.g. on some occasions mercury was also called the star of marduk (e.g. on the new year, and sometimes even mars was called so. eking star f mullugal (g240 (akkadian kakkab .arr) means besides jupiter also regulus( leo) and, more seldom, centauri( cen. jupiter is nearly as bright as venus and in some respects even more conspicuous as it may shine all night long. this is also the origin of the appellation mulud.al.tar (g137, akkadian umu dapinu evictorious

er is nearly as bright as venus and in some respects even more conspicuous as it may shine all night long. this is also the origin of the appellation mulud.al.tar (g137, akkadian umu dapinu evictorious daylight f, efrightful splendour f (gossmann 1950: 52. d pinu is also used as a name for jupiter but its meaning eheroic f, emartial f, eferocious f is an epithet for several gods. adad .ara, nabu, marduk, nusku, huwawa, lama.tu, and most of these are not connected to jupiter; since this adjective has also been used to describe kings (soden 1965: 162) we may suppose it to be not strictly connected to marduk nor .ulpae. probably it is not surprising that mulud.al.tar can mean, in addition to jupiter, also procyon( cmi, as near to it lies the astrological ghome h of jupiter. on one case, mulud

place on the firmament. it may appear that mulsag.me.gar means ejupiter in culmination f while mulud.al.tar means ejupiter in the west f. d.ulpae refers to the god .ulpae (also .ulpa fe) ebrilliant youth f (black& green 1998: 173) or elord of the shining dawn f. in the sumerian period he belonged among smaller underworld gods (dealing also with war and wild beasts, changing later into a vizier of marduk (the title sukkal has been also translated as eherald f or elieutenant f. in any case, connection with jupiter seems to originate from earlier times (brown 2000: 65. figure 8. the most popular ways of writing ejupiter f in cuneiform: mul2.babbar, mulsag.me.gar, mulud.al.tar, d.ul.pa.e3. 22 the best illustration about how a planet fs names can depend on time and place is an akkadian table th

ems to originate from earlier times (brown 2000: 65. figure 8. the most popular ways of writing ejupiter f in cuneiform: mul2.babbar, mulsag.me.gar, mulud.al.tar, d.ul.pa.e3. 22 the best illustration about how a planet fs names can depend on time and place is an akkadian table that presents names of jupiter by month (gossmann 1950: 97.98: table 3. different names of jupiter as the star of the god marduk by months. in gossmann fs original writing. here, the determinative of stars ul and determinative of gods il are used. the month nisan lasted approximately from the middle of april to the middle of may. the first row is to be read as gin the month of nisan. lord of the bright dawn. god marduk h. other rows have to be interpreted analogously. venus venus, or i.tar, sister of the sun, is the

unger 1992:350. things become even more confused if we take into account that venus, too, could be named differently in different months, e.g. mulsag, akkadian kakkabu re.tu ehead/main star f. venus in the simanu month. mercury mercury is primarily the star of the god nabu. mulna-bu-u2 (g290, who was identified with sumerian ninurta. in later period, nabu was considered to be son of the state god marduk or assur (in babylonia and new assyria, accordingly; therefore he came to be protector of the crown prince. hence a name of mercury dumu.lugal= m r .arri ecrown prince f. e.g. esarhaddon fs enthronement was to have been predicted by a meeting of jupiter and mercury (reiner 1995: 74.75. in spring mercury could also be star of marduk (gossmann 1950: 99. analogically to venus, since mercury ap

urs as ehealer f and is connected to mercury (parpola las, n.196. the cult of nabu lasted until the 2nd c ad, later he became identified with apollo. 25 figure 10. most widespread variants of mercury in cuneiform: muludu.idim.gu4.ud and mulna-bu-u2. the full name of mercury is muludu.idim.gu4.ud (g139bis) estar of the sun bull f or estar of the white bull f, in connection with the earlier name of marduk amar.utu ecalf of sun f. akkadians translated it .i u ejump f or .a i u ejumpy f. both names suit the edarting f mercury. from this developed the greek transcription (gossmann 1950: 24. earlier, instead of gu4, gud has been read. a shorter variant of the same name is mulgu4.ud (g79. an interesting expression is mul2gu4.ud mu-.a-az-nin zunni erainbringer mercury f (gossmann 1950: 25. in addi

calf of sun f. akkadians translated it .i u ejump f or .a i u ejumpy f. both names suit the edarting f mercury. from this developed the greek transcription (gossmann 1950: 24. earlier, instead of gu4, gud has been read. a shorter variant of the same name is mulgu4.ud (g79. an interesting expression is mul2gu4.ud mu-.a-az-nin zunni erainbringer mercury f (gossmann 1950: 25. in addition to nabu and marduk, mercury was connected to ninurta, who usually represented the evening sun and is mostly related to saturn. also, it could be mentioned that one name for mercury is ilu mu.ta- ri-lu or ilu mu.-ta-di5-lu, erunning god f (compare to arabian almu.tari. in horoscopes, mercury is usually gu4.ud. its bad aspect may be expressed by the same appellation as mars. mul.anumma. saturn the full name of

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tron deities of particular city-states, so that the importance of various gods tended to vary in some letters from the secret enochian language, used in elizabethan times. this section is taken from the center of a magic table used by occultist john dee to raise spirits (fortean picture library) ereshkigal 83 different time periods according to the relative strength of their respective city. thus marduk, patron of babylon, rose from the status of a rather obscure divinity to become king of the gods with the rise of babylon s political fortunes. like the gods of the greek and roman pantheons,mesopotamian divinities were pictured as human beings drawn large. the gods were, in other words, not much more than strong human beings, possessing magical powers and immortality. humanity, for its par

job, though it is unclear how much of the content of yahweh s challenge to job refers to an earlier tale and how much is being composed on the spot. in any event, the hebrew tale appears to derive from a ugarit story in which baal defeats a seven-headed sea monster with the aid of mot. furthermore, this story seems to be a variation of the well-known (to students of mythology) babylonian myth of marduk s defeat of the sea monster tiamat. tiamat, the babylonian female dragon monster, is one of the inspirations for the christian devil via hebrew scriptures. in early christian thought, the dragon represents the devil or the devil s servant, and has the allegorical role of representing the antichrist, or more generally, evil passions, paganism, or the oppressive powers of this world. in the b

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and genetic manipulation atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation5 chapter 2earth s first delugego and cut off tiamat s life, and let the winds convey her blood to secret places.(the enuma elish)we read from various sources that approximately 50,000 years ago a certain planetarybody in our own solar system was mysteriously destroyed. this body has been calledtiamat, phaeton, lucifer, marduk, maldek, rahab, and even luna (not connected tothe name later given to the moon. it was believed to have existed between mars andjupiter and was referred to as the second sun and may have been mistaken as such,because its atmosphere was resplendent with reflections of the actual sun. this is notas improbable as it sounds since v enus, the morning star, the second planet from thesun and the

rom the former.roche limitthe roche limit exists around earth as a protective gravitational field. alien bodies and space debriswill normally disintegrate in it. sumerian cosmologyapsu sunea neptuneanu uranusmommu mercurylahamu v enuslahmu marstiama t same as electra (planet of our system, utterly destroyed)kishar jupiteranshar saturngaga chironkingu the satellite of tiamat, caught and dragged by marduk. it disintegrated in earths roche limit and caused monumental destruction (see p. 254.)enlil, phaeton, marduk, pallas athene like lucifer, the transgressor, banished from heaven to the pit. enlil was marduk.appendix b: book abstracts170atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation the combined separation of kingu from phaeton and the stopping or slowing of earths axial spincaused ter

ation of taurus. in latin, bee isapis, which also means bull.tiamatcalled rahab in the bible, rahab the seat of babylon.psalm 89:10-11 thou hast broken rahab to piecesjob 26:12-13 by his wisdom he hath cut rahab to pieces (see p. 90.)merthe hebrews called the planet tiamat, or mot, or rahab, by the name of mer. those from this planetwere the original mer-men, half-man, half-fish, or reptile.an or marduk or nibiruin 1982, the space telescope iras (infrared astronomical station) saw what had not been seen for per-haps two thousand years. on december 30, 1983, the world press reported that the advanced space tele-scope:discovered a celestial body in the direction of constellation orion, which possibly is as big as thegigantic jupiter and perhaps so close to the earth that it could belong to o

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en. over these presided omoroca, being ummu khubur or tiamat, the mother of darkness. tiamat was exalted to the rank of divinity, called the god who has taken hold of evil, that she remained in darkness and controlling the forces of chaos. tiamat was indeed a powerful goddess, a sorcerous being who could create fierce monsters and empower them accordingly. in her battle against the gods including marduk, tiamat first created vampiric beings. it was written that she beget serpents who were unsparing of fang and sharp of tooth. she filled their bodies with venom instead of blood, initiating transformation. the great dragon was thrown down, the old serpent, he who is called the devil and satan, the deceiver of the whole world. he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down w

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d or possessed by a much more ancient goddess named tiamat. as if lilith is now the body that tiamat walks in. lilith is the feminine principle personified. tiamat is said to be the most ancient of god s enemies, long before the fall of lucifer, and she spawned a race of wicked giants and demons. in babylonian legend, tiamat was called the monster of chaos, and waged war against the gods. finally marduk defeated tiamat, split her in two, and used her flesh to create the world. this battle between the angels and the older gods goes unmentioned in the biblical genesis account, but remains in the greek tradition. according to greek mythology zeus, along with his brothers poseidon and hades, defeated the older gods, called the titans, and banished them to tartarus (the greek underworld. these

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locate and transport treasures. sustugriel (grimorium verum. a subordinate spirit of satanachia. teaches magickal art. he gives good familiars and furnishes mandragores. sut one of the sons of iblis, a demon of the order of flies. tehom hebrew form of the babylonian tiamat, queen of the waters of the deep. the abyss itself (gen 1:2. tiamat (babylon. primordial mother dragon of chaos, defeated by marduk and torn apart to become the earth and the sky. equated with typhon and leviathan. trimasel (grimorium verum. a subordinate spirit of satanachia. teaches chemistry, alchemy, and all sleight of hand. tubal-cain son of lamech and zillah, master of metal working. the first blacksmith, whose forge is the fires of hell, and whose name is the watchword. tunnels of set the 22 qlippothic paths of t

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of the devil haborym- hebrew synonym for satan hecate- greek goddess of the underworld and witchcraft ishtar- babylonian goddess of fertility kali (hindu) daughter of shiva, high priestess of the thuggees lilith- hebrew female devil, adam's first wife who taught him the ropes loki- teutonic devil mammon- aramaic god of wealth and profit mania- etruscan goddess of hell mantus- etruscan god of hell marduk- god of the city of babylon mastema- hebrew synonym for satan melek taus- yezidi devil mephistopheles (greek) he who shuns the light, q. v. faust metztli- aztec goddess of the night mictian- aztec god of death midgard- son of loki, depicted as a serpent milcom- ammonite devil moloch- phoenician and canaanite devil mormo (greek) king of the ghouls, consort of hecate naamah- hebrew female dev

hey must be taken out of the rigidly organized form in which they are listed here and arranged in a phonetically effective roster. abaddon euronymous o-yama adramelech fenriz pan ahpuch gorgo pluto ahriman haborym proserpine amon hecate pwcca apollyn ishtar rimmon asmodeus kali sabazios astaroth lilith sammael azazel loki samnu baalberith mammon sedit balaam mania sekhmet baphomet mantus set bast marduk shaitan beelzebub mastema shamad behemoth melek taus shiva beherit mephistopheles supay bil metztli t'an-mo chemosh mictian tchort cimeries midgard tezcatlipoca coyote milcom thamuz dagon moloch thoth damballa mormo tunrida demogorgon naamah typhon diabolus nergal yaotzin dracula nihasa yen-lo-wang emma-o nija invocation employed towards the conjuration of lust come forth, oh great spawn of

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on of gods, the most important were the trio of the sky god, an (or anu; the god of storm and the earth, enlil; and the water god, ea (or enki. these were followed in importance by a second triad comprised of the moon god, nanna (or sin; the sun god, utu (or shamash; and the goddess of fertility and war, inanna 37 (also called ishtar. in the later stages of mesopotamian civilization the local god marduk became head of the pantheon. in egyptian religion the primary god was amen (amon or amun, king of the gods. next in importance was ra (or re, the sun god. these two were eventually joined in the cult of amen-ra. a cult is a religion considered to be outside the mainstream. then came osiris, god of the nile and also god of the kingdom of the dead. his wife, isis, was the moon goddess and mot

od enlil. this not only made people the servants of the gods during their lifetimes, but also assured them an afterlife. the coming to power of the babylonians in the second millennium bce changed the emphasis of religion. the babylonians the babylonians carefully preserved the literary and religious heritage passed down from the sumerians, but their major concern was to integrate their main god, marduk, into the existing pantheon. for the sumerians, enlil had been the protector of kingship; for the babylonians this was marduk s task. in order to make marduk the most important god, the babylonians devised a new creation myth, the enuma elish( the epic of creation, literally meaning then up there. ritual became more important after the arrival of the babylonians. priests increasingly relied

mesopotamian religion, the egyptians had a strong belief in the afterlife, which they expressed by building elaborate tombs such as the pyramids. followers. worshippers took their names from the numerous gods and the cults that honored the deities. name of god. the major god for much of mesopotamia was the sky god enlil; later the worship of enlil was replaced by the worship of the babylonian god marduk. for egyptians, amen-ra was the most powerful deity, chief of the pantheon. symbols. statues of winged bulls were a protective symbol related to the god sin mesopotamia, while the ankh, a kind of cross with a loop at the top, was a prominent representation of life in ancient egypt. worship. priests in both religions made daily offerings in the temples and held annual festivals open to the p

op, was a prominent representation of life in ancient egypt. worship. priests in both religions made daily offerings in the temples and held annual festivals open to the public. personal gods were worshipped by people in their homes. dress. priests in both mesopotamian and egyptian religions wore no special costumes. texts. the enuma elish tells the mesopotamian story of creation and explains how marduk became the chief of the gods. the egyptian book of the dead was a guide for the dead, setting out magic spells and charms to be used to pass judgment in the afterlife. sites. ancient nippur was the site of the chief temple to enlil, while babylon was the location of marduk s sanctuary. thebes and the temple complex of karnak were home to the worship of amen-ra. in the modern world the remai

popular and was later incorporated into greek and roman pantheons in the figures of athena and diana. even after the introduction of christianity, the ancient gods continued to be worshipped until about the sixth century ce. sects and schisms both egyptian and mesopotamian deities had cults that were popular in different places and in different times. of note were two later mesopotamian deities, marduk and ashur. marduk was the national god of babylonia, and the babylonians went to great pains to rewrite the creation myth so that he would be the king of gods, replacing the mesopotamian god enlil. such a replacement lasted for about one thousand years until the assyrian god ashur replaced marduk as the primary god in the pantheon. ashur was a warlike god and took ishtar, the goddess of war

kind of ghost or double survived physical death. when a person died and his or her body was buried, his or her ghost descended to the underworld to join those already departed. the underworld was ruled by the god ereshkigal. later babylonian religion also assumed that resurrection, or physical life after death, was possible. babylonians believed in the waters of life and called their chief deity, marduk, the one who brings the dead to life. mostly, however, it appears that mesopotamians believed that earthly life was all there was, and that death led to disintegration of the body. hundreds of gods were involved in mesopotamian religion. in addition to being connected with some aspect of nature, they also had a responsibility for different spheres of human activity. for example, shamash, th

enged osiris s murder, defeating his uncle set in epic combat. horus became the god of a unified egypt, identified throughout egyptian history with the divine right of the pharaoh. 48 world religions: almanac ancient religions of egypt and mesopotamia thus a rather late addition to the mesopotamian religion. it is, in effect, an effort by the babylonians to assert the power of their national god, marduk. as such, the poem not only relates how earth was created but also how the gods came to be. the gods, according to this text, came before the creation of the world. this epic describes the fight between the forces of order, as represented by marduk and the young gods, and the forces of chaos, as represented by tiamat, kingu, and the old gods. according to leonard william king s translation

aning and purification rituals took place. offerings were made by royal and commoner alike, and these were taken by the temple personnel. each cult or worship of a deity had special festivals. for example, inanna or ishtar was, among other things, goddess of fertility and protector of the storehouses. each year a ritual marriage took place between the goddess and the ruler at the time of harvest. marduk was the deity at the center for the annual new year s festival, held at the spring equinox. at these times, statues of the gods and goddesses were paraded through the streets for all to see. normally, however, the sacred statues were kept in the temples. private individuals often had their own personal gods and had small shrines devoted to them in their homes. there, they would worship thei

so offered the public a chance to seek favor from the gods and celebrate their devotion. mesopotamia major festivals in mesopotamian religion included the new year s festival and the sacred marriage. the new year s festival was held at the spring equinox, or the start of spring. this festival celebrated the rebirth of the year. in later religious practice, this holiday was associated with the god marduk s main festival, called aktiu. it lasted for eleven days and involved ceremonies of purification and a ceremonial reenactment of the battle between marduk and the forces of chaos. prayers and offerings of food and wine were made to the gods during the first three days. the fourth day was a high point of the festivities. then the enuma elish, the epic of creation, was read or performed as a

r eleven days and involved ceremonies of purification and a ceremonial reenactment of the battle between marduk and the forces of chaos. prayers and offerings of food and wine were made to the gods during the first three days. the fourth day was a high point of the festivities. then the enuma elish, the epic of creation, was read or performed as a play for the public. this work celebrates the god marduk. the next day, the people purified themselves, by bathing their sins away in water. the king also participated in these festivities, but he did so in the temples. there, to show his loyalty to marduk, the king was slapped in the face by the priests and made to promise to the statue of marduk that he had committed no sins in the previous year. a priest would then slap the king s face again

selves, by bathing their sins away in water. the king also participated in these festivities, but he did so in the temples. there, to show his loyalty to marduk, the king was slapped in the face by the priests and made to promise to the statue of marduk that he had committed no sins in the previous year. a priest would then slap the king s face again, hard enough to bring tears. tears showed that marduk was pleased with the king. a bull was sacrificed, or killed, that evening. not all the rituals have been recorded, but it seems there was also a parade through the streets of the city with the king holding the hand of the statue of marduk. some historians suggest that the new year s celebration and the sacred marriage were combined. the sacred marriage brought together the king and the godd

f air, wind, and storms. enlil is one of the most important mesopotamian gods. he guards the tablets of destiny, on which the fate of everything on earth is written. ishtar: the goddess of love and war. she is also known as inanna. ishtar journeyed to the underworld to retrieve her love, tammuz. she is often described as very violent and is depicted holding several weapons and standing on a lion. marduk: the god of babylon who later came to be the supreme god. marduk fought an army of demons led by the goddess tiamat. the new year s festival celebrates the king s fitness to rule through a ceremony in which he bows to a statue of marduk. sin: the moon god. he is also known as nanna. he is lord of the calendar and oversees the seasons. sin wears a beard of the blue stone lapis lazuli and rid

otamian influences mesopotamian religion was one of the earliest organized religious systems. it had a formal structure, hierarchy (chain of command, and rituals for worship. it influenced all later religious tradition, not only with its gods (some of whom, such as inanna, were adapted into later religious traditions, but also with its central myths. during the babylonian period the state cult of marduk was an important early step toward the nationalistic monotheism later developed by judaism, christianity, and islam. although marduk was only the foremost among a pantheon of other gods, his elevation to national god was a beginning in a gradual process toward modern national religions. other influences to come from mesopotamian religions include advances in mathematics. mathematics was oft

rty and livestock and also is said to have made idols (images worshipped as gods) of various gods of ancient babylonia. polytheism, or belief in many gods, was common among mesopotamians and babylonians during this period. ur was the center of a cult, or group of religious followers, that worshipped nanna, the moon god. around the time of abram s birth, the babylonians began to recognize one god, marduk, as having power over all the other gods. some historians consider this an early move in the direction of monotheism, or the belief in one supreme being. many stories grew around the fact that terah produced idols and his son abram did not believe in worshipping them. people would pray to the idols, which represented various gods. one legend had young abram breaking all the idols in a shop

ork. similarly, wiccans worship a god and a goddess, masculine and feminine principles of creation and renewal. common to most creation myths is the notion of a supreme being. the creation accounts of judaism, christianity, and islam see a single supreme god as responsible for all creation. similarly, zoroastrianism attributes creation to its supreme deity, ahura mazda; the ancient babylonians to marduk; and hindus to krishna, the cause of all causes. interestingly, while the church of christ of latter-day saints (also known as mormons) is christian, its followers believe that the physical universe is eternal, so it was not created by a supreme being; god, however, organized and arranged the physical universe in the act of creation. yet another theme that runs through the world s creation

vive now date to the first century bce. the creation account of genesis is similar to the creation stories told in numerous other cultures. many folk stories worldwide feature a creator-god who creates the world by divine command and forms the human being in his image from clay. one remarkably similar account is the babylonian genesis, written late in the second millennium bce in honor of the god marduk. the babylonian epic atrakhasis also contains elements strikingly similar to events in genesis. consider the following. some religions view the physical universe as eternal. summarize ways in which genesis provides a different view of the physical universe. explain the sequence of creation, as outlined in genesis. explain what genesis means when it says that god gave humans dominion over th

t that they had won back the gods favor. the last sumerian dynasty fell about 2000 bce. after a period of about one hundred years, a group called the amorites gained control of the area encompassing mesopotamia. little is known about the religious beliefs of the amorites, though it is thought that they adopted many of the religious beliefs of the sumerians. the amorites introduced the supreme god marduk to the sumerians. like the sumerians, the amorites were not concerned with life after death; their focus was on this world. the epic of gilgamesh is not the only surviving epic from this region of the world. there is also the babylonian epic enuma elish, a creation story at the center of which is the creator-god marduk. in this epic, humans are depicted as slaves of the gods. at one point m

effective ones. wicca is alive and well and the deities respond to our calls and invocations. when envisioning the goddess and god, many of the wicca see them as well-known deities from ancient religions. diana, pan, isis, hermes, hina, tammuz, hecate, ishtar, cerridwen, thoth, tara, aradia, artemis, pele, apollo, kanaloa, bridget, helios, bran, lugh, hera, cybele, inanna, maui, ea, athena, lono, marduk the list is virtually endless. many of these deities, with their corresponding histories, rites and mythic information, furnish the concept of deity for wiccans. some feel comfortable associating such names and forms with the goddess and god, feeling that they can t possibly revere nameless divine beings. others find a lack of names and costumes a comforting lack of limitations. as stated e

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s of their heroes (such as herakles or theseus, or in the symbolic enactments, for example, in the creation festival at new year in ancient babylon. there the initiate-king died and entered the dark interior of the worldmountain, but later returned and ascended the ziggurat, or pyramid with its seven levels, and received cosmic symbols of power. he was identified in the rites with the creator-god marduk, who had also died before defeating the powers of chaos and ascending to his father, the wisdom-god ea, in heaven. on the festival, see henri frankfort, kingship and the gods: a study of ancient near eastern religion as the integration of society and nature (university of chicago, chicago, 1978, ch. 22. the wonderful epic recited on the occasion by the priests is translated in n.k. sandars

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lf27or the true transpersonal self whch is above and is unaffected by the thoughts from the mind-stream or the sensations of the body. it is that pure consciousness, the core of the self, that underlies all other aspects and functions of the psyche as well. all personal energy and consciousness issues from ths source. archetypes of the hgher self include omnipotent sky gods such as the babylonian marduk, the greek zeus, and the hebrew yahweh. 3. the conscious selfor "i" is the ego or point of self-awareness. it is the seat of personal identity that we organize our field of psychology and magic 125 awareness around. its function is to coordinate the vast amount of interior and exterior information that we acquire and to act as a intermediary between our internal and external realities. expe

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een the forces of "light" and "darkness (so-called) that took place long before man was created, before even the cosmos as we know it existed. it is described fully in the enuma elish and in the bastardised version found in the necronomicon, and involved the ancient ones, led by the serpent mummutiamat and her male counterpart absu, against the elder gods (called such in the n) led by the warrior marduk, son of the sea god enki, lord of magicians of this side, or what could be called "white magicians- although close examination of the myths of ancient times makes one pause before attempting to judge which of the two warring factions was "good" or "evil. marduk won this battle- in much the same way that later st. george and st. michael would defeat the serpent again- the cosmos was created

of an entity we might call the :author of all evil, the devil or satan, as evident in the sumerian creation epic and the rumoured existences of the cult of set of the egyptians, the more pressing concern was usually the exorcism of tiamat, she exists, somehow, just as the abyss exists and is perhaps indispensable to human life if we think of her as typifying the female quality of energy. although marduk was responsible for halving the monster from the sea, the sumerian tradition has it that the monster is not dead, but dreaming, asleep below the surface of the earth, strong, potent, dangerous, and very real. her powers can be tapped by the knowledgeable "who are skilful to rouse leviathan" although the christian religion has gone to great lengths to prove that the devil is inferior to god

to great lengths to prove that the devil is inferior to god and exists solely for his purpose, as the tempter of man- surely a dubious raison d'etre- the sumerian tradition acknowledges that the person of "evil" is actually the oldest, most ancient of the gods. whereas christianity states that lucifer was a rebel in heaven, and fell from god's grace to ignominy below, the original story was that marduk was the rebel, and severed the body of the ancient of ancient ones to create the cosmos in other words, the precise reverse of the judeo-christian dogma. the elder gods evidently possessed a certain wisdom that was not held by their parents, yet their parents held the power, the primal strength, the first magick, that the elder ones tapped to their own advantage, for they were begotten of h

thor compiled the ms. thus, for the first time, this muchrumoured exorcism is available in full and in english. after this, the "book of calling" needs little explanation. it is the grimoire of the necronomicon, containing the formulae of ritual conjuration, as well as the seals and diagrams to accompany the rites. it is followed by "the book of fifty names" being fifty separate powers of the god marduk, defeater of chaos. this is interesting, in that the names seem to come from the enuma elish, in which the elder gods confer these fifty names upon marduk as titles, in their appreciation of his routing of evil. a sigil is given for each of the names, and a word of power for most of them. then appears the centrepiece of the book, the magan text. the word magan may mean the land of the magan

ous with the place of death- as the sun 'died' in the west. hence, it is a bit confusing as to what magan is really supposed to mean in this text, but in context the "place of death" explanation seems quite valid. the magan text is nothing more than an incomplete and free-form version of the creation epic of sumer, along with inanna's descent into the underworld, and many glosses. we are told how marduk slays tiamat- after much the same fashion that the chief of police of amity slays the great white shark in benchley's novel jaws, blowing an evil wind (the oxygen tank) into her mouth and sending in an arrow (bullet) in after it to explode her. surely, the two or three most box-office successful films of the past few years, jaws, the exoricst and, perhaps, the godfather, are an indication t

with chthonic forces, is described as "notorious, and linked to the strange fate that befell the protagonist, edward derby) supplementary material to 777 the chart that follows is based on research presently available to the editor with regard to sumerian and assyro-babylonian religions. entries in parentheses refer to the state of correspondences before the advert of the elder gods, the race of marduk; that is, it reflects the nature of the cosmos before the fall of marduk from heaven (names of zodiacal constellations are after budge's renderings) table vii [a.c] table xxv [s] 0. anu (tiamat) 1. sphere of the primum mobile enlil (absu) 2. sphere of the zodiac or fixed stars enki; lumashi (igigi) 3. sphere of saturn adar 4. sphere of jupiter marduk 5. sphere of mars nergal 6. sphere of th

ound, go, arise and go far away! your wickedness may rise to heaven like unto smoke! arise and leave my body! from my body, depart in shame! from my body flee! turn away from my body! go away from my body! do not return to my body! do no come near my body! do not approach my body! do not throng around my body! be commanded by shammash the mighty! be commanded by enki, lord of all! be commanded by marduk, the great magician of the gods! be commanded by the god of fire, your destroyer! may you be held back from my body "another binding of the sorcerers" ssalmani-ia ana pagri tapqida duppira ssalmani-ia ana pagri taxira duppira ssalmani-ia iti pagri tushni-illa duppira ssalmani ini ishdi pagri tushni-illa duppira ssalmani-ia qimax pagri taqbira duppira ssalmani-ia ana qulqullati tapqida duppi

beyond the wanderers of the wastes. let all who read this book be warned thereby that the habitation of men are seen and surveyed by that ancient race of gods and demons from a time before time, and that they seek revenge for that forgotten battle that took place somewhere in the cosmos and rent the worlds in the days before the creation of man, when the elder gods walked the spaces, the race of marduk, as he is known to the chaldeans, and of enki our master, the lord of magicians. know, then, that i have trod all the zones of the gods, and also the places of the azonei, and have descended unto the foul places of death and eternal thirst, which may be reached through the gate of ganzir, which was built in ur, in the days before babylon was. know, too, that i have spoken with all manner of

e arzir, and passed into the forbidden realms of the foul igigi. i have raised demons, and the dead. i have summoned the ghosts of my ancestors to real and visible appearance on the tops of temples built to reach the stars, and built to touch the nethermost cavities of hades. i have wrestled with the black magician, azag-thoth, in vain, and fled to the earth by calling upon inanna and her brother marduk, lord of the double-headed axe. i have raised armies against the lands of the east, by summoning the hordes of fiends i have made subject unto me, and so doing found ngaa, the god of the heathens, who breathes flame and roars like a thousand thunders. i have found fear. i have found the gate that leads to the outside, by which the ancient ones, who ever seek entrance to our world, keep eter

n the heavens. it is best done at night, far from the habitations of men and of animals, where you cannot be seen or heard. it must be wrapped first in heavy cloth, then in fine silk, and hid safe away until such times as it is needed. but to take not to use this seal hastily, for it is a sharp sword. the number of nergal is eight and this is his seal: the god of jupiter is the lord of magicians, marduk kurios of the double-headed axe. marduk was born of our father, enki, to do battle against the forces of the ancient ones, and he won a powerful fight, subduing the armies of evil and putting the queen of the ancient ones beneath his foot. that serpent is dead, but dreams. marduk was bestowed fifty names and powers by the council of the elder gods, which powers he retains to this day. his c

te is the sixth that you will come upon as you follow the rituals that follow. his step on the ladder of lights in purple. this is his seal, which you must engrave on a plate of tin or of brass, when jupiter is strong in the heavens, while making special invocation to enki our master. this shall be wrought as the others, and wrapped in pure silk and lain away until the time for its use. know that marduk appears as a mighty warrior with a long beard and a flaming disk in his hands. he carries a bow and a quiver of arrows, and treads about the heavens keeping the watch. take care to summon his assistance in only the most terrible of circumstances, for his might is powerful and his anger fierce. when thou hast need of the power of the star jupiter, call instead one of the appropriate powers l

disk in his hands. he carries a bow and a quiver of arrows, and treads about the heavens keeping the watch. take care to summon his assistance in only the most terrible of circumstances, for his might is powerful and his anger fierce. when thou hast need of the power of the star jupiter, call instead one of the appropriate powers listed within these pages, and they will surely come. the number of marduk is ten and this is his seal: the god of saturn is ninib called adar, the lord of hunters and of strength. he appears with a crown of horns and a long sword, wearing a lion's skin. he is the final zonei before the terrible igigi. his colour is the darkest black. his essence is to be found in lead, in the burnt embers of the fire, and in things of death and of antiquity. the horns of a stag a

elling, or especially appropriate to the star where thou wouldst desire entrance, after the fashion of thy country. the seven gates here follow: this is the first gate the gate of nanna, called sin: this is the second gate, of nebo: this is the third gate, of inanna called ishtar: this is the fourth gate, of shammash, called uddu: this is the fifth gate, of nergal: this is the sixth gate, of lord marduk: this is the seventh gate, of ninib, called adar: and the ritual of the walking must follow the formulae herein described: first, thou must observe the moon of purification. in this time, thou mayest not eat meat for the space of seven days preceding the last day of the moon, and for the space of three days preceding the last dat of the moon thou mayest not eat anything whatsoever, save to

ascended to the limit of the ladder of lights, thou wilt have knowledge and power over the spheres, and wilt be able to summon them thereby in times of need. this will not give thee power over the absu, however, this power being obtained differently by the ritual of descent. this ritual thou wilt undertake in the fifteenth day after the thirteenth of the month when thou hast summoned the gate of marduk to open. for marduk slew the fiends, and inanna, the goddess of the fifteen, conquered the netherworld, where some of theirs still dwell. this is a most perilous rite, and may be undertaken by any man who as the formulae, whether he has passes the previous gates or not, save that it is best advised to have passed through marduk gate before venturing forth into the pit. for this reason, few

rned one who resideth there and giveth all manner of wisdom regarding the operations of necromancy, and of the spells that hasten unto death. only when thou hast shown thy power over the maskim and the rabishu, mayest thou venture forth to the land of the igigi, and for that reason was this covenant made, that none shall safely walk through the sunken valleys of the dead before having ascended to marduk, nor shall they breach the gates that lie beyond adar until they have seen the signs of the mad god and felt the fury of the hellish queen. and against the ancient ones, there is only defence. only a madman, indeed, such as i am called, can hope to have power over them that dwell in the outer spaces, for their power is unknown, and the number of the hordes uncounted, and each day they breed

n! gate of the god of war, swing wide! gate of the god of victory got in battle, open to me! gate of the lord of protection, open! gate of the lord of the arra and the agga, open! by the name which i was given on the sphere of shammash, i ask thee, open! ia nergal-ya! ia zi annga kanpa! ia nnga! ia nngr-ya! ia! nngya! ia zi dingir neenya kanpa! ia kantalamakkya tarra! kanpa! the invocation of the marduk gate spirit of the great planet, remember! marduk, god of victory over the dark angels, remember! marduk, lord of all the lands, remember! marduk, son of enki, master of magicians, remember! marduk, vanquisher of the ancient ones, remember! marduk, who gives the stars their powers, remember! marduk, who assigns the wanderers their places, remember! lord of the worlds, and of the spaces betw

their powers, remember! marduk, who assigns the wanderers their places, remember! lord of the worlds, and of the spaces between, remember! first among the astral gods, hearken and remember! in the name of the covenant sworn between thee and the race of men i call to thee! hearken and remember! from the gate of the mighty nergal, the sphere of the red planet, i call to thee! hearken and remember! marduk, lord of the fifty powers, open thy gates to me! marduk, god of fifty names, open thy gates to thy servant! by the name which i was given on the sphere of nergal, i call to thee to open! gate of the great god, open! gate of the god of the double-headed axe, open! gate of the lord of the world between the worlds, open! gate of the conqueror of the monsters from the sea, open! gate of the gol

ib, knower of the secrets of all things, remember! ninib, knower of the ways of the ancient ones, remember! ninib, horned one of silence, remember! ninib, watcher of the ways of the igigi, remember! ninib, knower of the pathways of the dead, remember! in the name of the covenant sworn between thee and the race of men, i call to thee! hearken and remember! from the mighty gate of the lord of gods, marduk, sphere of the great planet, i call to thee! hearken and remember! ninib, dark wandered of the forgotten lands, hearken and remember! ninib, gatekeeper of the astral gods, open thy gate to me! ninib, master of the chase and the long journey, open thy gate to me! gate of the double-horned elder god, open! gate of the last city of the skies, open! gate of the secret of all time, open! gate of

thy gate to me! ninib, master of the chase and the long journey, open thy gate to me! gate of the double-horned elder god, open! gate of the last city of the skies, open! gate of the secret of all time, open! gate of the master of magickal power, open! gate of the lord of all sorcery, open! gate of the vanquisher of all evil spells, hearken and open! by the name which i was given on the sphere of marduk, master of magicians, i call thee to open! ia duk! ia andarra! ia zi battu ba allu! ballagu bel dirrigu baagga ka kanpa! bel zi exa exa! azzagbat! bazzagbarroniosh! zelig! the conjuration of the fire god spirit of the fire, remember! gibil, spirit of the fire, remember! girra, spirit of the flames, remember! o god of fire, mighty son of anu, most terrifying among thy brothers, rise! o god o

se! o god of the furnace, god of destruction, remember! rise up, o god of fire, gibil in thy majesty, and devour my enemies! rise up, o god of fire, girra in thy power, and burn the sorcerers who persecute me! gibil gashru umana yanduru tushte yesh shir illani u ma yalki! gishbar ia zi ia ia zi dingir girra kanpa! rise up, son of the flaming disk of anu! rise up, offspring of the golden weapon of marduk! it is not i, but enki, master of the magicians, who summons thee! it is not i, but marduk, slayer of the serpent, who calls thee here now! burn the evil and the evildoer! burn the sorcerer and the sorceress! singe them! burn them! destroy them! consume their powers! carry them away! rise up, gishbar ba gibbil ba girra zi aga kanpa! spirit of the god of fire, thou art conjured! kakkammanunu

graved thereupon, at hand, for he will inhabit such at the time of the calling of the watcher and will depart when he is given license to depart. the watcher comes from a race different from that of men and yet different from that of the gods, and it is said that he was with kingu and his hordes at the time of the war between the worlds, but was dissatisfied and did cleave unto the armies of lord marduk. wherefore it is wise to conjure it in the names of the three great watchers who existed before the confrontation from whose borne the watcher and his race ultimately derive, and those three are anu, enlil, and master enki of the magick waters. and for this reason they are sometimes called the three watchers, mass ssarati and the watcher mass ssaratu, or kia mass ssaratu. and the watcher ap

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